Making the Ioniq slippier

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https://www.youtube.com/shorts/1U6OIrggwcY


Here’s a dibond sample the sign shop gave me for free. Rear wheel spats will be made of it and black. Should hold its shape in smaller applications. Underbody May take a little reenforcement and lots of bolts

[freebeard]

It may be down to the shape. Polymetal is supposedly equivalent in stiffness to 5/8th" plywood.

Reinforcement good in any case.

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Originally Posted by freebeard

It may be down to the shape. Polymetal is supposedly equivalent in stiffness to 5/8th" plywood.

Reinforcement good in any case.

It gets stiffer with less surface area you have, and wobblier the farther out you go. So it should be extremely stiff with lots of fasteners for the under body. For the side wheel skirts it should be extremely stiff since it’s just a 2 feet by 3 foot area. May weld a little steel bar into the center though just Incase. Only way to bend it would be if someone came up and kicked it hard or something

I also ordered a big black acrylic sheet to do a new front belly pan. The OEM one has a few tears in it from running over things in the road. Literally ran over a stump in the road in east Portland. They don’t call it stump town for nothing!

[freebeard]

Shape before surface area? Columns are limited by a slenderness ratio.

If the old bellypan is molded rather than flat, could you fill it with cement, turn it over and use if for a mold with a heat gun to form the ABS?

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Originally Posted by freebeard

Shape before surface area? Columns are limited by a slenderness ratio.

If the old bellypan is molded rather than flat, could you fill it with cement, turn it over and use if for a mold with a heat gun to form the ABS?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3OBHKI2VXQ

look at 5:30 mark in the video. he shows his side by side with a new one. thats what its supposed to look like

[freebeard]

So what do you think?

Without the four pylons, it's fairly flat.

What are the three slots for? Are those access plates?

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Originally Posted by freebeard

So what do you think?

Without the four pylons, it's fairly flat.

What are the three slots for? Are those access plates?

I think they are to allow air to flow out from the radiator area and also drain slots for when water and snow and rocks kick up into the belly pan?

[freebeard]

The slots are easy. Could you replace the pylons with a three-foot hat section riveted on?

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Originally Posted by freebeard

The slots are easy. Could you replace the pylons with a three-foot hat section riveted on?

What do you mean? Do you know what the pylons are even for there?

I’ll be cutting the slots out with a jigsaw which should be easy

[freebeard]

I don't even know if they're pylons.

I presume standoffs for fasteners not in plane with the rest.

Examples of hat section. There would need be holes drilled to reinsert the bolts.