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Originally Posted by herr_oberst View Post
Or a bonded honeycomb / aluminum sandwich torsion tube ala Lotus. Or even a riveted aluminum / honeycomb sandwich monocoque ala any F1 car from 40 years ago. This just screams look at me. Sort of like the Audi some Arab had covered in diamonds a while back.
- Those would be great for stiffness/wt. but I bet it's cheaper to pgm a machine to carve one out a chunk of Al than to create more complex fabricated structures like that.

I bet they next offer a limited series of 500 or something...
Old 09-17-2009, 09:14 PM
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