VIDEO HERE (11:55 minutes)
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This hurt my heart to watch.
Good video. He gives good background on the car, then shows the accident from several different angles, breaking it down as it happens.
But really, you have to wonder what the owner was thinking when he didn't put in a beefed up braking system when you have to stay on the brakes to keep the speed down at an idle.
"...you have to wonder what the owner was thinking when he didn't put in a beefed up braking system..." You mean like this guy:
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The very first system you design and install is the breaks. Anyone who builds knows that.
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"brakes"
DeleteHey anonymous go play kick ball some other place, like the middle of the highway. Or is it hiway? Geezzz
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Them are the breaks...
DeleteThe same guys that think, while their 4 wheel drive is much better in the snow than the guy next to him with 2wd...until he realizes too late his braking system is the exact same.
ReplyDeleteLooks like the guy shoved it right into park. Instant transmission lunch. Should’a/could’a maybe a downshift?
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DeleteI can’t figure out via the inside camera how that vehicle is even allowed on the street considering the HUGE obstruction to view sitting smack dab on top the engine…….
ReplyDeleteThe driver doesn't sit directly behind the blower.
Deleteregardless of seating position forward vision is profoundly obscured. I love hotrods but thats not safe for public roads. keep it on the track or tow it. it's a trailer queen.
DeleteWhat about the emergency brake?? Stupid. May have really hurt the person he hit, too.
ReplyDeleteThats what I was thinking but he probably didnt have one installed, no cool factor.
DeleteProbably the kind of guy like my father. He would stick an 8yr old boy on a tractor with no brakes or synchro mesh transmission on hilly terrain and give the following advice: If you miss a gear and start rolling, aim for a tree. There were so many shit shows I grew up watching like they were everyday events. When I grew up and learned there were better ways, I couldn't tell him shit. Old age got real hard for him really fast.
ReplyDeleteHe built the car over 23 years and gradually upgraded the power train but never went back and updated the brakes which he built first. Still, idiotic to have antiquated brakes on 1300 hp and no EMER brake.
ReplyDeleteGetting rear ended by a car going that fast probably gave someone a lifelong injury. Talk about a fool and his money.
ReplyDeleteWhy didn't he just turn off the ignition?
ReplyDeleteA lot of the new systems don't have an instant shut down. It's all computer controlled.
DeleteHaving built race cars starting in 1974 I have built everything from Vega gassers to Top Fuel Dragsters and Funny cars. Also have built recreations and continuation 50-60s road racing cars. Poor Engineering! Lot's of power, sticking throttle linkage, Shifter linkage appeared to be problematic and on a public street with heavy traffic. Would sure like to see his brake master cylinder and petal linkage as it looks as the petal went all the way to the floor.As he kept mentioning the smell of brakes burning either linkage failure or rotor heat caused the caliper heat to kill the oring seal and all the fluid was lost. Not where I would be show boating for a camera crew for sure. That passenger really did not impress me as that knowledgeable about the mechanics of cars as he let on. Reminds me of the current writers for the few print magazine still out there. Magazines hare so few and so bad you can hardly even find them on the stand anymore. Pick up a Hot Rod magazine today and you won't believe how thin it is with worthless "tech" crap. Just my take on the matter.
ReplyDeleteCouple follow up vids by some other builder/mechanics that give a good explanation why the driver probably shouldn't have been. If the throttle was sticking at 2500 rpm, and he had to ride the brake pretty much the whole time to keep it at or near the speed limit, boiled the brake fluid, and that was that. Passenger smelled brakes, throttle sticking, and they just kept going, instead of pulling over and calling it a day.
ReplyDeleteKill the ignition. Even better, pull over immediately after realizing the stuck throttle issue.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I've had brake failures too. Throw the shifter into low (he had a race only shifter than couldn't do that), kill the engine in any gear and let that slow you down (not sure if he did that), hit the emergency brake (he didn't have one), steer off the road (he didn't do that, kept trying to save it). 23 years to build that car and one stupid day to destroy it. I've had stuck throttle linkages too. Turn the fricking key off. Too much stupid shit where he just didn't want to pull off the road cause they were shooting video. Maybe next car of his should be a Dodge Dart, slant six, three on the tree and drum brakes. That seems to be more his speed.
ReplyDeleteTotal negligence. Guy he hit owns him. Those weren’t rotors they were smelling those were drums.
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Many 'flags' ignored, and it cost them both dearly... Luckily, no one died.
ReplyDeleteCar with that much custom work done on it - the first sign of trouble means turn around and go home. That would have been the sticking throttle, knowing there's no emergency brake.
ReplyDeleteWhat I found strange is that they never mentioned the folks they hit. I think they did say that everyone one okay, but still!
ReplyDeleteCan we get that rig for the presidential limo?
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