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RX-7 looses it's lug nuts.
From someone there:
Hello all,
I was at the event and know the guy who owns the car.
I was in the paddock area next to him changing wheels at the same time as him. I watched him torque all of them. I even borrowed his torque wrench to tighten mine (I always forget something after I get on the road or I left it so the wife could keep the kids in line).
He went to a wheel/tire business and asked for spline drive lug nuts for his particular make/model/year car for the Enkeis, and what they gave him is what is in the video. He did not purchase the tires or wheels from them, just the lug nuts. He purchased the wheels and tires from online from a vendor with expertise with the FD.
The lug nuts where sheared off the studs. Several members lifted a corner of the car to slide a jack underneath it. With a few more jacks, blocks of wood, etc, they were able to mount the stock wheels and stock lugs nuts (at least 3 per wheel) back on, torque them and drive the car off course. The design of the car, possilbly for aerodynamics, tucks all mechanicals on the underside a little higher than the body line, or lowest part of the brake rotors. Not even the exhaust was really scratched.
I'm not a mechanic, but the mechanics theories there was that the lug nuts where the incorrect size, but they were just small enough to grip the outer edge of the threads (as I mentioned, they torqued to 75-80 ft/lbs without complaint). The week before this event, he had mounted the wheels and drove on them around town to make sure there wasn't any rubbing. He did not drive it hard at all on the street. The front passenger side wheel left first. It was at the first significant turn on the course which was a left turn into a slalom which required braking (for me - ES Miata on 225/50-14 V700) to make it in. "Lucky" for him, the failure occured for him there and not down course where he would have carrying a lot more speed.
Hopefully, the only damage is to the body and brakes.
The guy with the red racing shoes was not him.
EVERYBODY in grid checked their lugs after it happened.
RX-7 looses it's lug nuts.
From someone there:
Hello all,
I was at the event and know the guy who owns the car.
I was in the paddock area next to him changing wheels at the same time as him. I watched him torque all of them. I even borrowed his torque wrench to tighten mine (I always forget something after I get on the road or I left it so the wife could keep the kids in line).
He went to a wheel/tire business and asked for spline drive lug nuts for his particular make/model/year car for the Enkeis, and what they gave him is what is in the video. He did not purchase the tires or wheels from them, just the lug nuts. He purchased the wheels and tires from online from a vendor with expertise with the FD.
The lug nuts where sheared off the studs. Several members lifted a corner of the car to slide a jack underneath it. With a few more jacks, blocks of wood, etc, they were able to mount the stock wheels and stock lugs nuts (at least 3 per wheel) back on, torque them and drive the car off course. The design of the car, possilbly for aerodynamics, tucks all mechanicals on the underside a little higher than the body line, or lowest part of the brake rotors. Not even the exhaust was really scratched.
I'm not a mechanic, but the mechanics theories there was that the lug nuts where the incorrect size, but they were just small enough to grip the outer edge of the threads (as I mentioned, they torqued to 75-80 ft/lbs without complaint). The week before this event, he had mounted the wheels and drove on them around town to make sure there wasn't any rubbing. He did not drive it hard at all on the street. The front passenger side wheel left first. It was at the first significant turn on the course which was a left turn into a slalom which required braking (for me - ES Miata on 225/50-14 V700) to make it in. "Lucky" for him, the failure occured for him there and not down course where he would have carrying a lot more speed.
Hopefully, the only damage is to the body and brakes.
The guy with the red racing shoes was not him.
EVERYBODY in grid checked their lugs after it happened.
