well i finally happened, pushed it too hard and wound up all broken.
we had a lapping day for solo1 on august 23, just being a lapping day i was playing with some different lines. i went over the rumble strips in the shicane (sp) and it loosened the bleeder screw on my front right caliper. onto the back straight where i maxed out 4th gear (200km/h), going into turn 9, i jabbed the brakes and nothing happened. cresting over a slight hill i had no hope, i pulled the e-brake and turned in slightly to go sideways through the grass. hit the tire wall a best guess of 130-150km/h and knocked myself dizzy seeing a lot of smoke i bailed out of the car. the heat from the wrapped exhaust lit the grass on fire. we put it out easily and everyone was trying to get me to sit down. i felt i needed to walk so i walked, though pretty dizzy from either the hit or the shock of crashing i pulled the car back to the pits. engine works. suspension is good, frame is still pretty straight. but their is so much cosmetic damage on the left rear panel that the car is a write off.
pretty sore yesterday and today but other wise fine, but pretty upset that i now have 3 motors, 2 trans, 3 turbo's and no car. i'm looking for a shell pretty quick, doesn't matter model as i'll be switching both sub frames from my car to the other.
it still almost seems surreal, 4 years of work gone in 2 seconds.
I haven't told my GF yet because i don't want to ruin her vacation so it's still a secret untill friday, I'll post pics then.

 

Wow. That's crazy. At least you're alright. I take it this was at Race City? Hopefully you find a decent shell. How much are you looking to spend?

 

sorry to hear man. You get a shell and get on the road again, no worries.

 

I'd like to spend as little as possible on the shell as the motors i bought prior have left me broke.
I was told a of a free car but it' would cost a couple hundred to pick it up and bring it home, so i'm still waiting on that one. still looking though.
I figure i was due for a change of colour so instead of painting the car i'll buy a new one and put my performance in it.

 

shitty Andrew, post up some pics of the wreck. 130km/h impact must of rung your bell pretty good. damn bleed screws!!

 

Man, glad you are alright................

 

this is the car now
closer inspection shows that the frame is bent, the pass door it hard to close and the is a compression dent on the passenger side b-piller. total write off.




heres the off road trail i made, track is about 35ish feet away from where i went off. i exited the track at 200km/h and spun 270 degrees putting the driver side against the wall.

 

this was my car 5 hours earlier at mazda in the mountains

 

Cold comfort, but I'm actually impressed at how well it fared.

Glad to hear you are OK though, that must have been a wild few seconds. It'll be a tough road, but good luck getting another car on the track!

 

that'll buff out.





haha, somebody had to say it.
glad to see it didnt take out your front end and hood. where u got that sweet ic set up.

 

I'm surprised at how little damage there is for a 130km/h crash. I was expecting Total Destruction.

I suppose you have to decide what's easiest to do - swap to another shell, or repair this one. My bet is doing a shell swap since you mentioned that the entire shell may be tweaked slightly - not surprising considering how hard you hit.

Why did the brakes fail?

 

i was surprised at the lack of damage as well, their was a stack of tires in front of the wall which helped a TON but there is still just enough damage that the car is a write off.

I bled the brakes at the last event which might have been why the bleeder screw might have been loose, but that was a month ago and i've done a fair bit of hard driving since then. the final nail in the coffin was be cutting the corners in the chicane, and driving over the rumble strips there.

 

home made, i'll change it a little bit this winter. mostly to accomodate a 3rd gen aftermarket rad.

 

That really sucks, sorry to year you join the club. One of the bridges snapped of and killed my rear rotor and housing too. Another new fd housing bites the dust!

 

i think he meant like where you have that sweet IC set up.

Yea man the car fared well, like in my accident i had on Thursday with my FD it fared very well, and will be fixed, gladly. Sorry bout your loss buddy.

 

My car's down and out too, that makes 4 calgary 7s in this thread alone

 

what happened to yer car cory? last i saw it was good.

 

its running on one rotor and burning a tonne of oil, i poor man compression tested it and found only 2 pulses on the rear rotor.........damn side seals

 

oh ****. hopefully they're not stuck in the intake ports like mine was.

 

yeah, i'll keep my fingers crossed on that one.
I am slowy picking away @ the car in my garage, seriously pondering doing the rebuild myself this time around.

 

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Andrew is assembling the replacement engine for my car.

Had a total engine faliure. Sad part was, I felt cheated because I wasnt even moving when it went.

 

Anyone feel like popping by with there engine crane?.
not mentioning any names

 

I still don't understand how the bleeder screw could ever come out though, there's atleast a good 10 threads or so in there and vibration shouldn't be able to take that out.

 

it didn't come right out, just loose enough to let all the fluid out. but it still baffles me a little too. I race hard 2 days, a couple quarter mile nights, and a few hours daily driving, since the last time i touched that bleeder screw, Y it decided to loosen while i was heading right toward a wall? i'll never know.