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Re: Is 1987 240GL have disc brakes all around? 200 1987

posted by  someone claiming to be Rob Kuhlman on  Tue Dec 5 01:54 CST 2000 [RELATED]

John -- I also was impressed when I bought a beater '76 wagon and pulled off the door trim panels and saw those monster pipes -- wow! However, they *may* indeed serve a SIPS function, but the reason they were installed was to help secure the longitudinal structural integrity of the passenger compartment. The front and rear (on sedans) are designed to crush; the passenger compartment was designed to remain intact for frontal or rear impacts only (cylinders are strongest down their longitudinal axis). The pipes keep the doors from buckling, the rockers and central tunnel (more cylinders) keep the body base from crumpling. Side impacts weren't in the original design planning. True SIPS engineering I believe wasn't introduced until the 700 series -- the 200's never got it.

Rob





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