67_gt6 Posted March 27, 2008 Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 andy Quote Link to post Share on other sites
LEETR4A Posted March 27, 2008 Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 Hi Andy This car was raced by Jack Drews, a well known American historic racer. This crash happened a couple of years ago and unfortunately the car was written off. If you go to his son's website http://www.tonydrews.com you will see pictures of the car before and after the crash as well as videos. It was this car that made up my mind to spray my TR4A in Dodge Viper blue when I recently completed a full rebuild. Unfortunately I wasn't allowed the white stripes, mumblings of middle aged boy racer from the wife, but I still like it anyway. Regards Lee Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tr4Tony Posted March 27, 2008 Report Share Posted March 27, 2008 I believe that this was the result of a half shaft / hub assembly breaking ...... Shows the value of a good cage and a well constructed car though! Regards Tony Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Wyn Posted March 28, 2008 Report Share Posted March 28, 2008 The wife got that decision right in my opinion Lee. Regards Wyn Quote Link to post Share on other sites
marvmul Posted March 28, 2008 Report Share Posted March 28, 2008 I believe that this was the result of a half shaft / hub assembly breaking ...... Shows the value of a good cage and a well constructed car though! Regards Tony That's true, it was the half shaft. On Tony Drews' website and other website's (Mad Marx is knowing exactly I believe) is some discussion about this failure : it has to do with the key, located in grooves of the hub and shaft : when the key (about 7mmx7mmx 50mm) is too high, the contact area between hub and tapered halfshaft is wrong and a crack along the bottom of the groove in the axle is the result. The video is showing that the axle is breaking just before the car is reaching a high curb stone. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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