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the mike
12-06-2005, 03:43 PM
Just a little photo tutorial on the simple act of tapping a curb, thanks to me.

I was out in the snow with some other TST'ers last night. Unfortunately I was on the stock RE92's. Not that they are to blame, but come on Subaru, this is a rally bred car. Camry's come with RE92's. Yeah, Camry's. I got a little overzealous coming into a turn and the front end washed out on me, I pushed into a curb. Not super hard, but hard enough for the inherent design of Subaru's control arm to make itself evident. I'll show you.
I started with this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/themike/wintersetup2.jpg

Then tagged the curb:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/themike/borked3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/themike/borked.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/themike/borked2.jpg

The steering wheel shot is me going STRAIGHT down the road. Yeah, I b0rked it good.

Here's why:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/themike/oops1.jpg

You can see where the paint cracked due to it bending at this point.

Here is how the design comes into play:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/themike/oops3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/themike/oops2.jpg

There was another run in with the curb(or 2:wink: ) and it had a destinctly different outcome. The other car that tapped the curb had STi aluminum control arms. These are designed to hold up a little better than the stamped steel stock WRX/RS ones. This WRX owner suffered a bent wheel, but no suspension damage(that we are aware of).


mike
teh DIRT
12-06-2005, 03:49 PM
ooo....let me find the pic of my borked one. makes yours look perfect, lol.


http://tinypic.com/uprok
http://tinypic.com/p4sua
95SC2
12-06-2005, 03:52 PM
that sux, i did almost the same thing in my maxijma once, wasnt tryin to but did a full 360 and hit the curb, didnt get any damage though
2point4DSM
12-06-2005, 03:54 PM
Sorry to hear about your incident Mike. Seems curbs are popping up all over the place lately. Did you guys check Axel's video of him plowing right into a curb. Was your incident at all similar....

http://www.tristatetuners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7868
07BlackSS
12-06-2005, 04:00 PM
ouch man thats crazy....hope everything get repaired ok.
JoeScooby
12-06-2005, 04:13 PM
thats sucks the big one dewd, thats why i tend not to snow drift that often.. or even at all.
the mike
12-06-2005, 04:23 PM
Sorry to hear about your incident Mike. Seems curbs are popping up all over the place lately. Did you guys check Axel's video of him plowing right into a curb. Was your incident at all similar....

http://www.tristatetuners.com/forum/showthread.php?t=7868
Very similar. Just got the car moving too fast and couldn't get the front to turn. It's a sickening feeling knowing you are about to break something.
the mike
12-06-2005, 04:24 PM
PS, I thought Bryan got it on film, but apparently he had shut off the camera mere seconds before I hit.
Ivan's mark is about 10 feet behind mine where he hit.
2point4DSM
12-06-2005, 04:46 PM
I use to hit curbs sideways a lot back in the day. Now a days I try to flip the steering wheel over quick last minute and just roll over it. You'll get the hang of it. Trust me, it just takes a little practice.... j/k.


:mrgreen:
xEJ20x
12-06-2005, 05:29 PM
Yea....Mike you really forked that up pretty well.
Silver04STi
12-06-2005, 07:35 PM
There was another run in with the curb(or 2:wink: ) and it had a destinctly different outcome. The other car that tapped the curb had STi aluminum control arms. These are designed to hold up a little better than the stamped steel stock WRX/RS ones. This WRX owner suffered a bent wheel, but no suspension damage(that we are aware of).


mike

I tagged a curb pretty hard in the STi and didn't bend a thing, trashed the rim. I bent the rim so bad in was hitting the brembo caliper. Put a new rim on there it was fine, took it to the dealer and they couldn't find anything wrong either.
the mike
12-06-2005, 07:38 PM
I am hoping my wheel bearing survived the impact. There was noise on the way home, but it could have been the 20 degrees of positive toe.
teh DIRT
12-06-2005, 07:39 PM
I am hoping my wheel bearing survived the impact. There was noise on the way home, but it could have been the 20 degrees of positive toe.

FYI mine didnt survive in the same accident
Silver04STi
12-06-2005, 07:41 PM
It's a sickening feeling knowing you are about to break something.

I think most of us have been there. Those seconds before impact, you have that oh **** look in your eyes.
ScoobyNubieToo!
12-06-2005, 07:47 PM
Dude, you totally borked your ride.....I can't afford to have crap like that happening....gotta save damage fund for mod fund.
MuddyREX
12-06-2005, 07:54 PM
So out of the 8 or 9 of us that were there, there were three that took the curb. That's not a good start, since Matt was the only one who messed up his car last snow season.

Note to TST: No more drifting in narrow lots.
teh DIRT
12-06-2005, 07:55 PM
psh....dont count me. i barely hit that shiz.
2point4DSM
12-06-2005, 08:48 PM
I am hoping my wheel bearing survived the impact.

So who has the TST hydraulic press in their garage, lol. And when you guys take out wheel bearings where do you go to get new ones. Please don't tell me the stealership, lol.
Safir
12-07-2005, 07:38 PM
Note to TST: No more drifting on the street.

fixed ;)