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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 12:07 AM
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FB's and brain damage

I sort of curious about this having done this a couple times myself, and reliving the pain watching a friend do it a couple days ago.

Have you or any of your passengers ever bashed their head off the top of the door frame while entering the car?

It's hurts like a bitch...
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 12:16 AM
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Geez, I'm 6'3" and I haven't bashed my head on my 7's doorframe. Ironically, I did bash my head on my previous Jeep YJ's hard top a couple times. Now that hurts like a bitch.
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 12:42 AM
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Haha, I've done it a couple times when in a hurry, and I've had a LOT of friends do it...i'd say at least half the people who enter my car have hit their head at least once, lol.
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 12:47 AM
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I haven't, but I bounced my cousin's head off the side window zigzagging one day. She didn't appreciate that at all.
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 12:59 AM
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I'm 5'11" and I drove the car for well over a year without hitting my head. My sister, who is 5'1" has hit her head a few times. So has my daughter, who is also 5'1".
I finally hit my head on the underside of the door jam trying to get in with dirty hands over the weekend, while installing the FC FMOC...........
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 01:08 AM
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Yes, but it's mostly been my fist. There are dents from my fist all over the place. I call them charrictor blemishes.
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 01:28 AM
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I don't think I've ever hit my head on the doorframe itself, but when working on the car I've bashed my head SEVERAL times.

I hear a noise, I turn my head really quickly...*SMACK*...exhaust pipe.

I finally get finished with beating some rusty old brakes into submission, and I lay back for a breather. *SMACK!* There's a tire laying there.

Subborn, rusty old bolt that won't come off. You're giving it your all on the ratchet because you're too lazy to get the breaker bar, you've sprayed it down with PB blaster so it's a little slippery, then your hand or ratchet slips and *BAM SONUVABITCH* hit my head against a piece of frame.

The stories go on forever.
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 02:04 AM
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i just beat my head when my cheater bar comes flying loose off a bolt ive been pulling for a hour comes loose and a socket wrench hits me in the face at 90mph.
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 02:11 AM
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Convert it to TTOP!!!
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 07:21 AM
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I've sustained several minor injuries over the years, including once or twice with the door frame. My buddy got injured the worst working on my car though. We were in a local RX-7 junkyard pulling a disc brake axle for my swap and the wheel well on the donor car had totally rotted away, leaving a jagged skin of metal behind. We were taking turns trying to get the bolts from the upper suspension link off and my buddies hand slipped and he caught his elbow on the rusted wheel well and gave himself a nasty gash. To this day I feel guilty about that.
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 08:27 AM
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I think the brain damage comes from the gas fumes and your brain getting bashed around from taking corners too fast.

A coworker complains that every time he drives behind me he can smell fuel for the first miniute or so while the choke is on. :P
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 08:35 AM
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moses, you win the prize. I had left blood offerings to the 7 but could never use the word "gash"
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 08:40 AM
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When working on a first gen, I have a bad habit of standing in the door swing area as I close the door on my way to the engine bay. I catch myself in the chest with the top of the window frame.
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 10:11 AM
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IMHO you don't own a car until you've bled on it....
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 10:12 AM
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The only way I can get out of my car is to lay the seat back a little so I can get my head under the back side of the door frame.... would be nice to have a t-top! I guess thats a price that the tall guys have to pay to own a Jcar.
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 10:16 AM
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6'2 and never done it.

I've barely ever driven my FB though. I expect it'll happen some time.
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 05:41 PM
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I've already done it twice and my FB doesn't even run yet...
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 05:54 PM
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Never have. My father and a friend have bashed their heads pretty hard.

I like tall girls so this is a potential problem.
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 06:03 PM
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Bingo!

Originally Posted by Pele
When working on a first gen, I have a bad habit of standing in the door swing area as I close the door on my way to the engine bay. I catch myself in the chest with the top of the window frame.

Yeah, I've done that a couple times myself-hurts like hell!
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 06:13 PM
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friend did it yesterday... it happens and supposedly it does hurt pretty bad.
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Old Apr 19, 2006 | 08:11 PM
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i do it all the time when i sit in my seats, my head rests on the roof of the car and i've hit it on the side of the roof around the door frame. i'm also almost 6'5, so that doesn't help much.
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Old Apr 20, 2006 | 10:09 PM
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Can I vote again? I've hit my head working on mine so many times I can't remeber (or I can't count that high anymore because of the brain damage)
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Old Apr 20, 2006 | 10:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Paradox_Racing
Can I vote again? I've hit my head working on mine so many times I can't remeber (or I can't count that high anymore because of the brain damage)
Thunk I might be sufferin from drain bamage meself................
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Old Apr 20, 2006 | 11:32 PM
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i too have gashed myself on the door frame closing it, i still have the scar from a year ago
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Old Apr 21, 2006 | 12:57 AM
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Yeah i have done that & im only 5'6" hurts like a mother! i'd beat the **** out of the car if i didnt love it so much lol. I even spilled a drink from bashing my head on the way into the car now i just make sure im avoiding that pilar at all cost entering i hit myself 1 time too many
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