The DEATH of a Legacy...

[Florin1]

Took the car to the track after getting it finished. Been working on it for quite a while. It was my first time out. And i MAY have been a little aggressive.

A little article. -->http://bigboymedia.net/?p=1792















Then this happened. Halfway trough the 3/8 bank, my diff unlocked (r180), which unsettled the car. Guess I should weld it next time. Right Logan?
Only video i found of it. Really poor quality, but you can see precisely when the diff unlocks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oehP4PUustA
















And so, that was the end of her....















Or was it??

[Falken-18c]

that looks like it got a good whack

[Falken-18c]

can that be fixed are is it just for tack use

[Florin1]

One of my buddy, because its a great picture.


And a few more of me posing.

[Florin1]

can that be fixed are is it just for tack use

Probably not. I'm gonna pull the quarter out as much as i can, and hammer it. Its a track car now. lol. I am most likely gonna swap the front ends with my 94 ss though...

[Falken-18c]

idk but i was thinking of doing it to my 92 L sence im puting my 22t manual swap but sence its gunna be my dd in canada ontario i think i should just leave it awd because of the winters

[Falken-18c]

also every one that has 2 ss is freaking lucky i found one but it was 2 late i found a 94 it looked better then my 93 did theres like none here in ontario then its even harder to find one in good shape

[Florin1]

They pop up around here every once in a while. They're not that rare.
Its easy to go rwd. Probably a 2 hour job. I have a spare center diff so i could swap back to awd for the winter. Not that I will, but i could. Heck, my front axles are still installed.

[Falken-18c]

yea i was thinking of saving up money and just get one from the states but i think my 92 L with the 22t swap wont be to bad to stick with i grabed every thing under my 93 ss but the gas tank lol but ill probly make a thread later about my swap when i start to pick at my L but right now i think my money is going on my bike to get on the road insurance companys dont like a 20yr old with a zx9r not cheap any ways

[sqc151]

dude i shed a tear after seeing those pics. atleast your not junking it.
you car looks great btw. mind if i share on my forum?

[Florin1]

Thanks for the compliment. And please do, and send me the link. I'd like to hear what people say.

[bmxkelowna]

like i said, the r180 as a RWD lsd is no good haha. weld it up!
from every one i talked to they said once you hit the wall you started doing really good. thats the thing with drifting, if you are scared of hurting your car you will never do good. but once its had a few love taps and you stop caring thats when you start to get good.

[oskar_subaru]

like i said, the r180 as a RWD lsd is no good haha. weld it up!
from every one i talked to they said once you hit the wall you started doing really good. thats the thing with drifting, if you are scared of hurting your car you will never do good. but once its had a few love taps and you stop caring thats when you start to get good.

i´ve hit a lightpole, does that count ?

my "drifter" kinda looks like yours, but with less turbo and more welded diff

[Florin1]

Yeah lol. I was like, "well its effed now, time to smash on it!" Haha.How would you go about "fixing" her up a little?

[evolutionmovement]

I'd start with removing the rear bumper and chaining a heavy part of the left hand bodywork (if you can find something—the closer to the corner, the better, perhaps where the bumper beam attaches IF you can get THAT out) to a good sized tree with a rugged chain, then use that to try to pull the bodywork into an approximation of where it should be. You'll probably have to pull from a few different places, maybe going back and forth. Start out slow and get a feel for how it wants to go back into shape. I did this and some finishing hammer work with my 84 GL wagon, which wasn't as bad, but was still pretty smashed in, and had surprisingly good results. The quarter still looked wrinkled, but things were where they should've been and no one would ever guess it had been as fucked up as it was (left taillight corner pushed straight in by a dump truck somewhere around 8 inches). A new taillight fit in without much work and the tailgate closed fine (and even sealed!). Yours wouldn't get as good, but with that and a hammer and a dolly, you might be able to get it so it looks "acceptable" and road legal. Of course, that's without seeing how bad it looks under the bumper or inside the trunk. Anyway, it's cheap to try.

[bmxkelowna]

ya i would pull it out as much as i could, by the looks of the body lines for the rear door it still opens and closes with no issue? if so thats awesome just start pulling and hitting shit with a hammer haha. youll be surprised at how easy it will pull back

[Bheinen74]

what a good way to wreck a car. I don't approve of wrecking these SS's in such activity. If you got lots of money, then go ahead and wreck them all, but I doubt that is the case. I don't even see a roll cage in there.....

[Florin1]

Yup, no roll cage yet. Will soon enough. And yeah we did yank on it with a chain and a full size diesel truck when we were at the track. The quarter was so crunched it was stabbing the tire and it couldn't turn. But after a few good yanks it got it gapped well enough to finish the day.

[xise]

wow man, sorry to see all that carnage...looks like you will be able to get it back, really sad though, looks like it was really super clean before

[Deride]

Find a donor car and a friend at a body shop and fit it. You have one of the cleanest 91's out there it's not the worst damage I've seen. Few hours on the frame rack and it'd be just fine!

[bmxkelowna]

wait wait wait, how come no one has said its time for a 92-94 rear end yet?! haha
do it man

[Florin1]

Lol no. Its time for my 94to get a 91front end. Haha

[beatersubi]

This is why you don't see 'clean' drift cars.
What you should do is cut off all the wrinkled body work and weld on straight bodywork from a different colored car. Don't worry about paint though, you'll fit right in with the other drift cars.

[Bheinen74]

Beater cars make drift cars, not clean ones with lots of money into them.

[AWD_addict]

Dang, it was looking nice before the accident. At least it's still drivable.