Bad Day. Started off well - slept most of it for upcoming night shifts, opened up my box full of MCA goodies, went around to a mates house to pay him for my new Full river HC20 battery and debate how to tackle cutting off the strut top domes for fitment of the MCA's - all nice optimistic stuff. It was wet on the way home for the first time in 2 months so I thought I'd push the Toyo's a bit and see how they felt in the wet. Well the car just didn't feel right. A bit dull and not as nimble as I'd felt. I had heard a few little clangs in the back over the last week and it kind of clicked that maybe the beam welds were letting go. I drove straight into the garage when I got home and put it up on ramps and with a torch and mirror was not surprised to see that the first welds I looked at had cracks in them. The more I looked it was evident that all the welds along the bottom side had cracked while all the ones along the top were intact. I wasn't surprised based on how the handling of the car had changed but knowing how much work is needed to swap it back it was definitely one of those FARK! deflated moments that only working on/modifying cars can give you.
At the end of the day I gave it a shot. It worked brilliantly (for a brief moment in time) but ultimately proved to be turd. I now have a very noisy standard rear beam which has to come out if I want to be ready in time for the first rally sprint. So as the guinea pig on this one, don't do it unless there's something glaring that I/we missed. Obviously the forces in torsion are pretty mega, which might make me re do my rose jointed droplinks that I'd had too and go for slightly bigger ones. I'm just glad that I didn't jump the gun and sell the other beam/RARB and its all there ready to go back in once I swap the bushes over.
anyway bugger but I'll get it sorted quick enough.
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