Well my best friends talon was crashed a week ago. He was driving his rotor was defective broke and got stuck in the wheel locking the wheel and sending him into a spin that ended him hitting a telephone pole then being launched into the air and the sliding on his roof for 90m due to the wet grass. I decided that I should share it here... these were brand new aftermaker slotted and crossdrilled rotors by a very good company. It's amazing they even broke.. built of Forged Steel apparently. BTW: he walked away with a bump on his head and the passenger had a scratch on her forehead.


The path

The Pole he hit.

Front of car and his $15,000 Magnus Stage 3 Race Engine

Interior

Front with hood down... driver walking around not 7 hours later.

Where the telephone pole hit.

Interior again.

Passenger side where it collapsed in.

The trail it left, and where he went off the road.


Now the 9 hour strip down! We completely stripped his car down in 9 hours, the engine was removed without an engine picker, with tranny engine and transfer case as one, Was DAMN heavy

Final Product.

Not much left.

The Junk Inside.

The Motor Lives on... going into another talon shell next week.

Driver in his engine bay.

RIP Talon

Now that you can see even something totally out of your control can almost kill you.
He's lucky he walked away... but the company who built the rotor won't be !


FOREVER!

The owner said he won't drive anything but a DSM from now on, from what he has experienced he is glad it was made of American Steel

Praise be to God. He had an angel with him on that ride.

^ & to the guy who invented Airbags!

yeah to this day I can't believe he walked away... because I seen him go off the road... he was following me, and the telephone poles transformer was exploding and I thought it was his car that blew up... kinda scary to go back and wonder what you MIGHT see.

Whoa! I'm glad they're alright. Post some pics of the new car when he get's around to it

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Whoa! I'm glad they're alright. Post some pics of the new car when he get's around to it

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Will do MangusMotorsports is doing it, so when it's ready to get pictures we'll post them up.

It will be pretty much the same car, just Dark Forest Green instead.

if he says he isnt going to drive anything anymore, then is he gonna sell the new car with the engine?

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if he says he isnt going to drive anything anymore, then is he gonna sell the new car with the engine?

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Well.. he said " Forever" before he said that, so it seems what he meant was he won't drive anything but dsm's since he survived that crash in one.

Seriously, that was a crazy crash. How fast was he going to slide that far? Also any news on the company that made the rotor? Are they taking any responsibility?

K .. time to start on my cage ..

That is all ..
Luke

Glad to see he is ok and no broken bones, but maybe a broken heart. I totaled a mustang at a drag race I put countless time in and over 20k. I have learned a car/parts can be replaced with time. Your life is priceless. At the time I would have rather had broken bones and my mustang in one piece but that faded when you think about what could have happened. It also makes you a better driver overall
The driver and his girl friend are very lucky to be walking that could have been very ugly.
Good luck with your next eclipse. You now have a chance to do it over again and try diffrent things out that you didnt have on that red pop can. Be safe later

You may want to change the title to "defective AFTERMARKET cross-drilled rotor".

I hope there's a lawyer busy on this product liability case.

I was just going to ask if it was a cross drilled rotor. I've been telling people for years not to run them, maybe this will get it through their heads.

ya seriously , he needs to sue the piss out of the company that made those rotors. What company was it .

Is it forbidden to mention the company who made the rotor? Would be a nice headsup to the rest of us...

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Is it forbidden to mention the company who made the rotor? Would be a nice headsup to the rest of us...

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Yeah do tell, I have a brembo set, and if they are what he was running..well..I love my girl who rides with me, and crashing would not be okay with me...

yea that would be nice, around here, there arent any pleasently sloped feilds... more like drop offs, nd tons of trees.

nevermore said:

Will do MangusMotorsports is doing it, so when it's ready to get pictures we'll post them up.

It will be pretty much the same car, just Dark Forest Green instead.

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Great
i am sure Marco at the magnus will fix you up

pity about the bad luck, excellent to see that they walked away from it though

Thanx for all your comments guys, nice to know that there are ppl that feel my pains
I am getting a new one, and i have already started the custom fabrication process. As far as who made the Rotors, they were ROTO-tech, and yes they were slotted/cross-drilled, but i had been assured that they would be fine, as i had concerns of weakened integrity with the holes...but I will keep you all updated on the progress of the newer one...and im getting different rotors..

oh, and one other thing....I dont know if this would be the right place to mention it or not, but I do have a few good parts that I will be selling off or trading, like the ECU and possibly the MAF, both are still good. If someones got a 2g translator for the GM MAF, we could talk about trades or something

I wanna get rolling again ASAP.

hmmm damage doesnt look TOO bad... thatll buff right out


yeah good thing nobody was hurt!

Glad to see you made it unscaved. In my accident I wasnt so lucky; I spent a month in the hospital and 9 months of rehab, and I'm still only about 85% but I thank God every day for saving my live and letting me return to my wife and now 2yr old daughter.

Here is a pic of my car after going drivers side to drivers side with a 1 ton super duty. The drivers side tire crushed the floor board and broke my femur in 3 places.

praise to allah. Glad your OK man. And your girl. A car is just metal, life cannot be replaced.

hmmm me and chesire live in the same town....
sorry to see these pics though, I can see the vultures swarming

wow dude.. that's crazy.. i just had the shit scared out of me last week when i had a heater hose blow at full throttle at the top of 3rd (throwing antifreeze on the ground in my path)... getting sideways at 90mph for a second i thought was gonna be the end.. managed to straighten up and come to a stop though, and wonder what would have happened if i'd been going faster or had more power

went home and replaced ALL the heater hoses after that one..

i too have been pretty impressed with the strength of these cars.. i got whacked in the side at 50mph in one of my 1Gsa while back and could have driven the car away had the shock not been broken.. there was a bit of frame damage though.. other car was 100% totaled haha.. i walked away unscathed as well