Friday, October 15, 2010

So i almost nearly died yesterday...

Driving around with a bunch of friends. The road we were on had alot of nice bankings and curves. I was a passenger. Long story short, we go through the road once, then on the way back, something a little like this happened:

Except there wasnt a nice safe open field on the side of the road we almost fell off. There was like a 15ft. drop and lots of trees waiting to greet us. But!, out of nowhere, we instantly pull out of our FWD slide off the road on one side, and quickly shot across to the other side of the road, and ended up in a ditch a bit like this:

except we were against the other side of the ditch, and the airbag deployed and i went through a numerous amount of choice words to describe what was happening.
I was very amazed that the driver did not let the car fall off the other side of the road. it could have ended much worse.

<--so after doing this and getting the car out of the ditch, we assessed the damage. bent LCA and broken tension rod bolt. no too bad. but the tire was stuck in the wheel well. so after a friend put some weight on it and got the upper A arm unstuck from the stock tower, the wheel still rubbed. equipped with not many tools, i come up with an idea that most people use on drift cars.
yes, i pulled the fender on a Honda. lol.

except the pole i had was aloooot shorter and about half that diameter. then we proceeded to hammer down the pinch weld that most drifters do for tire clearance.
then once that was all said and done, we limped back home. i roll into bed at 330 or so....what a night.

And lets not even mention the freshly killed deer i ran over on the hwy at around 70mph....man...pics & story on that soon.

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