Canada Day in Banff

[95EagleAWD]

What a weekend. Car issues aside, I had a great time, and took some nice pictures, if I do say so myself.

Now, I said car issues. Yup, the invincile Acura had car issues. The first one, I don't have pictures, but your imagination should be able to cover it.

On the QE2. At 80 mph. The right rear wheel fell off. Lugs and all, the whole wheel came off. That was exciting. The wheel is destroyed, and I'm back on the stockers.

The other issue was my front lip. It's destroyed, gone, whatever. It's in two pieces since I hit a piece of pipe sticking up in a construction zone at about 40 or so. So that's toast. Other than that, the car ran like a champ, as expected.

Banff and Lake Louise were gorgeous, as usual, and I had some fun with the camera. Lots of mountains and rivers and stuff to take pictures of.

Lake Louise:

Banff:

I'll post some more pics as I edit them.

 

[LUV2REV]

Great pictures !! Did you forget to tighten your lugs ?

 

[95EagleAWD]

Great pictures !! Did you forget to tighten your lugs ?

They were tight. Who knows why it happened, could be the wheel/spacer combo doesn't leave enough stud for the lugnut to bite into.

 

[rjmcmillan]

Wow, thats some bad luck there. Any damage to the wheel hub or body? Do you have the stock lip?

Nice shots...got a couple of the Fairmont's (my employer):smile:

 

[GECKO]

GREAT shots.........I lived there for 11 yrs and know the roads all too well. Sorry to hear about your issues..........

 

[Caveman]

Great pictures Ryan, it looks like you had a good time regardless of your bad luck.

BTW ... your car looks good with the stock wheels! Did you put your old lip back on?

Dan

 

[ffffanman]

Too bad for that lousy luck!
I had a wheel come off on my 70 cuda on the highway and that wasn't fun at all. Try to find reverse thread studs on a saturday on highway 28 near Vilna!!!
The car looks great regardless and glad you finally had a good time.
Catch you around, perhaps we can go painted wall hunting one day with the gang.
Trev

 

[95EagleAWD]

Thanks guys.

I still owe you some beer or dinner for those wheels, Dan. That's twice they've saved me now.

And Trev, yes for sure. Maybe this weekend. I'm hunting for some Zanardi wheels to buy, but those are few and far between.

 

[Oyagi]

Oh man, sorry to hear about your bad luck. You ran spacers huh? Thats a pretty risky thing to do without going with longer studs. Were your wheels using hub-centric rings? If not the studs could have sheared from the weight of the corner of the car on them.

 

[95EagleAWD]

Oh man, sorry to hear about your bad luck. You ran spacers huh? Thats a pretty risky thing to do without going with longer studs. Were your wheels using hub-centric rings? If not the studs could have sheared from the weight of the corner of the car on them.

That was the setup the car came with when I bought it. I'm looking for a set of Zanardi wheels or others that don't need spacers.

Water under the bridge now. Shit happens and life goes on, right?

 

[Maximumyield]

Cool pics, and wow I was going to take Cody(Lovefab)turbo as he is here with me to Banff on Monday too but it was so hot and got a little late testing on the street for tuning, I am also real sorry to hear about that Ryan, bad luck comes and goes.
People I just took my wheel spacers from the front off that was on it, and I was wondering where to find hub eccentric rings in Calgary, I am worried now and Stacy mentioned to me today I may need them, I do not want to stress the lugs, can anyone help me here, a little knowledge or info would be cool.
I needed to get the lug nuts off for the dyno today and thay needed a special key for the wheels, took me 5 places to find 1, I ended up going to Tunerworks, thay realy liked my NSX, a guy that works there has a 91 silver with a comptech SC on it built by Basch acura in California, but I think thay were blown away when I took off with the Lovefab turbo today, believe me thay heard me 2 blocks away. (grin)

thanks in advance if any 1 can help me.
Brent

 

[ffffanman]

Hey guys, my 17/17 set up has not adaptor plates, just rings for the rear wheels only. Here is the link, I picked them up from the Tire Warehouse. The lugz as well.
I have two of them left here somewhere if anyone needs them. I was just keeping them for spares. They are cheap enough. Not sure what size is needed for the front on yours but this is what I have.
Pather hub rings HR72-6415(72.62/64.15mm).
http://www.nsxprime.com/forums/showthread.php?t=51914&highlight=17/17+trev+setup

Now, Back to our regularily scheduled pictures, keep posting Ryan, looks nice.
Trev

 

[Bigglezworth]

I lost a rear wheel on a car years ago doing highway speed. It launched the car up over top of the wheel as it came off, pushed in the rear quarter panel, and then dropped down and ground off the brake rotor, ball joint, and control arm on the roadway until the car came to a stop. The wheel passed me doing top speed and finally ended up in the ditch a number of meters ahead. All of the lugs had sheared off so it wasn't simply a matter of pilfering one from each of the other wheels to limp slowly to the next area with services. I'm surprised you sustained no damage from this incident. REALLY surprised.

That noted I can tell you that my experience was entirely the result of over-torqued lug nuts. The wheels were put on by a tire shop the day prior after a fresh balance. I was in court on the matter and as a result that tire shop specifically (and many more these days) have in-house policy's to utilize torque wrenches to tighten all lug nuts instead of pnumatic tools.

Tim

 

[rjmcmillan]

Thanks guys.

I still owe you some beer or dinner for those wheels, Dan. That's twice they've saved me now.

And Trev, yes for sure. Maybe this weekend. I'm hunting for some Zanardi wheels to buy, but those are few and far between.

Kinda pricey, but Dali indicates they can get the Zanardi wheels. Have you already gone down this path?

http://www.daliracing.com/v666-5/catalog/index_browse_part.cfm?focus=324

 

[Oyagi]

Zanardi wheels are nothing special...pick up a set of BBS LM's if you're into the mesh look. I ran a set of BBS Sterns last year and was very happy with them.

 

[95EagleAWD]

BBS LMs will cost me just as much as the Zanardi wheels.

 

[BioBanker]

Ive got my work TM1s that have that same look.

Look into those. I love them.

 

[Oyagi]

BBS LMs will cost me just as much as the Zanardi wheels.

But they look better

 

[95EagleAWD]

Ive got my work TM1s that have that same look.

Look into those. I love them.

Thanks for that advice. You may have sold a set. They look great!