[urq] Anyone ever try to add metal to the sills or roof to stiffen the urq chassis?

Steve Mills s.b.mills at gmail.com
Sun Dec 21 11:09:56 PST 2008


The early rally cars added 2 box section members from front to rear. I think
there's a MotorGeek project thread where someone copied it, but it's not in
the sill area IIRC- it's considerably further in.

On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 11:16 PM, steven j <michellepfeiffersx at yahoo.com>wrote:

> I might have repairs done to the sills and it occurred to me if a little
> extra metal was added maybe the chassis stiffness gained might be worth
> it.   These cars are pretty flimsy by today's standards,  if you jack up a
> corner the doors don't shut well.    Maybe flexibility contributes to
> windshield cracking?
> I'm not interested in adding a cage.
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