Welding the front crumple zone
04-03-2019, 08:10 AM
#11
KingDeleted: Love the avatar, I'm a big fan of that movie too.
Let me ask you this. Imagine you are in that movie, and you have to explain something to Happy. You have to get someone who is such an idiot and completely incapable of thinking through even relatively simple scenarios to understand that his emotion based behavior and complete lack of logical thinking is about to lead to him getting his *** whipped by a 70+ year old Bob Barker. What would you say to get through to him and hopefully prevent the *** whipping from happening?
Let me ask you this. Imagine you are in that movie, and you have to explain something to Happy. You have to get someone who is such an idiot and completely incapable of thinking through even relatively simple scenarios to understand that his emotion based behavior and complete lack of logical thinking is about to lead to him getting his *** whipped by a 70+ year old Bob Barker. What would you say to get through to him and hopefully prevent the *** whipping from happening?
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04-03-2019, 08:23 AM
#13
Senior Member
Looks at it this way- watch a modern F1 formula car crash. They disintegrate all the way down the driver's "crash pod". All the parts are expendable except for one.
04-03-2019, 08:49 AM
#14
Senior Member
I understand that it absorbs crash impact but these trucks shatter if you hit anything over 20+ mph. I’d like to be able to pull the abs fuse and ram some stuff. I could hit other cars at 30mph with my other truck and the bumper would only have a scratch. What can I do to make the front end more stout?
04-03-2019, 09:11 AM
#15
Senior Member
Yes it is a federal mandate for crumple zones to exist in the structure to protect the passenger cabin. It's part of the Federal Motor Vehicle code as you read through all of 49CFR regulations for the certification of a vehicle for sale in the US of A. Now yes it didn't used to be a requirement which is why to build your deathproof mobile you should go back to sometime in the 80's and start with one of those cars, or 70's whatever.
I had a fried and fellow MSF instructor in California back in the late 80s. He was driving our older F250 towing our mobile classroom. Back then trucks were tough and didn't have these crumple zone things that case our wimpy new trucks to be totaled with a 25mph crash.
A lady doing drugs crossed the center line and they hit pretty much head on. She was driving one of the newer small Toronados with that fancy new crumple zone technology. He had no chance to swerve while towing.
She walked away and we buried my friend.
A lady doing drugs crossed the center line and they hit pretty much head on. She was driving one of the newer small Toronados with that fancy new crumple zone technology. He had no chance to swerve while towing.
She walked away and we buried my friend.
clearly too many.
04-03-2019, 11:28 AM
#17
Senior Member
04-03-2019, 01:13 PM
#18
Senior Member
Bad idea backed with a really messed up reason. "I’d like to be able to pull the abs fuse and ram some stuff. I could hit other cars at 30mph with my other truck and the bumper would only have a scratch. What can I do to make the front end more stout?"
04-03-2019, 01:16 PM
#19
Dude, April Fools day was Monday!
04-03-2019, 01:20 PM
#20
I never said the other vehicle would be occupied, not did I say this would take place on a road or public property. Change your assumptions. I’ve hit many other vehicles on purpose traveling at 30 mph, it’s fun. Ever hear of a woods car?
Last edited by KingDeleted; 04-03-2019 at 01:26 PM.