Rumor is true.
The message below was on another message board. Some people are really getting upset about this. This was copied by permission of the original poster.
Robert's car broke today.
Welding on heat treated tubing has been proven to be a problem. So the fix is to WELD EVEN MORE TUBING ON THE HEAT TREATED TUBING??? WTF???
Roo: Even you have to be scratching your on this: "There was a big scramble by most of the teams late last week as the Ford engineers wanted Grade 5 bolts at the mounting points of the new bracing, reasoning that the softer (than NAS) bolts would bend and absorb more load and prevent any induced vibration/harmonics from tearing the mounting tabs out of the rails."
We need to stop this madness. Park all the cars, declare TPed the champ and throw those MM pieces of crap in the metal pile.
After that, FIRE EVERYONE ON THE CHASSIS COMMITTEE, reinstate Long, Plueger, Meyer, Hadman and Uyehara and be done with it. I don't want to see one more friggin' update from anyone that has had anything to do with any of this. I don't care what car company they work for or how many years they've been fitting and welding tubing or who the fudge runs their cars.
The latest dozen pound of tubing added to the chassis is a bunch of crap that serves no purpose except to get stuck in some driver when the car falls apart. I firmly believe there will be another memorial service somewhere if someone doesn't get their head out and get rid of the problem, starting from the top down.
Putting frosting on a piece of sh!t still makes it a piece of sh!t.
If there is a problem from just one supplier it makes you wonder. I would definitely look elsewhere.
It was said that Densham and Dunn's Plueger cars were looked at and a decision was pending on whether or not they should be required to add the driver's compartment tubing that was put on JF's cars. Only problem is a good one, though. The Plueger's cars aren't breaking.
RG
