l0c0st
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| posted on 11/12/07 at 10:34 AM |
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Front flexis through side panels
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
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caber
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| posted on 11/12/07 at 10:55 AM |
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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
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bigrich
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| posted on 11/12/07 at 10:58 AM |
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just used an ofcut of grp and bonded to the sidepanel to reinforce the area.jpg)
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A pint for the gent and a white wine/fruit based drink for the lady. Those are the rules
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02GF74
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| posted on 11/12/07 at 11:03 AM |
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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.
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l0c0st
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| posted on 11/12/07 at 03:55 PM |
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Thanks for your replies guys.
Much appreciated.
Dom
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zxrlocost
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| posted on 11/12/07 at 04:00 PM |
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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]
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Bluemoon
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| posted on 11/12/07 at 04:26 PM |
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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
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zxrlocost
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| posted on 11/12/07 at 05:31 PM |
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ok perhaps fair enough
i thought you meant fibreglass only
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