seam welding a miata
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Seam welding a Miata
When your Miata was built, many of the seams were only spot-welded in order to speed
up production. Seam welding - also known as stitch welding - involves improving these
welds to increase the strength and rigidity of the chassis. It's a given on a good race
car, and we welded up the Targa Miata for that reason.
The red and blue dots tell you where to add more welds. For long seams, it's best to
stitch short welds together instead of doing one big seam. Sorry, we don't have bigger
versions. The seam around the door opening and up the windshield frame is easily
accessible and can make a big difference. One of the other diagrams (not shown here)
indicates reinforcing plates being welded over the frame rails - just like our bolt-in frame
rail reinforcement kit.
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Reference - https://www.flyinmiata.com/tech/seamweld.php
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Pics showing important hard to reach structure to be stich welded.
http://www.miataturbo.net/race-prep-75/some-seam-weld-photos-59541/page2/
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