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rapidtransitric said
no i did not the car did fine in it's early life with 11 second runs. and healthy horsepowered engines. it won't see that kind of thrashing again. having decades of collision and restoration knowledge and experience, i learned early on not to over engineer.not one less weld and not one more weld. only the same amount of spot welds that the manufacturer put in the car. put a spot weld where there was a spot weld and not to replace it with a stitch weld. if i was building a race car or..... then it might be different. thanks for the concern

Just trying to help. Plenty of guys have had torsion bar anchors rip out of their cars just driving down the street, and A-body's for some reason seem to have gotten less attention from the factory welder than some of the other models. My B and E body cars have great factory welds on the anchors. So does my '71 Dart, but the welds on the anchors of my '74 Duster left something to be desired. I understand not changing stuff, the chassis was engineered a certain way and when you start changing and reinforcing things it can have unintended consequences. But, having briefly spent time in the engineering world, I can also say that what was designed by the engineers and what was built on the assembly line are two different things. Some of the imperfections of the manufacturing process are taken into account, some aren't. Some of the factory "welds" I've seen couldn't possibly have been accounted for on the design side.

But it's your car, and if you're happy with it that's what matters. :thumbsup: