welding body together

[Mr. Spock]

I tore out my entire interior to remove some nasty carpet. I got to looking these cars are mostly just riveted together. Would welding most of these areas together make for a stiffer/stonger body?

[MississippiMaro]

no wonder my car rattles so much :D ...i would think that welding these areas would significantly improve the oveall stiffness of the body and would improve launching and cornering

[Arctc Wolf]

yes, it would probably stiffen it to a certain degree. I'd make sure the body is straight first before u weld everything. Also, after u've welded all the seams, u might wanna pull out all the rivets. Might save a few lbs. also, while the carpet is up, u might consider throwing down some lightweight dynamat or something to reduce road noise somewhat.

[hockeyman]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by Mr. Spock:
I tore out my entire interior to remove some nasty carpet. I got to looking these cars are mostly just riveted together. Would welding most of these areas together make for a stiffer/stonger body?<hr></blockquote>

Did you happen to take any pics of the bare floor and rivets? I'd like to see where they are, and how cheap GM is when they build cars.

-Marc

[slow]

rivets?

I have taken every panel out of my 98, and have not found any rivets holding it togher.

There are a lot of spot welds, and stitch welding the seams would impove strength [img]smile.gif[/img]

(nissan hand welds these seams on their high end Japenese only vehicles, if this gives you some insight of the benefits. )

Ryan

[awesomeame]

<blockquote>quote:</font><hr>Originally posted by slow:
rivets?

I have taken every panel out of my 98, and have not found any rivets holding it togher<hr></blockquote>

ditto, but with my '02 camaro [img]smile.gif[/img] if someone knows where some are...tell me about it..i'll believe it when i see it.

--matt

[Mr. Spock]

doh! yes they are spot welds. . must of been drunker than I thought when I wrote that one. Sorry bout that.

[Big Tymer]

was it as bad as mine?

http://www.camarov6.com/cgi-bin/ulti...&f=12&t=001837

[Mr. Spock]

yup it looked almost just like that. ha! you only found $6 I found $8 and a bunch of french fries almost all under the passenger seat.

[awesomeame]

big tymer, that's fuking disgusting.

--matt

[awesomeame]

but i'm glad you did something about it, not let it get worse...if that's even possible [img]smile.gif[/img]

--matt

[slow]

nasty.

... when i took my carpet out, i pressure washed it.. came out perfect.

but it was fairly clean to begin with, just a little coke spilled from previous owner under the seats.

Ryan.