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attaching chassis togeather?
alainmengoli@hotmail.com - 22/3/04 at 09:21 PM

Wanted to know if anyone has pics or knows how to join a rear midened chassis to the rest.


Mark Allanson - 22/3/04 at 09:34 PM

You midengined chassis is basically a subframe, I would bush it with resilliant bushes and bolt it to the body/rest of chassis using prefabbed brackets. This will reduce vibration and make maintenance a lot easier.

Does your barchetta have a separate chassis? If it does, it would make it even simpler (less complicated!!)


alainmengoli@hotmail.com - 23/3/04 at 12:14 AM

I am basically thinking of using the rollcage as the main frame, being it one long tube going all the way to the A frame area. The engine and gearbox plus wishbones would be connected to as you say subframe. Not sur eweather it is worth building a front subframe as the car is very short.


mranlet - 24/3/04 at 09:51 PM

Rollcage would be... sufficient... but a backbone and rollcage would be a lot stronger.

Where is your gas tank and radiator going to go?

How would you attach your front suspension without a subframe, or are you talking about having front frame and mid frame be one piece?

Are you going to go racing?

-MR


alainmengoli@hotmail.com - 24/3/04 at 10:15 PM

yep both front and mid one piece. Tank up front and rad behind like the audi rally from the 80s.


mranlet - 25/3/04 at 07:42 AM

So, why would you need or even want a front subframe?

The fewer pieces you have, the fewer there are to break.

-MR