Friday before Thanksgiving last year, headed to a car meet. Rounding a left hand corner in the highway when a lifted Tundra traveling in the opposite direction failed to negotiate and crossed into my lane...
Tire put a big dent in the fuel tank, even had the Tundra's tire makes on my rear view mirror.
Severely bent the axle/tube, also spun the tube in the center housing which wrapped the shock around the tube and ripped the brake line off.
I had been dragging my feet prior to the crash on radiusing the wheelwells to lower the rear a bit, seemed like a good time to add a little 1-3/8" mini-tub to also make room for some wider 12" wheels. I used to build/race dirt latemodels, have a huge soft spot for wide5 wheels :)
Completely removed the upper control arm chassis brackets, I wasn't using them anyway as I had already installed a torque arm. Cut extended halfway into the RX-7's spring bucket for the car's original 5" coils...
Here you can see the torque arm attached to a fresh 8.8 housing. Crown Vic housing was narrowed to 51-1/2" axle flange / axle flange, added some 9" ends...
Always hated the surging I got from the scalloped brake rotors, took the opportunity to switch to regular round rotors...
Here you can see where I notched the RX-7's sheetmetal "frame rails" to make room for the coil-overs, also added some bump stop brackets that are easier to shim/change...
Car uses a modified Crown Vic rear swaybar...
Fixed the broken bones, but left the scars to remind me what could have happened...
Grant
