New Idea!

[Drew325is]

Has anyone ever hit up someone like Treehouse Racing (I've just emailed them) or Zionsville Autosport to make the mounts? Seems like a logical product for one of these guys to sell.

[madjurgen]

The design needs to be redone. Just extrude and rotate the stock bracket. No need to reinvent the wheel.



Im going to try and get a big shop to make them.

[Drew325is]

Digging up an old thread here...but did this ever get anywhere?

[rede30]

I wish this brace was made.

[Drew325is]

Count me in on this!...but will it be okay to ship to Australia (I'll pay the extra shipping cost of course).

[bmws50b30]

i'm using my getrag 260 until the center bearing wears off then i'm switching to the ZF trans.

i got a 98 zf trans with 40K miles for 500 shipped and a 3.25 lsd for 175 shipped. i just need to get a remanufactured e30M driveshaft.

[02stu]

I don't know what happened to it, I dropped it because I found out my 240 tranny didn't need one. I think people are just going with the e36 transmission. There is definitly money to be made if someone can produce them.

[PiercedE30]

You guys went through all this research and planning just to drop it or are you all secretly consorting against us with your brackets?

[CarsSuck]

Did anything ever come of this?

[erik325i]

Any update on the brackets? I would like one.

-Erik

[X2theZ3]

Well said, its kinda odd all this just came up. I have a material science final exam in 4 days!

yeah, weird. mine's in a week and a half.

[02stu]

[QUOTE Simply put a sheet of aluminum is more likely to bend, where a block is going to break.[/QUOTE]

Well said, its kinda odd all this just came up. I have a material science final exam in 4 days!

[joshh]

No,

filleting is just solidworks stuff. Just means rounding the edges or corners. Here, the purpose is less stress at the corners.

Ah, thanks. The correct deffinition was not in the dictionary so I knew it was a bit over my head.

So the idea is the bracket to be somewhat "hollow"? More like very thick sheet metal? But obviously not.

[Beej '86 325es]

I think basically what you guys are saying is that with thicker material the tensile and yield points are closer together. Simply put a sheet of aluminum is more likely to bend, where a block is going to break. I don't have any FEA analysis software unfortunately. I'm not a stress engineer (I didn't want to do homework for the rest of my life), so I went into design.

This bracket will be overkill, but 7075-T6511 would put a nice warm fuzzy feeling in my stomach. The bracket shouldn't need to be extruded more than about 2". I would like to see what we can do about the zig-zagyness of the bracket though.

[X2theZ3]

What do you guys mean by filleting the edges or corners? Would this be adding "ribs" to the inside corners?

No,

filleting is just solidworks stuff. Just means rounding the edges or corners. Here, the purpose is less stress at the corners.