Solid rear brace?

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NoHachi Wrote:Hiya Andrew,

The pics you showed might actually work..stiffening what is basically a ladder chassis can pay dividends if the original connecting points became a bit weak.
Mind you, that has nothing to do with the shock mounts.
The double triangle structure you pictured looks ads a bit of stiffness to the rear ladder structure, but you really want to be careful about where you attach them. I can't really tell from looking at your pictures, but I've seen some mega bars attach to sheet metal that is just a couple mm's thick.

Yeah, you've got it exactly right. The fact the the bar attatches near the shocks IS NOT to strengthen the shock mounting points.

That placement was chosen to strengthen the chassis itself as you have said. The reason that they attatch there; is the shock tower areas have a lot more 'material' spot welded to strengthen that area which ties directly down/into the rear subframe rails. Which is almost inline with the upper spring seats which do see a bit of force applied to them.

Make sense?

NOTE: only the 2 front bolts (one of which isn't pictured in the installation picture) go into this much thicker area, the third one (furthest back on the font mounting point) goes into a 'relatively' thinner area. But even that is still thicker/more reinforced than the other sheetmetal on the car from what I can remember.

Andrew