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Old 2006-02-09, 01:33 PM   #82
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Originally Posted by AtomicLabMonkey
No, it's not asking too much, because that's exactly what you want chassis bracing to do. When you drive a car on track most of its time in corners is spent with a combination of braking, acceleration & cornering loads acting on it. This twists the chassis torsionally. The biggest gains in suspsension sensitivity & handling improvement/better feel for the driver come when you improve that car's torsional rigidity. Braces with pivoting joints will do very little towards that end.
Oh, because I assumed the biggest gains would be from maintaing suspension geometry. In this particular application, the bar inhibibits the wheels from losing negative camber due to latteral forces associated with cornering by sharing the forces between two strut tower instead of one.
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