Laguna Seca can be a tough track on a race car. The drop into the Corkscrew is like jumping your car off a small ramp, and at speed you pretty much bottom it out. Listening to the heavy big-bore cars go through there is downright scary, lots of sparks flying and metal dragging going on. Now do that for 50 laps and bad things happen… With the Wagon I had to switch to smaller spacers on the front wheels to stop the front tire-to-wheel well rubbing that was occurring. My post-race inspection found a bit more, I tore both frame rails at the TC rod mount. The direction of the damage shows the force was from the front end spreading upon compression. We had planned on putting a load-spreading plate on the frame rail prior to attaching the TC rod mount, but somehow that step was missed. So we now have added some reinforced plating and gussets. Thanks goes to The Moore Speed Co for their faithful assistance.
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