Bracing shock towers?

Interesting read end to end... I would never cut out unibody parts without adding something to do it's job. If this were an E body site, you'd be reading about cars pulling 1.60 60' times and cracking windshields because they were flexing so much. And that flex is mostly cowl and front end. Place a jack under the left side control arm, and slowly jack up the front end... until just before the tire pulls off the ground. Then open the drivers door and let it rest on the latch bolt. Most cars with no mods the door will not latch on it's own, and with teh left side up that high, the pass side is almost at ride height. All that is body flex. Flex is wasted power, slower reaction times, poor weight transfer, and daaging to the chassis. The factory cared enough to get these cars thru the 5 year payoff term. That's it. Thinking they took much more interest in them beyond that is wishful thinking.