[V8] Small update on Black betty

Fri Dec 12 15:10:13 PST 2008

What would have been scarry is if everything had held together & me & my oldest daughter Paige drove the car to //sfest & the rim/wheel fell off while I was going way faster than 70 on a local road!

 The long & short of it was.... Friday Aug 29th I bolted the last bolt on the front bumper & I had thought the car was finally finished. I mean it took me 4 freaking months to source the Block parts to rebuild, & I don't even wanna get into the mess over my PC motor pieces........ I had to wait for the head pieces to arrive so my machinest could assemble them. Once I got everything I was able to get the motor in the car. I took it for an initial drive just to make sure there were no leaks of anykind. Once I did that I went for a real shake down. I left the pachage store & went prolly 200 yards down the road... 4th gear pulling 100MPH like a bat out of hell... man what torque. Slowed for a sharp right hand turn, straightened out the wheel & my rim flew out of the wheel whell & my d-side front slammed the pavement.
 I'm glade it was late out.. prolly 9:30PM. I was thinking that I was lucky no one was driveing, or walking on the oposit side of the street cause my rim/tire surley would have done some damage to anyone who just so happened to be in the line of fire.
 But the biggest thing was calling my wife to come with my jack & tools. lets just say it wasn't pleasant!

 So I figure it's time to make the car perfect. The last thing would have been body work/respray. I would have liked to have done that later than sooner..... but oh well.

 I have looked everywere & have talked to all most everyone but NO brilliant panells to be had. So thats why I'm thinking of haveing some stuff made.
 I wanted/want to flare the front & rear fender arches a bit more... so I'll prolly do some experamenting with some extra fenders I have... but I would rather just kill two birds with one stone & have some light weight stuff made & have bigger arches added.

 Ron

--- On Fri, 12/12/08, Ingo Rautenberg <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Ingo Rautenberg <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [V8] Small update on Black betty
> To: ron_01056 at yahoo.com
> Cc: v8 at audifans.com
> Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 4:52 PM
> Oh.  Yeah.  Can imagine that'd be pretty scary at 70
> mph.  Also why I use Locktite on wheel studs or if it
> isn't handy, Permatex or other similar to cover the
> threads on the studs when installing into the wheel hub.
> 
> All those body panels and no brilliant black!  I'm
> (almost) speechless.
> 
> 
> On Dec 12, 2008, at 2:28 PM, Ron Wainwright wrote:
> 
> > Not even close Ingo... nice guess though.
> > 
> >  The long & short of it is..... I lost a rim @
> 70mph resulting in the rim/tire peeling back my fender &
> bending my door.
> > The cause was a few of my wheel studs loosened
> resulting in the nuts loosening & my rim/tire shooting
> down the road bout 300 yards & my front d-side slamming
> the road.
> > 
> >  As far as replacement fenders... what do you think
> ;-).... but none of them are Brilliant Black.
> Sooooooooooooo....
> > 
> > ...I have a few options.... which gets me in a certain
> mood, know what I mean ;-) So taking that into account I was
> thinking,
> > 
> > light weight fenders, hood, rear trunk.
> > 
> > Do I have enough good spair fenders, front/rear
> bumpers, doors, ect to have my body shop prep & paint
> everything, remove the dents, little bits of rust from the
> whole car & put everything back together as factory
> new..... SURE... but again taking into account, well
> it's me were talking about I was thinking of going a
> "bit" over the top.....BUWAHAHAHAHAHAAAA
> > 
> >  Ron
> > 
> > 
> > --- On Fri, 12/12/08, Ingo Rautenberg
> <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Ingo Rautenberg
> <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com>
> >> Subject: Re: [V8] Small update on Black betty
> >> To: ron_01056 at yahoo.com
> >> Cc: v8 at audifans.com
> >> Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 12:05 PM
> >> Hmm. Lemme guess:
> >> 
> >> After replacing the front tie rod end bushings you
> either
> >> 
> >> a) reused the lucknut (not using locktite)
> >> 
> >> and/or
> >> 
> >> b) didn't tighten said locknut to the proper
> torque
> >> 
> >> resulting in the left locknut coming loose and
> having the
> >> strut tower
> >> assembly disengage, resulting in the tire falling
> back and
> >> hitting
> >> the back part of the fender and the obvious
> resulting
> >> damage.  Ooops.
> >> 
> >> Sorry, 'bout that Ron.  At least black is
> fairly easy
> >> to match up.
> >> Certainly more so than Pearl White. Do you have a
> >> replacement fender?
> >> 
> >> Ingo
> >> 
> >> 
> >> On Dec 12, 2008, at 11:19 AM, Ron Wainwright
> wrote:
> >> 
> >>>
> http://forums.audiworld.com/a8/msgs/170930.phtml
> >>> 
> >>>  Ron
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> --- On Fri, 12/12/08, Ingo Rautenberg
> >> <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> 
> >>>> From: Ingo Rautenberg
> >> <ingo.rautenberg at gmail.com>
> >>>> Subject: Re: [V8] Small update on Black
> betty
> >>>> To: ron_01056 at yahoo.com
> >>>> Cc: v8 at audifans.com
> >>>> Date: Friday, December 12, 2008, 11:12 AM
> >>>> I see the pics but no copy (text).  Why
> did you
> >> remove the
> >>>> fenders?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Ingo
> >>>> 
> >>>> On Dec 12, 2008, at 9:52 AM, Ron
> Wainwright wrote:
> >>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >> http://forums.audiworld.com/v8/msgs/138493.phtml
> >>>>> 
> >>>>>  Thanx
> >>>>> Ron Black Betty (Bam-A-Lam)
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> 
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