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Fawking A. Pics up sooon!


edit!
My axel Snapped in half as welll...
... good thing i had a set of extra axles...

on a side note... my Energy Suspention black bushings got here today..

 
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that sucks hard. how in the hell did that happen??

 
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Thats like 3 different people i know of that happening to.. Same Side even.. Whos going to build us some high quality after market ones? LOL

 
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Holy ****! Where did that happen? Hopefully not when you were on a busy road.

 
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i was on the freeeway and just had gotten off 2 minutes before. i was heading home and in the middle of a intersecion during rush hour. snap crackle pop

 
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damn thats insane, you didnt hit any bumps or anything? its just popped?

 
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That happened to me last year. same side going like 70 on the highway. it was ****ing crazy.

 
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dude thats nuts, I have heard a couple of lca stories like that before. Glad your ok. Take some good pics when you get that pos off. I might look into reinforcing mine scary ****

 
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^^^ you better think twice of a K. I think this K20a3 is just too much power for a em2 to handle...

 
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so how did Gray's endlink hold up this is a good advertisement for Gray lol. well glad your ok bro.

 
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Wow, that's a naaasty failure.

Can you give us some details?
Any previous crash damage on that side?
Looks like a Progress front sway (hmmm)
Springs/coilovers?
Dropped?

This has me worried about my mods for autocross...

Chris

 
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Nevermind, just read your profile. Still has me worried tho.

 
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Someone else in this thread mentioned other failures; are these all happening with K20 swaps (or turbos)? Are you guys doing lots of 1/4 mile runs and hard 1st gear pulls? Only thing I can think of is repeated, high forward loads on the LCA lead to fatigue and failure. And the sway bar tab welds on the back of the arm might cause stress risers there which eventually crack and fail.

I'm a bit leary of the Progress bar because it could potentially put high bending loads on the middle of the LCA, but only if it's used with soft springs. The OP has very stiff coilovers, so it wouldn't be an issue.

Anyone have more info?

Chris

 
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actually, i had the sway bar dissconnected because i forgot a bolt at my friends house that we isntalled my suspention at.

if the sway bar was still connected, i think there would have been some seriously worse damage done to the underbody

 
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Ehh, my theory is all washed up. No way acceleration loads are going to be any worse than braking loads.

More likely stiff suspension+low profile tires+big pothole. Did you hit anything really hard recently? Pothole, sharp bump or something?