Looking at the pictures on you website, I have to
aggree with Navid. I think that fender can be bent
back into usable shape. The left front fender on my
Civic looked worse than that after my wife drove it
into a pole in a parking garage. I straightened to
it's curent shape using my hands and a piece of wood.
--- Navid Kahangi <navid@interwoven.com> wrote:
> Steve,
>
> If you want to stay in FSP, it doesn't look like
> anything 3 bolts and a
> hammer can't fix. I broke the control arm on the
> e36 that did as much
> damage to the fender as you have. I bent it back in
> place. It's a race car
> for god sake, not a show car!
>
> Now, if you have your heart set on getting spanked
> in SM, that's another
> matter all together.
>
> --Navid
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Steve Kupper [mailto:skupper@2xtreme.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 5:33 PM
> > To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> > Subject: damage done to my car
> >
> >
> > To all those interested in what happend to my car
> during the
> > last event:
> >
> > Three bolts that hold the right strut on the
> bottom to the
> > control arm broke
> > as the car's suspension unloaded from the left
> side to load
> > the right at the
> > end of the long sweeper going into the final sharp
> left at
> > the end of my
> > last run. As the result of this I finished 3rd :(
> and damaged
> > the right side
> > of my car as seen in these pictures. The full
> extent of
> > damage is still not
> > known as I have not removed anything from the car
> yet. It
> > seems that nothing
> > actually hit the ground, but I might've bent the
> camber
> > plate. The fender is
> > gone and will need to be replaced.
> >
> > I might take a step towards Street Mod class and
> replace the
> > fenders and the
> > hood with fiberglass at this point and leave them
> unpainted until the
> > winter.
> >
> > Check out my website for the pictures of the
> damage.
> www.kgb-racing.com
>
> steve kupper
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