Winton Track Day

[SABBAi]

Not cool. Winton is the last place you want stuff liek this to happen..... I feel your pain, had car troubles up there too....

[Belsil80]

Just imagine that on the back straight of sandown into the braking area! As bad as it is you are very lucky.

[Interloper]

fark. Thats pretty bad luck. Did the towtruck guy have a hard time getting you on the back of the tow truck?

I guess its a free lesson to everyone else here that has these kind of sh1t cast rims....get rid of them now

[Wink]

You are not the only one:

[Sass]

ouch

that's f*cked

[Jamezilla]

Great photo though...

What wheels are these?

[Wink]

Great photo though...

What wheels are these?

They maybe "Starcorp Racing Cool 6" as listed at Tempe Tyres:

http://www.tempetyres.com.au/products_clos...amp;part_no=403

[Bass Junky]

Somebody needs to send these tyres to Tempe and even VCAT because they are unsafe.

Highly dangerous.

[Bass Junky]

It says they have a full structural warranty..

[phunky_monkey]

^^^ Agreed.

That is highly unsafe, and could easily kill someone one day.

[Roy]

That is so dodgy, but will ask a silly question, were you running spacers?

[R32gts-t]

They are the pics i was trying to find earlier, i could have sworn it was a yellow z32...

woud spacers have made a difference to the "structural integrity" of these tempe wheels?

I have spacers on my car, now you have got me paranoid...

[32brother]

Na mate, no spacers.

That photo of the 33 is just so uncanny, almost the excact same. Compare the two photos.

Still can't balieve it happend. Not pissed off about it, but dissapointed.

The positive from the day is that had a mad time, and I never liked those rims anyway, see them all the time on wrx's, lancers, civic's etc. Time for some new ones.

To answer someones elses question, to get it on the tow truck was a ball breaker! the hassle to remove the nuts was wicked. Got to say the driver (can't recall his name) from "Benella towing" was a really nice guy, took the time to do every thing with out causing thurther damage, thanks mate!

[Bass Junky]

Having a spacer moves the pivot point out, hence making the torque loads higher on the hubs and stuff.

[32brother]

Just a note for anyone here, if you know how to convert dvd into mpeg format then PM me and when I get it (the footage) and I'll upload it to vid section. As I said in my post, my mate was a passenger at the time and caught it on video, so I'll put the lap leading up to it on. My mate was telling me that two corners leading up to it, the camera was flashing flat battery, almost put it away but continued to record, just after the impact the camera went flat.

[R32gts-t]

Having a spacer moves the pivot point out, hence making the torque loads higher on the hubs and stuff.

Ok, but it couldn't be that bad...right? I mean with proper bolt on jobs???

sorry to hi jack a little bit, how many of you track guys/girls have spacers fitted to the car?

ever had any problems directly associated with using spacers?

thanks,

Greg

[Bass Junky]

even small movements can cause big torque increases.

remember torque = mass x distance.

Increase the distance by 100% and torque doubles.

[dezz]

Ok, but it couldn't be that bad...right? I mean with proper bolt on jobs???

sorry to hi jack a little bit, how many of you track guys/girls have spacers fitted to the car?

ever had any problems directly associated with using spacers?

thanks,

Greg

sounds like someones worried about their spacers...hehehe

Also, I wouldn't go rushing out to email Tempe, as there are countless versions of that rim. Avantek titanium is the main and more expensive version of them, but there are several other manufacturers that make the exact same design.

[phunky_monkey]

Ok, but it couldn't be that bad...right? I mean with proper bolt on jobs???

sorry to hi jack a little bit, how many of you track guys/girls have spacers fitted to the car?

ever had any problems directly associated with using spacers?

thanks,

Greg

I run spacers and haven't had a problem thus far... but I'm a little paranoid too now! Still gonna use them though

[32brother]

My top grade rims *cough were manufactured by Rossa.

Never herd of them my self.

As I said in my post, I wanted to change all four rims to stockies but could'nt remove the front two. Still wouldn't have expected what happend to happen, but can't cry over spilt milk as they say....

I reckon I went around that track 20 times and grinned like a little boy on Cristmas eve on every one of them. Just loved it.