BODILY HARM !

  1. Body mounts are removed and replaced by heavier bolts and steel plates above the floor boards and below the frame rails, to limit frame and body separation.
  2. Roll bars are obvious and intentional body stiffening devices, when they extend above and across the roof. They become "Pinch Bars", which limit upward travel of a buckled body, thus preventing the back end from going down. Properly placed dash bars prevent buckling of firewall, resulting in distributor cap damage.
  3. Core supports can be filled in the same manner as frame rails or welded to the top strap of frame. All-thread that runs through the front body mounts and up through the hood, with nuts and washers, above and below the frame, above the core support, and above the hood, can be tightened to create a "Brush Guard" effect. Expanded metal or heavy steel mesh screwed over the core support opening, intended for the air conditioning condenser, stiffens the core support. Lacing the top of the core support to the front bumper with as many strands of #9 wire, as you can get away with, prevents the core from being shoved back.
  4. Entire dog house can be removed turned upside down and the seams welded from the inside. Steel plate , pipe, angle iron etc., can be added while dog house is in this position and is difficult to detect when the dog house is reinstalled.
  5. If rules permit welding seams between doors and fenders ,or doors and quarter panels is effective. If rules do not permit, the same effect can be achieved by welding, screwing and bolting doors from the inside and reinstalling door panels, pinching inner and outer door skins together at the top of the door prevents proper inspection. Duct tape, sheet metal screws, tar, spray foam, and pipe sealing compound further hinder door panel removal and door inspection.
  6. Injecting fill foam into any hollow portion of the body such as between inner and outer door skins, into roof pillars, into hood and trunk webbing, into core supports, bumpers uni-body sub frames etc. is effective.
  7. After cutting fender wells for clearance, inner and outer sheet metal can be connected by bolting, metal screws, or crimping and rolling the two together.
  8. On station wagons, all thread can e run side to side from one tail light to the other through the tail gate.
  9. On late model G.M. wagons the rear most roof to be smashed to the floor pan. Then bolted to the floor using body mounts the tailgate can then be folded forward over the rear quarter panel. Pushed in this creates a very solid rear end and has a pick-up truck look upon completion.
  10. Every thing from steel rims to pine boards have been found inside door and quarter panels. One guy went as far as to narrow and shorten a Toyota pickup truck bed and bolt it inside the trunk and back seat area of a early 70's imperial.