What's with these nose tubes

[tizeye]

The nose tubes are bent on a crazy angle has this thing taken a hit or what?

[pedro]

i would say thats taken rather a big hit which has no doubt bent the nose plate as well, few more items on the shopping list hey.

Peter

[a01butal]

This is called "Played with condition".

[tizeye]

The chassis must be bent as well...it's on ebay right now someone will buy it I guess

[RichieRich]

I think it's called, "hit a retaining wall at full speed."

[tizeye]

It must drive like a dog...it's a wreck...you can see in this picture just how much shorter it is by the shape of the hole (slot) in the body

[FasterLouder]

Wow-CARNAGE!
That is one tweaked chassis,man.
Nice talkin' with you the other day,mate.
See you at the New Zealand Vintage Nats!!!

[markt311]

looks like the pan is pretty straight and only the front plate and nose tubes are actually hurt. That says something about the strength of the tub

[tizeye]

Look at the bow in the servo arm...that puppy has some pressure on it..

[RedScampi]

That is what I refer to as a "parts car".

[LowClassCC]

i have seen people bend the tubes like that before for a coupe reasons.

1) some shock towers rubbed the tubes making them a pita to get the tubes on. most common reason was a bent/warped chassis) so instead of fixing the chassis (or even being aware that it was not the shock tower to blame) they made custom bent tubes just like this to add clearance. but the bends were not to that degree.

2) bitd people tried just about anything to get an advantage. adding frontal kickup was one of the ideas that people tried at my local track. this was done by bolting the nose tubes in and taking a pair of pliers and squeezing them together. thus shortening them and pulling the nose upward. a few people bent the nose and drilled out different rear mounting holes. this was proven to offer no advantage on the track (can we say duh?)

i don't believe the bends in those nose tubes got there just from a wreak. a wreak may have bent them so they were matching if someone had already started a bend in case of #1 above.

[Orange]

Thats crazy... I think they bent them to avoid the Tierods from hitting them.

That noseplate is bent tho... Look at the angle of the shocks/tower....

[tizeye]

People are still bidding on it up to $36.00 now..amazing you see nice ones go through ebay without a bid http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400052798922&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&viewitem=&salenotsupported

[tizeye]

It's up to $51 for old broken nose...sing me Chicago...

[justinspeed79]

The chassis appears to be taco'd some too, at the point where it starts tapering wider towards the center. I have a 10T tub that has the same affliction.