Suspension ear reinforcement, Would this work? (pic) Options

[smrz914]

I played around with photoshop a little bit. I hope 914RS doesn't mink I used his picture.

Anyway, instead of having a tube go from the ear to the firewall, I thought that one could take some sheetmetal and create a shelf. I don't thin this will work for /4 but it might for converted cars. I thought a cross section might look like
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Would this be strong enough? Just seeing if there is a nice way of doing the brace. So It would be like having another shelf. I don't know how low the engine mount goes but I think one could work around that. On the ear the attachment point would be pretty low and be able to handle movement better. On the firewall site it would attach to the back edge of the floorpan.

[Brad Roberts]

Jeroen has a good idea. Something I rarely see is support running BOTH directions. He addresses this.

JP,

IF, I build another car for myself.. I will do exactly like you spoke: peel the top cover off the ear and weld in a scab plates.. then weld the "cover" back on. I do not like any of the tubes leading into the front of the ear. Most people use small tubing and all it does is crack at the point where they welded to the ear.

Great discussion and good insight.


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