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The 8 belongs to Freddy. He is hardcore rotary guy and Puerto Rican. I had never met him before. In the pic he is standing in the back in the red shirt. He has had a ton of 1st and 2nd gens, I was surprised we had never crossed paths. He just recently got the 8, for a hell of a deal I might add.
so I'm trying to get it fixed before Deals Gap and I'm looking for an inner fender for an SA. I may be able to get one from Ray, but it would probably be an FB version, probably different from the SA.
Anyone got anything?
that's terrible. what happened? sorry i can't help with parts but sure hope u can find what's needed and fixed before that gap thingie. hard to tell by the pic, did it damage that wheel any?
Lightning struck my gas meter of all things, ran into the basement and hit my gas hot water heater setting it ablaze, car was close by. Luckily the lightning also blew the plumbing apart directly over the fire, suppressing the fire until we could get it put out. damaged the floor system for the main floor above and smoked up the entire house, but at least it didn't burn down and everybody got out, but If I had not had a fire extinguisher in the basement all would have been a total loss. We were very lucky. I haven't looked at the wheel closely yet, but the damage to it may be limited to cosmetic damage, not sure.
WOW! glad everyone got out safely. guess ur still waiting on an insurance adjuster to come out and inspect everything? staying with family or did u have to get a motel? don't think u will ever get that smell out. smoke gets into everything.
We are living over the garage in my "man cave", and working through the insurance thing, the got servepro doing the cleanup, and contractors to do repairs, the biggest mess is a basement full of car parts and miscellaneous junk that will have to be removed before the cleanup and restoration can take place. They are getting a storage container for the back yard to temporarily store everything. It all just a big mess at the moment. But its all good, Everyone is fine and we saved the house.
Thanks for the thought, but it wont be necessary, they are bringing in a temporary storage unit to store all the parts in till the cleanup is complete. None of the most precious stuff is in harms way. This may be sad to say, but if it all went up in flames some of our (meaning yours and mine) 12a engine parts may have been the saddest loss !!!!
I did lose a couple of boxes of miscellaneous SA parts and the adjuster just doesn't seem to get it that NLA parts appreciate rather than depreciate.
The hardest parts to source are that rubber end cap and strip on the SA bumper. If I had an extra I'd toss it to you.
Good to hear its all being sorted out. Maybe you can point the adjuster at some completed ebay sales of SA parts to convince him? Do you have collector car insurance on the cars at all?
The rubber end cap is even more of an issue because these are my lightweight fiberglass bumpers and the rubber end piece that melted is a JDM SA version, which is different from the USA part. I guess they were different because of American bumper standards. I may have to adapt an American one to work.
Just very recently got a hold of an FC drift mobile which completed my all gen rx7 collection. Has anyone come up with replacement for the Photobucket so I could post pics again?
Well I haven’t been keeping up here lately. Wow Robert!! That sucks!!! Glad you were able to quickly minimize the damage.
Anybody have an igniter they want to sell me? They’re $352.00 new and $100.00 used but tested at Atkins.
Atkins sells good stuff, but why not just use GM ignitors. They are hella plentiful and if you are tricky you can hide the wiring inside a hollowed out J 109. Then remote locate the HEI; you'll never know the difference nor will you see it.
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