/6 front oil cooler installations cut the front bracing? |
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/6 front oil cooler installations cut the front bracing? |
Tdskip |
May 15 2021, 04:32 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 3,686 Joined: 1-December 17 From: soCal Member No.: 21,666 Region Association: None |
Hi folks - just doing some planning here for 3.2L build and it looks like most of the front oil cooler installations end up cutting the factory bracing extends from either side of the car near the headlights to under the front latch.
The Patrick Motorsports kit from the shapes in the kit seem to presume that but I wanted to ask what most people end up doing. Some recent big$ sales on BAT took the cut/remove approach but I’m a bit reluctant to dive in with the cutting disks. Example picture attached Thanks! |
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May 16 2021, 11:21 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 158 Joined: 29-June 16 From: New Hampshire Member No.: 20,159 Region Association: None |
I had the area reinforced pretty close to AJ's formula, but somewhat simpler (cheaper). We took advantage of the restoration design corner reinforcement pieces (that are now available) and notched them rather than the elaborate sectioning and piecing that AJ did.
This also allowed us to have the crossbars land on thicker reinforced pads that spread the load into the sheet metal. In the diagram the red rectangles are 4 mm sheet steel the smaller ones are contour bent to match - the larger one is just flat. The green rectangles represent the 1" x 1" x 1/8" wall steel cross members. The yellow lines show where the RD stamped corner parts were notched. This was all done by Chris at Tangerine Racing. The blue rectangle is the exhaust air cut-out (shown 2 pic below). The last pic shows the flow cap, prior to welding (this part is available at Mittlemotor) |
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