high speeds breaking evo 9 wings?!
Jan 4, 2010, 06:06 PM
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Jan 4, 2010, 06:28 PM
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I'm surprised more people don't pay attention on these forums. This isn't the first thread I've seen about this in a little over a year of browsing the forums.
The last thread I saw was much more detailed. Started out the same, a guy talking about breaking his wing when he was going well over 100mph in his 9. Consider yourself lucky. The last guy actually destroyed his trunk when it broke.
The consensus of the thread was that the 9 wing is hollow and will break if you go fast enough. The 8 wing is solid carbon fiber and can withstand many times the abuse.
Use the search. You can also weaken the wing over time using it to close the trunk and hold beverages putting hairline cracks in it that later show when you go to fast. It made me want to put an 8 wing on my 9.
The last thread I saw was much more detailed. Started out the same, a guy talking about breaking his wing when he was going well over 100mph in his 9. Consider yourself lucky. The last guy actually destroyed his trunk when it broke.
The consensus of the thread was that the 9 wing is hollow and will break if you go fast enough. The 8 wing is solid carbon fiber and can withstand many times the abuse.
Use the search. You can also weaken the wing over time using it to close the trunk and hold beverages putting hairline cracks in it that later show when you go to fast. It made me want to put an 8 wing on my 9.
Last edited by JohnDoe1984; Jan 4, 2010 at 06:31 PM.
Jan 4, 2010, 06:35 PM
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The consensus of the thread was that the 9 wing is hollow and will break if you go fast enough. The 8 wing is solid carbon fiber and can withstand many times the abuse.
Use the search. You can also weaken the wing over time using it to close the trunk and hold beverages putting hairline cracks in it that later show when you go to fast. It made me want to put an 8 wing on my 9.
Use the search. You can also weaken the wing over time using it to close the trunk and hold beverages putting hairline cracks in it that later show when you go to fast. It made me want to put an 8 wing on my 9.
Jan 5, 2010, 03:07 PM
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not an evo, but i can relate since it happend last week =( I bought an extremely rare wing from a company in japan that didnt ship out of the country, took three middlemen to get it, and a very pretty penny. Almost never drive the car fast, so i when i finially hit 140+ mph off it went 
Sucks because it almost took a year to get since it got caught in customs both ways, such a waste lol so wingless ftw. At least the STI i was running saw the whole thing 
Sucks because it almost took a year to get since it got caught in customs both ways, such a waste lol so wingless ftw. At least the STI i was running saw the whole thing