Surreptitious.....

[oldeskewltoy]

from another forum person 1 Wrote:If you're open to suggestions, it wouldn't hurt at all to put some vertical walls on your new crossmember. As it stands, it's basically a flat plate with little resistance to bending.

If you shape and weld some vertical panels to weld along the edges, the new part will form a channel shape similar to the way the OEM crossmember is formed. The part will be much stiffer, which will also make it stronger, quieter, safer, and less likely to impart stress to the mounting points on the floor of the car.

Also, since you have the opportunity to use four mounting points on the chassis, I'm assuming your new crossmember will use them all rather than the two that the T50 mounted to...correct?

Knowing the way you work, I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. This has probably already been done and I imagine I am just talking to myself at this point...

from another forum person 2 Wrote:I was thinking the same thing till I read this, looks like he's got it all planned out.

oldeskewltoy Wrote:Once the crossmember has been sized, gusset supports will be added to reinforce the plate.

Hmmmmm, I think we can make a game of this.... anyone up for trying???



Here is the floor and the mount. The mount has been drawn out, the cross on each side is the main hole used by the T50(that is the 13" measurement), the scribed arc is the distance each 2nd hole is from the first, the 2nd hole is somewhere along those arcs.

WHERE should the gusset's be?




Here is a photo of just the support so you can show me, and the rest of us, where you think the best place to support the brace should be.