1969 Dart Pro touring daily driver **Crashed**
After having spent so much time and energy on just stiffening the front up I wished that I had found a tube bender somewhere and made the J-bars from a single piece of thicker steel. I remember reading somewhere that filling cavities or tubes with foam could increase the strength by alot with little weight added. This in turn got me thinking about composites so I decided to make them a steel epoxy foam composite.
I thinned out some epoxy to make it more viscous, poured some into the cavity, sealed it, rotated it all around and poured out the excess three times. Then I filled them with high density construction foam and called them done.
After having spent so much time and energy on just stiffening the front up I wished that I had found a tube bender somewhere and made the J-bars from a single piece of thicker steel. I remember reading somewhere that filling cavities or tubes with foam could increase the strength by alot with little weight added. This in turn got me thinking about composites so I decided to make them a steel epoxy foam composite.
I thinned out some epoxy to make it more viscous, poured some into the cavity, sealed it, rotated it all around and poured out the excess three times. Then I filled them with high density construction foam and called them done.