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I ordered a 3.40 gear from these guys when I switched to the half mile gear. It had some stress cracks in the old Richmond. Unfortunately they were way behind on production and I will not receive the 3.40 until end of august. So after calling and receiving that info they had one of their polished 3.25's that were a cancelled order and picked it up!
Finally getting it ready. Car is scaled. Took it for alignment today.
Revalved the front shocks to the AP "tie down" valves.
Hoping I can knock this et down Saturday! Keep the car down and make it come out hard!
Well that didnt go as planned. first pass spun at the line, second pass spun 20 feet out. Got back into it just to see how the 3.25 gear felt and shift drop. (2,000 rpm)
As soon as I mashed the brakes to stop from 177 the control arm slid even with a small tack weld on it. Wheels toed in and I couldnt steer the car. It just pulled slightly right. Super slow and stupid as **** but it just drifted across the lane and into the wall. Rode the wall until it got down to about 20 mph when I could steer off from it.
Hmmmm, not to point fingers but you just had it aligned, and that bolt moved...bolt not tight? That sucks!
Unfortunately I tq'd them to 175 after I brought it home and just put a small tack weld on them. I wish I would have cleaned it up and really laid into it but thought. ****, its been fine for 3 years. It wont move.
Glad you can still see the humor in the situation. If you had to hit the wall it couldn't have been in a better way. Don't look like you hit the front at a hard enough angle to bend anything structural. Slap on a new fender and door and let's see what your body work skills are on that 1/4. Me personally would be most pissed about the new wheels.
And i will for sure be doing a full weld to the washers on my k-member.
I like that Heyfred! Seems like there should be an option from all the vendors for a non slotted K member with one hole in the middle of the travel. With adjustable arms there is no need for the slots. Calling MWC, Burkhart, Racecraft!!!
Glad you can still see the humor in the situation. If you had to hit the wall it couldn't have been in a better way. Don't look like you hit the front at a hard enough angle to bend anything structural. Slap on a new fender and door and let's see what your body work skills are on that 1/4. Me personally would be most pissed about the new wheels.
And i will for sure be doing a full weld to the washers on my k-member.
You are 100% correct. This only happened because I stressfully declined to buy my dream wheels. As soon as I did. I ruined them.
Door and fender should be on thursday. Im going to beat the 1.4 out and spray paint it until winter. My body guy/buddy wants to replace the entire panel. It actually tore a couple holes in it.
You right though.I havent done any measuring but theres no serious damage. Some turbo kit piping/exhaust. The wheel/tire. body ****.
Laugh if you like but I've been spraying a lot junk with rustoleum gloss black mixed between 50:50-60:40 paint to lacquer. Using the harbor freight purple touch up and regular gun. Seems to be way tougher than the rattle can and shines pretty good for what it is.
Well ****... At least you know what happened and what to address.
I thought I did. Until last night when I actually put the car on the lift. none of the bolts slid. Those shitty little tacks were right where they were left.
07-26-2018, 10:36 PM
