HEY 02 RACERS how to stiffin the 2002 chassis

[1972fritz]

i was wondering if any of you raacers had any itps or pictures of how you stiffened the chassis on your 02? thanks.

[c.d.iesel]

[mattmcginn]

You can do all the seam welding/roll cage stuff, this is fairly common practice.

One place you can stiffen the car is in the rocker panels by taking them from a two-piece channel section to a four piece.

We use an MG inner rocker section, which is a flat vertical piece that goes the length of the rocker panel, slightly modifed and then fabricate a channel section, which is welded to the MG piece as shown above.

Then the factory outer rocker panel is installed over this, and its all tidy, hidden and S-T-R-O-N-G

[Lee]

I 100% support Matt on the installation of the MG rockers boxed reinforcements. It seems even stronger than the full cabrio reinforcements.

If the car is to be a racecar, nothing beats a good roll cage fully gussetted to the shell.

[c.d.iesel]

WOW Lee - you've been busy !

Looks GOOD!

your work of art will be the new gold standard

for others to follow - and of course with Matt McGinn's

metal auto art also'

......and your cat looks fatter and more involved

this time round !?!

[Lee]

Car is now properly stored and awaiting completion.

[BobBreed]

Three other places:

1)Tie the main hoop into the top of rear subframe mount

Sorry, it is stuck behind the battery. Note the tab to the top of the drive shaft.

2)Tie the two rear strut towers to the top of the diff mout area.

3)Tie the front of the subframe back to the under the dash bar and tie in the front strut towers.

Hope this helps,

Bob

[TobyB]

...install a roll cage...

really. You can do everything you need to with the cage. Even in ITB if

you cheat just a little tiny bit...

t

[rover1]

Holly Hambergur Batman that o2 is sick. but really im interested in the fiberglass hood clips give me the 411

[ArdenK]

Awesome Lee!

Is that an S14 you have in your 02?

[Lee]

Awesome Lee!

Is that an S14 you have in your 02?

Yup. Stock 200hp.

Lee

[doug73cs]

Matt:

Would doing this type of reinforcement work on the CS rockers? Have you done this on any CS resto's?

Doug

You can do all the seam welding/roll cage stuff, this is fairly common practice.

One place you can stiffen the car is in the rocker panels by taking them from a two-piece channel section to a four piece.

We use an MG inner rocker section, which is a flat vertical piece that goes the length of the rocker panel, slightly modifed and then fabricate a channel section, which is welded to the MG piece as shown above.

Then the factory outer rocker panel is installed over this, and its all tidy, hidden and S-T-R-O-N-G

[adamm]

Sorry to stray away from the topic but Lee, I love your cat! I thought I was the only one with an '02 obsessed cat. My cat (Dennis) loves to get in my car. Quality's crap but this picture just cracks me up! I must have opened my boot only 30 seconds before and he was straight in...

[Lee]

Hey Adam

My four cats own my cars. Whenever I work on one of the cars, for sure they come out to play with me. They climb on the roof, trunk lind, or inspect the interior. They almost look at me asking what I am doing on THEIR car.

If I work in the engine bay, they also pass the tools or give me suggestions to trouble shoot.

[adamm]

ah Dennis is hopeless when it comes to spannering - he only works in imperial and just can't get the metric way of doing things. i think it's cause his mother was a sphinx...