BARNCA
BARNCA HalfDork
3/1/12 8:32 p.m.

exploding front suspension.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek3ybBIqBb4

Maroon92
Maroon92 SuperDork
3/1/12 8:46 p.m.

Yeah, that's only 2 years old...

carguy123
carguy123 SuperDork
3/1/12 9:23 p.m.

And that makes it out of date somehow?

T.J.
T.J. SuperDork
3/1/12 10:18 p.m.

The suspension exploded 2 years ago. I'm betting it was fairly new at the time.

mad_machine
mad_machine SuperDork
3/1/12 10:44 p.m.

must have been a bad batch of balljoints... anybody know what actually happened?

novaderrik
novaderrik SuperDork
3/2/12 12:16 a.m.

i remember it being something to do with the spindles..

i think they were made out of a faulty batch of unobtanium..

Appleseed
Appleseed SuperDork
3/2/12 1:11 a.m.

Would have been funny to see him try and turn away from the ARMCOs.

Streetwiseguy
Streetwiseguy SuperDork
3/2/12 7:00 a.m.

I can't believe I've never seen that. I watch F1, I watch the Speed.com reviews of the races...Musta been asleep that week.

Betcha I'll see a burning jet dryer weekly for a couple of decades.

DrBoost
DrBoost SuperDork
3/2/12 7:10 a.m.

The most amazing part to me is the safe deceleration of a car traveling at great speed with no brakes and steering.

914Driver
914Driver SuperDork
3/2/12 7:47 a.m.

I'm impressed that both sides went at the same instant. I would do a post mortem looking for exploding bolt heads.

mad_machine
mad_machine SuperDork
3/2/12 7:52 a.m.
DrBoost wrote: The most amazing part to me is the safe deceleration of a car traveling at great speed with no brakes and steering.

he might have still had rear brakes..

novaderrik
novaderrik SuperDork
3/2/12 2:22 p.m.
mad_machine wrote:
DrBoost wrote: The most amazing part to me is the safe deceleration of a car traveling at great speed with no brakes and steering.
he might have still had rear brakes..

and engine braking.. and all that friction from the carbon fiber scraping against the pavement..

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