I have been reading a lot of threads on the topic, but most of them are referenced around racing or AX. This will not be a racecar, or even a flared car.
As I have mentioned before, my minor rust fix has turned into a full restoration and six conversion. I am currently welding up a chassis cart/jig that will mount on a rotisserie.
The car will be a 3.2 stock with about 210HP—maybe some mods in the distant future, but probably never more than 250HP.
I will be running 6x15 Fuchs with 205s. No AX, no track, just spirited driving on crappy LA roads and I want the car to last a long time.
While I am repairing rust and replacing pans and firewall, I am doing some reinforcement:
1-While I was patching longs I put another layer of 18ga on the inner long on the inside from the door pillar into where the long angles up and gets double layer (about the seatbelt bolt) I wanted a little more beef around the e-brake recess and center of the longs.
2-I will install a Brad Mayeur Kit on the outside of the longs
3-I have the rear (firewall) piece of an Engman kit I will install (Im not doing the full kit because I feel the extra layer inside the long and the Mayeur kit are enough)
The additional reinforcement I was thinking of doing:
Tangerine Rear trailing arm reinforcement
Tangerine Rear Suspensions Inner Console Reinforcements
Tangerine Rear Pickup Points Reinforcing Kit
Maddog front Sway bar reinforcement in the front wheel wells
My questions are:
For my application with the Brad Mayeur Kit, do I need the full Tangerine kit with the Heim braces or is this overkill?
I do not want to seam weld the entire car, but are there some spots that would be helpful for my application? It will be on the rotisserie, so it will not be terribly hard.
I am not doing the GT reinforcement kit, the Brad Mayeur kit is the only place I am willing to add a lot of weight (I am offsetting this with a fiberglass hood and trunk.)
Anything else that is reasonable reinforcement-wise? I just want a car that will handle the 3.2 power in a street environment and last a long time
Thanks in advance
-Andrew