Originally posted by Pascal:

Chassis bracing has but one purpose: enable the suspension to perform its work.



No, it has another, more important, and largely overlooked purpose: NVH reduction. Bracing raises the natural frequency of the body structure and that "feels" better to the driver. The amount of movement allowed by the flexibility of the body structure is, in many cases (most, I'd argue) not enough to significantly affect suspension geometry but it IS enough to make the car feel jiggly and potentially allow uncontrolled wheel motion on the inside wheels in a corner. But a lot of people seem to think there's enough displacement of the strut towers that the car body kind of rotates around them in a corner and that's just complete [censored]. If that were the case we'd all be losing paint off the hood and fender edges thanks to them banging around all the time. Thankfully I haven't seen that kind of ingorance displayed here but it's pervasive on another board I frequent.

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