04-30-2008, 07:06 PM
Two feet.
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Torque your wheels
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04-30-2008, 07:14 PM
I BELIEVE that did happen to someone in MM on track, not the crashed wheel into car but the loose wheel part.
04-30-2008, 07:14 PM
holy crap!
on another note i was dumb enough to have used wrong lug nuts on my wheels for a very long time. The seating for the OEM lug nuts for hondas are ball seats. The seating for my aftermarket wheels are conical. For some reason i didn't think about it when i bought the wheels and used them. I've always had a little 'wiggle' when i drove with these wheels at higher speeds, but i thought it had to do with the lack of hub-centric rings (had the on previous aftermarket wheels) and thought nothing of the lug nuts. Recently it occured to check the lug nut seats and i did buy conical lug nuts for these wheels. Before i bought the new lug nuts i traveled across the country with these wheels and used them on-track with the ball-seat lug nuts without losing a wheel or coming close to it. I guess you can call me lucky, or for it to not to matter as much as properly torquing down your lug nuts.
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04-30-2008, 07:25 PM
white_2kgt Wrote:I BELIEVE that did happen to someone in MM on track, not the crashed wheel into car but the loose wheel part. Who?
Two feet.
04-30-2008, 07:27 PM
more evidence to support my claim that E36 unibodys are made out of tin foil.
and autoblog just lost 1,000 cool points for using the phrase "uber clean"
04-30-2008, 07:42 PM
Evan Wrote:more evidence to support my claim that E36 unibodys are made out of tin foil. I don't know. An SUV wheel and tire has got to be around 50 pounds x 70mph=9567 pounds of fuck-you-up-ness
Two feet.
04-30-2008, 07:53 PM
It happened to one of our racers a few years ago at CMP. He didn't make it past turn one before the wheel came off.
...and I didn't think autoblog could have any cool points to begin with because it's an AOL property?
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04-30-2008, 08:20 PM
Andy Wrote:white_2kgt Wrote:I BELIEVE that did happen to someone in MM on track, not the crashed wheel into car but the loose wheel part. Sounds like something I would do, but I've pretty good about torquing, and re-torquing after sessions. :lol:
04-30-2008, 10:01 PM
Apoc Wrote:...and I didn't think autoblog could have any cool points to begin with because it's an AOL property?This is true. Although I do read Engadget even though its a iPhone/apple fanboi site. But really only because all the other gadget 'blogs' (fuck i hate that word) suck more.
04-30-2008, 10:05 PM
Andy Wrote:I don't know. An SUV wheel and tire has got to be around 50 pounds x 70mph=9567 pounds of fuck-you-up-nessit wasnt a 70mph impact, and it wasnt attached to a brick wall either so deflection should have played a part but its probably a lot more than 50 pounds too, so maybe thats about right. ive just seen way too many e36s with completely disintegrated cabin areas 
04-30-2008, 10:41 PM
well that is crazy/funny.
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05-01-2008, 09:06 AM
Every time Evan has to type the word blog, a hippy is born.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth 
05-01-2008, 12:09 PM
seems about right to me....my grandparents were on vacataion and saw one of the wheels come off of a tour bus on the highway...crossed traffic and plowed some car, totally annihilated it. the driver lived but it was really bad. those dubs probably weigh about as much as a bus wheel! :lol:
poor E36, hellrot is such a good color
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