I have been taking a very close look at the 300 suspension set up and thought out how to stiffen up the front end.
The idea of bracing is to hold the wheels in the correct positon (angle) at all times especially when under load.
On many cars the strut top has a lot of flex(they push in closer to each other) so the fitment of a stut brace greatly reduces this problem. In the case of the 300 this tends not to happen as the strut tops are very close to the bulk head , so at this stage I wont be fitting one.
Ok now that is out of the way there are two more things to look at
1 the crossmember this is what I am looking st here
And 2 the strut leg, will need reenforcing to stop it from flexing also the damper plays a part - I will cover this in full later.
Ok as I said I shall cover the front crossmember here. The purpose of strenghening here is to keep the wishbones in as best a position as possible and prevent the stress of heavy load damaging the suspension.
To start you will need the crossmember removed
The main area of problems is where the wishbone bolts on
You will need to bolt on the wishbone to hold things in the correct position while welding
You now need to clean up the area below and cut a peice of 40x40 angle
This will help to stop twisting in the area
This is where the special tools come in a welder a mig is best but as it was near by I used the arc. Fist off tack
And then make sure the wishbone is free to move and does not get obstucted by the angle
You can then fully weld
And then do the other side
Ok that is step 1 completed now for part 2
Look at the pic below. This area needs reenforcing to prevent the bottom part of the x-member pushing up
A bit of 1" (25mm) angle should do the trick
The final part that is not done yet is to sand blast and paint.
To take this further you could brace accross from one side to the other. I hope this has got some of you thinking out of the norm!
Dai
I am not ashamed to admit it!! And i thought it had done no damage apart from the mark on the wheel. The incident was at like 5mph in a car park anyway. I noticed the tracking was out so i did that tonight but noticed that the wishbone has bent!!! 
