Good Enough

Still need to yank the core support over to get the hood to latch, but it's good enough for now and it doesn't look THAT bad I suppose. Headlights even work! Now two of my three running cars are hoodless...time to get the integras painted and FINALLY installed 4-5 years later.

New front LCAs, driverside UCA and long bolt, tie rod ends, ball joints, tie rods, and steering rack up replaced up front. Feels decent even with my eyeball alignment. Hoping Alec can get it sorted out here in a few weeks before the Mac Park event mid-September. I also put the godspeed rear UCAs on while I was at it since this thing needs a full alignment anyway and I want to see how minimal rear camber feels. I'm ready to rip this thing again. Shouts out to Alec for making me put this back together.

The new miatas pre mandrel bent DOM tubing spec miata cage parts came in, waiting on the straight DOM tubing to get here and I'll be starting that soon.Updates whenever it's worth it.

Another Wreck...

Well, got into another wreck... Tandemed behind a G35 and a 350z and the G35 spun and hit his brakes. 350 hit the Z, I crunched the Z, and almost got t-boned by a Mustang coming at the passenger side ass first. I need to stop tandeming with people that don't understand that you DON'T hit the brakes when you spin.

Damage report:
The driverside headlight, fender, LCA, endlink, and turn signal are fucked. Core support is shifted a little; I think I can bend the frame back though. The OEM impact bracket or whatever is crunched (I'll take them off)Hood isn't bad, I think the brackets deformed a little..I should be able to get that back to "normal" to where its barely noticeable once the frame is straightened. The passenger fender buckled also. I think my outer tie rod ends are okay? I'll know once I pull the rack. Got the headlight motor to work too.

Plans are to get new driver and passenger LCA's, a new steering rack (been long over due), inner tie rods, maybe outers?, fabricate a bash bar, new turn signal (IDK if I want OEM or the intake style), stitch the bumper, and end-links. Hopefully that's all it takes to get it feeling normal again. I might wind up having to replace parts later on that I haven't noticed, like the lower coil=over bushing, but we'll see.

Kind of sucks, but whatever; it happens. Drifting is still tight as fuck.