Red Race car at HPH..., Many Pics for all to see!! Options

[Britain Smith]

Will post pics later

[Brett W]

This car will probablybe very fast because of the big motor in the little car, I don't doubt it will be effective but some things could have been done differently to make it even faster.

I have numbered the pictures from top to bottom

2: Not the lack of rear down bars. Nothing to direct the load paths from the rear shocks directly into the main hoop-central chassis structure.

3: It looks as though the lower door bar is not attached to the chassis. It runs parallel to the rocker. The junction of the v should be tied directly into the top of the rocker/sill plate.

5: Though nice, the down bars from the front firewall to the front mounts for the torsion bars are relatively unnecessary. The load on that part of the torsion bar is very minimal and in a different direction. It is actually being loaded in compression and tension, in addisiton to rotation.

6 If you are going to tie the front strut towers together cut out the front firewall. Also look at how the loads for the front hoop supports are directed into the tube instead of into the strut mount.

12: Notice the rear supports wrap around behind the rear strut towers actually supporting the shock towers in tension. There appears to be nothing to tie the shock towers to the main structure of the chassis. Those tubes routed around the perimeter of the trunk should be removed they do nothing but add weight. Notice how the brace, that runs across the beam for the tranny mount, is mounted up high and the loads are actually not being tied into the main chassis instead they are canileverd off the back of the shock towers. The bracing should run from the sway bar mounts to the back of the shock towers and then from there to the down bars from the main roll hoop.

15: Just based on the pictures and other observations, the support for the outer trailing arm mount is pointed in the wrong direction or should be supplemented by one running to the main hoop. I am guessing, by the looks of the rest of the chassis, that reinforcement is probably intersecting the middle of a tube instead of a junction like it should be.


There is some nice fab work in this car but I would have done it differently. That is me though. Hope the owner is happy with a nice race car.