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Originally Posted by Walt Fricke
I think you'll never know. Do you have a way of measuring torsional rigidity? Got a fancy program which can model stresses and so on? Finite element analysis? For sure you won't crash test to see what happens. Fortunately, the rest of us don't crash really hard often enough to see which mounts work best.
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I agree with both your sentiments (monkey see monkey do and lack of scientific method).
I for one find this stuff really interesting and I'm willing to do some real world testing with strain guages. Trouble is it will be a while before this thing drives, so for now it's all bench racing.
I'm currently making the front strut tower braces and it would be fairly easy to instrument the strut bar to determine forces in the bar. I saw the thread where the guy put the bathroom scale in there and did some static tests. Anyone else on here played with strain guages?