Dr. Design
08-09-2004, 07:44 PM
Hello,
After spending countless hours at the racetrack fine tuning our suspension on our racecar and helping other car owners with their setups. We have concluded that not enough people understand chassis bracing and how it will help the overall performance of your car driving.
Why will chassis bracing help the performance of your car? Simple answer is it will isolate critical components of your car. The front control arms of the Avenger/Sebring application tend to move ALOT! Given the design of the venge chassis you have a large cavity underneath the engine. By doing that you have a large area that is not braced. This large cavity will allow unwanted flexing and hamper torsional stiffness. So by just adding bracing you will keep chassis flex to a minimum and increase handling as a result of that.
Example: Just recently we were at the racetrack with a few Eclipse owners. We were doing some testing on our racecar. He was running in the time trial sessions and was monitoring his times. We offered him the opportunity to use the RSTB-C (Rear Strut Tower Brace) from our racecar. He took off the RSTB-C of the racecar and installed it on his vehicle. His session was called up and he raced off to the track. To his amazement he noticed a 1-2 second decrease in his lap times and felt better response and feedback when cornering.
Point is that chassis bracing is typically overlooked because it does not increase horsepower or change the way the car looks. However it will certainly increase the way the car handles and you will notice the performance gains.
Please let us know if there are any questions.
Thank you,
After spending countless hours at the racetrack fine tuning our suspension on our racecar and helping other car owners with their setups. We have concluded that not enough people understand chassis bracing and how it will help the overall performance of your car driving.
Why will chassis bracing help the performance of your car? Simple answer is it will isolate critical components of your car. The front control arms of the Avenger/Sebring application tend to move ALOT! Given the design of the venge chassis you have a large cavity underneath the engine. By doing that you have a large area that is not braced. This large cavity will allow unwanted flexing and hamper torsional stiffness. So by just adding bracing you will keep chassis flex to a minimum and increase handling as a result of that.
Example: Just recently we were at the racetrack with a few Eclipse owners. We were doing some testing on our racecar. He was running in the time trial sessions and was monitoring his times. We offered him the opportunity to use the RSTB-C (Rear Strut Tower Brace) from our racecar. He took off the RSTB-C of the racecar and installed it on his vehicle. His session was called up and he raced off to the track. To his amazement he noticed a 1-2 second decrease in his lap times and felt better response and feedback when cornering.
Point is that chassis bracing is typically overlooked because it does not increase horsepower or change the way the car looks. However it will certainly increase the way the car handles and you will notice the performance gains.
Please let us know if there are any questions.
Thank you,