Steelblue E36 Build Thread
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But can you realllyy fuck up a hose that bad?
My ICV hose exploded itself after like 1000 miles (this was a few years back)
Never again with ürøträśh
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Man. I guess when I buy kits from ECS I'll keep an eye out. I bought a shifter bushings kit too with 2 uro parts. Ah fuck now you guys have me paranoid.
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I mean it is pretty hard to mess up the shifter bushings so I wouldn't be too worried about those. I upgraded all of my stuff to delrin so that it took all of the slop out of the stock design.
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Bought an E36 m3 lip for my lux bumper today. Sanding it down and painting it black. Found it under a sign. I also finally got my shiftknob and side markers from @wasnt m3. For those of you who didn't know spider got into a really bad head-on collision going to buy a new Miata. He was in the hospital since the 12th when it happend. I plan on trying to rewrap the knob in suede.
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Nice finds, is he doing OK?
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Hes doing better walking around like an old man and such.
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Hes doing better walking around like an old man and such.
Scary, keep us updated.
I hope the text message that the lady in the equinox was working on got sent before the crash happened because it was clearly very important...
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Accident description sounds like a mess. Equinox lane crosses and pinballs off the semi (?) rather than everything ending there, and likely no way to see it coming until it's too late since he was behind and vision blocked by the semi. Glad he's ok and recovering.
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Sorry to hear about your friend, that's terrible. Hopefully he recovers 100%.
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Hey all, just popped in to check in on this thread and kinda wanted to give an update of everything that happened.
So my friend and I went to go pick up my new Miata on Monday the 19th, and once we got about 15 minutes away from the car, the lady struck the rear corner of the semi with the side of her SUV and hit us head on. We were in a 2002 Camry doing about 45-50, and she was in a newer Equinox doing about 60. The crash ended up pushing our car back some even. I ended up flying over the airbag and smashing my head on the windshield so I had a super bad concussion. I had internal bleeding from tears in my smaller and larger intestine, and I fractured my L2 lumbar in my spine. I cant feel part of my leg but I still have full strength. I wasnt able to eat or drink for about 10 days when I was in the hospital, and I finally got home last wednesday on the 28th. Im getting a lot better at walking and functioning normally, and I even started driving again yesterday. The lady who hit us has no idea what happened, and she got the worst injuries out of all 3 of us involved. My friend who was driving just has a back brace for 6 weeks, then he is gonna be back to 100% after he gets that off. I have another surgery scheduled on my back next January to get the 6 screws and 2 titanium rods taken out of my spine, but after then I will be back to normal 100%! Thanks for the support!
Heres the camry after the accident. You can see where I went over the airbag and hit the windshield.
I also did end up with the miata. My dad and brother got the money and bought it when I was in the hospital. I love it so far.
EDIT: Glad to see that bumper going to good use ;D
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Wow, that thing took a hit for sure.
It sucks that you were doing nothing wrong and got hit like that, never a great situation. I'm glad to hear you're doing okay though!I gotta ask, due to the head on the windshield, were you wearing a seat belt?
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Wow, that thing took a hit for sure.
It sucks that you were doing nothing wrong and got hit like that, never a great situation. I'm glad to hear you're doing okay though!I gotta ask, due to the head on the windshield, were you wearing a seat belt?
Yup! The seatbelt was actually the cause for my broken back and the internal bleeding. Im 6'4" and when we got in the accident I was sitting pretty relaxed which caused me to have a bunch of movement.
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Dang, that's quite an accident. Glad you all pulled through. Unfortunate for everyone.
Keep us in the loop. I had a turbo Miata (loved it), and Kaiser loves Miatas as well.
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Keep us in the loop. I had a turbo Miata (loved it), and @KaiserRolls is forced to love Miatas as well.
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