John Vanlandingham Super Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
FAN BLADES!!!!!???? 
Guess somebody never heard of electric fans.. And motor mount? 
Didn't we all figure out how to make motor mounts for motorsport about 20 years ago?  John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
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John Vanlandingham Super Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
Banned Mod Moderator Location: La la land Join Date: 01/25/2006 Age: Fossilized Posts: 3,740 Rally Car: Not a Volvo |
Al driving down the stages backwards again?, those Cali guys. Or did he get rearended ?,again those Cali guys. Car is too slow to spin out and hit backwards 
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John Vanlandingham Super Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
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Did not break any motor mounts. Quit spreading false info, Gene!  Best guess is a rock got flung up in there and took the blades out. It's got an electric fan in there now, thanks to Tino Fortunato for the hookup. Got the Hintz boys back out to set some good times on the last 2 stages but they hit a big rock right in the center of the skidplate and cracked the oilpan. Oil gushing out when he rolled into service so we called it a weekend. Too bad, Dave was running 5th overall when he dropped out. Made a lot of fans with his spirited driving. For some reason he doesn't have any problem with understeer even with a motor that juts out twelve feet in front of the car. Must be doing something wrong....
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From the RA website : STAGE 8: Brother duo Dave and Rick Hintz in their 1999 BMW M3 broke a motor mount and sheared the blades off their fan. They will try to fix and reenter the regional rally on Sunday. Now seriously who are we to believe..you who only work on the car or RA who only speaks the truth about all things rally related?? Tis a shame, they looked so awesome on the hairpin at PIR , smoke rolling off the back tires. Too bad about the understeer issues. 
Maybe we can take up a collection and buy Fogg out. I'll throw in the dollar he paid for everything to start with. Rumor has it the RA motorhome may have been repoed. They were in a rented one this year (which actually costs more than one the payments aren't being made on). |
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