Well, I suppose it's time to let the cat out of the bag. For those of you that don't know, my Red car was totaled, thanks to a red light running incident. The front end was pretty well torked, I got hit at roughly 60mph. It had just gotten it back from paint in January, and had just put its first coat of wax on the weekend prior to the accident. Even worse, I was at a car show earlier the day of the accident.
Anyhow, here is how she looked:
And, earlier the day of the accident:
And Afterwards
Well, it was time to find a new car, unfortunately. In short, insurance barely gave me anything (as expected) but I managed to find a beater shell for $700. I expected it to run and drive, boy was I wrong. Anyhow, here's some pictures:
Man, that grille and such is ugly
So, it was time to get to work:
My motor and trans out
Stock stuff in the black car (it looks exactly the same when it's my stuff, buuut, whatever haha)
If you look really closely, you can see fluid pouring out of the exhaust here. I would estimate roughly 2 quarts came out. The head gasket was blown real good on this car. Then, when we dropped the trans, there may have been about 8oz of fluid in it. Solid!
Happy face
Fun with a torch, cutting off the over axle
Swapping Fuel tanks (I had just replaced my pump with an SVT Focus pump a few weeks prior)
And here she is....alive ;p
Here is a direct link in case the embedding doesn't work:
http://s495.photobucket.com/user/g3... Introduction/cometolife_zpse7947576.mp4.html
Anyhow, here is how she looked:
And, earlier the day of the accident:
And Afterwards
Well, it was time to find a new car, unfortunately. In short, insurance barely gave me anything (as expected) but I managed to find a beater shell for $700. I expected it to run and drive, boy was I wrong. Anyhow, here's some pictures:
Man, that grille and such is ugly
So, it was time to get to work:
My motor and trans out
Stock stuff in the black car (it looks exactly the same when it's my stuff, buuut, whatever haha)
If you look really closely, you can see fluid pouring out of the exhaust here. I would estimate roughly 2 quarts came out. The head gasket was blown real good on this car. Then, when we dropped the trans, there may have been about 8oz of fluid in it. Solid!
Happy face
Fun with a torch, cutting off the over axle
Swapping Fuel tanks (I had just replaced my pump with an SVT Focus pump a few weeks prior)
And here she is....alive ;p
Here is a direct link in case the embedding doesn't work:
http://s495.photobucket.com/user/g3... Introduction/cometolife_zpse7947576.mp4.html
