Crashed on the track

[alga]

Here's the photo of the obvious chassis damage:



Another place was the upper wishbone, both tubes were bent.

With some friends and lots of brute force we got the geometry roughly back in line and I drove the roadster home.

[jason 82]

That is way mad way to test your welds !

[alga]

Fixed her up about 2 weeks ago. Now got around to uploading the pics:

Here's the assessment of how the chassis was deformed (click for large):



I cut out and replaced the whole rail that was bent:

[alga]

The right lower brackets still looked parallel to the centreline, even thouth it's hard to gauge it. So I made jigs to weld the opposite brackets parallel to those two:






I also replaced the rear upper wishbone bracket, as it's been bent to the outside by ~5 mm. Cutting the old bracket out was tricky, but possible.


Afterwards I painted the new metal, then it took me 3 nights to reassemble the car from this state:




And I mean nights, from midnight till 5-6am! But I had it done in time for that slalom event!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbR0QetHxIs

[flyerncle]

Steering wheel is on the wrong side,that explains everything
Seriously,it shows how well made your car is Albert and how strong the design is.