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Old 03-28-2005, 05:37 PM
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Anthony,

No, we have not done any further bracing to the cars. Only the Daytona Coupes had that bracing originally, (if I recall correctly).

The leaf spring chassis is terrible to drive on the street. Certainly, the car handled well on the track, but is was a handful. Most of us don't live our lives every day and want to take our wives, kids, with us occasionally as we go for drives. We just decided to side-step the entire frame and went straight to the coil sprung chassis for our Hybrid cars.

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