My Lightweight Project Update, Details, Details, Details.....w/ pics |
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My Lightweight Project Update, Details, Details, Details.....w/ pics |
URY914 |
Mar 26 2005, 09:48 AM
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I built the lightest 914 in the history of mankind. Group: Members Posts: 121,115 Joined: 3-February 03 From: Jacksonville, FL Member No.: 222 Region Association: None |
When I last left you I had just weighed it and it was just completed enough to get it running, I've now been spending some time getting things sorted out and the little stuff completed. Have a look...
This is the seat belt shoulder bar. The belts wrap around the bar. No tabs to be welded on, no nuts, washers and bolts=lighter. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wink.gif) (I weighed the car with the belts and some other misc. pieces in the car so the weigh will stay the same as I install this stuff.) Attached thumbnail(s) |
lapuwali |
Mar 26 2005, 10:52 AM
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Not another one! Group: Benefactors Posts: 4,526 Joined: 1-March 04 From: San Mateo, CA Member No.: 1,743 |
If there are any structural engineers here I'd like them to chime in, but every book I have on structural engineering and chassis design has your gusset as the "bad" picture. The "good" picture is to put a larger pair of gussets along the sides, welded to the center of the tube. A gusset as you've pictured it actually raises the stress (concentrated at the ends), rather than lower it. |
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