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Old Jan 28, 2004 | 10:19 PM
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Default Torsional stiffness of our S2000

Anyone got this number?

jlucas?
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Old Jan 28, 2004 | 10:48 PM
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6?
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Old Jan 28, 2004 | 10:50 PM
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2pi maybe. But not just 6
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Old Jan 28, 2004 | 11:07 PM
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6 is just as right as 2pi is
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Old Jan 28, 2004 | 11:20 PM
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clearly 6 isn't enuf for a car as stiff as ours.
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Old Jan 28, 2004 | 11:21 PM
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I dunno, 6 is twice 3 but only half 12. Sounds about right to me.
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Old Jan 28, 2004 | 11:26 PM
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The answer is obviously 62.
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Old Jan 28, 2004 | 11:52 PM
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It's 26, I know our car is supposed to be F1 inspired but 62 would just be ridonkulious!
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Old Jan 29, 2004 | 12:12 AM
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Originally posted by krazik
clearly 6 isn't enuf for a car as stiff as ours.
then 8 it is
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Old Jan 29, 2004 | 01:05 AM
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Well I looked up the units for Torsional Rigidity - it's a torque per degree-of-movement measurement, so for example N * M / RAD (Newton Meters per Radian). Unfortunately I didn't find any numbers.. so:

8 N*M/RAD
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