Reply to "Discreet chassis brace?"

Hudson, I think you need the brace for the shock tower that is two piece (upper and lower) that has the diagonal pieces. What you posted will do no more than the original brace. There are many discussions on this subject about the pockets needing a brace that butts against the tower pockets themselves.

The link below is to the Hall site showing their kit, the lower brace is what will help box the rear frame area.

http://hallpantera.com/cgi-bin...ntera-inc&item=22697

Also from my personal experience with fiberglass body panels that flex a lot more than any metal body part, if you use a good body filler with fiberglass reinforcement bits as a base filler and top coat with normal plastic fillers you shouldn't get cracking in the paint, but I guess it depends on the paint and the flex additives used. My body panels were sprayed the old Dupont Cantari Enamels with hardners and got no cracking on a McLaren CanAm car. Those bodies were very flexible. There are also additives that we put in the paint that allowed for more flexing which was put on the nose piece of the car that help prevent rock chipping. Current paint that goes on the plastic bumper covers on todays cars has to have big time flex additives because you can push and pull on most any bumper today and to a point they don't crack.