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JT-KGY
10-09-2004, 01:08 AM
Saw this on various boards... just thought I pass it along.

NASIOC
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=643215
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=642564

Evom
http://forums.evolutionm.net/showthread.php?t=102251
leaveit2bevo
10-09-2004, 11:20 AM
you cant really tell what happens in the video
rammsteinmatt
10-09-2004, 11:40 AM
you cant really tell what happens in the video

well, the whole tire falls out/off. i dunno how uyou can say that you cant tell what happens, and the first link to the STi board, or wherever that is, tells all about how the JIC broke in half basically
leaveit2bevo
10-09-2004, 12:23 PM
ya but its not the side the cameras on
Senshi
10-09-2004, 02:07 PM
yes it is watch the end of the video you see the wheel just come off
VicMarsal
10-09-2004, 04:15 PM
WOW!!!!....well it sounded good. couldnt it just be loose lug nuts?
JT-KGY
10-09-2004, 05:48 PM
?????????????..

http://tyrannoracing.com/images/afpdl/img_1644.jpg

You guys didnt see this picture??
robi
10-09-2004, 06:26 PM
looks like the shock body was too high and kept bottoming..this causes all sorts of evil harsh mecanical skocks/stress cycling which could have work hardened the wheel carrier tube. note the shock should be low enough at the ride heights we run that the dampening shock would be buried in the area that's broken off. I think another Mis-install.
JWest
10-11-2004, 11:30 AM
The last set of JICs I saw on a Subaru WRX, had just won the PGT class at Pikes Peak ProRally. They looked fine once the dried mud from rallying in the snow was cleaned off. Maybe set-up does play a role in strut-life as well as performance.

hmmmm.

JW
Absinthe
10-11-2004, 11:44 AM
you cant really tell what happens in the video

sell enough struts and let enough jack asses intall them on enough different cars and one is bound to break sooner or later...
ShangTsung
10-11-2004, 04:10 PM
sell enough struts and let enough jack asses intall them on enough different cars and one is bound to break sooner or later...

Hasn't happened to any other company....
Absinthe
10-11-2004, 04:26 PM
You cant make a statement like that are you really sure that in all the strut building world no one has ever done this before?

You have no way of knowing what was wrong with this strut and why it broke.

I mean crap I/my father have broken two bilstien struts on the 911 (one blew out the other cracked) Im sure if we drove around on the cracked one long enough this would have happened.
GokuSSJ4
10-11-2004, 07:06 PM
it seems that Evo owners and Subaru owners are the one that cry the most (it seems that way at times) when they have a problem , instead of trying to figure out what happen and how it can be fix. People jump into conclusions and are quick to post about it :?
Mike W
10-11-2004, 08:00 PM
I see a strut that was not screwed in deep enough into it's lower housing. The few threads that were engaged were not enough to hold it together. I dont see any broken parts.

Exactly what does the lynch mob see as the failure?

Mike W
Widebandphillip
10-11-2004, 09:18 PM
that track is located in houston, i autoxed with that sti before, he drives a mean sti.
Absinthe
10-12-2004, 08:40 AM
I see a strut that was not screwed in deep enough into it's lower housing. The few threads that were engaged were not enough to hold it together. I dont see any broken parts.

Exactly what does the lynch mob see as the failure?

Mike W

enough struts to enough jack-asses.....