Frame rails... Options

[Jeroen]

Didn't get to work on the 914 as much as I hoped over my vacation, but still made some good progress over the last couple of days...

Frame rails in the engine comp. are stripped naked
They still need some minor detailing here and there and the "hell holes" still need to be cleaned, but most of the hard work is done

Tonight I welded the rear shock towers to the frame rails
Quite a gap to fill...

[brant]

Eric,

1) Actually I have not looked inside a longitudinal at this point... I've looked at it from the outside (both the inboard and out board outsides)

2) Yep.. that was my intent. Seam welding for strength.
The tube frame cars all run the roll cage to the top of the shock tower for the same reason. The top of the shock tower wants to pull up from the longitudinal and shears the factory spot welds...

3) I think the factory spot welded it a little bit, but with the BIG high rate springs the race cars use these days the factorys welds are not adequate.

4) I just seam welded the inside (from within the spring tower cavity) and then opened up the cavity on the engine side and seam welded the outside from there....

I'm not allowed to run my roll cage to the suspension points.. thus the reason I tried it this way.

Also, I think my one picture on my thread that shows the seam welding inside the tower... That picture only shows one half of the inside, and I went all the way around on the inside (but didn't get a good picture of it...)

brant