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Old 04-13-2004   #10
sideways motorsports
 

Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Ramsey, MN
Posts: 49
I would have to see some solid evidence that the strut towers tied to the cage had anything to do with that before I didnt do it to my vechicle.

I dont think that it would have made a diffrence in either case. If you are traveling at speed and center punch a tree, whatever you hit the tree with is going to grenade.

I have a great example in my back yard. Speed racer in his 02 WRX hit something and the bumper hit the motor witch hit the fire wall completly taking out the tranny mount etc. etc. Nothing attached to the strut towers were touched. The frame bent where it needed to bend and the motor/tranny would have traveled under the car just like it was supposed to if he had been going any faster.

I would have to blame the motor/tranny coming into the car more on the under body protection or something that would make it not go the direction it was designed to.

In my opinion there would be no diffrence in a major accident if the towers were tied in or not. And I would have to think that beefing up the strut towers and or around them would either have the same effect or worse since your frame might not be able to use its crush zone if it had been tied in that far.

Just another 4 or 5 cents.


Dan
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