JG Pasterjak
JG Pasterjak Production/Art Director
12/4/18 12:57 p.m.
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One of our primary missions for our C5 Corvette Z06 will be the SCCA’s new Time Trials program, which allows unrestricted runs on some of America’s greatest racetracks while the clocks are running. With 405hp on tap (and more likely coming in the future) that means we’d like to add a bit of protect…

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Brian_13
Brian_13 New Reader
12/4/18 7:17 p.m.

Welding the plates to the frame in the rear is a piece of cake—it’s thick metal being welded to thin metal. Welding to the bulkhead is a bit trickier, since it requires fusing thick plates to a relatively thin piece of formed steel. 

Presumably this is just a typo: it should be "thick metal being welded to thick metal" of the frame, in contrast to welding to the thin bulkhead. It looks like someone already tried to fix this, as the word in error displays as "thin" in the online magazine article, and "think" in the forum version of the same article.

JG Pasterjak
JG Pasterjak Production/Art Director
12/4/18 10:06 p.m.
Brian_13 said:

Welding the plates to the frame in the rear is a piece of cake—it’s thick metal being welded to thin metal. Welding to the bulkhead is a bit trickier, since it requires fusing thick plates to a relatively thin piece of formed steel. 

Presumably this is just a typo: it should be "thick metal being welded to thick metal" of the frame, in contrast to welding to the thin bulkhead. It looks like someone already tried to fix this, as the word in error displays as "thin" in the online magazine article, and "think" in the forum version of the same article.

Wow we double-hosed that one, didn't we? Thanks for the catch. We'll get it fixed (for real this time).

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