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Originally Posted by GSXRJJordan
Have you even seen a stitch-weld how-to?
In order to stitch weld, you have to prep the car. First you remove all the interior/engine pieces in the way, then you strip the factory glue shit off of the seam to be welded. That shit weighs WAY more than the tiny bit of welding wire I'm adding to the car. Get real.
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Nope, I've never seen a stitch welding how to... I do know the general premiss though yes. If you read my other comment I noted that stripping the car and removing the seems was necessary.
as for the weight... I have no first hand experience but as I said I "HEARD" it added weight. I heard this from some member of my local car club who had just recently finished stitch welding an s13 hatch for use as a Time Attack vehicle. They said they weighed the chassis before and after and it added a little over 100lbs to the car in the process. Maybe they were wrong, maybe they did it wrong. Maybe they added some other kind of bracing as well which is where the weight came from... I don't know.
I make no claims that I'm an authority on stitch welding I'm simply repeating what I heard from someone who had first hand experience.