JohnnyGT3

its been a slow road to recovery for my 996 GT3. After an upward force put a stress fracture in the sub frame, shattered the camber plate and tweaked the shock tower.. among a few other items. Here are some pics of attempting do it the repairs myself. It was a bit daunting when I started pulling the suspension apart to get the sub frame out. what a learning curve! The new subframe is in and I just recieved the camber plates from Tarret last night.

JohnnyGT3

Pics coming! .. uploads keep failing. hmmmm

TurboCup87

Do you have the pics on a hosting site like Photobucket? Use the image link to copy and paste on your text on RL.

lordpantsington

Subscribed. I like DIY/Build threads.

JohnnyGT3

not sure if this will work or not.. here are some of the pics.


http://s1287.beta.photobucket.com/us...42868251050098

996FLT6

Pretty awesome!!! I wish I was a wrencher. I see on your photo link a cupwing- very nice : ). Mike

philooo

it is certainly a blessing that the camber plate broke.
If you have had the tarett, which look stronger you would have certainly ended up having even more damage to the frame... I wonder if porsche thought of this when building their camber plate or just saving money

JohnnyGT3

I added the cup wing and cup splitter. I was visiting at the frame guy again today, should be done by monday and possibly before. I still need to change a few parts, like the control arm, knuckle and send in the shocks to bilstien to be rebuilt. It would be nice to upgrade the shocks now but I am maxing out with the dough at the moment!
It is interesting how light and fragile the aluminum pieces are when you have them off of the car. That subframe (close up of stress fracture) sure is amazingly light considering all of the susension is hanging off of it!

JohnnyGT3

Here are a couple of updated pics


http://s1287.beta.photobucket.com/us...84701145124333

cfjan

I think that's designed that way, so when impacted, the weaker parts will break, instead of damaging the tub.. same for the design on the control arms.. weak points are built into the design to break instead of transmitting force into the chassis.

bobsan

I will not sleep tonight until you tell me that brake pad is not in the wrong way round.

JohnnyGT3

what makes you think the brake pad is the wrong way around? The bolts are in the wrong way just so I dont loose them... is that it? sometimes the dogs run off with things.. hahahaha...
Interesting thinking about the weaker parts breaking.

tguaturbo

looks like the pad material is up against the pistons and backing plate lined up to make contact with the rotor. I did this once when in a rush, but caught it quick, the grinding noise when on brakes was the tip for me.

JohnnyGT3

no.. that is not the case. they are not in backwards.. geeze give me some credit I just removed and replaced the entire sub frame! brake pads are kinda kids play. They have been really overheated and may be discolored a bit. the back of those pads are black.. Too bad I dont have the green or yellows in for this photo. you know what I did figure out.. you can change your camber plates by just removing the drop link at the sway bar.. those tarret plates add 1 degree of camber. you can change your camber pretty easily going back ond forth from the stock plates to these in about 25 minutes per side. If you get the shimming at the control arm dialed in for this, it would be a nice street to DE day change.

bobsan

its just the light in that photo made pad look wrong way in, all good, crisis averted.

when you say camber plate is that what we brits call camber shimms or are you referring to something else ??

of course if you alter the camber this will automatically alter the toe as well.

also can I ask how the damage came about, having snapped my coffin arm in half be interesting to know what it took to damage chassis.