01-27-2014, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by SPOHN
Being my car is completely stripped. It's nice to know that when getting on the brake pedal the firewall flexes. Is it to much to ask from Nissan that they could of reinforce the driver side firewall
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Standard race-prep is to reinforce firewall, OEM's never put enough metal behind pedal mounts.
Remember, most pedal ratio's are 6 or 7 to 1, and even ancient old f4rts like me can manage to leg-press 75-90kg, so Mr Nissan designers need to engineer the firewall to cope with 600kg+ load on the firewall - I don't think so ....
Another simple example of purchasing a road-car and expecting it to survive track duty - not going to happen IMHO.
Only Porsche and some track-specific models from other OEM's will have the proper level of bracing in the firewall to support the pedal box.
I don;t even think about bitching over Nissan's omission - it is a road car and the firewall is plenty strong enough for a roadie - just another cost for the track-day junkie or road-racer to bear.
RB
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