*** Didz DC5R Street Special! ***

[ChargeR]

If you are talking about the EXE day according to Shuan you don't need one to pass scruntineering.

Well that takes the wind out of my sails. It might be up to the discretion of the individual scrutineer though, and there will be some loose individuals scrutineering on the day .

[Didz]

Well that takes the wind out of my sails. It might be up to the discretion of the individual scrutineer though, and there will be some loose individuals scrutineering on the day .

These loose individuals might see my secret setup though!

[Didz]

Damper goes kaput

So the other night after work i come to my car and notice oil on the ground where i usually park my car. This oil is near the right hand side of the front. I was a little worried but after looking under the car i didnt notice any wet patches.
Upon driving home the front end felt very different. Very harsh. I could feel a terrible thud through my pedels every time i went over small bumps.

Yesterday afternoon i went to bleed my brakes in preparation for the trackday coming up. Everything looked fine i even felt around the struts to feel any oil and couldnt feel anything. After completing the brake bleed i took the car for a drive to see how it all felt.

WHOA!

So basically i lost about 80% of my steering. Going about 5kph, i drove home not actually knowing wtf had happened.

Upon getting home my dad looked at the wheels at the front and noticed they were all sorts of crooked. This made me just think the wheels were not done up correctly. Unfortunately this was not the case.




As you can see, the whole thing has collapsed on itself. This morning i converted the car back to stock so we could see the struts properly.




Basically what has happened is that the strut has cracked, oil has pissed out and then the lifting and lowering to do the brakes has just pushed the strut passed it's limit.




You can see how it is supposed to connect below:



So back to mexican stock hight. I took the camber bolts out and replaced the stock ones in so that i can just get a basic alignment easily tomorrow morning. Hopefully the emails i sent through last night to the various Tein distributors will get me a prompt response so i know how much this will cost to replace the damper.

[Tiu]

time to upgrade!

[dr.k20z1]

damn thats sad to hear! but.... where is the quality control in parts these days! lawddd

can u imagine doing this on the track at 160km/h or somthing.... sigh***

[Didz]

time to upgrade!

The saddest part is that i havent even had these in for more than 3 months.

damn thats sad to hear! but.... where is the quality control in parts these days! lawddd

can u imagine doing this on the track at 160km/h or somthing.... sigh***

I dont know eh. I am at a loss at how this has happened. I agree, I am extremely lucky that this has happened so close to home in local streets and not on a hwy, main road or worse, track.

[maracer]

Unhappy to hear about this
I have to say though, Looked like you set you ride height quite low? In turn not giving your suspension enough travel?
Also would have last years incident contributed to this? Maybe just wear & tear
Good to see it’s on the road with no down-time, looking forward to Winton

[Didz]

Unhappy to hear about this
I have to say though, Looked like you set you ride height quite low? In turn not giving your suspension enough travel?
Also would have last years incident contributed to this? Maybe just wear & tear
Good to see it’s on the road with no down-time, looking forward to Winton

Nah man. Monoflex are monotube and can be set to super low settings without affecting the dampers unlike other types of coils (mainly twin tube designs).

Nah these were only installed recently, last year had standard suspension and this is the opposite side.

[illuzi0nz]

jesus, i hope that happened from old age and abuse, and not from lack of quality control on tein's behalf .. unlucky man. looking forward to hearing what kind of support you get from this.

[Didz]

So basically Fulcrum are completely baffled by this. I have emailed photos of the damper to numerous distributors/workshops around Melbourne. General consensus is that this is a very strange way for a damper to break. Almost unheard of!

Hoping to get a response back tomorrow but so far i am under the impression that Tein do not allow the purchase of individual dampers and only allow it in a set of 4. .

Hoping for 'spare parts'

[Wlee2]

wow thats.. uber lucky or unlucky depending on which way you wanna look at it..

never seen sussy do that before..

[VT-11-RR]

any update about the tein's?

[Didz]

Nope. I have been promised phone calls and emails and gotten nothing.

[Didz]

Problem has tentatively been sorted and SHOULD all be sweet for track day. This is of course with NO thanks to Tein or Fulcrum.
Stay tuned for the big surprise.

[Wlee2]

OOo. i like suprises..

but i think i know what it is already so poo =(..

ohh btw sorry about missing your message i been away from computer alot haha..