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Old 09-16-2009, 09:34 PM
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Notice all the stainless steel bolts we used in the final, delivered car. Some people will already know that stainless bolts are relatively weak--so, why did we use them? The bolts were over sized to compensate for the lower tensile strength. Also, the female threads are relatively weak in the aluminum chassis (compared to steel) so there is not much advantage using extremely high strength bolts in those applications.

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