A new meaning to driving the wheels off!
06-12-07 | 09:09 AM
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A new meaning to driving the wheels off!
06-12-07 | 09:31 AM
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omg.....that sucks. I really didn't expect them to all 4 come off at the same time...looked like something out of a Road Runner/Wile E. Coyote cartoon. Must have been Acme lug nuts
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06-12-07 | 12:59 PM
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According to Karl O., an S2K driver who was there that weekend.
This guy just bought a new set of dedicated track wheels, the shop gave him the wrong lugs. As you can see the results were not good.
Unfortunately, that was not staged. The lugs were the wrong thread. I was working the corner across the track at the time.
He was getting to the slalom, where I had a difficult time deciding whether I was gonna stay at 8500 rpms in 1st or shift to 2nd- so I'm guessing he was going between 45 and 50 mph.
You can't tell from that video, but that was a gorgeous car. He was behind me in tech inspection, I was admiring it. There can't be that many clean RX-7s left. The bodywork around the wheel wells is now completely ruined. The brake rotors bent enough that even once the stock wheels were put back on, the car didn't want to roll.
He was getting to the slalom, where I had a difficult time deciding whether I was gonna stay at 8500 rpms in 1st or shift to 2nd- so I'm guessing he was going between 45 and 50 mph.
You can't tell from that video, but that was a gorgeous car. He was behind me in tech inspection, I was admiring it. There can't be that many clean RX-7s left. The bodywork around the wheel wells is now completely ruined. The brake rotors bent enough that even once the stock wheels were put back on, the car didn't want to roll.
06-12-07 | 03:37 PM
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i was thinking it was a really really bad joke someone played on him... If it was the wrong lugs, and they actually held at all, I wouldn't have thought all 4 would have came off at the same time.
