FESTYCUL GETS NEW PARTS

[Festevil3]

I have had Festycul for about a month now, I relly enjoy driving the car and waxing Hondas! I would like to start a thread on some of the things that I plan on improving for Festycul.

Arrival Pic


First thing I had to do was to get ride of those crappy Protege Seats, i scored a really nice set of Bride Low Max's At Import Alliance 2013


The seat rails/ brackets needed to be modified to get the seat mounted. It needed top be raised 4" and brought forward aproximately 5". I desined a few diifferent bracket, but this is what I came up with, I made these at work. I designed them with CAD (Inventor 2013) and ran a few FEA cases on them to make sure the were going to be strong enough. Once I was happy with the design I cut them out on the water jet at work, then formed them on the brake press.




I printed templets and cut them out, to check fitment and placement





Cutting them out on the water jet ( i have a good video but don't know how to post it)



Flat pattern / Formed Part




Mockup




Installed

[Festiva_Fred]

Awesome! Very nice work on the seat mounts! :thumbright: Can't wait to see more!

[Festevil3]

More pics

[kumalaba]

great job kevin & those seats r awesome. maybe you should sell some of those brackets for people needing them for installing aftermarket seats. hint hint

[sketchman]

They look prone to folding over when bolted on in that orientation. Otherwise, nice.

[deathrace2000]

I bet that pair of Low Maxs cost more than my car. Haha.

[Kraig]

What's the hole in the fender for? Nice work on brackets!

[defprun]

Great job on the brackets!

What rear bumper are you using?

[Festevil3]

What's the hole in the fender for? Nice work on brackets!

The exhaust use to exit out the side of the fender from what I was told

[Festevil3]

Great job on the brackets!

What rear bumper are you using?

It is a rear Festiva bumper that has been tucked 4"(ish)

[JPT]

According to your Signature, your car uses 323 LCAs?"

Festycul - '9? 5spd_full roll cage, completely gutted, hydro g-series, B6T @ 15psi, rocketchip ecu,Willwood master cylinder, Mit. Galant VR-4 rotors, Hawk racing pads, capri knuckles, 323 LCA's, BrideLow Max seats, 5pt. harness, lexan windows, fuel cell, aluminum radiator, 323 coilovers"

How well do they fit?

[Festevil3]

They look prone to folding over when bolted on in that orientation. Otherwise, nice.

I was concerned as well with them "folding over", but the part is designed using 10 GA, 60 KSI max material. I ran some FEA (finite element analysis) cases to verify they would not.

The yellow arrow depicts a 500lb (edit: I weigh about 130lbs with my pockets full of tools) force being applied to the front face of the bracket, the bottom face of the mounting flange was fixed (bolted down) for the simulation




Image below depics the displacement (how much the bracket deforms) of the bracket in inches, refer to the color ledgend



Image below depics the internal stress of the bracket, refer to color ledgend (note: now where near the 60KSI max)

[sketchman]

Wow. Comment shall be stricken from the record.

[FestYboy]

They look prone to folding over when bolted on in that orientation. Otherwise, nice.

after looking at the stress tests, normal use will not result in a collapse, but i would be concerned about folding in the event of a crash (*140lb of potential energy x 10+g of impact force durring collision event). i would like to see a few gussets and/or tie plates to the chassis of the car.

Safety Third!!! (look it up and you'll understand if you don't already do)

[Festevil3]

Wow. Comment shall be stricken from the record.

That was intended with no disrespect, I had the same concern with the part and addressed it specifically