<VV> What the Heck are Those Things?

[Ron]

Which goes to show that the GM solution was best, especially when cost is 
factored in.  Also, I doubt that you re-engineered the body as it would take 
many hundreds of hours of analysis or access to very large computer programs 
containing detailed analytic dynamic models of the entire car.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Kepler" <jekepler at amplex.net>
To: "'P.H. Raker'" <n556p at yahoo.com>; "'Virtual Vairs'" 
<virtualvairs at corvair.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 04, 2006 6:41 PM
Subject: RE: <VV> What the Heck are Those Things?


> Even
> though the wagon was heavier, the extra stiffness made them handle so
> much better that they would average a higher speed around a road
> course.
>
> A flexible chassis is what engineering degrees, MIG/TIG welders, and 4140
> chrome-moly tubing are made for.  This is why the "cocktail shakers" out 
> of
> my 67 Monza Convertible are propping the door to the parts shed closed!
>
> It really doesn't take an engineering degree to just look at a late
> convertible and see it as a complete improvisation......no one in their
> right mind buries 2 unprotected, ungalvanized steel structural members 
> blind
> inside a rocker in a world where highway departments are allowed to buy 
> salt
> (in my part of the world, I've seen more late convertibles in multiple
> pieces than fully assembled.....when the 67 came home, about the only 
> thing
> holding it together was the throttle linkage!).  The "cocktail shakers" 
> were
> further evidence of a band-aid being used stop the arterial hemorrhage on 
> a
> marginal piece of engineering.  I broke the paradigm and
> re-engineered/re-manufactured the platform out of 1/4" wall 2.5" square
> tube.  My convertible is as stiff as a grizzly's "member" as a
> result....that's the "good news".  The "bad news" is that it took 5 years
> and was, without putting too fine a point on it, a colossal waste of
> time...not that I'm not completely happy with the outcome, just that it 
> was
> a massively complicated problem that demanded an even more complex 
> solution.
>
> John
>
>
>
>
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