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Old 01-27-2014, 05:49 AM   #45
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Originally Posted by 993Fan View Post
As others have mentioned, you give up a significant amount of stiffness due to the lack of a rigid roof structure. The only way to recover some stiffness is to add reinforcements elsewhere and then it becomes very difficult to restore the original stiffness of the coupe without adding lots of weight or using expensive composites.
I understand that but I don't know what case you're trying to make
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