westcoasttuner

you actually would be surpised of what can (and cant) be fixed. I couldnt get my comp to download the pics but I had a friend with a 2002 Toyota Celica that was rear ended at a high rate of speed and it put the rear bumper in the back seat. I thaught for sure it was done but the ins fixed it and hes still rolling it... If anything make sure you tell the ins you want to buy it back! They will sell it back to you for CHEAP. And as you know rx7 parts are spendy and you can easily put some $ in your pocket. BY the way do want to sell me your drivers side handle

REDNECK

paid for. but with a brand new friggen motor........thats whats killing me...If it was 105K on the motor like the car, i'd be like...heck I'll get a civic again and realize my dream of a 7 later in life (again) and be more careful. But since its got so much life left in the motor, id like to give it a second, much more careful try. My family personally knows the body shop owner that our insurance company recommends, but I won't get any deals. On the other hand, my friends dad has a shop, where I may get some deals, but the insurance company doesn't work with them directly, but the settlement money works with anyone...

clayne

You also gotta understand that the FD doesn't have a "frame" like a typical old school domestic car. It CAN be fixed. But financial issues and a place to store it are a large issue.

And to the guy who called me a retard, eat a dick - and check your "lol" count, fucktard. Not everything is about the bottom line. If the guy put some time into his car and might even take a loss fixing his mistake, then so be it. By loss I mean a couple thousand, not TEN.

swbrad

Dear Ryan,

It looks pretty bad. Makes me feel pretty lucky. A couple of months ago I went into a negative-banked left turn of a freeway onramp in a rural area and hit the secondary turbo in second gear. The tires broke loose and the back end did a 450 degree counter clockwise loop. However, as luck was on my side there was no ditch but a wide open dirt approach to the right with a distant bank. I ended up with the rear just in contact with the bank. I have some scratches on the underside of the back bumper to show for it.

My company motto is: "It is better to be lucky than good". Now, I really need to improve my driving skills, because I believe that it is better to be good, because you cannot depend on luck.

I hope you make the right decision on this one. Try to keep the emotion out of it and look carefully at the alternative costs.

clayne

swbrad: Come join the dark side of non-sequential configurations where you can experience the joys of a linear throttle response and no pri->sec power dip/spike (this dip is essentially just transformed as more initial spool up).

dubulup

That's one reason I like NON-Seq...

Mr rx-7 tt

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Ryan,
It looks totalled but you may be able to work something out with the insurance company and your body shop. If not, I have a red 93 with 87,000 miles (29,000 on motor) that you may be interested in.

REDNECK

I just got done talking the body shop...its what they call "an obvious total". He said that if I were to tackle the task of rebuilding it, I would go over my settlement check in getting the unibody straight and fixing the suspension damage much less getting the front end straight and painting it...but he said that he would definately buy it back and get the motor...so thats where I'm sittin right now.
Ryan.

BinaryRotary

I wouldn't give up on it yet. I had one get nurfed in the rear four years ago and it was just a total. But the damage was more severe in that the rear crumple zone was crushed and the B-pillar was buckled. Your's looks like it is mainly sheet metal damage to the front quarter, side and rear quarter. Most of this should be repairable without the chassis issues everyone is worried about. But I wasn't along for the ride so I don't know how much force was absorbed by the chassis.

BinaryRotary

Looked at the pictures again. Pics 47 and 53 concern me as it looks like the B-pillar arch line was altered. That could be a problem. That is a main chassis support and will have a bearing on whether the chassis can be trued again.

TireSmokin7

I am no body man but I did by this 94 as salvage to fix up my 93. The 94 was considered a total loss by the insurance company even though it had less then 6k miles on new struts, clutch, factory new twin turbos and a $6,000 Pineapple motor. The passenger side was never touched. We cut off half of the bumper, inner/outer fender and looped the oil cooler line to take it for a test drive around the block. It drove well enough to test the boost up to 90 MPH. My point is this car had fresh money in it and had less damage but is not worth repairing by either of the last two owners. I would look for a fire damaged third gen to buy and make one good car out of the two. Fire damaged cars are dirt cheap.

Steve