610's Preseason Drive

[Brian_R]

Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay

I'm asking why that method was chosen mostly because there IS an inner block in this chassis that could have been designed to accept shorter fasteners. Granted, would have taken an additional setup or two in the mill.

The long fasteners allow the whole tube to be preloaded compressively. This should give some additional rigidity and resistance to bending, which I'd find pretty useful in a chassis member that might get some good impacts in defense situations.

Screwing into the end caps only would be much lighter, but you lose the preload. I wish we had thought of that in 2014...