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18 May 2009, 09:42 PM
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18 May 2009, 10:15 PM
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Having some fun on a round about and ran out of road!!!
Bent the trailing arm, and the lateral links, broke the shock as the pic shows, Bent the drop link, the wheels a write off and the wheel put a nice dent in the rear quarter!
Ive checked the hub and drive shaft and it all seems good thankfully!
New suspension time! Brakes are awesome thanks!
Bent the trailing arm, and the lateral links, broke the shock as the pic shows, Bent the drop link, the wheels a write off and the wheel put a nice dent in the rear quarter!
Ive checked the hub and drive shaft and it all seems good thankfully!
New suspension time! Brakes are awesome thanks!
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18 May 2009, 10:30 PM
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Ouch ! That's nasty enough.
Where's corradoboy when you need him ?
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P.S. Naughty you ! Or you need somewhere bigger to practice....
Where's corradoboy when you need him ?
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P.S. Naughty you ! Or you need somewhere bigger to practice....
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19 May 2009, 08:38 AM
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bloody hell! did a popper job there lol. i guess you can look at is as though it could of been worse. Nice alcons by the way. Also love the wheels.
19 May 2009, 05:22 PM
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Some where bigger to practice... For sure!!
Tha Alcon's are 365mm 6 pot fronts and 343mm 4 pot rears! 3k. Got them from Ears Motorsport.
I was lucky the top bolt held really.
New suspension ordered ... Got to wait 2 weeks .....
Tha Alcon's are 365mm 6 pot fronts and 343mm 4 pot rears! 3k. Got them from Ears Motorsport.
I was lucky the top bolt held really.
New suspension ordered ... Got to wait 2 weeks .....
19 May 2009, 09:50 PM
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not really much help, but **** me how strong are those proper Prodrive alloys?
seeing what you've done there you wouldn't have been too surprised to see that alloy smashed to bits!
and who else saw the top pic and thought 'whoops that's a bit of a scuff' then scrolled down a bit and had some sort of swear word pop out?
seeing what you've done there you wouldn't have been too surprised to see that alloy smashed to bits!and who else saw the top pic and thought 'whoops that's a bit of a scuff' then scrolled down a bit and had some sort of swear word pop out?
19 May 2009, 10:09 PM
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Thats exactly what I thought! Fair play they're top quality! When I got out to have a look I fully expected it to be smashed!
They come crash tested and highly recomended
They come crash tested and highly recomended
20 May 2009, 01:39 AM
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Luckily they're decent cast alloys, not one of the many "let's rip popular styles off and call it something else" cast alloy brands
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20 May 2009, 02:01 AM
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Having some fun on a round about and ran out of road!!!
Bent the trailing arm, and the lateral links, broke the shock as the pic shows, Bent the drop link, the wheels a write off and the wheel put a nice dent in the rear quarter!
Ive checked the hub and drive shaft and it all seems good thankfully!
New suspension time! Brakes are awesome thanks!
Bent the trailing arm, and the lateral links, broke the shock as the pic shows, Bent the drop link, the wheels a write off and the wheel put a nice dent in the rear quarter!
Ive checked the hub and drive shaft and it all seems good thankfully!
New suspension time! Brakes are awesome thanks!
I think you meant that you ran out of talent, LOL
No offence meant by that comment, just made me laugh, Hope you get it sorted mate without too much expense and enjoy the car again,
Loving those brakes,
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20 May 2009, 06:31 AM
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Lucky they didn't, as I believe they're cast instead of forged like most other alloys made for prodrive, some more direct contact and force on them and they may have gone the way of most cast alloys in a knock.
Luckily they're decent cast alloys, not one of the many "let's rip popular styles off and call it something else" cast alloy brands
Luckily they're decent cast alloys, not one of the many "let's rip popular styles off and call it something else" cast alloy brands
) to standard cast.that's a hell of a lot of force transfered to the weaker components there. ok, half inch either way with the impact and it might have been a different story as you say, but that's still mighty impressive
full explanation of flow forming here
http://www.speedlinecorse.co.uk/flowforming.htm
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20 May 2009, 08:44 AM
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Exactly what i did!!
20 May 2009, 06:07 PM
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LOL,
Definitely a good time to upgrade, There is a saying in motorsport and it goes, "you will never find you or your cars limit untill you go past it"
you can only learn from this, Have you ever done a track day? I'd advise everyone to have ago as you can leearn alot about how your car handles or doeant handle and learn what to do when it does all go wrong,
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