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BETTER BY DESIGN

THERE seems to be two main ways that modifiers put strength into vehicles. There’s the ‘railway iron’ method, where the design relies on heavy structural members that resist the applied stress from bigger engines in a simple fashion to get a strong structure. Traditional and modern hot rod chassis and some street machine subframes rely on this approach, but it’s often unnecessarily heavy and can

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