GT4 - Light armco rash

[Ed Winchester]

Well.. That didn't take long.



http://www.hbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/zyview/D=vehicles/V=popwin/R=6168843/MAKE_MODEL=PORSCHE%20CAYMAN%20.98/ZV_AND_OR=and/MAKE_MODEL_ZV_ENABLED=no

Disturbing how the front shock has been ripped clean out. Are the towers aluminium on the GT4?

[lemmingjames]

owners on here

friend driving and crashed it

[Twinfan]

lemmingjames said:

friend driving and crashed it

I presume they're no longer a friend?

[Zeddsded]

lemmingjames said:

friend driving and crashed it

Does that make the insurance 3rd party only?

[FTW]

Strut top tower is most likely cast so fairly brittle. It would make a great base for a Race car....

[xjay1337]

FTW said:

Strut top tower is most likely cast so fairly brittle. It would make a great base for a Race car....

Every cloud

Poor guy though!
(the owner not the driver). Then again it does happen.

[Yidwann]

Taxed worse.....

[lemmingjames]

Zeddsded said:

lemmingjames said:

friend driving and crashed it

Does that make the insurance 3rd party only?

Dunno but theres more in the main gt4 thread

[Dr S]

ouch...

[Redarress]

Why would cast aluminium be brittle ?

[Rockster]

Redarress said:

Why would cast aluminium be brittle ?

Cast metals are generally more brittle, well, less ductile, than forged metals. It is a characteristic arising from the grain size and orientation of the grains of cast metal vs. forged metal.

When my 2008 Cayman S was hit some cast iron hardware was fractured. While cast alumumin and iron are tough there is a limit to the forces they can withstand.

There is nothing sinister in that damage. In this case it is just the result of a car encountering something it shouldn't have...

[V800MJH]

Strong glass

[apachesmith]

Word is circulating that the owner is now in a silver GT4.....

Thinking is Porsche helped him out.... Not sure but that's a quick recovery either way!!!

[czerwiec]

Is this the same car? Unrecorded?

http://www.copart.co.uk/uk/Lot/13968016?searchId=6...

[mdianuk]

czerwiec said:

Is this the same car? Unrecorded?

http://www.copart.co.uk/uk/Lot/13968016?searchId=6...

Yes

[xjay1337]

Looks like it