Front Bulkhead - SV

[Balders]

Morning,

I'm really really chuffed with the car it went together faultlessly and was excellent right out the box at my club on Friday night, after adding weight. Not had so much fun indoors with 2wd since I ran a B3 many years ago.

I took it outdoors for a run round yesterday at one of the local tracks and managed to kill a front bulkhead... Landed the car on its roof, it wasn't a high speed off by any means.

I'll let the pictures do the talking..




Has anyone else had this and thought the bulkhead could be a little stronger?

Cheers

Mike

[mikeyscott]

Put the question to Schumacher?

[DCM]

The damage there actually looks like the shock tower mounting holes were a little tight, which has caused a stress point, so when you landed upside down, the stress points gave way.

[Alfonzo]

I did wonder about this particular area when I was building mine. The uber strong carbon shock tower passes all the stresses down to the bulkhead. But there's always going to be a weak point somewhere I guess.

[chatts#725]

I had the same problem before leaving the house with mine, since then i machined 2 alloy blocks and used the original housing to get the angle right, then ground down the original bulkhead top and fixed them by screwing through from the underside of the bulkhead with m5 tx 20 screws, i also braced the underside with some 3mm carbon fibre, by doing this you can also beef up the alloy mountings to strengthen them, its been perfect ever since. I also thouught this looked like a weak spot when building the kit but no one else seemed to agree. suppose the only benefit is that paying 5.99 bulkhead is better than 15 for a shock tower

[Alfonzo]

Wow, that's a serious fix! I'm impressed. I'm going to run mine as standard and see how I get on, I guess if it turns out to be a real weakness Schumacher will release an upgrdade of some sort.

[bigred5765]

Originally Posted by chatts#725

I had the same problem before leaving the house with mine, since then i machined 2 alloy blocks and used the original housing to get the angle right, then ground down the original bulkhead top and fixed them by screwing through from the underside of the bulkhead with m5 tx 20 screws, i also braced the underside with some 3mm carbon fibre, by doing this you can also beef up the alloy mountings to strengthen them, its been perfect ever since. I also thouught this looked like a weak spot when building the kit but no one else seemed to agree. suppose the only benefit is that paying 5.99 bulkhead is better than 15 for a shock tower

is this the one were you ran it inside your house and smashed the front end of??hardly a weak point ??