Progress Thread 89 hatch hydroplanedrifterweldeddiff thread:

[96pushrod]

Man that sucks.
Having hit a barrier at about 45 in one of my old sn’s, I’d guess you may been going a little slower - which probably saved your ass.

Wrecks at 45+ destroy .

Ask me how I know lol

 

[Foxslider]

Damn. That sucks! It happens i guess. Ya the more i thought about it, just glad my wheel/tire didnt hit the barrier and cause a potential roll. I was probably 70 degrees to the barrier judging by bumper hit, exploded the front bumper under the bumper cover. But there was still a suprisingly major force when it hit it.

Spun a 360. Came to stop, started car and drove off. Like we good. Lol.

 

[Foxslider]

Update: talked to my neighbor who we found out used to own a body shop. He said they can straighten the rails. Prob a $400 operation. Saves a little money and a lot of labor. Neighbor is building a SVO foxbody.

And i didnt know LMR sells those aprons ahead of the shocktower. But then im in tube front territory if i do all that... so ill just bang em in and make bracket or if needed... ill make it work. Lol.

Honestly id rather go tube front and save the 40-50lbs. + the fab would be fun as and look badass. But ill save it for later.

 

[General karthief]

The frame rails ahead of the shock towers a designed to move or 'crush' to take some of the impact before the shock towers start moving.

 

[Foxslider]

Oh, makes sense. Ya neighbor was lookin at my car damage was like "prob good you had that on" referring to strut tower brace. Im like good point. Bet that saved my ass actually.

 

[General karthief]

Seat belt saved your ass (actually your face/head), stb likely did save some damage to the car.

 

[Foxslider]

Ya about that... wasnt wearing a seatbelt lol. Not a laughing matter i know.. but when im in that car i treat it like i was on a streetbike. I clamped on the steering wheel hard af right before inoact and decided to sacrifice my wrist or arm if needed. But thankfully wasnt that bad. I have a motto i tell myself. I aint flying out the car less the steering wheel comes with me. My head def lunged forward a lot. Not sure how close i got to the wheel. But didnt hit it thankfully..

 

[General karthief]

I'm not going to get into the 'not wearing a seatbelt' thing.

 

[Foxslider]

Spent a lot of today dissassemblibg these injectors and cleaning them. Holy moly, these filters were not easy to get out. Then i wire brushed em in varsol. Cleaned up nice..

Then i cleaned up the gt40 lower in varsol/wire brush, then drilled the 9/16 holes for the ACT and EGR. The EGR hole managed to pull off in our small drill press. The angled ACT hole had to by hand clamoed in a vise. Was a PITA with dull drill. Wollowed out .040 (.600 on 1 axis, .580 other way) but itll work b/c .563 a little small anyway.. ive done worse as a machinist and made it work lol. Cept it was a $10k inconel block for GE. Oops.

Injector pic overload:

 

[Foxslider]

This was the setup for oulling the filters abd it took 80-90% of my pulling power while working it up and down..

Intake: didnt take after cleaning pics.

 

[Foxslider]

How its sittin now... before and after of teardown.
Mods going in:
Tube front
Trunk battery
3g alt
Contour e fans
Power steering cooler
Solid motor mounts

I think thats it for this round. Not much in performance, shifting weight around, losing some lbs, cooling better. Might feel a difference with the motor mounts though and maybe the weight loss off front end.

had this paint laying around from 12 yrs ago when i did some chrome bmx rims. Was like ok. Lol. So any little chrome thing in engine bay will get thia treatment. Will be hydrodipping the gt40 upper/lower woodgrain. Valve covers hydro carbon. Black on other things, maf, throttle body/spacer. But thats next round.

 

[Rdub6]

I’m all about your nature pics, but that last one looks a little suspect! Or is it my phone?

 

[Foxslider]

What do you mean? Lolol

 

[Foxslider]

 

[Rdub6]

I will need to see video!

 

[Foxslider]

Thats why i was laughing. I was like he thinks its photoshopped. Lol.

 

[Rdub6]

Ok... I went back, saw the pic of the rabbit eating from your hand. Very cool! I like wildlife ( if they are not ripping my garbage apart). How did you do it, and how long did it take?

 

[Rdub6]

Thats why i was laughing. I was like he thinks its photoshopped. Lol.

That pic next to the column does look a little photoshopish. Lol

 

[Mustang5L5]

Ok... I went back, saw the pic of the rabbit eating from your hand. Very cool! I like wildlife ( if they are not ripping my garbage apart). How did you do it, and how long did it take?

damn. We have a ton of rabbits in my area, and while they are very comfortable with people, I haven’t yet gotten them to feed from my hand. That would be inpressive.

I can’t go outside without tripping over a rabbit, or Turkey.

at night, these guys are all over

 

[Noobz347]

I read through your, "accident report"

Eh.... You really need to start doing things [differently] because I never know what to do with accounts when the people die