plokivos...

THANKS. What an awesome list. Where the HECK did you get those figures from?! Honda has to my knowledge, never published torsional rigidity figures for the S2000.

I could make love to you right now - been looking for a list like this for the past few years!

 

Plokivos post proves one thing - Honda wasn't dicking around when they built this gem of a car.

I've perused the list, and so far I have yet to find a true convertible that surpasses the S2000s torsional rigidity.

As for the RX8 - kudos to Mazda, but don't forget that Mazda used the same "backbone" design as the .... S2000! Mazda need to give the car good torsional rigidity but the 4 door coupe design of the RX-8 neccesitated the lack of B-pillars. Thus Mazda resorted to a backbone design to achieve good torsional rigidity and it shows. This gives you an idea of the kind of structural rigidity an S2000 coupe, had/were one to be made, would have.

I just fell in love with my car again

 

s2k has one of the stiffest production chassis out there! It's absolutely fantastic compared to other sportscars, even coupes.

 

Not to impugn you plokivos, but the only place online where I've found the "22,000" value was on this site.

http://www.bmw-sg.com/forums/suspension-br...gidity-e46.html

Did you find that number elsewhere? Some Asian guy claiming that number is all I could find on the S2000's torsional rigidity. I'm not questioning you plokivos at all, but just the guy who made that claim on the other site. Did he personally test the flex and derive that value?

Also, is the test of torsional rigidity an easy one? Perhaps someone on this board can do one and get back to us.

 

I found it in a japanese site, then in a korean site to confirm it.

same numbers.

I've also found the formula for figuring out the torsion ridgitity, but it was way too complicated for me, I didn't even bother.

vishnus11, glad you could enjoy this. I've been collecting all these information and putting it up in my site for the last 3 years. It's hard to find these information online. Some of the information has to be called in to the manufacturer to receive.

7100 wasn't the number I couldn believe, so did some research on my own and found 22,000 which made more sense.

 

[QUOTE=plokivos,Jun 29 2007, 02:59 PM]I found it in a japanese site, then in a korean site to confirm it.

same numbers.

I've also found the formula for figuring out the torsion ridgitity, but it was way too complicated for me, I didn't even bother.

 

bending properties may differ from the torsional rigidity, which that's a whole another story.

I'm not the chasis engineer so I can't give you an answer, but I'm sure there was a reason for whatever you're trying to say, which I also don't understand completely, since it's sort of vague in how you put it.

if not rubber/poly bushings, what would you put instead? we're looking at $30,000 car here, not Bugatti Veyron.

 

[QUOTE=plokivos,Jun 29 2007, 03:31 PM]bending properties may differ from the torsional rigidity, which that's a whole another story.

 

... yes.....

 

Amazing work man. Good stuff.

Any links to your website?