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Originally Posted by Kazama1986
I was looking at a picture of Koguchi's180sx and he had the entire underside of his car stitch welded. basically every last bit of the car has been stitched.
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link em. I have no idea what you mean, unless he added metal to the car for extra stiffness.
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Originally Posted by twistedsymphony
... the biggest one I can think of is the added weight, all that metal your welding to the car adds up... I've heard that it can add well over 100lbs to the weight of the chassis.
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Hahaha. 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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Originally Posted by blu808
I can stitch weld an entire car without adding any weight. Not even a gram.
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exactly.
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Originally Posted by EDacIouSX
oh, i didn't know metal gets softer the older it gets. next time i see my car im gonna smash my face into it cause it's soft metal now. it won't hurt right?
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It doesn't get softer, but it can become more brittle with oxidation/etc, making it crumple unpredictably anyway. His point is that you're changing very little as far as how the car reacts in a crash, as far as we can tell. Read the rest of the thread.