Added some tubes, comments welcome Options

[phillstek]

I had some strut braces and plates fabricated that I hope will make the car a little tighter.
Used chrome-moly and made them removable as car is not street legal with permanent bars in those sections.
The pic of the bar underneath the front suspension ties the control arms togrther and also protects the front mounts from being damaged by offs at the track.
I also re-inforced the lower windshield posts with plates and tubes and will post pics later.

In the meantime.. what do you think? Bear in mind car is for road use mostly with occasional track days.

Phil

[phillstek]

I don't understand how adding tubes will make it lighter, stiffer/stronger yes. Also you say it is illegal for a street car to have extra stiffening in Oz? I don't understand that law. I see extra tubes from the main bulkead and back to the shock towers that are welded in, are these legal?

I also see you have a stock gas tank in a RHD 914, is the bottom changed to allow for the foot box?

Over all very nice fab work, I like the ends of the bars being a socket, reminds me of some formula cars I used to work on.

Cheers,
neilca

That's TIGHTER not lighter (must be my aussie accent (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) ) Yes, any bars outside of cabin area are deemed chassis mods and require a full engineering report and approval by an RTA authorized engineer. Hence need for removal when inspection required for road registration. No point in arguing it's the law here.

Welded in stuff consists of: a main hoop with bars through bulkhead to rear towers, repro rear sub-frame re-inforcements and stuff around the windshield/dash area. Pushing the legal boundary but the main hoop stuff is OK.. just.

The dash and trim will hide windshield stuff and by painting the bars that go from towers back body colour, I'm hoping to get away with it.

Yes tank has been modified to suit RHD conversion.

I realize the rear removable brace is virtually useless but I reckon it looks pretty cool.The front bars will help keep that section together though.

Also have diagonal door bars (not shown) from main hoop forward to longs.

Thanks to all for comments and opinions.

Phil