God666 Complete Bastard Donating Members 1,123 Member For: 21y 2m 12d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 21/06/14 12:58 AM Share Posted 21/06/14 12:58 AM It is time for a new car it seem! I managed to take the front off my car by smearing it along some Armco railing as I was sliding down the road sideways at 70kph. Swerved to avoid a car that pulled into my lane, wet roads and within a microsecond, I was no longer pointing in the intended direction.The car is a statutory write off as the chassis rails have been bent and in the eyes of the insurance company, is not economic to repair so I have bought the wreck from them. Damn shame as it was a fantastic car, running 310rwkw, 106K on the clock and never missed a beat. It has not even been back to Ford for warranty work or repair (if there is such a thing as warranty on a modded car), nothing ever went wrong apart from diff bushes however, that was more of a excessive torque issue. If I can get another car as good as this one, I will be happy.The pic is how it finished up with the exception of the HDI cooler which was shredded and hanging off by one bolt. Still driveable with the exception of having somewhat of a leaky radiator!Now it is a case of working out what to do with the wreck. it is 90% good so I suspect I will tear it down and either keep the modded parts for the next car or whether I go for something totally different. Have been thinking about a RS4 if I can get the budget to extend that far!Very sad day....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
discostig Manual mode ________________________ All day, erryday Donating Members 13,798 Member For: 17y 2m 23d Gender: Male Location: Probably above atmospheric pressure Posted 21/06/14 02:02 AM Share Posted 21/06/14 02:02 AM Full on. As always the main thing is - are you ok? No whiplash injuries or anything from the sounds of it, just a rough way to stop the car?Engine transplant? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyP MattyP Cruise Control 6,317 Member For: 12y 9m 12d Gender: Male Location: Central Coast Posted 21/06/14 03:34 AM Share Posted 21/06/14 03:34 AM What Steve said A ef Wagon with an fg motor would be bad ass 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.Stripes. All stock bar the k&n panel filter Silver Donating Members 8,061 Member For: 12y 11m 3d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 21/06/14 04:26 AM Share Posted 21/06/14 04:26 AM (edited) Agreed, hope you're ok bud, sucky thing to happen :(Yeahhhhhh I've always had a soft spot for EF/EL, not so much the wagons though. I wanted an EL XR6 for my first car. Would love to drop a FG turbo motor (or a Miami!) into one, do the thing fully up, coilovers, brakes etc. Would be mean! Edited 21/06/14 04:27 AM by .Stripes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
God666 Complete Bastard Donating Members 1,123 Member For: 21y 2m 12d Gender: Male Location: Sydney Posted 21/06/14 04:50 AM Author Share Posted 21/06/14 04:50 AM All fine, very minor shunt as the car dragged along the armco, it was very soft from a passenger perspective. No airbag deployment.Decided to buy a complete car so this one will be turned into lots of parts over the next month if I can find the time to get my act together. Will probably drop a lot of the parts into the classifieds or ebay. Apart from the obvious, the car has:Custom Ammon leather (dark grey)6 Speed manualAce heavy duty clutch and billet flywheel 60lb injectors GFB Stealth electronically controlled BOV400 cell CatBigmouth Growler CAIIntercooler (didn't survive) some of the pipework did.Koni adjustable shocksHeavy duty springs all round, (not lowered)TowbarReversing camera and sensorsBits that didn't surviveThe front!!!The bootlidThe tail lightsAll other panels are fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyP MattyP Cruise Control 6,317 Member For: 12y 9m 12d Gender: Male Location: Central Coast Posted 21/06/14 05:10 AM Share Posted 21/06/14 05:10 AM Pm me on shocks and springs. ..The vultures have begun circling 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenDoCo I'm getten too old for this s**t Bronze Donating Members 4,509 Member For: 11y 10m 9d Gender: Male Location: A big bridge over a river in South Australia Posted 21/06/14 06:18 AM Share Posted 21/06/14 06:18 AM good spotting Matt..........you'll like the shocksGlad you're alright mateHope the insurance co didn't fark you around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lennox Member 2,586 Member For: 11y 11m 21d Gender: Male Location: Perth Posted 21/06/14 06:26 AM Share Posted 21/06/14 06:26 AM Daamn you have dsc off? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 22y 3m 2d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 21/06/14 06:50 AM Share Posted 21/06/14 06:50 AM Matty is no longer a member as of a few seconds ago....send me the pm on the Koni's... Retro fit it!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pixy Angel Expert Donating Members 9,132 Member For: 19y 11m 20d Gender: Male Location: North Jamberoo, NSW Posted 21/06/14 07:06 AM Share Posted 21/06/14 07:06 AM ^^ agree with dags...........bugger. Group buy from Pat dags? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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