As the frame is nearly stripped - only the rear axle is still mounted - you see, that there is a need to add some tubes to stiffen the whole frame.
Mainly the rear part, where the trailing arms are mounted is a big rectangle. A little bit pushing from the left or the right and you have a parallelogram. And I bet, that even a Rover V8 can push a litle bit ;-)
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| The rear of the frame is a open rectangle - not really stiff... |
Left side ist Martyns car build for track use, right side is mine, build for street use.
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| Mounting points of the front suspension: Wider upper wishbones. |
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| The middle tunnel is strengthed with sheet metal |
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| The rear has got the most upgrades - see them in red... |
Based on this pictures and thinking about, how the load will force the frame I sketched some attempts of how to reinforce my frame:
Front area:
- Add 6x triangle to the corners
- Add a sheet to the damper mount on each side
Tunnel:
- Add 3x rods vertical ( nearly )
- Add one rod in level
Question:
- Do you think, the blue one is neccessary ?
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The middle:
- Add 5x triangles per side
- Add a sheet to the damper mount
The middle rear:
- add the bold red rods to the corners
The triangles are described above.
For the thin red lines look to the next pic.
The rear:
Here is needed the most effort to reinforce the frame.
- Add 3x rods to the floor - but take care for the boot floor - Martyn explained it twice !
- Add 2x rods as diagonals vertical left and right
- Add 2x triangles left and right
- Add 2x sheets to the most back
Question:
You see two different pics for the blue rods of how to do the reinforcement.
What is the better one? Or do you have another proposal...
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Next step will be to remove the axle, but I failed to remove the break drum on the left side. The pads are bind the drum.
I have to use heavy tools...
Edit:
Its done, the axle is off...
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