speed wrote:Weber, what does it feel like, big difference and how so???
Hi Speed. You really should read the post in the AEVA forum that I linked above, and the two that follow it, if only to learn why it didn't work at all the first time.
No, I can't say it made a big difference. But it made a noticeable difference. Really stiffening an MX-5, short of a roll-cage, seems to require lots of different braces in different places. In case you can't read the linked article for some reason, here's what I wrote about the effect:
"I eventually got my wish as it turned back into gravel and I accelerated away. Potholes, corrugations, patches of loose gravel, uphill and downhill bends, yahoo! Great stuff. The verdict? ... I think it's Good Enough (TM). Put it this way: If I'd never dríven a Nissan Leaf (whose middle name is "smooooooth"), I'd probably declare the electric MX-5 now much the same in the shudder and shake department as many other cars I've dríven. Just occasionally you hit a certain shaped bump in a certain way and get a shudder, but it decays in about half a second and you're back to sailing over the tops of the corrugations (or at least that's what it feels like)."
And I should reiterate that this DIY butterfly brace design would require modification into something more complex to make it fit an MX-5 with an exhaust system.
