Thanks for all the replies. I started taking things apart last evening and have found no damage beyond a gouged wheel, the broken rod end and bent rod ends on the steering link on that side.
Unfortunately, I didn't measure it when I got it - my bad, but lesson learned. The car was stable in all regimes except hard braking in a really bumpy braking area so I'll duplicate the settings on the right side before I tear it apart and replace all the rod ends. I don't know for sure how fast I was going, at Bremerton Motorsports Park last year I zip-tied a GPS unit in and was hitting ~91-92 at the end of the front straight. I'm lapping there about 10 seconds quicker now (1.1 mile track) so I'm guessing I was somewhere around 100 when it let go. It went as soon as I hit the brakes at the end of the front straight, it's really bumpy there so I didn't hear it go but the car took an immediate hard left; it straightened out when I let off the brakes. I went into the infield and filled the car with dirt and vegetation, bounced across Turn 1 and came to rest in the runoff area of the turn. Gene near Seattle On 8/4/07, Richard Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The questions I have is, how fast were you going when it separated ? and how > did you break it ? This rod end is a 1/2", should last longer that the > upright. ________________________________ FormulaCar Magazine - A Proud Supporter of Formula 500 The Official Publication of Junior Formula Car Racing Subscribe Today! www.formulacarmag.com or 519-624-2003 _________________________________ _______________________________________________ F500 mailing list - [email protected] To unsubscribe or change options please visit: http://f500.org/mailman/listinfo/f500 *** Please, DO NOT send unsubscribe requests to the mailing list! ***
