Project 66 Nova

[Marty Knox]

Originally Posted by Paul Merolla

Danny - The new Car Craft has a piece on the COPOs, and there's a photo of the factory-installed firewall brace....looks nice, too...heims on the ends and all. All these years later, and they still didn't make the firewall stiff enough!

Automotive engineering is different than locomotive engineering. Automotive engineering calculates the minimum thickness required for strength, then makes it that thickness. Locomotive engineering calculates the minimum thickness required, then multiplies by 4, and that's how thick they make it.