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    Rear Shock tower broken

    Saw this on facebook and wanted to share.
    This is pretty nuts.
    I'll be upping my time table and making a rear shock tower brace !

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    Wow!!!

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    So was the car raced or is it from everyday driving?
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    Seen it happen on a never abused Fox. Upon inspection, only couple or three poor spot welds, bulk of em no where to be seen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Old Fart View Post
    So was the car raced or is it from everyday driving?
    He's on coilovers & drags the car/drives it on the street.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zippy View Post
    He's on coilovers & drags the car/drives it on the street.
    Pulling the front wheels, the entire weight of the car would be on those rear shock towers.
    Been thinking a rear coil over setup for the road course ....assuming the forces aren’t as much, but still pretty high. Any reinforcement kits out there?
    -Don____________

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    Brad has a brace we built for him some years back. Initial install was based around it breaking the rear seat X braces off at the parcel tray plus appearance of a slight kink in the roof above the rear window. In spite of some feeling it was a waste / just added weight, results say the exact opposite.
    Richard also has one, installed after his shock tower had broken free and was rattling over bumps. Since Richard did his mods one at a time and evaluated, was easy to feel how much difference that single mod made.

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    That is caused by air shocks or coil overs...I had air shocks on mine till recently but I live on boonies where very few bumps and dips in roads.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RedSN View Post
    Pulling the front wheels, the entire weight of the car would be on those rear shock towers.
    Been thinking a rear coil over setup for the road course ....assuming the forces aren’t as much, but still pretty high. Any reinforcement kits out there?
    Zippy Motorsports coming out with a brace. Stay tuned. In production.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bbriann View Post
    That is caused by air shocks or coil overs...I had air shocks on mine till recently but I live on boonies where very few bumps and dips in roads.
    Couple or three we've seen, no coil overs or air shocks etc, standard stuff but one of the cars does see a bunch of on track action from time to time.

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