Seam welding chassis, Video on how effective it is Options

[TravisNeff]

Interesting watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfDPUD-RhMM...s7x-uda9r9hMtTQ



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfDPUD-RhMM

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Welcome!

Very interested to see how this turns out on a 914.

BTW - we have a very active Southern California group here, come on out and meet some of the local Mafia.

[Curbandgutter]

Welcome!

Very interested to see how this turns out on a 914.

BTW - we have a very active Southern California group here, come on out and meet some of the local Mafia.

So cool to see others doing this kind of stuff. I did basically the same thing and measured the stiffness of the 914 before I made my tube frame for it. I tested a 996 cab as well. See here for my post http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...6845&st=120 Check Post 138 through 152. Final numbers were: the 996 C4 Cabriolet has a stiffness of 4,568 '#/Degree. The 914 has a stiffness of 3,326 '#/Degree.

Murrieta is not that far from Huntington beach and I have a frame rack that we can place your car on and test it.

I placed the car on the frame rack, leveled everything up, supported the rears on jack stands, then strapped the rear of the car so that it would not lift off (it lifted if I did not place the straps on) of the stands, then place the third stand in the front middle and then added a 100 lb weight at a distance of 10' to get a 1000 ft-lb torque and measured with dial indicators at two suspension bolt holes. I did that since one of the bolts will rotate up and the other will rotate down. In this way, I was able to get a really accurate measurement on the 996 and the 914 in order to compare the numbers after I build the tube frame for it. I'm really close to being able to measure the torque results with the tube frame installed.

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Welcome!

Very interested to see how this turns out on a 914.

BTW - we have a very active Southern California group here, come on out and meet some of the local Mafia.

So cool to see others doing this kind of stuff. I did basically the same thing and measured the stiffness of the 914 before I made my tube frame for it. I tested a 996 cab as well. See here for my post http://www.914world.com/bbs2/index.php?sho...6845&st=120 Check Post 138 through 152. Final numbers were: the 996 C4 Cabriolet has a stiffness of 4,568 '#/Degree. The 914 has a stiffness of 3,326 '#/Degree.

Murrieta is not that far from Huntington beach and I have a frame rack that we can place your car on and test it.

I placed the car on the frame rack, leveled everything up, supported the rears on jack stands, then strapped the rear of the car so that it would not lift off (it lifted if I did not place the straps on) of the stands, then place the third stand in the front middle and then added a 100 lb weight at a distance of 10' to get a 1000 ft-lb torque and measured with dial indicators at two suspension bolt holes. I did that since one of the bolts will rotate up and the other will rotate down. In this way, I was able to get a really accurate measurement on the 996 and the 914 in order to compare the numbers after I build the tube frame for it. I'm really close to being able to measure the torque results with the tube frame installed.

Super cool, thanks for posting this.