Heard rumors Oregon Trails happened.
Posted by john vanlandingham
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Grant,
with all due respect to the incident involved... if the interpretation of the picture is that the front tube actually sheared where the pic seems to indicate, that is a bizarre failure. one would expect buckling forces to crumple the front of the tube, leaving the "back side" or tension side intact (as the "a pillar bar" shows). i suspect your are correct mentioning the weld, but that implies a big stress riser at that point... probably something to consider for design no? gusset? big rubber shock absorber? just play video games? 
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We lost the throttle connection in the Jetta on the first stage. Managed to get the first triangle down before the next car on stage (30 sec intervals at PIR). Andy spent ten min upside down in the car with me handing him tools. We thought we had it fixed, and I picked up the triangles, only to have to put them all back out.
Coolant out of the relief valve on the first stage came in the cabin until we got the radiator fan on high and that went away. Running out of gas on the last stage, had a lot of fuel cutting and fuel pump cavitation and lost a lot of time, 2min ish. Ran out of gas on transit after, got towed into a gas station by another competitor and managed to make our in min for the MTC. Would have likely been 3rd in G2 without the fuel problems on day 2. Solid day on day three, except for a last min service fix with associated 10second service-out penalty. We got a flat on the last stage and drove on it for the last 3 miles, through the rough corners. We took second to Tim O'neil in G2, great stages and beautiful scenery. |
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Alla y'all: maybe save the analysis for times when you have more than just hearsay and a single blurry picture to go on? Self-righteous douche canoe |
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well put... sorry to all involved. Matt |
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Grant's welded more cages than you have. Neener neener... So managing to weld tubes together does indeed make him an expert on tube structure failure. He should work for FAA doing post crash analysis It's logical.. he wons the Intra-webs.. (gruble grumble gawddam Hoche wading in and throwing logic and reasoning around fawkin buzz-killer..) 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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