Well then, there's one counterexample.
BTW, sounds like a fatigue failure, maybe from a crack
after a previous incident.
The lesson here: Racers, magnaflux your vertical
links!
Thanks for the info Greg.
Carter
--- Greg Rowe <growe58@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >From: Carter Shore <clshore@yahoo.com>
> >Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 18:20:36 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >As for me, in more than 30 years racing,
> (re)building,
> >and driving Spitfires, I have never seen, nor heard
> >of, a vertical link that was bent, or failed. This
> >includes several rebuilds of street and racecars
> where
> >the wheels were destroyed by impact.
> >
>
> Happened to me. The vertical link sheered at the
> point
> where the trunnion threads begin. Not a whole lot
> of
> metal there. The guy at the tech line at The
> Roadster
> Factory told me that it was not common, but not
> unknown.
> What's scarey is that I had just slowed from 70+mph
> to
> about 25mph for a red traffic light. I shudder to
> think
> what would have happened if it failed at 70...
>
> Cheers!
>
> Greg Rowe
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