[Shortcutsleeping]

Track day sponsored by a local ford dealer. I'm in one of the few GM cars (two camaros, one corvette) that showed up.

https://vimeo.com/45772822

17 sec clip.... Full vid soon.


Costas
cars and such...

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EDITED: Instead of making new threads, I'll just keep adding on to this one :-)

This post has been edited by Shortcutsleeping: Sep 6 2012, 01:37 AM

[StanIROCZ]

As I went into diamonds edge to brake heavily and then turn and start my way back towards the front straight, the car felt darty under the brakes and I was thinking that perhaps I'd gotten the rebound settings wonky and this was the result. No matter, I just needed one lap so I scooted up the back straight, went through the carousel and flew under the green flag flying at the starters stand to begin my qualifying. At the end of the front straight I got into the brakes a little bit early and I'm glad I did. The front end washed out and the tires locked way too easy, I unlocked them after a nice cloud of smoke and then got into the corner. Scratcher felt okay in the corner, but had difficulty going straight. I assumed I had uneven dampers, a faulty damper or a tire going down so I hustled the car that lap, laid down a decent 1:37 and pulled it into the paddock to check it out. Tires were okay, front dampers felt find when pushing down on the frame...and so I went to check the bearings and steering linkage next. Uh-oh.

Dude runs one of his fastest laps of the day with his steering rack about to fall out of the car (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/loco.gif)

[nape]

Dude runs one of his fastest laps of the day with his steering rack about to fall out of the car (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/loco.gif)

It's amazing what you can tell yourself in the car. "Well, the rear end is starting to make some noise. I probably did something wrong setting up the gear, the race is almost over."

Kept enough pressure on P1 that he made a PUY and gave me the win at Road America! We were only doing ~140MPH into T1 and T5. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rotf.gif)

(IMG:http://i60.tinypic.com/xlw38i.jpg)

This post has been edited by nape: Feb 1 2015, 02:23 PM

[198esp]

Dude runs one of his fastest laps of the day with his steering rack about to fall out of the car (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/loco.gif)

It's amazing what you can tell yourself in the car. "Well, the rear end is starting to make some noise. I probably did something wrong setting up the gear, the race is almost over."

Kept enough pressure on P1 that he made a PUY and gave me the win at Road America! We were only doing ~140MPH into T1 and T5. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rotf.gif)

(IMG:http://i60.tinypic.com/xlw38i.jpg)

Tell me more about this pic how did that tube fail, what was the thickness of that tube. did the upper weld go first and then the bottom cracked from fatigue. Im very curious, switched my car to an adjust 3 link

[nape]

Tell me more about this pic how did that tube fail, what was the thickness of that tube. did the upper weld go first and then the bottom cracked from fatigue. Im very curious, switched my car to an adjust 3 link

Cage is 1.5 x .120 DOM. Brace tube was 1.5 x .095 ERW. It was a complete failure by the time I found it. There was no rust in the break, so hard to tell how long it was failing. That setup was in the car for 5 seasons (~25 events). It broke using the gator teeth at Road America, which are extremely rough at the end. Blackhawk Farms put in gator teeth and that was the race weekend before RA. I'm guessing that the load spikes (load/unload over the teeth) did it in.

Replacement is 1.5" square x .250 wall. Ready to find the next weakest link.