At 02:09 AM 11/5/02 +0000, Steve Owens wrote:
>There are no steel supports under the fiberglass where the seats go. There
>are only steel beams here and their under the passenger/cargo compartment.
>Directly under the seats, the fiberglass is 'undercoated' which implies that
>there was nothing between it and the road, even as the car came off the
>assembly line. The foot rest area is seriously cracking--my intent was to
>add fiberglass/resin to reinforce that. If you're saying a 1974 should also
>have steel pans under the seats, then I am indeed missing them (perhaps '74
>owning newsgrouper can say he has them and I should too). That would seem
>safer.
Steve,
This would be an interesting thing to bring up to the mailing list. On
my 75, there are 2 steel reinforcement plates on the front edge of the
firewall where it turns under and becomes the floor boards. Then there
is an inverted "U" under the transmission tunnel that goes out the back
and forms a reinforcement plate for the back vertical wall of the floor
pan. In addition, there are 2 bars that go under the floor pans where the
seat anchor bolts come through to spread the load so the seats don't pull
out of the floor pan.
If you look at the article "Rust, Its not supposed to happen to a Bricklin"
in the tech section of our web page, the last picture in that article show
the main piece that goes under the xmission tunnel that I'm talking about.
John
John T. Blair WA4OHZ email: jblair@exis.net
Va. Beach, Va Phone: (757) 495-8229
48 TR1800 48 #4 Midget 65 Morgan 4/4 Series V
75 Bricklin SV1 77 Spitfire 71 Saab Sonett III
65 Rambler Classic
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