TMR

been out n the lincoln green stages this saturday doing a live recording for lincs fm radio station and on the last stage slid off into a plowed field when the rear arm decided to fold leaving the wheel in this state. think it a weak point so anyone point in the right direction of some up-rated items would be great

dbanbery

bad times but could be a lot worse!!! if its a weak point then would more damage be done if it was stronger??? like tearing out a suspension mounting?

TMR

in a way it lucky it a weak point as we did go onto 2 wheels and the marshals said they thought we were going over so was lucky i suppose.

dbanbery

yeah once you get off 4 wheels bits start to fly off the car and its goodnight vienna for the shell in some cases.

i wouldnt uprate it unless it happened again in a really minor mishap, sounds like you had what ive heard being called a "moment"

TMR

had few of those over the years will have it apart over the week and see the real damage and see can find the points that failed

RichieST

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I would say it's best that the arm is the weak point. If it's too strong it would just transmit all that force into the bodyshell which would give you a bit more grief!

TMR

possibly but it is a works shell so is as strong as they get just annoying as was the last stage of the day and was going well.

grcossie

Do you have any pictures from what`s actually break??

TMR

not yet will upload some asap. think its just the bottom arm/trailing arm

Mk4 Lew

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damn, unlucky mate. saw this at waddinton airshow. didnt expect it to be there and got really excited

TMR

will be up and running soon just looking for a event to do in november december time if anyone knows of any. we are out at shows and other events quite regular there all listed on our website

www.teammarkkurallying.com

Mk4 Lew

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cant forget you website bud, its plasterd on the top of my toolbox

TMR

nice one nice to hear word is out and getting around thanks

Mk4 Lew

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yeah mate it is, keep up the good work

kev 3dr

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Happened to a Blue GRP A escos on friday night to on the prom stages after hitting a kerb think he only bent the trailing arm and was back on the saturday all sorted

granth

Yeah. Post pics of what actually bent. What setup do you have in the rear?
I've bent two of the woopty rear beams on my XR4ti rally car. One in the same manner but not as bad as you have and another in the opposite direction, mostly from landing from big jumps I think. There's a guy in Seattle, WA, William Timmins of Steel Solutions that makes a kit to reinforce the curly rear beam and stock STA for the Sierra. Was thinking the Escort was same unless you have some aftermarket stuff already. Guessing it's not the WRC spec (which would likely be bent trailing or lateral arms) or the magnesium Group A stuff (which would have broke not bent). Blows any way you look at it but at least you didn't end up on the lid with body damage!!!

Cossy909

had a few of these brake on me back in the grp n days thats why i got dennis osborne to make me a set they were £2000 all in from memory but i never had a problem again with his arms fitted everytime i sold a car they came off and standard ones went back on ive still got them hanging up in the garage if your interested would be willing to sell as im now running a wrc car which has a cradle in pm me if your interested would sort you out a good deal