I read the post about "wondering which weld will break next".....and had to laugh!
I just put my Mangusta back together last year, which by the way, appears to have been built with the same gauge metal in it's shock towers..., after repairing a broken LH rear tower which was about 75% of the way off along with part of the chassis tube... Design is not "stand alone" but supported by a crossmember so tearing 100% would have been much more difficult.
SO, it is all together, runs fantastic with a new roller cam'ed small block....and on the second big club run event that I take it on in June of this year, I come home to find out that now the RH unit has a small crack starting. (Limited this time by a "later" factory mod to the crossmember, which added one more bolt on either side to limit movement, that I added when I had it all apart!)
HOWEVER, I can directly attribute this crack's beginnings as being due to a HUGE pavement transition out on 580 coming west out of Tracy just before you climb up and over the hill into the Livermore area....... I think we may have bottomed all four corners of the car...... Totally unmarked....!!! Stupid CalTrans....
I hate the roads around here.....except for the "no snow" thing....!
So, now it all comes apart again! At least I'm getting good at it....
It's been a fun read!
Steve