Dick Guldstrands shop installed the control arm upside down! All the forces generated by chasing that Audi R8 in those canyons roads just snapped it. It wasnt designed like that.
SPC investigated it. I always felt like my left hand turns were a bit off and my aligment specs showed it.
Car handles a hell of a lot better now. Rotates real well, starts to slide, drop the throttle and it squats down.
No worries SPC is all good, after an education in further suspension geometry just make sure to run them with tall ball joints.
-D
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Originally Posted by preston
Isn't the community a lot more concerned with why that UCA ball joint plate broke than anything else ?
It doesn't look like the weld failed, but possibly the HAZ was the issue ? That's a pretty thick BJ plate, I've seen them sold by Coleman/Howe only 1/8" thick and that looks 3/16" or more. Did you replace it with the same style ? Can you give us a more close up picture of it ? Actually looking at it I think there must be a clevis there not a weld - that makes me even more curious why it broke. Any signs of fatigue from fretting ?
That could have been a very very serious crash. I'd think I'd be taking a good hard look at what happened there. Binding or mechanical issue ?
I couldn't figure out exactly but you were saying it came from Guldstrand ?
How long had it been on the car ?
there is some rust but it looks minor.
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