Thread: The Roofus Special

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Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

Is that your little red car that you and your son drove all the way out to speed week and back safely in???

Yep. Lots of great memories in the 318,000 miles I put on that car. Lots of cross country parts runs, three detroit autoramas...including the one with the blizzard that dropped 20 inches of snow in Ohio and a bunch of other car shows that I went to as a spectator. I hope I can find another one for what insurance gives me.

Pics from my wife's cell phone

Hell what a shame but also a blessing that you were not hurt, goodness that still must of been frightening. Now tell me, was the airbags the cause of the windscreen breaking as I hope or something worse. And did you really have all those headers etc in that small trunk???

Originally Posted by Whiplash23T

Hell what a shame but also a blessing that you were not hurt, goodness that still must of been frightening. Now tell me, was the airbags the cause of the windscreen breaking as I hope or something worse. And did you really have all those headers etc in that small trunk???

I didn't hit the windshield. Not sure if the pathfinder did or not. I think it got close.

Yep. I bought a big pile of used sprint car headers off of ebay and drove to michigan to pick them up.

I finally feel like digging in a getting some more work done. I'm getting over the whiplash pretty well. I'd say 90% gone.

I plan on going to dad's house next weekend come hell or high water. There should be new pictures soon!

Hey flipper i've only just found this thread but i'm watching with interest
sorry to hear about your accident and hope you recover 100% quickly.

I finally did something! I mounted my front spring.

After a whole lot of looking, I decided the spring belonged close to the front of the crossmember.



The fun started when I tried to figure out how to align the u-bolts. There isn't a straight line on my crossmember to use as a reference point.







Next issue was where the threads were on my bolts. I built a platform under the crossmember to have a nice flat surface to bolt to. The lovely seam down the middle is where I had to adjust the hole location on the platform. One chopsaw width was about perfect.









Now to remember exactly where I wanted to mount the crossmember.
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