Exhaust Mounting Plate, benefit if reinforced?

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I'm part way through a strip down to do a body off chassis restoration, and thinking ahead I'm looking to see if I can improve some pieces before they go off to the powder coaters.

The rectangular plate that the silencer bolts to, covers an open space between the lower chassis rails, it's pretty much the last link between the lower rails until you get forward of the engine. I'm wondering if a bolt on brace would improve the resistance to twisting more than the 1.2mm thick plate used by TVR. I see the TVR restorer in Europe has a bolt on frame available but would it benefit the structure and handling?

Has anyone looked at this before?
thanks

[andy43]

Sportmotive's EVO chassis uses a much more substantial steel plate there to reduce twisting - there was a thread somewhere...
eta here

Edited by andy43 on Sunday 5th March 14:13

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Interesting, I hadn't seen that. I was planning on making something out of more than 3mm sheet and replacing the tray in the original design, as many Griffith seem to twist the exhaust to hit the chassis aswell, it would allow me to design in a few mm of clearance aswell.