sidepod mounting

[Everett Sass]

Our team has had some trouble with sidepod mounting in the past, so was wondering what other people find works. We will have a 3 sided sidepod (top bottom & side) and do not want to mount to the undertray. Obviously we are no aloud to drill though the side of the chassie between the rollhoops to stay witvhin the rules

[Tomiyama]

dzus fasteners have worked for my team in the past.

[Racer-X]

Tabs and fasteners...

Take your pick on the fasteners, our team has used everything from quick ties to 1/4 turns. Just weld some tabs with pre drilled holes onto the chassis and then drill some corresponding mounting holes in the side pods.

[AxelRipper]

Another one for dzus fasteners on tabs. It works quite well when everything is lined up. Other ways I could see would be simply bolting it, or like one of our sidepods (exhaust shield) was at one of the competitions: Safety wired to the exhaust.

[Everett Sass]

our team runs a full carbon fiber monocoque so we can't weld to it. in the past we have bonded on L brackets and used quarter turns but we have had trouble locating them and had them brake off. Would having inlays in the chassis help? would wet laying a flange on the side of the monocoque work?
other ideas?

[MCoach]

If you look to teams like ETS, they run a monocoque and have been trying to reduce the size of their sidepods over the past few years.

[tromoly]

From my very limited CF experience, you could try laying a flange or L-bracket into the carbon, IIRC Manitoba used that method on their car at Michigan.