i remember sobie breaking the hub on his rx7 at a stockton autocross.
id suggest getting good parts for stuff that you depend on for safety.
(like EVERYTHING!!)
-james c
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald R McKenna" <donbarbmckenna@earthlink.net>
To: "Carl Merritt" <CMerritt@luminous.com>; "'James Creasy'"
<black94pgt@pacbell.net>; <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 8:59 AM
Subject: Carl's WARNING, was: Today at Laguna Seca...
> Carl writes: (WARNS!)
>
> >It's a miscellaneous no-name casting from a little distributer on the
net.
> >Time to go with genuine Mitsu (those are 3000GT VR-4 rotors) or Brembo I
> >guess, can't have this happening again. Kinda brings a new meaning to
> >"floating rotors" eh?
>
> C4 Corvettes have replaceable front (and rear) bearing hub assemblies. You
> can't adjust bearing loosness, you have to buy a new hub assembly when
they
> get too loose. In addition to having had both the original (first design)
> front hub assemblies come apart on my '85 in a manner similar to Carl's
> example, I replaced the hubs several other times due to autocross-induced
> wear, always with OEM parts.
>
> The car is now in the hands of my Son's nephew up in Eugene. He recently
> replaced both front hub assemblies but, not with AC Delco OEM parts. He
got
> a better deal---for a short time. In street driving, with street tires,
one
> of the hubs came apart allowing the wheel to (try and) separate from the
> car. Tore up the caliper, brake bracket and nice wheel in the process.
>
> Obvious moral: Buy OEM replacement parts. Like in my earlier case, with
the
> '85, they've found and fixed their problems.
>
> Don
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