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Originally Posted by Soleil
I find the explanation from Al quite helpful. If I understand well.
Make sense.
The point here is costs.
And it is cheaper than the tower brace.
No need doesn’t mean not beneficial.
I guess a engineer will find a significant improvement but it sounds not good if GM admit it. Yes, Al is right the car don’t need a tower brace but it will not harm. Or better it will improve the performance of the car.
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That reads to me like "we're already inside the realm of diminishing returns".
Not that there would have been zero benefit by installing one, just that for the vast majority of customers the amount of benefit (if they noticed any at all - which cannot at all be guaranteed) was judged too small to warrant Chevy putting one in there except in the one convertible application.
For the ZL1 convertible, I'm going to guess that the added expense of redesigning and recertifying for a different hood was enough to tip the balance against fitting one there.
Norm