Thanks Bruce, let me know if I can help.

Did we check on the seat cushion? Is it needed?


I jest in the humor because he has the option to rebuild and to learn from the mistake. Yes a mistake........it's all good.

He should smile, it could be his girlfriend, wife, or whomever who got pregnant......then it's payments for a very long time! WRECKING is cool.....he had that thing right to the edge but just went a touch too far. VERY FEWpeople have ever done that.

I meant NO attack on his driving; none. Just my job coming thru to ask questions about the collision. I'm always looking. I then typed my thoughts....

In my line of work we have TWO classifications of people:
1)Those who have wrecked.
2) Those who have YET to wreck.
Everyone makes it into one of these categories in their career of driving!



Here's to seeing the thing back on the road!

Mark

p.s. My kids don't have a chance when they put the family truckster into the ditch and claim "I wasn't going that fast!"

This discussion reminds me of the fatal accident in which Francois Cevert was killed when his F1 Tyrell Ford submarined the armco at Watkins Glen in the 70's. There is no question armco type barriers work when the accident is within the performance parameters of the barriers and the vehicle is contained, but get underneath the barriers and all bets are off. If you look at most new or renovated racing circuits, armco use is much more limited than in the past, having been replaced with concrete barriers, SAFER barriers, and tire walls.

Does that mean i'm going to die?

Andy...

Eventually....happens to the best (or should I say all) of us.

Yes, ANdy, like everyone else, you are going to die.....sorry.

Just seeing these pics make me want to cry (really) I killed one,, (some might say it needed killing), and now Meng's is on life support.

I say send Meng a shell,, I can only send him a clean driver door and probably a good windshield frame and a decent hood.

-Rob

NO ONE gets out alive....hate to ruin the ending.

But if one was to remove the proportioning valve and jam on the brakes causing the rear to lock.....SPIN, it rear comes to the front.

Last time I checked, that wasn't a good thing.


Just curiosity, but I don't need an answer. I hope the car will be rebuilt, it needs to be back on the road. It's just in ICU at the moment is how I see it.

Bring it back!!! Build it and do it again...... Take that turn and make it your BITCH!

You are making a very general statement that makes a lot of assumptions ...

- I removed the proportioning valve
- I replaced it with a "T"
- My front brakes lock up just before the rear brakes

Why? Because i neither have stock brake calipers nor stock brake pads nor stock brake rotors nor a stock brake master cylinder.


Your comment concentrates on one single component in a complete braking system. Without knowing any other modifications made to the brake system, your comment about the prop valve is useless.

Now if you had said "On a stock braking system, removing the prop valve is dangerous" i would completely agree with you.

Andy