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Old 05-22-2018, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Raucky
Has to be a story behind that.......come on out with it.
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Rennlister Joe Weinstein had his GT4 strut tower repaired here:

https://rennlist.com/forums/gt4/9483...r-failure.html
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Old 05-22-2018, 06:45 PM
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Shell of these cars are the same as Cup Cars and they take a beating on curbs all the time. I get airborne at Road Atlanta at turn 3 and never saw that happen. Must have been a huge hit or defective weld at a seam
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Old 05-22-2018, 06:57 PM
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Is that their Nobull car, or a customer car?
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This is critical safety issue. Imagine running full tilt on a high speed track and this let’s go....
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Old 05-22-2018, 08:44 PM
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Originally Posted by SDGT3
Shell of these cars are the same as Cup Cars and they take a beating on curbs all the time. I get airborne at Road Atlanta at turn 3 and never saw that happen. Must have been a huge hit or defective weld at a seam
Could be the cup cars have the cage welded to the strut towers reinforcing that area or maybe the higher spring rates prevent bottoming out of the suspension.... Or both?
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Old 05-22-2018, 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by calvinchan
Just stumbled across this 991.2 GT3 on @alekshop_com Instagram story....

Different location than the GT4 failures- around the edge rather than punched out of the middle. Was that car at stock ride height? Stock suspension?
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Old 05-23-2018, 12:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Petevb

Different location than the GT4 failures- around the edge rather than punched out of the middle. Was that car at stock ride height? Stock suspension?
These were off a GT4... Franco79 posted the blue one. The red one was at a local track. Alekshop hasn't said anything publicly about it yet... just gotta wait and see.


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Old 05-23-2018, 01:50 AM
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All those cars see track work. Defective strut tower design or some substantial incident...
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Old 05-23-2018, 12:37 PM
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Maybe a red mega curb at Laguna Seca?
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Man, I wacked my fair share of curbs, a little troubling running the double stiff .2GT3RS spring rates!
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Old 05-23-2018, 12:52 PM
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Is that part Aluminium?
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Old 05-23-2018, 03:23 PM
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Originally Posted by C.J. Ichiban
Maybe a red mega curb at Laguna Seca?
you mean that red "bag of concrete" that's set inside the apex at T4 (behind the blue/white berm) ????
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Old 05-23-2018, 03:24 PM
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time perhaps for a strut tower brace I wonder???
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That is classic fatigue failure. Effectively microplasticity. I wonder if these cars have aftermarket rose joints? Could also be a metallurgical issue from a bad batch of aluminum...
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