The colors show how much the frame twists, red being the highest. Same forces as in the previous pictures.The torsional stiffness is 4165Nm/deg, which is quite much more than the numbers by Ron Champion (1630-2030Nm/deg). The roll cage brings more stiffness, and the stiffness of the ready frame is usually 15-20% less than that of the calculated.
The frame is as it will be when we build the car, so all wall thicknesses for the tubes are 1,5mm. The floor, firewall and propshaft tunnel is 1,5mm steel when the sides are 1,5mm aluminium.
You can't probably go much higher than 5000Nm/deg if you plan on using the book chassis. Going higher than this would require welding additional tubing, which our racing series doesn't allow.
Analysing the frame made me realize that it was quite simple to make a stiff frame. I had it pretty much as stiff as it can get right from the beginning. What really amazed me how easily you can ruin the stiffness of the car, just removing one of the most critical panels (or making it non-structural by having it removable) can lower the torsional stiffness by 25%!
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Very good. Just curious though, why did you leave the front of the chassis open? I think the Aussie mod of constructing a "V" brace within that front opening would help.
Not allowed by the rules in our racing series. We have to use he book chassis.
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