Originally Posted by
peteeng
Evening all - Now the saddle is complete for Scoot and Frankie I thought I'd compare the S2 saddle with the new aluminium saddle. The aluminium one weighs 3.08kg and the steel one weighs 4.36kg so very good there, for me lighter is always better. I shoved the models into FE and placed a 100kgf on the top edge of the saddle. I also assembled them on cars with the same footprint so its apples to apples in the restraint. Fore and aft the steel one deflects 0.049mm the al one deflects 0.0063mm very happy with that. The Al is 7x stiffer can't argue with that. I did the same sideways with 100kgf and the St deflects 0.0366mm and the Al deflects 0.0141mm so the al is 2.6x stiffer sideways. All in all no arguments about the result. Happy to go fwd now. Peter