[s-cars] RETorquing wheels

[Bjørn Ødegård]

No wonder spacers are forbidden on road use in norway.. ;o)

Bjorn  :o)
'92 S4

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> Ok, fess up time for me (subject line pun intended read on)....
Instructed
> at the ACCNA even at Gingermann (MI) last weekend with the T44tqw.
Before I
> left on Friday, I rotated tires F/R (235/45 17 HTRZII on17x8.5 Borbet
C's,
> Big Reds, 3ml spacer).  Torqued them down to 88ft/lbs, ran thru the
usual
> pretrack tech as well.  Saturday, at the track, I passed on a wheel
torque
> re-ck...
>
> First run group, I had a marketing director of Michelin tires (a great
guy,
> cking out the "track" events for product input) in for a instructor
ride.  A
> couple of big guys in a big car, we ran thru the session without much
more
> than some agressive braking type shimmy.  At the cool down lap things
got
> much more shaky, by the time I headed to pit lane, it felt like a flat
tire.
> 50 feet into pit lane, my left front wheel passed me (I was at 3mph at
this
> point), right when it fell, I hit the grass.  Hopped out, yup no wheel
bolts.
>  Mercy.
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