the amount of work required to get a TR3/4 frame ready for racing is
fairly daunting and would be much nicer to have done on a jig so
things stay straight. If I didn't have a surplus of frames I'd
consider it--but I have an embarrasment of them. As far as road cars
go, I've never seen an east coast car with a frame I'd want to use.
Mild steel with a thin coat of paint run over salted roads for forty
years. Hmmm.
tooling up to build any frame is spendy, but tooling to build the
second model is a lot more reasonable. I've seen pictures of the
facility--looks like they can do a very good job.
On Sep 19, 2006, at 12:55 PM, BillDentin@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 09/19/2006 2:29:36 PM Central Daylight Time,
> henry@henryfrye.com writes:
>
>
>> Has anybody ever seen a TR2-3-4 that actually NEEDED a new frame?
>> I have
>> seen some very rusted TR3's and 4's with decent frames, while I
>> have seen very
>> nice IRS cars with frames that looked like swiss cheese.
>>
>> Obviously, crash damage might necessitate a new frame, but tooling
>> up for
>> the TR2-3-4 frames seems foolish...
>>
>
> Henry:
>
> Can't really agree with that. Except for a short period (three or
> four
> months), Ole Blue has been a race car all it's life. As such, it
> was put away out
> of season, and never saw things like snow, etc. Regardless, two or
> three
> years ago, screaming into Turn ONE at BLACKHAWK (90 mph +/-) the
> right front wheel
> broke off (upper wishbone broke off). Luckily the car 'dragged'
> around the
> right hand turn, scrubbing off speed, and coming to a safe stop at
> the exit to
> the turn. Blackhawk is but an hour from my home, so we left the
> track and
> went for parts. When we got back and went to reinstall it, we
> discovered stress
> cracks in the frame you could see through.
>
> Ole Blue got parked until we could replace the frame, which I did.
> Race car
> frames don't last forever.
>
> Bill Dentinger
>
>
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