What's the best way of securing the front flexi's?

I was going to put a bracket behind the side panel, secure them to that and pass them through a grommeted hole in the side panel.

Would it be ok for SVA to forget about the bracket and just mount them in the fibreglass side panel?

Ta

Dom

I mounted mine on an ally side panel with a big penny washer on the back of the panel and an ordinaryM10 on the outside. I left a bit of a look in the copper pipe so as not to cause stress.Absolutely no coment from SVA man on this.

Caber

just used an ofcut of grp and bonded to the sidepanel to reinforce the area

you are asking for the best way; and it is like your first description.

the pipe must end at a fixed fixing* i.e. no movement so a bracket welded to chassis for that. Flexi goes through hole in panel work with a rubber grommet.

that is how I would do it and how I have seen it on mass produced cars too.

Thanks for your replies guys.

Much appreciated.

Dom

hi our sva station are now enforcing

"all brake copper to flexis must be bracketed to the chassis and not just through a hole in the fibreglass" so the metal bracket can be flush with the fibreglass ie sandwiched

point being if a body panel got ripped off the metal braket may hold the brakes in place

[Edited on 11/12/07 by zxrlocost]

But what if your using 1.5mm Ali panels? I had hoped to directly mount to this (I have no welded lugs on my indy chassis...). If the Ali panel was riped off i would have a lot of other things to worry about!

Dan

ok perhaps fair enough

i thought you meant fibreglass only