A good friend of mine is very curious...and has a podcast relating to her curiosities... She followed me around during the Good Guys show a couple of weeks ago filming her adventure.

Here is the link to the video she made about her day.

Thanks for posting....I enjoyed watching it! Barney is amazing!:star:

So, yesterday started out awesome. Didn't hit one red light on the way to the track then I got this nifty umbrella as an award for winning CAM T last Spring.

https://photos.smugmug.com/1985-Mont..._085904-X2.jpg

First run was a hot mess, knocked 5 months of rust off though and was ready to show them how it was done on 2nd run.

Then this happened...

https://photos.smugmug.com/1985-Mont..._144331-X2.jpg

Pretty non-eventful on course but it did complicate the rest of my day...



All is good now though, car is on the lift and a plan is being assembled for an upgrade\repair.

Glad to see it was mostly non eventful, coulda been ugly.

Ouch! Yeah, glad it wasn't worse.

amazing the amount of force put on individual components.

So I think I know why I had the part failure Sunday.

This is the good one from the passenger side...that hadn't broken...yet...

https://photos.smugmug.com/1985-Mont..._100012-X2.jpg

https://photos.smugmug.com/1985-Mont..._095945-X2.jpg

And this is the one that broke...

https://photos.smugmug.com/1985-Mont..._093925-X2.jpg

https://photos.smugmug.com/1985-Mont..._094016-X2.jpg

https://photos.smugmug.com/1985-Mont..._092756-X2.jpg

Frankly, I'm surprised they lasted as long as they did all things considered. These Baer Bump Stop posts have been in these Speedtech Steering arms for 4 years...with just the top half of the taper making contact letting the bottom half move back and forth just slightly.

There are a TON of people that have broken these tapered studs apparently but I'm curious if they know exactly WHY they are breaking??? I do now...

So an update with a correction here... It seems that I had forgotten that I removed my Baer Bumpsteer pins when I installed the ATS spindles and steering arms and put in their place a Secret Sauce Allstar ALL56280 bump steer kit.

The details of the Allstar part are in the pic below, it clearly shows it has a Ford taper, not a GM taper. I guess we can just add this to an increasingly growing longer list of RSRT supplied part failures...

https://photos.smugmug.com/1985-Mont...LL56280-X2.jpg

Thanks for the correction Lance. :thumbsup:

I've wondered if that RSRT working relationship weathered the times.