Which way to reinforce resin body at wheel opening

[cantstopnow]

On my chevelle and challenger resin bodies (RMS) I carved out the wheel openings, going after the figure 8 car look from local track. The challenger has broke twice at the rear and chevelle is weak at the front. I thought about epoxying a brass rod around the inside of the bodies, or gluing sheet styrene sheet inside to reinforce the openings. Anybody try these ideas or has any other tips??
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John W.

[HomeRacingWorld]

Yes, I have glued styrene sheet strips and/or small diameter rod.

Works pretty good and has held up during some tough contact.

[chappy]

I used thin brass sheet cut to shape, and epoxied in place.
I took too much away on my first Javelin, not so with my second.
Ahhh another life experience.
Bob

[Abarth Mike]

Make small paper templates of the areas to reinforce. Transfer the template shape to open weave tennis racket/hockey stick tape. Stick pieces on the body and press firmly. Soak the reinforcing patches with super glue on a tooth pick.

If large fix existing cracks beforehand by introducing a tiny bit of superglue into the crack from the inside using a tooth pick.

[dreinecke]

Taking that much out of the cars can weaken them. But, they look so awesome!!!

I personally just cut some styrene sheet or strips and glue it into place. The hockey tape also works really well with glue.

[Audi1]

Yup, styrene strips; probably 0.75-1.0mm cut to shape and epoxy glued in place, should take care of it for you. Nice looking cars!

Allan

[Broman62]

Nice looking cars and very informative thread on resin repair!!