Finally getting stuff done on our cars

[Jakey]

Originally Posted by Swifty1638

Wow! Jakey didn't ask for a close up of the welds!

-A. Swift

Originally Posted by JET

Crap, the world is coming to an end!!

It's not something I'd be interesting in buying so it's irrelevant to me.

Originally Posted by niterydr

No one has modeled one, I don't have time to do it as of yet..

If I were you, I'd get a 100% stock housing and send it off to Advanced Design Concepts to get a CAD model made. It is nearly impossible to 100% reverse engineer a piece like this without some sort of laser scan or touch probe because of all the fine details. By having a CAD model, you could have someone run an FEA simulation on the piece to determine where the stress concentrations are and then be able to specifically target your reinforcements.

[niterydr]

Originally Posted by Jakey

It's not something I'd be interesting in buying so it's irrelevant to me.


If I were you, I'd get a 100% stock housing and send it off to Advanced Design Concepts to get a CAD model made. It is nearly impossible to 100% reverse engineer a piece like this without some sort of laser scan or touch probe because of all the fine details. By having a CAD model, you could have someone run an FEA simulation on the piece to determine where the stress concentrations are and then be able to specifically target your reinforcements.

True this is much easier.

However we did manage to reverse engineer a transfer case with a similar vague description of what happens with 100% success.

[Goat Blower]

Originally Posted by Jakey

If I were you, I'd get a 100% stock housing and send it off to Advanced Design Concepts to get a CAD model made. It is nearly impossible to 100% reverse engineer a piece like this without some sort of laser scan or touch probe because of all the fine details. By having a CAD model, you could have someone run an FEA simulation on the piece to determine where the stress concentrations are and then be able to specifically target your reinforcements.

Or you could just weld reinforcements and call it good. Some of y'all over complicate this stuff.

[Jakey]

Originally Posted by Goat Blower

Or you could just weld reinforcements and call it good. Some of y'all over complicate this stuff.

Yes and no. The problem is that stress concentrations are quite unpredictable, the opposite of what most think. Welding in reinforcements can dissipate those concentrations but they may also not address anything and in turn, add unnecessary weight.