Mike,
The Red Rat Bastard #99 is made from castaway worn out junk. I may have
to break down and buy the $400 comp axles as I've used all my late model
stock and factory comps, and mooched as many others as I could. ( I use
a welded diff).
WST
Mike Gigante wrote:
> No-one around here had heard of a kingpin failure either...
>
> Now stub axles are a different matter. Lots of stock ones have broken
> over
> the years. My racecar has a Mk 1 Cortina upright/stub axle/rotor
> grafted
> onto
> the upright. That is the most common conversion here.
>
> I bought the high strength stub-axles from mini-mania (press fit and
> welded
> high strength allow) and put them on redcar. Has anyone else tried
> them?
>
> WST, doi you break the high strength axles? If so, do you use a locked
> diff
> or
> a LSD?
>
> Mike
>
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>
> --------------------------------------
> Mike Gigante mikeg@vicnet.net.au
>
> Watsons Creek Vineyard
> http://www.vicnet.net.au/~mikeg
>
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>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wm. Severin Thompson <wsthompson@thicko.com>
> To: Mike Gigante <mikeg@vicnet.net.au>
> Cc: Black Bart <blackbart@thicko.com>; Roger Garnett
> <rwg1@cornell.edu>;
> gerrybraz@worldnet.att.net <gerrybraz@worldnet.att.net>; Thick Heads
> <team-thicko@autox.team.net>
> Date: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 10:43 AM
> Subject: Re: Merry Christmas
>
> >Mike,
> >
> >I've never seen a kingpin or a stub axle break. I'd think at a track
> >like Grattan we're loading everything enough to break, but haven't
> seen
> >it happen.
> >
> >Now rear axles... that's another story. Your truly holds the head
> gasket
> >and rear axle records....
> >
> >
> >WST
> >
> >
> >Mike Gigante wrote:
> >
> >> <snip>BTW, has anyone else had a kingpin break? I had one shear off
> at
> >> the base
> >> in the middle of qualifying at the annual 6 Hour relay race. It was
>
> >> the
> >> outside front and collapsed in the middle of a 3rd gear off camber
> >> turn at
> >> Winton.
> >> The kingpin was only 5 meetings old!!! The fracture site showed a
> >> crack
> >> growth to about 30% of diameter then plastic failure. I'd guess a
> >> machining
> >> error that left a sharp edge at the end of the radius (from base to
>
> >> shaft).
> >>
> >> It was an interesting ride! Over the ripple strip, into the sand
> trap.
> >> Bent
> >> trunnion bolt, lever arm shock was ruined, rack was ripped off one
> >> mount,
> >> stuffed the beautiful new flare on that side (1st time out!). I
> drove
> >> back
> >> to
> >> Melbourne that afternoon and returned with all the bits required to
>
> >> rebuild
> >> the front end and race the next day. Lucky I had managed to
> complete
> >> my
> >> required 10 laps of qualifying!
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >> ----
> >>
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>
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------
> >> Mike Gigante
> mikeg@vicnet.net.au
> >>
> >> Watsons Creek Vineyard
> >> http://www.vicnet.net.au/~mikeg
> >>
> >>
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>
> --
> >>
> >> --------------------------------------
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Black Bart <blackbart@thicko.com>
> >> To: Roger Garnett <rwg1@cornell.edu>; gerrybraz@worldnet.att.net
> >> <gerrybraz@worldnet.att.net>
> >> Cc: Thick Heads <team-thicko@autox.team.net>
> >> Date: Tuesday, December 30, 1997 9:12 AM
> >> Subject: Re: Merry Christmas
> >>
> >> >Gerry, take a look at Mike G's web page...you will see that
> screamer.
> >>
> >> >(they all look like screamers down under...love flairs MUCH?)
> >> >Gary
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >At 06:11 PM 12/29/97 -500, Roger Garnett wrote:
> >> >>On 29 Dec 97 at 18:01, Gerald Brazil wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> Roger, are we talking about the same car? Dr. J's is Frog Green
>
> >> and
> >> yellow.
> >> >>
> >> >>No, I'm talking about Mike G's Sprite down under! Got there from
> CA
> >> a
> >> couple
> >> >>years back.
> >> >>
> >> >>rg
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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