I talked to a body shop recently about putting my car on a rotisserie to sandblast my car(s) and do other work I want to do. They wanted $100 to mount my car on one of theirs, and a $100 deposit to keep at my place for a month. However, I'm thinking I could build my own for not much more that will be much better, and it will be mine to keep! I have thousands of hours of welding experience, so I know what I'm doing when it comes to that... I'm not going to just use two engine stands connected together, I don't think that's safe at all, and some other plans I've seen seem sketchy to me. Since I don't have a lot of space, mine will be taylored for an e30 to be as safe and compact as possible to fit in my small garage. I plan on using it for future projects, as well as helping out others who want to borrow it or use it as model to build their own.
Anyway, supporting a car on jackstands or a lift, and having one mounted on a rotisserie are obviously very different. I need input on what the do's and don't's of mounting an e30 on one are, specifically what the strongest points on the chassis are to bolt it to that will keep it from deforming. I don't want to assume that it's safe to simply use the front and rear bumper shock mounting points that I've seen done. I might do some seam welding, and I think it makes sense to make sure the frame is perfectly squared up before doing that. Yet, safety really is the biggest issue here; I don't even want to imagine a car falling off of it and hurting somebody, much less damaging the body because it isn't mounted correctly.
Any advice would be appreciated!
Anyway, supporting a car on jackstands or a lift, and having one mounted on a rotisserie are obviously very different. I need input on what the do's and don't's of mounting an e30 on one are, specifically what the strongest points on the chassis are to bolt it to that will keep it from deforming. I don't want to assume that it's safe to simply use the front and rear bumper shock mounting points that I've seen done. I might do some seam welding, and I think it makes sense to make sure the frame is perfectly squared up before doing that. Yet, safety really is the biggest issue here; I don't even want to imagine a car falling off of it and hurting somebody, much less damaging the body because it isn't mounted correctly.
Any advice would be appreciated!
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