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Originally Posted by kenchan are you running stiff coilovers? could be fatigue fracture from prior repetitive incidents with bumps and stuff. ... or just a defective part. My coilovers are

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Old 08-04-2013, 06:35 PM   #21 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by kenchan View Post
are you running stiff coilovers? could be fatigue fracture from prior repetitive incidents with bumps and stuff.


... or just a defective part.
My coilovers are not set at a very stiff setting. 6 clicks out of 15 and the springs are not compressed very much. They are probably set at the lower end of their rate. I'm running the Powertrix R/T setup but I have them set for DD then track since all I have is AutoX out here in Hawaii. My wife said they rode better then stock.

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Wow that's crazy! Possible pre-existing stress fracture?

I believe the spindle is designed to fail at that point once it's maximum stress load is exceeded. No one makes a race spec spindle that I'm aware of.

Its possible but I've never hit anything. My Coilovers are set fairly soft. All I have is autoX so I don't believe these should be able to reach anywhere near their maximum threshold. Going over the damages, only thing really damage other then collateral from he failure is the spindle arm. Wheels not bent (but scuffed up pretty bad), tires not blown (but has a large gouge in it from falling onto the strut but still holds air), strut is not damaged, sway bar not damaged. Only damage is the arm and the torn ball joint of course and body panels due to the being pulled off the side of the road.
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