EV1 Frame Front Torsion Bar Brackets


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Upon acquisition, the collection's first EV1 was missing much
of its front frame structure and several components 
had to be remanufactured from various pictures and drawings
as available.  This page displays the process of beginning to determine
what options we had to recreate the missing components. 

In those early days we had no parts available for comparision so we
developed the forward torsion bar mounting brackets
from scratch with historical drawings and photographs, mostly
from EV1 manuals.  Here are a few pictures of the results.
This was also our first experience with waterjet cutting
systems.  Quite an interesting process.

Although the original vehicle had closed rivets in the cross
bar assembly with bolts for mounting hardware, we decided to have
a more rigid fully welded system, a minor variance from
the original design.



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