AkumaNoZeta Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 I hit a guardrail for the very first time in my life while driving on ice for the first time in my life. Not that big deal to me because it was just my Mustang, if it was the Z I would be crying. No more passenger side headlight, the passenger door is hard to open, looks like the whole passenger side was pushed in about an inch or so looking at the hood. Didn't really take that good look around because it's dark outside and I figure might as well weight for daylight, but the engine was lugging the rest of the way home and opening the hood there was an odor of coolant. The guardrail has more damage than my car XD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Challenger Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 I can see you coming home to wife/girlfriend, "you should have seen the guardrail!" Do you have insurance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B00STDZ Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Any pics? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rturbo 930 Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Glad you're ok man. Now, since your car is dead, what are you gonna do with that perfectly good engine? It's not like you have another perfectly good car to put it in... hmm... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkumaNoZeta Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 I'll get pics when the sun comes out if you really want them. The car isn't that bad, I need to fix it because I still need the car to get me back to Arkansas from Pennsulvania on down week so I can get the Z running. It's running now, just alittle luggish, might have just messed up something with the intake since it's on that side (EFI) and restricted the airflow. I'm not worried about the car really, so far all I see that I need to buy is new headlights. If the body is really that bad, may be able to fix it in my Chassis Fabrication class I'm in now or ask the teachers in the Collision and Refinishing if they have some students wanting some live work points. Im surprised that it didn't bust open the crappy welds on the passenger side rear subframe (friend welded it...badly) and that started popping again...I need to take out the seat and look at that actually now that I think about it. But right now I'm just waiting for the sun to get out. It didn't seem to pull no more than normal since it did need an alignment pretty bad so I dont thing too much damage is there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkumaNoZeta Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 On the insurance note, I just have liabilty but the Mustang is more like a beater to me anyways. I wanna tube-frame it and turn it into a race car, but that may never happen because I wanna get the Z done and I'll be caught up in that. Maybe if I can get another beater I can have 2 project cars, lol. The Mustang, I love it, but I'm not "in" love with it...and I am IN love with the Z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZZZeee Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 The Mustang, I love it, but I'm not "in" love with it...and I am IN love with the Z That's what he says on the Z forums. But what does he say on the 'Stang forums?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJLamberson Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Good thing it wasnt in the Z, those and guardrails do not mix well at all, a friend of mine in the area with a 76 slapped on pretty good, it left a perfect imprint of the rail along the entire passenger side of the car... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkumaNoZeta Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 The only Mustang forum I went to is foxbodyforum.com and I haven't been there for a LONGGGGG time, lol. Name on there is BigDreamer (I was losing creativity) in fact I put the name Grim on here because I was watching The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy while signing up. I got pictures now. Ones a general veiw, close up of the front, close up of the back, and the one of the tire might be a big reason why I lost traction so easily. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkumaNoZeta Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 And here's why I don't consider it much more than a beater and why I like the idea of Tube Framing it if I ever get around to modding it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilC Posted January 28, 2009 Share Posted January 28, 2009 Those tires and snow/ice.... don't mix. Glad you are ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkumaNoZeta Posted January 28, 2009 Author Share Posted January 28, 2009 The curve was right after a downhill and while I barely tapped the brake to try to slow down enough it would lose traction, I was going very slow because I'm deafly afriad of driving on snow. My roommate was with me and said I may have been better off punching the gas and drifting the corner (jokingly of course) but thinking about that I'm glad I didn't because the rear would have hit the guard rail and then maybe I wouldn't have a rear sub frame at all then, lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cygnusx1 Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 It was so icy here today that I slid down my driveway backwards at a walking pace with my WRX with four Blizzaks on it. I was able to get back up, but barely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B00STDZ Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 This ice storm is hitting kentucky hard... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsommer Posted January 29, 2009 Share Posted January 29, 2009 Hey Grim where in Arkansas do you live? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkumaNoZeta Posted January 30, 2009 Author Share Posted January 30, 2009 Im in Mountain Home, pretty much top dead center, about half an hour from the Missouri Border Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsommer Posted January 30, 2009 Share Posted January 30, 2009 I know exactally where that is. There was a z over there for sale a few weeks ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AkumaNoZeta Posted January 30, 2009 Author Share Posted January 30, 2009 Mine's sitting at my aunt's house in Clarkridge until I can get back. I've never seen an S30 for sale around there except for the one I bought. Any info about it? Oh wait, there was a garage around there trying to sell a 383 SBC FC and they were working on putting a SBC in an S30, maybe they finally got that done and trying to sell it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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