Elephant Racing Parts users beware!
07-17-2019, 02:14 PM
#16
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I agree with John, but I would be interested in knowing what the real root-cause of failure here was. Not installing properly can easily lead to failure and it is easy to blame the material - happens more than folks realize.
That said I also use the forged RSR LCAs (I went from stock GT3 to Tarrett to Porsche Motorsports) on all 4 corners and recently needed to replace all the trunnion pins - this cost me $1300 - for JUST these pins.
An important point: Sometimes parts are designed to fail to protect other expensive / important parts - thinking the spindly drop links here...
Ray
That said I also use the forged RSR LCAs (I went from stock GT3 to Tarrett to Porsche Motorsports) on all 4 corners and recently needed to replace all the trunnion pins - this cost me $1300 - for JUST these pins.
An important point: Sometimes parts are designed to fail to protect other expensive / important parts - thinking the spindly drop links here...
Ray
07-18-2019, 10:13 AM
#17
I agree with John, but I would be interested in knowing what the real root-cause of failure here was. Not installing properly can easily lead to failure and it is easy to blame the material - happens more than folks realize.
That said I also use the forged RSR LCAs (I went from stock GT3 to Tarrett to Porsche Motorsports) on all 4 corners and recently needed to replace all the trunnion pins - this cost me $1300 - for JUST these pins.
An important point: Sometimes parts are designed to fail to protect other expensive / important parts - thinking the spindly drop links here...
Ray
That said I also use the forged RSR LCAs (I went from stock GT3 to Tarrett to Porsche Motorsports) on all 4 corners and recently needed to replace all the trunnion pins - this cost me $1300 - for JUST these pins.
An important point: Sometimes parts are designed to fail to protect other expensive / important parts - thinking the spindly drop links here...
Ray
Overall you have to trust your construction if you mix and interchange parts.
Thomas
07-18-2019, 10:31 AM
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Hi Thomas,
I completely agree. I was alluding to this with the statement 'An important point: Sometimes parts are designed to fail to protect other expensive / important parts - thinking the spindly drop links here...'
From a system perspective, the part in question may have intentional limitations built in, by design. The number of times I have 'fixed' something only to have the next weakest point fail...
Ray
I completely agree. I was alluding to this with the statement 'An important point: Sometimes parts are designed to fail to protect other expensive / important parts - thinking the spindly drop links here...'
From a system perspective, the part in question may have intentional limitations built in, by design. The number of times I have 'fixed' something only to have the next weakest point fail...
Ray