Re: ESP.net 98-02 Accord Traction Bar System with Front Torque Mount Kit F/H 4 cyl Mo
I used an engineering rule & a plumb bob, and if you don't like it you can go do it your way. The 'fabricator' has yet to chime in with any of his measurements. What I have proven is that there is a measurable decrease in chassis stiffness, which the fabricator said would not happen.
There are always trade offs, yes. However eliminating a major structural portion of the chassis, and reducing chassis stiffness, to decrease suspension compliance could hardly be considered a trade off. More of a hack job. A properly designed traction bar system would not decrease chassis stiffness, because it would be designed to accommodate or replace the longitudinal members with some of equal or greater strength. Notice that he relocated the mounting point for wheel clearance, Honda had no problem with wheel clearance. The relocated mounting point would not allow the use of the structural members. That's 2 poor solutions to problems that did not exist.
Wheel hop may be an issue, for that I would advise redesigning the traction bar system. I could do it. Hell, I could do it in my one car (actually four bike) garage. I won't be doing it for free, though. I already did half his R&D for free. That was just because I'm concerned about the 6GA community members, and I'm plain tired of false claims by vendors.
As for linux, I've been running various forms for over 15 years. I'm fully aware of how to get gimp, however I can not install it at this time. I recently 'upgraded' to 13.04 and my root partition is too small. I should have re-partitioned and done a clean install. Really, I should not have updated at all, I'll be going back to 10.04 soon.