03-11-2015, 11:41 AM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Evans,
CO
Cobra Make, Engine: NAF 289 FIA, 347 stroker with Weber 48's, building a '48 Anglia gasser, driving a '55 Chevy resto-rod
Posts: 3,119
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My scariest was in the summer of '05. I was at the then Seattle International Raceway doing time runs on a 1 1/2 mile road course. I'd just re-done the suspension and had installed a full SPC adjustable A arm suspension and this was the 2nd time on the track with it.
It was my last of 3 runs and I was trying to beat my previous time. Came into a newly re-paved downhill right hand corner at around 80-85mph when there was like a screech and pop and the passenger side front end dropped way down , the car immediately dived to the infield and I had little control of it. Threw it out of gear, hit the 'kill switch' and went sliding broadside into the runoff area at about 70mph. I went thru the runoff gravel and into the grass/mud of the infield. The car lifted up on the driver side(according to a course official who told me afterwards, both drivers side wheels were about a foot off the ground) and I truly thought I was going to roll over.
When everything was all done I climbed out of the car, and in need of an underwear change...LOL. The course officials hauled me and the car back to the pit area. Turned out 2 adjustable heim joints had sheared off dropping the A arm and the coilover shock could not take the strain and blew out, later determined they were bad castings from SPC. SPC made it right replaced all 8 of them and two new coilovers.
Took about a day to clean out my shorts...LOL and a week or so to clean all the mud/grass/gravel off the undercarriage...
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