Party_kid2

Don't tell me how much of a dumbass I am, I know this already, but I need some help. I'll tell you waht happened, and what is wrong, and you tell me the name so I can search and find the peice I need. I have spend some time looking so far, but having no luck. Will have pics up tonight.

Okay, so I was doing some timed runs down the backside of hill road tonight (Matt was at the bottom with his miata). I hit the call button on the walky talky to let him know I am at the start line, then He hits the call button on the walky talky twice, second initiates the stop watch start. I do my run, got away with a 1.09.8 tonight, I let him run, he pulled off an impressive 1.06. something. So he parks his car, then I run back up and decide to use this church parking lot to turn around in instead of pulling into this sub division I always use to turn around. So I was flying down the parking lot entrance road, and dumb careless decides to slide her through the left and try to do the complete circle with a drift on an uncharted road. I initiate the drift at about 35-45mph, then what I see brings complete terror on me. a raised section of the pavement (raises smoothly about 1ft high and is about 7-10ft from start to stop) that is the cross walk. I hit that, then my car immediatly goes from about a 30 degree slip to a pependicular 180 degree slip. I slide off the other side and have no grip due to free fall and the inerta of a 1.5 ton vehicle. I slide directly into the island (circular peice of grass with a straight curb) in the midle of the circle. BAM!! Both wheels hit, I am like oh ****, these BBS mazda vert rims are expensive as **** to replace. I am releived that they look okay and sound okay when I drive. I drove to the start line, and I started my run. I got up to about 50-70mph (just shifted to 3rd) and there is a slight shimmy in the steer wheel. I finish the run with a 1.18 something. I felt like this was a better run than before (thought I was going faster, since countersteer was more jerky). So I told matt we should call it quits, he gets in one more run, and I go home. On my way home, I notice the top of the steer wheel now sits at about 25-35 degrees to the right where it used to be almost parallel with the ground to go straight.

I want and jacked it up and I bent the bar in the rear that goes above the exhaust, looks like it goes below the axle, and mounts in front of the diff. What is this bar called? I now makes a 150-160 degree angle, and the other sage is 180 degrees straight. My car literally goes down the road sideways (not the way I want unforunatly)! I can have my wheels straight, and hit the throttle, and the rear always slides to the right. My alignment is fine on all wheels except the passanger rear, it has tow out. due to the bent bar/arm. Good thing I have money put back (for my interior), I guess it will be going to suspention peices.

Icemark

You probably have more than one thing bent..., but does the bent bar go across the car and is a single bar that mounts on both sides, if so that is your stabilizer bar, and if it is bent your rear suspension subassembly is probably bent as well (in fact I would be surprised if it was not).

And you could have left out the whole middle paragraph...

Party_kid2

okay. No, there are two bars, and the attach to the middle assembly. I will get pics up sometime today. Would it be my upper rear camber rods? if so, then why is it my toe thats french fressied up?

Party_kid2

Had to cancel the date, my car is scary as hell to drive and she doesn't have a car so. (Most embarasing thing ever is to wreck with your girl in the car) I found out what it is, it is a bent lateral link. I put it on the lift at Midas once the manager left (good friends with the employes). Here are some pics of the damage.

Notice, the one picture is the passager, and the other is the driver. One is okay, and the other is f-ed up. The lateral link. I looked at the front, it checks out okay in my book. I do need an alingment on the front but not bad, just 1/8" toe in. The rear took most of the impact by the looks of it.





Any body have a passenger side lateral link, or know where a sight that sells adjustables is? I have paypal. All I seem to find aftermarket is the upper control arms/camber arms.

KompressorLOgic

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if u bent a lateral link then something else is hardcore messed up too!

Party_kid2

No, just one of the bushings (pivioting) is in a bind really bad the way it is sitting. I am pretty sure that If I get the lateral link, then everything will be a-okay. At the very most I mught have to replace this bushing too.

gxlbiscuit

lateral links are $144 from mazdatrix.. AWRracing.com (stupid name its like automatic teller machine machine) makes an adjustable bar(i think 270ish).. i really dont see the good in having it but thats just me. when you replace that bar you also need to replace the trailing arm bushings and since you have that off you might as well get rid of dtss..... the whole delrin/ ultra high molecular plastic bushing set is 190 from mmr-direct.com. that sideload proabably smoked that trailing arm bushing. http://www.awrracing.com/store/produ...products_id=88

Party_kid2

Thanks for the info. That is very helpful!