Another Build on the horizon
Hi Everyone
And "Thanks for all the information". Been lurking here for months reading every thing many of you have been kind enough to share. Looking for help and opinions on a build prior to my starting to cut and weld tube for an F1000.
Pretty much too old to seriously consider myself any thing like a serious driver. Although I have been around SCCA, NHRA, and D1 racing for years fabing up cages and machining parts for what seems like decades. All the while never owning a car myself.
This one I intend to be for me.
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Re: Solidworks chassis FEA model
Your photo is just a little too low-res for me to read the labels. Is that a plot of displacement? What are the loads and maximum displacements? I think something may be wrong if you're getting acceptable stiffness numbers upright to upright, as I don't see pushrods. You need to model the pushrods with a solid mount on the inboard end to transfer the upright loads to the chassis. If the A-arms are just acting as cantilevered beams, your model should show very low stiffness.
-Jim