Stiffing an older chassis

[Krooser]

Cars are fickle... everyone who's raced has had a car that worked better after it had been wrecked...

[spiderma4]

You might be surprised on how much or little flex can effect at car.

While it's been a while since I did this, but was not so long ago that we wasn't already on bumpstops and what not, just not as stiff as shocks as now.

List of what I cut out (not cut the bar, I mean cut both ends and remove the bar completely). Cut one bar at a time and made 3 or 4 laps and came in and removed another. These are probably not in the 100% correct order they were cut out.

1. left side: bar from vertical mid-plate bar to left main frame kick up
2. Right side: bar from vertical bar behind mid-plate bar to right main frame kick up (2 bars actually as it goes thur the mid-plate bar
3. Dash bar to vertical mid-plate bar
4. Bar in front of radiator connecting both upper rails together
5. diagonal bar in top of halo
6. Right diagonal bar from RR lower 4-link area to main front down bar on front of halo.

don't leave us hanging how did it change each cut ?

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

Cars are fickle... everyone who's raced has had a car that worked better after it had been wrecked...

I had one that was pretty consistent the first 2 clips. Then it went away.

[hucktyson]

One time at band camp I removed the entire right side lower frame rail ..... and dominated the heat race and ended up over heating in the feature since I had a return line on a pump that didn’t need one so I was going lean holding it wide open on a huge track ... I replaced that rail with a piece of cable that night .... I welded the rail back in and never felt the same since !! Then one time I removed the entire rack cross member and wire tied everything together .... you might be surprised how that worked !!!

[fastford]

well , i built a deck out of pine straw one time , worked pretty good till one of blackie,s girl friends showed up .........

[fastford]

Cars are fickle... everyone who's raced has had a car that worked better after it had been wrecked...

cant say i ever had that happen krooser , my sh1t was normally to tore up to fix....lol....

[Krooser]

cant say i ever had that happen krooser , my sh1t was normally to tore up to fix....lol....

My buddy Tom had a neat Chevelle he ran in the sportsman class... got nailed in the RF one night and he measured the car and the right side was a bit swayed to the left... kind of like a "turned stub". No time to fix so he raced the rest of the season that way claiming the car was never better.

Never did fix it...

My cars, new or smashed, were never fast enough to tell a difference.

Might have been the talent behind the wheel, too.