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Originally Posted by Leeky
Whats with the plastic arches?
You can see that from the suspension towers-forwards its plastic arches 
Weight saving..... yes ok........ but never seen this done on a production car before.... |
Those appear to be the fender liners. The only production car that I know of that does that is the panamera and its has a massive triangulated support section to allow that. You can see the roll cage on the race car coming through the firewall to the strut towers to add support (I don't mean the strut tower brace part). I'm fine with it either way but I'd assume that gazoo cut that metal out (after welding up the strut bar and bracing to the cage) and that the production car will have metal there.
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Track cars: 2013 Scion FRS, 1998 Acura Integra Type-R, 1993 Honda Civic Hatchback
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