Hello Roger,
The building of a car chassis will depend if its needs to be certified and
inspected in some states and what it is going to be use for. One of my
cars which was a 73 CAM AM Corvette had a chrome molly space frame which has
round upper tubes and a 2 inch square tube bottom with a lot of modified
panels that weigh about 1800 lbs instead of 3300 lbs.
The chrome molly tubes are very thin wall. A Cessna type aircraft frame
only weighs about 115 lbs using this type of alloy.
In 73, it cost about $2000.00 to build a space frame by a company in
California. I have a welder friend of mine, that is a certified aircraft
welder and also builds NASCAR space frames. Bonneville stream liners frames
and body's, and Funny Car frames and body's which has to be certified and
label tested.
The welding must be perfect and smooth like a robot does it. You are not
allow to grind and smooth rough weld beads or it will not pass inspection.
The guys that build custom cars for them self and use for street only, will
normally dress up the weld joints and smooth them to make them look nicer.
A tube space frame with a carbon fiber body is very lite. There is a 1977
El Camino that only weighs 1800 lbs with a 800 hp engine using this type of
material.
Roland
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Heuckeroth" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 10:01 AM
Subject: [EVDL] Kit Car EV Chassis
> Its my impression that many kit cars are based on a doner chassis from
> a production car. IIRC the VW Beetle chassis was a popular one. I'm
> wondering if it would be a possible business opportunity to design a
> lightweight EV chassis that is dimensionally identical to say the VW
> Beelte (for example). People could buy the fully assembled chassis
> and mount any one of many kit bodies on top that chassis.
>
> Does that sound like a good idea?
>
> Are there any other popular chassis other than the VW?
>
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The building of a car chassis will depend if its needs to be certified and
inspected in some states and what it is going to be use for. One of my
cars which was a 73 CAM AM Corvette had a chrome molly space frame which has
round upper tubes and a 2 inch square tube bottom with a lot of modified
panels that weigh about 1800 lbs instead of 3300 lbs.
The chrome molly tubes are very thin wall. A Cessna type aircraft frame
only weighs about 115 lbs using this type of alloy.
In 73, it cost about $2000.00 to build a space frame by a company in
California. I have a welder friend of mine, that is a certified aircraft
welder and also builds NASCAR space frames. Bonneville stream liners frames
and body's, and Funny Car frames and body's which has to be certified and
label tested.
The welding must be perfect and smooth like a robot does it. You are not
allow to grind and smooth rough weld beads or it will not pass inspection.
The guys that build custom cars for them self and use for street only, will
normally dress up the weld joints and smooth them to make them look nicer.
A tube space frame with a carbon fiber body is very lite. There is a 1977
El Camino that only weighs 1800 lbs with a 800 hp engine using this type of
material.
Roland
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roger Heuckeroth" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 10:01 AM
Subject: [EVDL] Kit Car EV Chassis
> Its my impression that many kit cars are based on a doner chassis from
> a production car. IIRC the VW Beetle chassis was a popular one. I'm
> wondering if it would be a possible business opportunity to design a
> lightweight EV chassis that is dimensionally identical to say the VW
> Beelte (for example). People could buy the fully assembled chassis
> and mount any one of many kit bodies on top that chassis.
>
> Does that sound like a good idea?
>
> Are there any other popular chassis other than the VW?
>
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