05-02-2004, 01:05 AM
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Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Brisbane, Australia,
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Cobra Make, Engine: Contemporary CCX3117 427FE
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My damaged sidepipe...
OK, before Les gets on here shooting off a fanciful story about my misadventure at the Powercruise event held at Qld Raceway, here's what really happened.....
While accelerating down the main straight, the car broke traction at around 140kph. It's happened before, but this time the motor buzzed to the rev limiter within the blink of an eye. Max rpm in top gear equals about 185mph tyre speed, so you can understand that things got ugly pretty quickly.
I spin off the track and hit one of those big water barriers that was positioned about a metre from the concrete wall. I pulled up what felt like inches from the wall (less than a metre anyway !), but the barrier had glanced the sidepipe - pushing it onto the bodywork for the length of the pipe. The barrier then hit the front wheel/tyre, which flung it over the front of the car. Luckily I was driving the car with the lift-off front removed or there would have been some nasty panel damage.
It's definitely time to fit those wheel speed sensors and get the Motec Traction Control working...
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