POS VETT

Nope, it's MarC.

Why is a Charger Hellcat a need and why is a wife's permission required? Not doing this correctly.

It's hard to beat GMT-900 in that configuration which is my favorite. I couldn't care any less about having a diesel-powered truck due to the premiums in purchase price and in fuel price. For what I intend to do, a half-ton 2wd is all I need. Being a GM product is a bonus since I also own several GM products. PS - I would take a lesser trim to save on purchase price; LS trim would probably knock off a few grands.

LOL

I can't believe you guys were stumped by the sunroof. Don't tell me that you couldn't find the instrument panel dimmer switch either!

Kewl

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The scariest part is not the 6" wheel spacers/adapters (which I'm sure they are the studded type), but the modification the outer tierod and steering knuckle connection. However, it's doesn't go on the street.

Hi Andy!

Is the car GPS-tracked?

You got three, right?

Any update on the car whereabout?

Casey, if you got a hankering for a fully loaded, narrow-body C6 with an LS3, I may have the right one for you.

The kind of comment subscribed by certain "class" of people; it's the same level of comment when one tries to justify specific power output. In case it's unclear, try "if my engine had the displacement of a V8, it would have 800hp". I call it a sorry excuse. Get a stupid fast car, learn to drive it at the limits, and drive it fast. Stop making excuses.

Leave me out of your 6-lug abominations !!

At any rate, no pixxx of car on transporter, no happening. Paint seems dull in the picture; is there a clear coat?

Crest sans merlettes

That gave me an idea.

I doubt it.

The thread in the Mustang Forums shows a picture of fatigue cracking already manifested in the axle shaft; check out the thinner (compared to the "fatigue ring" in the third picture in this thread), incomplete, darker-colored outer ring in the fracture surface. It was a fracture waiting to happen. Smacking a wheel on the curb doesn't always mean breaking an axle shaft; wheel and suspension arms are weaker and they usually absorb a large portion of the impact loading. One way to check for cracking is to pull the shaft and inspect it with a non-destructive method utilizing magnetic particle inspection commercially available under the brand Magnaflux. In this case, the fatigue crack is started on the surface, creating a perfect telltale for its presence. This non-destructive inspection may be rendered useless in an unused axle shaft as the fatigue cracking does not exist yet.

Ooops, I'll fix it

Dublin police is one of the worst around here. You can get away without a front license plate most of the times. I have friends who live in Dublin and none of their cars have a front license plate. It's a hit-and-miss but there have been cases of multiple tickets in a short amount of time. The ticket is a non-moving violation type, so it doesn't carry any point. There is Cars & Coffee every Saturday morning; the site url is http://www.columbuscarsandcoffee.net. CR also has a track day a few times a year and quite a few of us are into autocross too. There are road course lapping and rallycross events as well.

Welcome!

It looks like a multi-mode failure. The origin is near the top of the axle shaft in the third picture. Faint lines point to the failure origin. These faint lines are indicative of fatigue mode and the smoother fracture surface on the 1/3 outer radius of the axle shaft seems to be all fatigue. The rough or pitted-looking area in the middle is caused by brittle fracture. The small spot of rust in the middle may be caused by flash rusting once it's exposed to the air/moisture. The rest didn't rust because, I suspect, gear oil covered the area almost immediately after failure. The sequence is is initiated at the origin; there was probably a surface imperfection (a nick, a gouge, or any other crack-like feature caused during a manufacturing/assembly process). This creates a stress concentration area which caused fatigue to set in. After numerous cycling of acceleration and deceleration, the crack propagated within area of the smoother surface ring. Once the area was large enough, the last failure mode was brittle fracture which happened all at once. The remaining area was simply overstressed and aggravated by the sharp crack tips surrounding it. This is a design of a semi-floating axle. In a full-floating axle, such axle shaft failure will not cause loss of control as the hub is retained by the axle housing/tube.

I see.