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Re: pop-rivets are they really effective?	Mon, 18 July 2005 06:54

Found this in clu4ag.com by Moto.P. A: It would require: A heavy duty cycle welding machine as it will need a long duration of repeated triggering and welding. Step 1: remove all interior trim, wire harness, and plastic item which may get damaged with high voltage, and extreme temperatures of melting metal. This is pretty much 'everything' in your interior down to metal floors, dashboards and stripping paint in locations the need welding. Step 2: For locations that have to be reinforced through two layers of metal sheets...that's 99% of an AE86 unibody structure. You need to drill holes through one layer for maximum contact and be filled (much resembling appearance and function of riveting) Step 3: Welding up these 500~1000 location spots along the body, Functional and Structural analysis should be made to selectively weld and sometimes reinforce the locations where rigidity is needed... That's basically the entire car too... Keiichi's car has 1700 spots and 22 points of structural reinforcements (OK DONT ASK ME WHERE...That would be a book to write...and I would cover some of these in the next article I am preparing along with the recent plans to redo this to my car.) So yes, if this task seems daunting to you, a professional would gladly (maybe) do this for you... That's about a full week of professional tuner's time...and it is by no means cheap to do properly paying for this by the hour... In addition, the resulting body will drastically change in structural rigidity that alignment for suspension and spring and valving rates must all be modified to reflect on this and take advantage. It will feel though, better than when it rolled off the factory when it's all said and done. Or is this better to leave it up to a professional? Is there a local place in Torrance you would recommend? And approximate price range... Yes, it's always better to leave it to a professional if you can't do this properly on your own. Substandard jobs in this area will result in a tweaked car with not many improvements and sometimes for the worse... Figure on about 40-60 hours of work by a professional to do this correctly and extensively. Multiply that number by whatever your shop will charge by the hour. Third this is for any person in the forum... does you knowing a place that would weld a stock header in Torrance. Almost any muffler shops who do custom jobs or projects will fix that extractor header for you... And it would just make it that much cheaper if you can remove it and take it to him so he can work on it immediately. Spot welding. I did it on my Eng bay, both door opning, and rear hatch opening. It will takes time and effort. There is a lot of prep(removing Interior, removing under coating/seal/some paint, removing engine/trans) If you don't know how to weld, I do not recommend this. [Report message to a moderator]

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