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I remember that Ernie Sachs, one of my mechanical designers at EMC, visited my house when I had just welded the pan back together (Like, it was still smoking when he walked in).  Ernie did all of the flow calcs for my engine/induction/exhaust as an exercise to see what the CAD package we had bought would do.  We used it to design all of our mechanical assemblies and to simulate the airflow across computer boards to find and eliminate hot spots

While he was not impressed with my welding prowess (He said his sister could weld better)    he was impressed with the backbone of the pan (it happened to be upside down when he visited) and he commented that a lot of the torsional rigidity came from the "X" members stamped into the bottom of the tunnel, and that piece is much thicker (2 layers) than the rest of the tunnel.  He went into this long explanation about resisting or absorbing stress by different parts of the frame and how they acted together as a unit with the floor boards and side heater tubes in the outer parts of the body.  It was a very cool description of what was going on.  I just wish I could remember it all, but he paid 4 years and a lotta bucks to the Worcester Polytechnic Institute to know what he was talking about.  He's now the "New Product Engineering Guy" for Medtronic Corp.  

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