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Old 2006-02-09, 01:57 PM   #90
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Originally Posted by cody
According to the link I posted earlier:





and...
True, but that whole article assumes that the strut towers are infinitely strong in the vertical direction. Which obviously is untrue. He is mostly correct, though, in saying that the horizontal forces are quite a bit larger, and there is also less strength bracing for horizontal forces. For the most part, having the bar in there with QR's is probably not totally worthless, but a solid bar would be better if you were trying to eek out every bit of performance.
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