Bracing shock towers?

mrtires24 said

I totally agree. Look at an egg. Put it un your hand and squeez it as hard as you can...does it break? No

same thing as the inner fenders. they are there for the the vehicle to be structurly sound. The only reason a car would not start folding, if you took out the inner fenders, is if you put in frame conectors...but even then, I would suspect that the car wouldn't be 100% true around where the k member/firewall would be.

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I also agree that the way that the inner fenders were made was for strength... only problem is that there is one big difference betwen an egg & inner fenders.

The egg is solid where the inner fender isnt.

The egg being solid gets its strentgh from its structure, but the inner fender is spot welded... All the pressure first goes to the spot welds & if the spot welds are strong enough then the structure of the inner fender will take over but if the spot welds aren't strong enough then it doesnt matter how fancy your inner fenders are.

even in a totally stock application its very easy to pop the spots welds for the inner fenders on a classic mopar, just drift it in a parking lot



Now if you go back & do a full weld on the inner fender then it will strengthen the car