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Sockington posted:He's more worried about how it'll do into a wall/barrier/car/so forth. Not every club uses motorsportsreg but they offer supplemental track day insurance on a single or multiple day basis. You only pay for your vehicle's declared value... I think it was about $200/day for a vehicle declared at 20k value.
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Not all organizations are the same and some are genuinely looking out for your safety. I know with our group we do not tolerate "hooning" or any sort of shenanigans in the paddock, pit, or on track. You will be asked to leave. Track incidents ruin everyone's day. Our corner workers/flaggers constantly look out for the drivers and their cars. They will black flag drivers if it seems they're getting in over their heads before something "bad" happens. We'll even put instructors into your car if it seems needed or if you request. Known passing zones, passing only with point-byes, and differing run groups. There really is no excuse for car-to-car contact in a TT/DE setting. This is obviously different with the race groups; but, we still do not allow any contact during our races. We don't want to be another Spec Miata race so during our driver meetings, no contact is heavily emphasized. As the main guy likes to emphasize, we're not saving babies, curing cancer, or winning gold trophies here. You're here to have fun with friends racing around a track.
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Splizwarf posted:Was the bad setting in the software or the hardware? I don't know much about the work but I'm surprised the hardware's capable of reaching itself. The machines aren't all that smart. 
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Carbonate posted:Yeah, I was Chief Marshal yesterday. I was there every race weekend this year both cars and bikes. Don't get out to the lapping/solo stuff much though. I didn't go to any races this year. I pretty much only do solo stuff and barely made it out for that this year, just did one track school and the last slalom on sunday.
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Crustashio posted:I didn't go to any races this year. I pretty much only do solo stuff and barely made it out for that this year, just did one track school and the last slalom on sunday. Ah right on. You should come check out some of the races if you get a chance next year - not stellar car numbers but it's entertaining as all hell!
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c355n4 posted:Not all organizations are the same and some are genuinely looking out for your safety. I know with our group we do not tolerate "hooning" or any sort of shenanigans in the paddock, pit, or on track. You will be asked to leave. Track incidents ruin everyone's day. Our corner workers/flaggers constantly look out for the drivers and their cars. They will black flag drivers if it seems they're getting in over their heads before something "bad" happens. We'll even put instructors into your car if it seems needed or if you request. This. Not going to track days because you think you'll get wrecked by other drivers is either a reflection on the poor discipline/organisation of the people running the event, or a cop-out on your part. Ive done dozens of track days and have only had one instance in hundreds of laps were someone else actually gave me a scare, let alone was actually close to causing contact in any way. Im more concerned about my car getting damaged from my own lack of talent than from anyone else's 
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IOwnCalculus posted:Doesn't change BlackMK4's sentiment, which is one of the big reasons I've never done a proper track day. You can't guarantee that every other person on the track is driving sanely, and no matter how it goes down, either the BRZ or the MP4 driver (or maybe both!) was doing something incredibly stupid and trying to channel Ayrton Senna when everyone else was just having fun going fast. Insurance sure as hell isn't paying out on this. Track day insurance was built for you. About $100 per day unless you have something expensive. ($111 for $16,000) Also, any track day that doesn't involve passing on curves. One of my annoyances is how many track day companies allow passing on curves beyond fairly advanced groups. I'm fairly happy with wave by on straights only, but it would be nice to have a bit more advanced drivers (not that I'm particularly good, I just want people who do wave-bys and don't tailgate). Also letting novices out without any instructor. Craziness. nm fucked around with this message at 09:54 on Oct 10, 2012 |
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nm posted:Also letting novices out without any instructor. Craziness. 
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BlackMK4 posted:So... what about sportbikes. We somehow live. Owning a sportbike is like accelerated natural selection. If you make it past a week without being killed by an SUV or lowsiding at 200kph you're already in the top 1% of riders anywhere.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Owning a sportbike is like accelerated natural selection. If you make it past a week without being killed by an SUV or lowsiding at 200kph you're already in the top 1% of riders anywhere. I highsided at 60 and after surgical intervention, i'm still alive. I think that puts me in the top 10th of 1%
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 This was posted on FB by an acquaintance.. "Driven gear broke in driveshaft. FWD STi for the time being."
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Is that breaking at the output shaft of the transfer case?
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Well, there's no real transfer "case," but yes. The driven shaft slides into the front of the center differential, the front output is inside the driven shaft, and the rear output comes out the back of the center diff to the prop shaft via a set of transfer gears. The broken part is what connects to the prop shaft. Not actually uncommon: Albins makes an upgraded set of transfer gears. jamal fucked around with this message at 21:55 on Oct 10, 2012 |
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Your first pic with the socket behind the twisted off shaft confused me for a second, had me wondering why it didn't break at the necked down super narrow part 
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Does this go here or the hellaflush thread?
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Finally got around to taking some pictures of the failing u-joint I pulled out of the truck a while ago. Only two turned out well enough to see anything though.  Nothing too catastrophic, but still pretty gnarly.    Yes, those are indentations in the u-joint left by the needle bearings.
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I smell MoPar.
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Looks like a Spicer 5-785X 1310 series U-joint to me but I could be wrong. This got me 60 miles home from Haverhill to Worcester late one night:  I particularly like the thermal stress cracking in the caps, the fine black magnetic powder that was the needle bearings (which means the joint temperature passed the Curie point - 500 to 600 degrees Celcius for steel!  ) and the bluing visible around the edges of the trunnions and caps.
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jamal posted:Well, there's no real transfer "case," but yes. The driven shaft slides into the front of the center differential, the front output is inside the driven shaft, and the rear output comes out the back of the center diff to the prop shaft via a set of transfer gears. The broken part is what connects to the prop shaft. Those splines are tripping me out.
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Not sure whether this belongs in horrible failures or awesome AI poo poo. A friend of mine broke all of these dana 44 parts (and a few 60 parts) in his jeep over the course of 2 years. Was going to scrap them, and then decided to do a little welding instead. 
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kastein posted:Not sure whether this belongs in horrible failures or awesome AI poo poo. I'm voting for wrong thread here...
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kastein posted:Not sure whether this belongs in horrible failures or awesome AI poo poo.
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Get those clunks checked out folks That is apparently all the way off. Only one unseen tab keeping that attached.
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jamal posted:Does this go here or the hellaflush thread?
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It almost looks like a broken damper?
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Looks like the adjustment screw on the bottom of a coil-over shock.
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Terrible Robot posted:Looks like the adjustment screw on the bottom of a coil-over shock. That makes sense, but why is it there 
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nm posted:That makes sense, but why is it there You have no appreciation for stance.
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Terrible Robot posted:Looks like the adjustment screw on the bottom of a coil-over shock. That's what I assumed it must be but that thread looks way too long. That poor car.
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Looks like the threads for adjustment of ride height are around the outside of the shock/strut a few inches further up, I'd say it's probably either a rate adjustment screw/nut or is for charging the shock with nitrogen.
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nm posted:Get those clunks checked out folks Oh god, my car is clunking in the rear 
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The diff in this STI six speed wanted to be set free. (young driver, didn't understand clutch drops with wide sticky tires)  
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Goddamn that's an expensive mistake.
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What's that shaft coming up from the blue worm gear through the bellhousing?
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bidikyoopi posted:What's that shaft coming up from the blue worm gear through the bellhousing? Speed sensor
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the_worm_ posted:The diff in this STI six speed wanted to be set free. (young driver, didn't understand clutch drops with wide sticky tires) At first I thought you had just taken the "diff cover" off, until I realized there was no diff cover....
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Not horrible but it happened to me, and it sucked: That's my Jetta's oil pan. I was climbing a mountain "road" (well, a trail) and I scraped the underside of the car on a hidden rock, was about the size of a softball (saw it later, it was unearthed!). To improve my chances to actually get a towtruck up here and to avoid blocking the (one lane) "road", I decided to climb down to a more convenient area. With the car off, I coased downhill. Backward at first, until I got to a wide enough curve on a flat enough area where I stopped and pushed the car so it could go nose first. Did a pretty good distance, even went over a few crests... but going down with no engine brakes, no power steering and no brake assist sure was scary/stupid. Finally stopped on a wider section close to a few houses. Kinda had to, it was a longer flat stretch with a higher crest at the end, I wasn't sure I could clear it.
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Jeece posted:That's my Jetta's oil pan. Actually, I wonder how long a duct tape repair would last?
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