Welcome to the Garage Chad!

Hi Chad, Glad to see you found us.I have a question I"ve been meaning to ask you for some time now... I"ve been doing work on the rear suspension of my 400gt.It had a mod done to it years ago which fell apart, and I"m trying to sort it all out now.Some of the work to date can be seen at: I need to update that page as I now have everything back together. The main question I have is that when I drilled into the trailing arms (aka: leading links) I noticed that the metal was very, very soft.Being that I"m working all day in my shop, and know my milling machine pretty well, I"d say the metal is as soft or softer than brass, which is pretty scary. Have you noticed this on the older lambos?Does the metal deteriorate in some manner?I"ve also noticed this in the aluminum intake manifold, which seems almost unable to hold the studs in, even though I only hand-tighten very carefully (no power tools, I don"t own any). Also, what do you think of this description of metal fatigue: It seems to point in the same direction.I"m also wondering about the quality of metal that was being using in Italy when our cars were made. Comments?I know you spend more time with the countaches, but maybe you"ve found the same problems there. Anybody else feel free to comment too.Has anybody else found this to be true? All the best, Fred