Forgive my response, but trad safety captures my attention. The brake reaction bars, a great add-on, unwittingly, has characteristics can prejudice this.
Their front ends are one huge safety feature, one that happily survived the leap to Aeros. In an impact, one wants one's car, any car, to absorb deadly impact
forces before they reach the occupant cabin or cause other deadly damage. This is how Formula I cars are now designed and why that sport's
fatalities of the old days have, for the most part, disappeared. (fingers crossed)
Morgans, trads and Aeros, absorb severe frontal impacts by pleating at their bulkhead. Neither measure was planned
per se, but by accident, (PUN!) it has saved the
lives of many moggers. Since my accident, I keep a photo record of such things.
Sadly, the CX cars did not inherit this feature and their front impacts seem to be much more
more unfortunate. On the other hand, the trad front end dynamics are such that steadying it during hard braking is a wise move, both for general mogging or to preserve the cross frame.
https://www.gomog.com/allmorgan/CrossframeBrakingEffect.jpg Some moggers, hammer their used kingpins down the crossframe tubes to prevent crossframe bending
and to enhance steadiness under hard braking, but I dislike that trick. It inhibits the pleating impact-absorbing feature and it adds a lot of weight to the front end
for a car
that otherwise has an ideal 50-50 balance back to front.
The trad steering unsteadiness on braking can be cured by brake reaction bars, that anyone with a metal drill bit and a metal strap they can bend can fabricate in their
kitchen when their SWBO is not looking. But I too switched to the shiny ss (or chromed) versions. Prettier. But they are not different in effect than something kitchen-made.
The one exception might be a Bourne/Wells (in
their Librand days) a treatment that is no longer sold. Frankly, IMHO, it was way overbuilt but certainly looked the
business. http://www.gomog.com/TEMP/Wells~BourneBrakeReactionBars.jpg
They must be fit with lower fittings that are guaranteed to shear on impact If they don't shear, the frontal impact will be transferred to the occupants even MORE
LIKELY than the kingpins banged down the crossframe tubes do. The pictures posted here seem to show heft fittings that will not shear.
Slotting them is downright silly. Defeats their purpose and exposes a basic misunderstanding how this item should work. Many things at today's Mulfab has LITTLE to
do with Peter Mulberry era there. This slotting measure is as silly as the MMC decision to slot the Wing Stays to save production time that has caused so much distress since.
https://www.gomog.com/allmorgan/wingstays.html These attachment points should never be allowed to be slotted no matter how much installation time that saves.
P.S. Brake reaction bars were an invention of the Morgan community. They've been around forever. eMog merely popularized them
Firstly, I apologize if any of these questions are stupid or have already been asked and answered a thousand times before.
Though I have read a thousand sad answers, in 30 years, I have never read a single "stupid Morgan question" or one that cannot need refreshing. This stuff is too important
for even one mogger to be in the slightest doubt. And if YOU are in the slightest doubt, there are invariably hordes in the same state.
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