Bernie Rubber??????? Far as I know, whoever he was he had a piece of strap steel across those two points and could see it flex over speed bumps. That motivated me to design my own. I used better lighter material and beefed up the mounting points and added 4 more on a buddies Laser and my T-top car. That was probably in the same time frame about 9-10 years ago. I later made up a batch of 13 bars almost 8 years ago and sold them to list members. I still have mine in my ShelbyZ and will be transfering it to my new hardtop car. I've never heard from the 13 people that bought the batch I made, pretty much sealed the deal on me making and selling stuff to the TD/SD community ever again.
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:48:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "Paul T. Standaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: SD> Shelby Dode strut Bars. For our list... To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Nine years ago (approximately) I designed a rear brace for a G-body. Although quite crude since my fabrication skills and equipment were not so good, the design had great potential. The design bolted to where the rear seat latch striker bolts to and runs behind the rear seat backs and to the other side. I was also going to take it a step further and attach the bar to where the rear seat "bench" bolts to the chassis of the car. Again, still no modifications necessary and it remains a bolt-on product while further increasing chassis stiffness. The design required minimal or no modification of anything and kept the rear seat folding feature fully functional. The bar was also pretty easily removable as well. Removability shouldn't be a big concern anymore since nobody hauls stuff around in these cars anymore (almost a classic car not to be used as a pickup truck). This should be verifyable in the SDML archives and I can pretty confidently say that I was the first one to build such a bolt-on device for the rear of a G-body. I will be the first to buy the rear one based off of the design I mentioned, provided it looks as nice as the front ones. __________________________________________________ -- -- "....if you got turbo lag, you haven't installed a Gus Valve!!!" Jay Jochec http://www.turbomopar.com/oakley1/index.html 85' GLHT "GLHNSLH" The exact same one pictured in the Dec. 95' issue of Sport Compact Car Formerly owned by Thomas Ernst 87' ShelbyZ "BEE-ACH" NEW RECORD! [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yoko AVS Intermediates to 32psi for a 2.3 60ft, 13psi of boost. 3120lbs Race weight. Spokane, Wa ___________REMOVE-FOOTER-WHEN-REPLYING_________ ShelbyDodge mailing list [email protected] http://www.imagilist.com/mailman/listinfo/shelbydodge
