many cars have been cracking their firewalls over the last year or so, due to a number of things like stiff pressure plates, worn fork bearings causing bad geometry and too much mechanical advantage, and corrosion from east coast roads
to date, the only real repair was to remove everything and weld in a new pice of steel - very time consuming and fairly costly
as a result, pete had me playing around with designing a reinforcement unit to repair that problem on cars that had broken theirs, and prevent it on the rest
i've been at this on and off for quite a while now - what seemed on the surface to be a simple job has proven to be a far more difficult task than i first thought - there is a LOT of stuff in the way down there, and figuring out how to make the thing, get around all of that stuff without hurting it, AND be able to actually install it has been a real challenge - i also did not want to have to remove any major components, modify the car to install it, or do any welding, or anything like that
well, i think i finally have it figured out now - i have done a first prototype unit, and will be sending the drawings off for the beta prototype to be made, which should take a week or so
the only real issue is that this will only work if you have the Design 1 Racing strut tower brace - sorry guys - porsche gave me nowhere to mount the thing - it will require a slight modification to one of the brackets if you already have the strut tower brace, but the mod will be incorporated into the next batch of braces - it won't work with any other brace
i haven't worked out the costs yet, so you'll have to hang on there - pete will let you guys know about that one
no, i don't have any pics yet - that will have to wait until the beta unit
i'm determined to have these ready for hershey
