c pillar bar instalation
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Originally Posted by SP00NFed
http://emracing.com/formula.html that gives you a nice explination on how these bars work. 
The additional bar has created two triangles, thus the name triangulation.
looking through that site, it looks like they've basically found every point that you can possibly bolt something down, and made bars for that. i think they spent more time and effort writing up their marketing silliness, than actually testing to see if this network of bars actually does anything.
seriously, you want a rigid chassis? get a rollcage, and get to work on the suspension. leave the silly bars that crisscross your hatch every which way to someone else.
Last edited by reno96teg; Mar 22, 2006 at 08:58 AM.
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Garbage
I think these guys are full of it, everything they describe on their site makes no sense whatsoever. They apparently don't even have a basic understanding of automotive engineering.
It looks like someone got their hands on some machining equipment and they're trying to mislead kids into wasting money on their crap.
Here we are again where someone things they understand how to build cars better than the original manufacturers. Racing teams spend thousands upon thousands of dollars and the entire life of the car adjusting and perfecting the suspension setup and here we have some guys telling us to toss a few bars into our cars and attach them to random points.
The best part is when they show those bars affixed to roof pillars which don't bear much of a load and on top of that these bars are mounted on pivots. Then they've gone and installed an incomplete truss in the trunks of some cars. They've installed them at the back of the car, where the chassis hangs beyond the rear wheels. What kind of flexing is going on back there?
If you're interested in reducing flex to such an excessive degree you're going to have to do some very drastic work to your car. Otherwise you're wasting your money on something that has virtually no effect whatsoever.
Simply put, what those guys are selling is garbage.
It looks like someone got their hands on some machining equipment and they're trying to mislead kids into wasting money on their crap.
Here we are again where someone things they understand how to build cars better than the original manufacturers. Racing teams spend thousands upon thousands of dollars and the entire life of the car adjusting and perfecting the suspension setup and here we have some guys telling us to toss a few bars into our cars and attach them to random points.
The best part is when they show those bars affixed to roof pillars which don't bear much of a load and on top of that these bars are mounted on pivots. Then they've gone and installed an incomplete truss in the trunks of some cars. They've installed them at the back of the car, where the chassis hangs beyond the rear wheels. What kind of flexing is going on back there?
If you're interested in reducing flex to such an excessive degree you're going to have to do some very drastic work to your car. Otherwise you're wasting your money on something that has virtually no effect whatsoever.
Simply put, what those guys are selling is garbage.
