The 'WHY YOU NEED FENDER BRACES' post

[Konakid]

Dude are you high?

I've been running 9kg front springs and stiff shocks in my daliy driven/thrashed corona for over a year, done road trips in it on the shittest, bumpiest highways out there and it is fine. Only stiffening is a strutbrace.

[keiichi]

whats your point?

i knew someone who ran 12kg front in his ra65 with NO bracing.

[Konakid]

Your ruined chassis is the result of a crash, not running stiff springs.

[keiichi]

its not the chassis its the frame... its not ruined, its a tiny bend, its nothing compared to my old car. ok it was a crash. i wasnt there though so cant prove that.

*edit* take note though, nothing else is bent ive looked and looked and cant find anything else bent and all the panels, lights etc seem to me certainly original.

having said that though, it is just as possible it was from a crash.

can you suggest a reason why fender braces are pointless though and prove that there is no longitudinal flex caused by heavy front springs? much faith in your flimsy toyota shell you have.

[munchen]

i dont recall him saying that fender braces are pointless...

[Dom86]

To me it looks like a factory crease. As in when the machine press' the sheet of metal, that crease froms to take up slack, or to make a bend somewhere else.
The reason I think this is, for one, if you look down the pic toward the front of car, you can see a similar crease. Another reason is you said it was on the other side too. That says factory to me.
And I'm sure the 20 something year old paint would have pulled away from the metal with such a deep sharp crease.
I think your braces are overkill, but they should work if you welded them in properly
I'm saying this all purley based on what I can see in the pics.
Those crease are not uncommon.

[Dom86]

Have you had a look at another corona by chance? To see if its just yours that has this.

[--Redwork--]

It just looks like the factory stamped failure point.. They have these in lots of places.. Just look at the under side of your bonnet.. they're every where..

[KE70]

Needs more weld.

Also is your other quarter the same?

[FAST EDDIE]

didnt realuise it was a cornoa but much the same chassis design anyway, just be careful running fender braces on the street you remove the correct way for the car to collapse if involved in a serious accident, on the other hand if u cause an accident and hurt/kill someone isurance company may void insurance if it gets investigated!!
where you welded the brace on wont have much help minimising flex because of where you have welded it on along the skirt edge, if you look at the design of other skirt braces they are on the outer firewall to underneath the skirt brace.