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First things first, and most importantly, everyone is fine.
The long and the short of it is that we failed to keep the oily side down. There will be videos in the future when we get things organized, but for now with limited data I've just got pics.
The engine flopped over and crushed the MAF and the inner fender and hood collaborated to take out some parts on the pass side. Passenger side headlight is super borked, frame and all, so we pried it up into an acceptable position. Luckily, I still had the stock airbox with second MAF, crossover tube, and all the bolts and belts that I bought along on the lemons rally, just in case the blower puked itself. The engine has shifted in the bay and it didn't go back, so it was impossible to get the second MAF back in, so I suspect there's a torn engine mount in there somewhere. Because I had the parts in hand I chose to de-JRSC, pull off the fenders, beat the hood back into place and get her back together, as much as possible.
Car seems to be driving fantastically well, all things considered. She sure isn't any more pretty than she was before, but this should get me the ~500 or so miles back home.
Came here looking for more details than what I found on IG.
Yikes.
I'm glad it all came out OK and nobody was seriously injured. I was super worried the car was going to get stuck on its top so when it went all the way over back to it's wheels, I was elated. My initial reaction seems really inappropriate without that detail.
I'm not sure how much of it I really want to share, if I'm honest. We've got a ton of video but it seems a little disasterporn-ey to share it, especially somewhere like IG. I'm sure something will get shared eventually.
I also had my share of trials on the way home. I was fairly distracted while removing the supercharger and forgot to tighten down the PS fitting on the pump (it requires rotation for clearance) and made a bit of a mess.
We also neglected to shorten the radiator overflow hose when we made the makeshift coolant overflow Gatorade bottle, so it fell down in front of the PS pump and got rubbed.
Lucky there was enough undamaged hose to reach the bottle so that was an easy fix. I didn't think this car could be any grosser, but here we are.
I'm trying to figure out a path forward for the car at this point because it's looking pretty sad.
It also seems to have developed an exhaust leak, which got progressively worse on the drive home so I suspect it's a cat flange gasket, but I'll sort that out later. When it impacted on the passenger side, it broke a whole bunch of small stuff that is going to suck to replace. The stock coolant reservoir and the evap purge solenoid are both totally scrap, as is the passenger headlight frame. The inner fender was pushed WAY in, not to mention that I obviously had to remove the front fenders to even be able to drive the car.
Rear fenders on both the driver and passenger side took a hit and are very crushed, we had to do the ol' axe handle routine to even get it off the mountain.
The hard top and windshield frame on the passenger side took a hit as well, and the door is having a really tough time closing. There is now a 1/4" gap between the hard top and the body where there used to be compression on the rear gasket, so some things definitely moved.
I'll probably post a WTB later this week for some things, after I sort through my inventory and see what I'm missing.
Oh, lol, I almost forgot! I also got rear ended by a motorcycle. Luckily the rider was OK, but his ***** of steel put a pretty solid dent in the fuel tank of his KLR and also popped off a mirror.
The impact twisted the hell out of my spare mount and split the rear bumper skin in a couple places. It also broke the leading corner fasteners out, so thats pretty much done. Snapped off the corner of the rear finish panel too. Luckily we had a big beefy strap and we were able to pull it (mostly) straight -ish again. I didn't realize it until I got home but the trailer hitch is also kinda borked, the bolts don't appear to be in the correct locations any more, so that's something else I'll have to look at.
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