Got rid of my intake. All the turbo sounds are gone. Sad face.

You were running 10psi on the stock block? Any idea of power?

Still running 10 pounds. I have put the laptop away and just drive it on the reg. So far all is good. If I had to guess maybe high 100s. First gear is roasting regardless of traction. Second holds if it is good dry road. iI haven't had it in a dyno. Waiting for summer to swap the motor and tranny.

Fix or find another car and swap? I have a built engine 6 speed on standby that I was waiting to swap this summer.





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Ouch. What happened man.

Definitely not fix.

Ah fuck. I think that's toast, that sucks.

Catfish or Exocet time!

Still runs and drives fine. I don't think it popped the radiator. I think I should find a non running 94 and swap all my shit then sell the rest.

that sucks. It looks repairable to me. What happened?

tow truck made a right turn then immediately stopped for a ambulance 100 meters to it's front. I turned right behind the tow truck while looking over my left shoulder for on coming traffic.

Did the cops say anything about the turbo?

Cops? Why would they care? I ran into a tow truck. I talked the guy into giving me a free tow home so no cops anyway.

In my neck of the woods they care. I figured you might have hit a company truck so cops would of had to come by law/policy or whatever.

Tube front and V mount? Looks fixable to me though.

It probably was a company truck and the driver didn't want to deal with the police or his bosses.

There was probably zero damage to the tow truck.

in Oregon you don't have to report accidents to the police under a certain damage value, let alone get them involved at the scene.

In OH, no personal injury = no police. Only report if damage > $400 which nobody does unless filing insurance claim. Trade name, address, and vehicle registration number to all the parties.

Cops usually take their sweet time, if at all, responding to accidents with no injuries.

I feel you could fix it. Once you start tearing into taking the broken stuff off, it may not be that bad too replace.

Yeah, this.

After figuring out if you want to go through insurance/their insurance/whathaveyou, look around for part outs local to you and see what you can find and how much it would cost. I'm guessing you're not going to do much with their insurance (or even yours) since you implied that you were at fault, right?

Technically his fault yeah, even if just a simple error. I've done the exact same ting a couple years ago in my daily. Right onto a busy street, didn't see car stopped as I was checking left.

Call me crazy, but I'd rather keep all the hard work of fitting things into the chassis in tact. Pull the bumper and hood off. Really check things out, if it is just the radiator support you're golden. Given the fact that the intercooler looks like untouched it is probably not that bad once you really get into it. Maybe I get too emotionally invested in my chassis :eggplant:

This. If anything I scraped some rust off his hitch for him. Dude was a friendly enough guy from one of the Stans and had no problem throwing on the back of his truck and towing me home. I ran into him after all even if it was a shit place to stop. I don't have full coverage on a 94 miata so I will be dealing with it.

Cut the radiator support out and such. The radiator brackets on the car and radiator itself are a little tweaked but can be made to work. The radiator looks like it was kissed. There is a little coolant down in the wind tray but not much. Might have been from the hoses getting pinched and moved. I am probably going to check the radiator for leaks. Is this module I am holding the airbag sensor? How structural is all the crap I cut out?



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If you look at my build thread, you will see I replaced both the radiator support and bumper support. I bought both pieces from the dealer and welded them in myself. I didn't think it was too tough a job.

I sure hope you fix it.

I am leaning more towards finding another Stock NA and swapping everything. I planned on doing the engine tranny swap this summer anyway. I am just going to be patient and try and find one that doesn't run with a decent body for hopefully around 2k the part everything left over.

If you didnt dingus the chassis behind the sway bar keep it.

That is the airbag sensor yes.

And not very important structurally if at all. I could bend it with my body.

If you got the pieces and prepped them I'd be happy to bring my welder over and stick them together for you.

If it has the crash bar tying the frame together is what I cut out even needed? The car went under the truck hitch so most of that was missed. Couldn't I leave all that shit out for "weight loss" and just pin the hood? I am seriously considering just swapping th bumper and hood and seeing what happens.

I also cut my radiator support out. But I think I'm going to add back a piece to mount the bumper in the middle. If your crash beam is good then the car is probably fine.

id fix it...:rolleyes:

Miatamecca Front Bumper Upper Retainer Support 90-97 Miata MX5 OEM NA01500K0B | eBay

you could probably just use this part.

My bumper already has that. I mean where that bolts to.

If you were anywhere near NJ I would have the perfect front clip for you. It hit rocks along the bottom, so all the top parts you hit are in perfect shape.

Does $1,000 for a hood, fender, door and bumper skin sound like too much? Dude literally has everything I need in the right color.

Yes. That is a huge ripoff. Each of those parts should be like $100 max.

yeah that's what I though as well. Hard to pass on the right color within driving distance and they pull the parts for me. Dude in the phone sounded Russian which scares me. Russians in the pnw and cars equals pass almost every time for me.

Those prices sound about average for a random junkyard. 10 years ago or so I was in a similar accident. The body shop paid something like $500 for a local hood. As shipping an aluminum hood is a royal pita. You can find all the parts cheaper, but you will be searching for a while, and they probably won't be close or in the color you want. Spec miata people also buy the shit out of fenders and drive up those prices.

See what you can negotiate him down to. If you don't need to repaint that saves a ton of money.

That depends, how much does paint and body cost in your neck of the woods? $100 per part is $400, but then factor in $800 worth of paint and prep... you get the idea.

Of course I think of these things a bit differently, because my color is a bit harder to find and nearly impossible to match :sad2:

This is making it nearly impossible for me to find a hood locally at any price. Fucking spec miata :vash:

Doesn't chiprez (local guy) have a white car hes parting out?

Nvm. Its gone.

I am going to think on it and call Monday. If they still have everything and are willing to deal then I'll probably go for it if everything is in nice shape. I NEED the hood and bumper. I WANT the fender and door if this car is going to look 100% again. Inshallah

I pulled the trigger on the hood, door, bumper and fender for $1,000. I am getting ripped off but the color was condition was perfect right down to the appropriate amount of scratches. I swapped the hood and door on. Need to get the fender and bumper cover tomorrow. There will be some tweaking and adjusting but overall I think it will be on the ground after a get some hood pins and the radiator pressure checked.

Well that was a relatively expensive accident. Glad to see your fixing the car though.

It is only cheap because I am skipping doing it right. If I did it right it would be a lot more money and effort. I am going to leave the rad support cut out. I also may have to convert the turn signals into headlights and do the rivet thing with the headlight covers. the rad support took so much of the crash that it actually pulled the inner fender supports in as well. I will have to spread those out somehow as well.

I'm saying it wasn't cheap. 1k=mucho monies

Seems like a rad support would work pretty well to spread that out ;)
I wonder how hard it is to (cleanly) cut it out. I have a parts car that was rear ended, if my rad support is straight (it was an r-title car, so I'm not 100% sure), I'd be willing to cut it out and ship it. You'd have to weld it back in, or maybe rivet it.

I appreciate the offer but I could get that off the car I have here as well. I would rather start with a different car then go through that.

It didn't take me long to remove the bumper and radiator support, but I also have an array of air tools for such work. The whole project was much easier than I anticipated actually.

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So this is where I am at now. I have a solution for most of it but this is giving me shit. The radiator support took all of it and stopped the car. The passenger side seams to be the worst where it collapsed in. This shifted the still functioning headlights in. I am leaning towards getting a slide hammer and pulling on things until it is closer. Advice?

Hook chain to truck, hook chain to car. TUG :D

Winch instead of chain maybe.

I am thinking that I could just put the new fender on minus the front bolt which should not line up. Measure how far off the bracket is off from the fender. Pull the fender and aidandj away with a chain. I have hood pins and some latches on the way. I am going to use pins behind the headlight and two latched from the hood to the front bumper to keep all that together. Upside to all this is I should have a bunch of room to mount and oil cooler now. Dropped the radiator off for pressure testing. Fucker was a little dinged but man is it a trooper of a radiator.

This was the worst of it. Had to bend that brackets back as well.


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Can anyone think of a reason why I should not just cut this the rest of the way out? I need the mount circled in blue for the radiator and the front fender bolt but the cuts made in red to remove the section in orange does not really have a job anymore. The radiator mount doesn't look like it needs to be super stout or that front fender section.






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Have you looked to see what those parts cost? Having done it myself, the only option for me would be remove the two parts and install new ones. As flimsy as they appear, together they add a lot of rigidity to the car, and could make the car unsafe in an accident without them.

Edit: Also, replacing the parts properly would enhance the value of the car tremendously.

I am not concerned about the value of the car. If I ever sold it I would part it anyway. There is no money in selling a turbo NA complete.

Just heard back from the radiator shop. So I did bust the radiator. Some leaks and core damage. They said it is fixable and still flows well. So a little under $100 to save a $600 radiator seems like a no brainer.

The two sides that crushed in, bottle jack and some bars, spread them back apart until one lines up, then tug the other into place with winch.

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