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RE: Additional SCCA Questions ?

To: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>, fot@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Additional SCCA Questions ?
From: "R. John Lye" <rjl6n@server1.mail.virginia.edu>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 07:05:25 -0400
At 11:47 AM 8/1/00 -0700, Bill Babcock wrote:
>It would probably eliminate most of the axle breakage problems
>at the same time since the only load would be torque.

I agree.

>The TR axles are
>really quite stout--I've never heard of anyone twisting one apart as we see
>with the MGA axles.

Well, I broke one at the inner end - it sure looked like I twisted the splines
off the inner end of the axle.  Of course, this is on an autocross car which
sees lots of hard, standing start launches which is much less of a problem
for you road racers.

Cheers,

John Lye
rjl6n@Virginia.edu


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