Before today I might have been in favor of the "Annual Tech Inspection" Idea.
Not
now though!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Today we pulled the bodywork off the the March
S2000. The car
had taken some real pounding last weekend at a local event. The surface was
less than ideal to say the least(It sucks) I won't be running there again! I
had
bottomed very violently on my second run and called it a day. At the end of
the event
I knew that I had cracked one of the sidepods on the left side. We pulled it
apart
today to repair the fiberglass damage. One of my Senior Engineers was helping
with the teardown. We fixed the glass and at about the same time noticed a
small
crack in the left rear bearing carrier. We removed the suspension from the
left rear
of the March. We then pressed out the bearings, sanded the paint away and
"Heli-Arc welded the crack. When I got home tonight I went down to the
basement and went through my spares boxes. There I found a spare rear bearing
carrier and two
front spindles. They will be with me in the trailer from now on! I guess the
point Im trying to make here is that even when you do a really good job of
maintaining a car, sometimes the stresses of AutoXing catch up with it
quickly.
What do you guys think of this one?
Mike B. TLS#1
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