My version of a inner fender support/front subframe stiffener

inkjunkie said
Pretty sure that in the Mopar chassis manual that there is a sketch of where the car should be tied together, for drag strip use at least. And if I remember right a pretty much standard snout bar is drawn in, tied into the interior cage, thru the firewall, top shock mount tied in and then onward to the front of the car. Maybe the Mopar engineers were wrong??

Its all about where you tie it in. If you're tying into the interior cage and firewall, that's pretty high up. Traveling from the upper firewall and interior cage down through the upper shock mount and down the front of the frame rail does an excellent job of triangulating the front end. Curly's bar ties in low, so, it doesn't do as much to add strength.

HemiDenny said
its called U-N-I-B-O-D-Y...and it ain't a bad concept

Not a bad concept at all. Modern F1 cars are all monocoque construction, not a far cry from unibody construction at all.

But, Ma Mopar didn't execute the concept nearly as well as modern F1 cars. It was intended to be a fast, cheap, and lightweight way to produce cars, and it was/is. But the original unibody's were anything but rigid, flex all over the place. And while that makes for a nice, plush ride, it also makes for crappy handling. Also keep in mind that what works for drag racing is a long way from what works best for road handling, in a drag setting the flex in the front end is pretty much irrelevant.