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It wouldn't bend the disc brake, so I think it'd be fine.
I'm talking about the sheet metal piece behind the disc.
I'm talking about the sheet metal piece behind the disc.
What have you done to your car today?
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Bah. Today I got my car up on the ramps I bought (after putting a fencepost and a flagstone infront of them to stop them moving, they still moved a little 
) and surveyed my sump, which is more or less the main barrier for selling my car at the moment. And unfortunately, it's basically past it. Didn't get a photo but it does look pretty badly corroded on virtually every surface, and the whole lower part of it is wet to the touch. As there is no actual leak coming from anywhere (and my car never leaves oil patches below it), it's quite clear that instead the whole thing is just becoming porous.
Much as I'd love to replace it myself and theoretically it's a simple-ish job (only really made difficult by the placement, which requires removal of the starter motor and the exhaust downpipe), I simply don't have the time at the moment so instead I may have to sacrifice some of my money and get it done properly at a garage. Luckily there's a local one back home who our family have used for the last 25-odd years who we can trust and are very reasonably priced, so I think I'll be booking it in there.
Anyway it's exam/essay time at the moment. Once I've got that out of the way it's getting booked in and put up for sale ASAP afterwards. I wants me a new vehicle!
) and surveyed my sump, which is more or less the main barrier for selling my car at the moment. And unfortunately, it's basically past it. Didn't get a photo but it does look pretty badly corroded on virtually every surface, and the whole lower part of it is wet to the touch. As there is no actual leak coming from anywhere (and my car never leaves oil patches below it), it's quite clear that instead the whole thing is just becoming porous.Much as I'd love to replace it myself and theoretically it's a simple-ish job (only really made difficult by the placement, which requires removal of the starter motor and the exhaust downpipe), I simply don't have the time at the moment so instead I may have to sacrifice some of my money and get it done properly at a garage. Luckily there's a local one back home who our family have used for the last 25-odd years who we can trust and are very reasonably priced, so I think I'll be booking it in there.
Anyway it's exam/essay time at the moment. Once I've got that out of the way it's getting booked in and put up for sale ASAP afterwards. I wants me a new vehicle!
I haven't seen it, but things usually look worse than they are 
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Nah, there was a distinct line on it below which the sump was oily on the outside - and as there was no leak and no actual drips, it strongly suggests the whole thing is porous and oil is escaping not from one place but from everywhere. I expect hitting it wouldn't do it much good at all...
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So I accidently the whole right side of my car.
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Eek. How?
And pics?
And pics?
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Took a corner a bit too fast, car was slowly moving towards the outside until the rear tire dropped off the road. Started to spin, I would have stopped backwards on the other side of the road but a huge truck pulling a trailer came around the corner and wasn't able to stop in time.
If I get another Civic I may be able to pull pretty much all the parts off of it, but still. Sucks.
Oh well, stuff happens, just sucks that someone else had to be involved.
If I get another Civic I may be able to pull pretty much all the parts off of it, but still. Sucks.
Oh well, stuff happens, just sucks that someone else had to be involved.
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So yeah. Eek.
Hope you get everything sorted quickly 👍 Such a shame, was a lovely car.
Hope you get everything sorted quickly 👍 Such a shame, was a lovely car.
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Yeeikes. Very sorry to hear that PB.
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Oh, I forgot to tell you all that Championship White has a curse.
Anyways, I'm proud of myself today. I attended my first track day today, and instead of an autocross it was a legit time attack on a real race track. Sweet! Meh, I don't have any pics from the event because I wasn't actually expecting to race--I was expecting to watch the drift competition. But I wore pants and brought my helmet just in case, hehe.
Here's a map of the track, G & J Kartway, which I've driven on before and may have mentioned before:
The bold green line is the start/finish line and shows the direction of travel. The green highlighted track is the course we raced our cars on. The blue highlight are the sections I lapped the kart on back in 2007. From inside the car the track is bigger than expected (or my car is slower than I realize), and extremely technical. Great fun, but very difficult to get right with that little bit of practice.
My top speed on the front stretch was in 3rd gear, probably about 70 mph, just after the start/finish and before the braking zone. On the back stretch with the kink I estimate I reached about 80, and some of the faster cars probably got near 100. The rest of the track was taken in 2nd gear for me.
I'm pretty excited that I managed my first track-speed heel-and-toe downshifting while racing, and it turned out alright. I had to think about it quite a bit and position my feet beforehand, but I was able to brake hard and rev-match pretty decent. But damn it's hard to get right every time. Btw, of the time attack drivers there I placed 3rd! I was beat out by a fast S2000 on inferior tires and a gutted, caged, and loud 280Z rolling on Kumho XS (only by 2 seconds over my three-lap total of 2:29.xx!). I beat out an EK hatch with the same engine as me but lowered on coilovers and with a 24mm rear way bar, a coilover'd WRX, a very quick turbocharged B13 Sentra with coils, and one very rare corner-hugging 240SX. In no particular order.
Me and my four little tires beat out cars with much more "cool", popular, and expensive mods. Truthfully the only all-round packages were the nearly bone-stock S2000 and 280Z. The other Civic had the hardware, but not the tires to convert it into stick.
So yeah, fun day for me. I think I shall return when this event comes around again later this year.
EDIT: But not to make myself look like a prodigy, I'll add that these drivers weren't quite the caliber of what I'd come up against at the local autocrosses. The last one I drove in I got beat by a freaking Mazda Protege.
Anyways, I'm proud of myself today. I attended my first track day today, and instead of an autocross it was a legit time attack on a real race track. Sweet! Meh, I don't have any pics from the event because I wasn't actually expecting to race--I was expecting to watch the drift competition. But I wore pants and brought my helmet just in case, hehe.
Here's a map of the track, G & J Kartway, which I've driven on before and may have mentioned before:
The bold green line is the start/finish line and shows the direction of travel. The green highlighted track is the course we raced our cars on. The blue highlight are the sections I lapped the kart on back in 2007. From inside the car the track is bigger than expected (or my car is slower than I realize), and extremely technical. Great fun, but very difficult to get right with that little bit of practice.
My top speed on the front stretch was in 3rd gear, probably about 70 mph, just after the start/finish and before the braking zone. On the back stretch with the kink I estimate I reached about 80, and some of the faster cars probably got near 100. The rest of the track was taken in 2nd gear for me.
I'm pretty excited that I managed my first track-speed heel-and-toe downshifting while racing, and it turned out alright. I had to think about it quite a bit and position my feet beforehand, but I was able to brake hard and rev-match pretty decent. But damn it's hard to get right every time. Btw, of the time attack drivers there I placed 3rd! I was beat out by a fast S2000 on inferior tires and a gutted, caged, and loud 280Z rolling on Kumho XS (only by 2 seconds over my three-lap total of 2:29.xx!). I beat out an EK hatch with the same engine as me but lowered on coilovers and with a 24mm rear way bar, a coilover'd WRX, a very quick turbocharged B13 Sentra with coils, and one very rare corner-hugging 240SX. In no particular order.
Me and my four little tires beat out cars with much more "cool", popular, and expensive mods. Truthfully the only all-round packages were the nearly bone-stock S2000 and 280Z. The other Civic had the hardware, but not the tires to convert it into stick.
So yeah, fun day for me. I think I shall return when this event comes around again later this year.
EDIT: But not to make myself look like a prodigy, I'll add that these drivers weren't quite the caliber of what I'd come up against at the local autocrosses. The last one I drove in I got beat by a freaking Mazda Protege.
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Wait, I think I missed something. Is your car totalled?
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Pretty much.
I knew a guy selling a running automatic 240sx for about 800 dollars 3 years ago, and I think he's still got it. If he does I'm going to jump on that as soon as possible.
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Do you have pictures? (Of the civic)
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Double post.
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The good part is that if I do decide to part it out or something, I've already got buyers on pretty much every part I've got on it, and I'm sure someone somewhere needs interior pieces and whatnot.
EDIT: Oh btw, I've got a Broadway mirror coming for my civic later this week!!! Can't wait to put it on!
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I've had more incidents when the car was blue than now that it's white. Maybe we angered the car gods by changing the original color of the car. Next time the team has a geto BBQ we can ask for forgiveness.
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Ouch! Glad you're alright after that, looks like a couple pretty good licks. Passenger door is untouched though
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Gah... that's a right mess. Such a shame. The wheels might be hard to shift given that the rear right-hand rim looks like it has a jolly big split in it.
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Good thing PB didn't have VTEC! That coulda got much worse real fast 
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Oh wow that's an awesome pic.
I didn't though. Still though, it's funny.
I didn't though. Still though, it's funny.
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Ouch! Glad you're alright after that, looks like a couple pretty good licks. Passenger door is untouched though
I gotta ask, how did you pull that one off? Hit with the front and send it away from the other vehicle, then hit it sideways with the rear? That's the only way I can think of it.
Sorry to hear about it though. Is there any way it can be fixed, or is it beyond repair?
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My buddy recently got his EJ1 in a crash that wasn't his own fault. Insurance offered him $3400 for the car, or $3100 and he keeps it. Ridiculous high price for that hunk of crap, which had chassis damage from a previous life and SRS problems (read blown and poorly repacked/taped up airbags). Of course he kept it. A week ago he bought an EJ2 with the your engine, I believe, and within the week and a half that he's had the old car back the thing is completely gutted inside.
His new car is in tip-top shape, really something else besides the body panels which have remnants of a deer collision. Besides that, all most all the suspension bushings have been replaced, the engine mount bushings are all new, the springs and shocks are new factory parts, and the engine has a fresh timing belt and runs perfect with 180,000 miles. I rides so much better than mine on its old suspension parts. It feels almost like a new car. We're swapping just about everything over to the new car from his old, including the lowering springs and shocks to hold him over until he gets real coils, the wheels, shifter, intake, gauge cluster, seats, all sorts of stuff. His new car has the black interior too which apparently is the color everyone wants for those cars. Score.
So yeah, I say buy it back and use parts on a new car. Unless you want to do the body work and replace whatever suspension arms. Is there any chassis damage?
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Keef, you do realize that the crash was my fault right? There's no "buying it back" I'm simply keeping it. I had liability on the car.
Yes, there is chassis damage. The entire left side of the car a-pillar forward is moved over about a foot at the hardest bit.
Yeah though, after the guy hit the front right, my car spun and my quarter/his truck bed smacked each other.
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firebird had mot today, no problems at all 
ran to post office to get tax and finally got to drive it a bit, it needs a good long run.
sitting on the wrong side doesnt bother me, didnt take long getting used to auto either, one thing i will have to get used to is chavs and midlife crisis tards trying their best to prove themselves against it. iv only had it on the road today and already iv had several dangerous overtakes, tailgating, one man 'races' etc.
ran to post office to get tax and finally got to drive it a bit, it needs a good long run.
sitting on the wrong side doesnt bother me, didnt take long getting used to auto either, one thing i will have to get used to is chavs and midlife crisis tards trying their best to prove themselves against it. iv only had it on the road today and already iv had several dangerous overtakes, tailgating, one man 'races' etc.
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We don't even need to go to the post office any more. We can tax our cars online if we so choose (note use of the word if. Personally I don't trust our postal service much so prefer doing it the old-school way).
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