May 17, 2005 - 11:43 PM
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Just recently famed BBC tv show Fifth Gear did another series of crash tests, this time with shocking results. They crashed two IDENTICAL cars into each other head on at 40mph (I think), the only differance was that one was 2 inches lower than the other. The results were shocking, the higher car suffered almost no interior damage while the lower one suffered massive damage including the footwell and dash coming further into the cabin. The problem was in the height of the frame rails. Each car has 2 frame rails (hidden of course) in the front end, the lower the frame rails the more likely another car will be able to incur serious damage on your car due to the tendancy of another car to roll over yours and thus penetrating non-renforced maerial (ie hood, windshield), anyway, I would post the link to the episode, I think that might be borderline with respect to site rules, but I thought everyone should know (if you already didn't)
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May 22, 2005 - 11:28 PM
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QUOTE(lagos @ May 22, 2005 - 7:46 PM) sometimes i wish i was still at stock height. i hate having to worry about bottoming out in some places cause the car is too low. [right][snapback]290398[/snapback][/right] i don't even go to Wendy's anymore because it is impossible of entering/exiting without bottoming out because of the terrible construction of the road lol -------------------- 2000 Celica GT-S 6spd QUAIFE//TRD//AEM//FIDANZA//BEATRUSH//TRIAL//WINGSWEST//ALL JL AUDIO |
Mike The Dangers of lowering your car May 17, 2005 - 11:43 PM
Drocay well crashing them into eachother isn't a good... May 18, 2005 - 1:41 AM
rockstarbass1 yea i kno thats like saying take the stock car the... May 22, 2005 - 6:20 PM
TTE In simple words the higher you stay more chances y... May 22, 2005 - 7:05 PM
lagos sometimes i wish i was still at stock height. i ha... May 22, 2005 - 7:46 PM
slipgun yeah but if your in a celica and you got a truck i... May 22, 2005 - 8:34 PM
DamDirtyApes QUOTE(Drocay @ May 18, 2005 - 6:41 AM)well cr... May 22, 2005 - 9:06 PM
Hanyo it was not a good test.. the lower car had more we... May 22, 2005 - 9:54 PM
Bigmeanbulldog55 QUOTE(Hanyo @ May 22, 2005 - 10:54 PM)it was ... May 23, 2005 - 9:58 AM![]() ![]() |
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