Strut bars: Any evidence they add anything but weight?
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fixitmattman
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Solidworks has a very nice FEA/CFD package built in. As nice as it is as much time as it takes to make the model and do the FEA you can do the calcs by hand, it's a stupid simple analysis.
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1. Buy a Haynes manual
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How to fix your car:
1. Buy a Haynes manual
2. Read Haynes maual
3. Read and search appropriate threads, trust us, it's been covered before
4. Fix car
5. Consume beer of job well done
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bone-yard-racing
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Something just came to mind. When I was working on the charger after I gutted it (scrap guy finaly called it weighed in at 22xx 200lb heavyer than I was hoping) the car was up on jackstands and I tried to open the hatch and it wouldnt from the lack of stiffness. I took 2 pieces of 1"id wire conduit crushed the ends in a vice and tacked it to the shock towers(after putting the car back down) the hatch opened afterwards, granted our cars are a good 500lb heavyer and arent made completely out of rust but even a bar that simple made a big difference.
