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Re: Chassis - Team 772 2011 off-season (update)

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Originally Posted by Madison View Post
The transmissions are too low to the ground to allow you easily and legally mount bumpers to the side plates. I'd still recommend raising everything up to reduce your ground clearance.

Additionally, by removing the trapezoids from the side plates, you can add another flange along the length of their lower edge and make everything stiffer. Right now, the trapezoids do nothing but hurt you.
The picture shows how the transmission is mounted to the side plate. If i remove the trapezoids, the bottom two supports will not be held on by anything. However, by moving the transmissions further up and removing the trapezoids, the two Top supports now would have nothing to hold onto, unless i change the sheet metal design (also changing wheel height). I could change how close the trapezoids extend to the floor (shorten them by 0.5"), make some flanges on the bottoms of the trapezoids and then the floor clearance would be about 1" (currently .5"). Would this be a better alternative?
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