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After my minor incident at Main event I fixed everything, and car was ready for another routing, so took car to santa pod test day last week.

I was looking for some nice straight passes to check all was good but combination of cold track and new slicks made the 1st pass a little lively
You don't often see tyre shake on a VW so I thought I would share the video so all can see the affects, when this happens the pass really is done but sometimes instinct takes over and you run it longer than you should hence the drifting :o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYCswlCBjCY


cheers Richie

Having never experienced tyre shake (and I never will), how much can you feel it in the car?

I know at Santa Pod i've been there when the fuel cars are running and the commentators always say how violent it is, was it the same in your car?  Fair play, keeping your foot in, i'd have given up before 1st gear was over.   ;)

I knew it happened as I could feel it, this was the worse I have had but its not anything like on the scale they experience in a fuel car, they are supposed to black out momentarily when they get it bad :o

cheers Richie

Eric Medlen was literally shaken to death. The deflating tire caused an 18-inch movement up and down, which then exerted a force of 40,000 or more pounds as it rotated. So YES you can feel it!

A really nicely built nitrous pro mod shook the tires so badly at a race here in Norway that they had to get parts of the chassis re-welded and of course re-certified.

-BB-

glad to hear the car is fixed , looks good brother ! ........... cool vid too