Rear Trailing Arm - Stiffening
 

I was just wondering......

Although I have never raced my car and I probably won't (at least not anytime soon), would there be any benefit to the boxed stiffening kits being installed.

I'm asking because I am currently replacing the rear bushings and I'm going to bead blast the rear trailing arms and either paint or powder coat. I figured that while I have the suspension removed from the car, maybe I would install one of these kits before painting.

Just a thought and any tips would be appreciated.

Boxed trailing arms are like tits on a boar hog, worthless. The stock trailing arm is a strong and rigid piece. Unless you slam sideways into a curb at significant speed, they will retain their shape, boxing the arms will not help in this case. A much more significant concern would be the integrety of the arm to chassis mounting, much more suseptable to distortion than the trailing arms, as such.

Phil

http://www.914club.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/agree.gif if you hit something hard enough to bend the trailing arm, guess what happens when you have a boxed trailing arm?
you'll be bending the chassis instead ...

what's it gonna be? a new set of trailing arms or a full day of setup and another day of stretching on a celette bench?

http://www.914club.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif Andy