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Old 10-26-2009, 03:05 PM
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Default Pics of Bad Wreck at Hallett 10/24/09 - Not Corvette But...

I was running on track in the advanced group with this Mustang when he lost the rear at top of hill before Turn 9, aka The Bitch. Went into tire wall nose first, flipped up into the air doing a 180 landing on the roof on the other side of the tire wall.

Driver said he lost the rear when he got a "surge"...... My observation is he was just going too fast and lost it. He and a passenger walked away.

Car had a cosmetic bolt-to-the-floor roll bar. The bar and its sandwich plate mounts pushed through the floor doing nothing to keep the roof from collapsing. The bar and bottom mounting plates were actually sticking through the bottom of the floor about 10" due to the impact.

Can't believe the driver wasn't seriously injured as the roof was into his seat. He's lucky he's a small, flexible guy.

It was a beautiful car. They were going to put in a full cage this winter...







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Holy crap. Did you happen to see what seat he had?
Old 10-26-2009, 03:09 PM
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that must've been some ride. good thing they are okay
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Originally Posted by pharma-c6
Holy crap. Did you happen to see what seat he had?
I think it was a Sparco but not positive.

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Not to hijack your thread, but it seems like a good time to ask. What does a quality roll bar correctly installed cost?
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Originally Posted by pharma-c6
Not to hijack your thread, but it seems like a good time to ask. What does a quality roll bar correctly installed cost?
It all depends on the type of a bar or a full cage. 1000-5000 gets you very far.

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I've been thinking about that too. I might be able to make a trip up there. How long would it take to install one in my C4? Is something like driving there, and staying one night, then driving it home, realistic?
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dayum. I ran Hallett for the first time this year and gave the track a lot of respect - especially the turns you're talking about. At least 2 guys went off on Friday during practice and ended their weekend.

Glad they were ok.

This makes the 3rd rollovers I've heard of this year at tracks I go to - and all during HPDE. The other 2 were novice drivers at TWS trying to correct when going off track instead of just driving off.

Makes you think.
I'm moving a cage up further on the "must have" list.
Need to find a good cage builder in Texas.
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Originally Posted by Aardwolf
I've been thinking about that too. I might be able to make a trip up there. How long would it take to install one in my C4? Is something like driving there, and staying one night, then driving it home, realistic?
For a chassis bar (4 point) sure not a problem. A full cage is about a week of work.

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Default Ouch!

Glad everyone was ok.

Here is a before pic Ive taken of this car...
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[Glad they were OK


Luck don't last forever and I can't get this thought off my mind lately. I haven't been able to run for long stretch but when I return I think I am playing with fire with no cage.
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here's the seq of pics

http://www.corner-carvers.com/forums...&postcount=139
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I'm surprised the A pillar did not hold better, but I guess it was a "perfect hit" with enough speed to collapse it.

What year Mustang?
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Originally Posted by drivinhard
Man thats crazy!
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Originally Posted by drivinhard
some photo's
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Very sad to see, but glad everyone walked away! I own an '09 Mustang GT (a daily driver that will see some HPDE time) - based on those photos, I think I'll be installing a weld-in 4-point roll bar at a minimum before I take it to the track.

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After seeing those pictures, I'm surprised that the bar didn't kill them. Angle and attachment points of the main hoop are very important.

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Originally Posted by drivinhard
Wholly CRAP

Glad he is OK

Looks like Mustangs need roll bar or Roll cage. That B-piller did not work

wait: he had one
"Watch your roll bar mounting points. Exhibit A: What happens when the main hoop punches a hole in the floor pan?"

sticking out though the bottom

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The motto spelled out on these cars and the company's logo is "Look Better, Go Faster."


article on the "CAR FX Racing"

http://www.mustang50magazine.com/fea..._fx/index.html

"The most aggressive performer of the three wears the lowest number, No. 12. Will explained the Car FX plan of attack. "Instead of building a street car that can go out there and race on the track, we built a track car that we could make street legal. Car FX stripped car No. 12 of most of its interior. It replaced the rear glass and door glass with Plexiglas to subtract more weight. The vehicle barely tips the scales at 3,000 pounds. "We shaved weight everywhere we possibly could," Will said. Although the horsepower is not gaudy at 625 at the flywheel, the forged internals are stout. The bored out 4.6-liter aluminum block has the guts to rev to 8,000 rpm, or just what the track ordered. The Grigg's racing suspension plants the massive P305 series sticky tires on the track to do their business. Lights, turn signals, horns, windshield, and "everything else" functions to make the car legal on the street. Full 3-inch JBA exhausts are flat out loud and obnoxious, or all-the-better for Saturday night cruising and car showing"

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