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Originally Posted by Justin@EntropyRad
All those monkey bars will add some weight. If the Exomotive cars pass tech with minimal cage..maybe that's a route?
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Those are cool, I've not seen the Exomotive stuff yet. Something to learn from.
Doing different size tubes in solidworks is hard and it only saved 15-20 lbs by going a bit smaller on some of the cross hatch tubes in model 0.2 if memory serves. I'm also limited on materiel selection due to budget restraints so there is a bit of that in the game to consider. The materiel price drops as the volume increases and they don't stock 1.625 like they stock 1.750 DOM (they apparently use that stuff by the train load) so I get a better price on it. And right now the tube structure is only 333.53 lbs so its not as bad as it looks. I might be able to do 1.500" if the rules will let me but FIA small car is 1.625 unless something has changed since I built my last rally car cage.
Thanks for the input. Still looking for some dedicate race classes so we can figure out the license and safety requirements.
-Russell @ Nerd Rods