Going for a long ride today. My neighbor's father knows of an abandoned quarry that people have made an MX course in. It is 5-10 miles each way worth of good trail riding to get to it too. I have to go out and adjust my suspension like NOW.

Going for a long ride today. My neighbor's father knows of an abandoned quarry that people have made an MX course in. It is 5-10 miles each way worth of good trail riding to get to it too. I have to go out and adjust my suspension like NOW.

Sounds fun--bringing a camera?

http://fortwayne.craigslist.org/cto/3717276816.html

 

I'm intrigued.

 

 

Nice car, but he drives it in the winter and it's going to have rust, and a lot of it hidden unless he coats the thing in oil.  I wouldn't pay more than $5K personally, but that's me.  I'm always wary of people who actually call themselves "professional mechanics."  If he was serious, he would say ASE certified, which still really doesn't mean shit, or Master.   Cheap and easy to maintain and mod and insure, so. . .   The 3800 is pretty much bulletproof, you know that.

 

torque steer is the worst part

 

I've never noticed that to be much a problem on the SC cars.  Hell, the NA versions have over 200lb.ft of torque and they don't have an issue either.   Go drive a MazdaSpeed3 or Volvo C30 without a Quaife.

i've been forced to look at ACV values, bluebook and buy back values of my vehicle today... 

Wonder why that is.. 

 

Nobody was hurt.. 1 person incident.. NEVER install air suspension without some sort of shock suppression... 

 

Lesson learned.. literally no lie.. hit a dip, bounced off the pavement @65mph, slammed back down, couldnt control, slid off pavement.. into the totaled ditch area.. 

 

Entire passenger side dented, unibody twisted, passenger air bag deployment, hood shifted.. 

Guaranteed totaled.. 

 

Good news-  won't have to keep putting labor into it getting it louder, lol.. 

 

Ugh.. i'll be busy making sure i'm not undercut on this insurance deal the next several days.

 

Going tomorrow to remove about $10k worth of stuff before Monday.. 

Once they get their hands on it.. i'm screwed so tomorrow is the day where i'm in destruction mode to get my property back.

 

Glad you're okay!!!  You better pull all that shit out before the insurance adjuster looks at it.  They might deny a claim.

 

< Used to be an industrial mechanic.

like i always say, walled cars and heavy SPL builds should never be daily drivers.. the cars are not designed for the weight and it is UNSAFE!!

 

  i may be the site clown/jerk off but weight and vehicles and transport is what i live.  glad your ok and no one was hurt

 

I fully agree, been preaching it for years.  I hate to read one day when someone gets slammed and a woofer comes loose and decapitates someone.

i think it's hard for me to explain this.. i know what u are sayin jon.. but if i could have fitted a strutted air suspension on my car.. this would have never happened..

 

I've been combating this shockless feeling for months being cautious of massive dips in the road but this made the cake today.. 

 

 

If i had suspension control.. like a stock vehicle, this wouldn't have happened.

 

And FYI, due to the weight of the vehicle, ~4,800lbs with me in it vs 3,400lbs stock with me in it, it probably contributed to the fact that i was lucky the car didnt flip over during the incident.  Skidding sideways at 45-60mph is bad but when hitting ground at that speed, it never once chose to lift up off the ground.

  You can NOT say for sure that would not have happened.  You're thinking that you would be fine with all this shit is what got you here in the first place.  If you want to do it, do it right.  The small car with double it's intended payload, perhaps even more, is just not safe, no matter what you do or think.  Listen to the man who sees these accidents every day with people who think and do as you do. 

i know there were limitations to upgrading.. etc.. 

 

I had the maximum load capacity tires on there.. 1,470lbs per wheel.. rear suspensions rated at 2500lbs.. etc.. 

 

I could counter you all night long.. i must go to sleep soon, hehe.

You would still be wrong.  you may have factored in every capacity, but you never thought about travel, centrifugal force,etc. . . .   The 1000+lbs of audio equipment may be fine on your suspension while still; start moving the vehicle and it's a whole different ball game.  Center of gravity, never thought about that did you?  Unsprung weight, tensile strengths. 

 

You may have beat the odds for a little while, but the next time, and there will be a next time, you may not be so lucky.

< Used to be an industrial mechanic.

Professional? 

< Used to be an industrial mechanic.

Professional? 

 

Now just a driveway mechanic.

Sean - glad you are okay.

Couldn't agree more with the sentiments on adapting your car to take the load though. The amount of engineering that was put into it in the first place is beyond comprehension, garage modifying that the way you describe will never get you anywhere near the safety or capability as it was stock. Nothing in the car was designed with that load in mind.

like i always say, walled cars and heavy SPL builds should never be daily drivers.. the cars are not designed for the weight and it is UNSAFE!!

 

  i may be the site clown/jerk off but weight and vehicles and transport is what i live.  glad your ok and no one was hurt

 

I fully agree, been preaching it for years.  I hate to read one day when someone gets slammed and a woofer comes loose and decapitates someone.

 

There was a guy here who had the amps on the roof and in an impact an amp almost sliced through the headrest. 

i've been forced to look at ACV values, bluebook and buy back values of my vehicle today... 

Wonder why that is.. 

 

Nobody was hurt.. 1 person incident.. NEVER install air suspension without some sort of shock suppression... 

 

Lesson learned.. literally no lie.. hit a dip, bounced off the pavement @65mph, slammed back down, couldnt control, slid off pavement.. into the totaled ditch area.. 

 

Entire passenger side dented, unibody twisted, passenger air bag deployment, hood shifted.. 

Guaranteed totaled.. 

 

Good news-  won't have to keep putting labor into it getting it louder, lol.. 

 

Ugh.. i'll be busy making sure i'm not undercut on this insurance deal the next several days.

 

Going tomorrow to remove about $10k worth of stuff before Monday.. 

Once they get their hands on it.. i'm screwed so tomorrow is the day where i'm in destruction mode to get my property back.

 

Holy crap !!!

Glad you are ok

Made a pitcher of sangria with the wifes horrible horrible HORRIBLE moscato wine. Making cocktails with the sangria some st Germaine and charged water.

WOW

this is a cocktail to remember for the summer. So good.

Pear vodka and st Germaine would be great.

Funny we drank some st germaine last night as well

I had never had it before. Just read about some cocktails online and thought it woukd be worth a try.

If you didn't drink that crappy stuff from a purple bag I would say we must be family separated at birth.

torque steer is the worst part

 

I've never noticed that to be much a problem on the SC cars.  Hell, the NA versions have over 200lb.ft of torque and they don't have an issue either.   Go drive a MazdaSpeed3 or Volvo C30 without a Quaife.

 

Yeah the C30 we had--holy crap.

Driveway looks like I have a bonfire. No wind so the egg is laying down some thick cover for me.

Sooo yummiliscious.

Looks good

Ryan, do you know much about GTOs? specifically the rear differential bushing. i want to upgrade all of the cars bushings to urethane and there are mixed ideas on how to replace that bushing so i would really appreciate your thought on it.

I do not, sorry, but I have replaced them on several Fords both IRS and live axles.  Someone should have a cheap tool for the job for about $50.

I do not, sorry, but I have replaced them on several Fords both IRS and live axles.  Someone should have a cheap tool for the job for about $50.

some people say tyat i need to drill the spot welds on the factory one and take the housing apart to pull the factory rubber one out then put the urethane mount in and put tye case back together and reweld. others say that you just press the mount into the other side of the case using a vise and the urethane mount jst fills the gap of tye factory mount

no need to cut the welds apart or take the case apart doing the second way.

Going for a long ride today. My neighbor's father knows of an abandoned quarry that people have made an MX course in. It is 5-10 miles each way worth of good trail riding to get to it too. I have to go out and adjust my suspension like NOW.

Sounds fun--bringing a camera?

 

I brought my phone. Took a few pics. We started at about 10 and rolled up onto the trailer at 5:30. We did hill climbing, trail riding, drag raced at an old abandoned airfield, tore it up in a quarry, hit some riverbeds, jumped... oh, and we stopped for gas/drinks twice. I am fucking tired, but we all had a blast. My buddy has a 500 Scrambler with the 560 Athena big bore kit. I kicked his fuckin ass in a drag race.

 

My TRX450R, Tommy's 500 Scrambler, and my son's CRF230F on one of the woods trails;

 

My son doing some riding

 

The top side of the quarry we rode in today

 

A little further off into the distance you can see the water. Apparently they hit a spring and submerged a bunch of equipment in there, including a crane. We rode down to the water, pic forthcoming

 

Said Water:

Just my filthy ass bike. I was covered in mud when I got home, my hair was full of mud clots.

 

 

It was a killer 7 and a half hours of riding. We really covered a lot of ground