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| Tony C |
 Jan 15 2003, 08:27 PM
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Master of Fire and Metal  Group: Members Posts: 273 Joined: 27-December 02 From: Bay Area, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 25  |
After looking at the pic I would recomend AT LEAST 1"X.083tubing. I would still recomend DOM not hot rolled welding tubing.
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| r_towle |
Jan 15 2003, 08:37 PM
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Custom Member Group: Members Posts: 24,574 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Taxachusetts Member No.: 124 Region Association: North East States 
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Tony,Thanx
Given what you see, is there a lighter way to do this with the following conditions. I want to get in and out of the car without interference. I am willing to have the ladder truss running the length of the passenger area, but no more that 2" higher than the rockers. I could use flat steel like Brad suggested and wrap the inner longitudinal from the inside... Not sure which will be lighter.... I look at the steel trusses on flat roofs in commercial buildings here in the northeast. The trusses are made of 1/2" or 5/8" steel rod, 45 degree angles and roughly 16" triangles... These support alot of snow and roof loads... Just trying to look at this problem with maybe smaller materials, but more of them... Like instead of a steel beam...a truss Instead a 1.5" tube....3 1/2 " tubes DOM of course... Do you see where Im coming from.... rich |
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| Tony C |
Jan 15 2003, 08:48 PM
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Master of Fire and Metal Group: Members Posts: 273 Joined: 27-December 02 From: Bay Area, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 25 |
Another idea would be to add a piece of flat plate along the top and side of the chassis rails inside the pasenger compartment. I would use 3/16" steel, not exaclty light though. For the tubes I would still recomend at least 1"X.083 if you want them to have any structural significance.
-Tony |
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| r_towle |
Jan 15 2003, 09:00 PM
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Custom Member Group: Members Posts: 24,574 Joined: 9-January 03 From: Taxachusetts Member No.: 124 Region Association: North East States
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Cool,
THANX VERY MUCH |
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| Miguel K R |
Nov 1 2020, 03:14 AM
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Newbie Group: Members Posts: 20 Joined: 12-December 19 From: Portugal (Europe) Member No.: 23,732 Region Association: None |
QUOTE(Jeroen @ Jan 3 2003, 04:26 AM)  here's a pic of how the frame-rail is actually attached to the rear shock tower (or better, how it is NOT attached) Cheers, Jeroen Hi Jeroen, I was looking at the thread about Rear Suspension Reinforcement, dating back from 2003 and you posted several photos but I cannot find them. Do you have the photos available somewhere ? I looked at your blog with the last posts from 2017 but was not able to find anything about the 914 rear suspension reinforcement. Can you please give me the link to those photos or send them to mritto@psaplast.com ? Dank je wel, en tot ziens Miguel (from Portugal) |
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| Mark Henry |
Nov 1 2020, 06:44 AM
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that's what I do! Group: Members Posts: 20,065 Joined: 27-December 02 From: Port Hope, Ontario Member No.: 26 Region Association: Canada |
Holy necro thread!
Jeroen hasn't been active on the site in 3 years, he'll likey not see this post. |
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