The end (UPDATE - asshole located)
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EfiniX
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posted 03/15/17 09:33 PM   
Some presumably drunk asshole decided to end my VR4 ownership at 1:30am a few Wednesday's ago. Hit-and-run while parked in front of my house. The paperwork is all settled, and while the $6500 the insurance company offered me is a testament to keeping good records and providing market value details to the appraiser, 543 is toast. Complete loss, and with frame damage on the front, and body damage on both ends (hit me into my neighbor's car), there's nowhere to go with this poor girl.
Thanks to everyone on the board who helped me wrap my head around this car. It taught me how to tune. You all taught me how to tune, and I thank you for that. Special shout-outs to Jnava, GSTwithPSI, Paul thedsmguy, and of course my friend Evan aka EHMotorsports. May I put his skills to good use on the 335d I'm going to buy when I get back from my next business trip.
Part out on the way. Stay tuned...
RIP 543
Ded click
2006 Suzuki SV-650 (for sale)
2011 BMW 335d (~510'lb/tq and 36mpg. hwy. How can you go wrong?)
Edited by EfiniX (03/27/17 11:13 AM)
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transparentdsm
I have to say something dumb Member
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posted 03/17/17 05:28 AM
Quoting EfiniX:
Thanks, transparentdsm. you should have gotten a shout-out, too. Thanks for all the help and advice over the years.
for sure and i hope in time you'll find yourself in another VR4. i also have to say very impressed with the amount of money you got for the car as well.
138/2000
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ktmrider
Cool Guy Crowd
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posted 03/23/17 11:20 AM
Quoting transparentdsm:
Quoting EfiniX:
Thanks, transparentdsm. you should have gotten a shout-out, too. Thanks for all the help and advice over the years.
for sure and i hope in time you'll find yourself in another VR4. i also have to say very impressed with the amount of money you got for the car as well.
+1 on both.
And it looks like I'm moving to Beaverton this summer, will rethink any street parking!
Mike O.
#464/1000 - Sold
05 Legacy GT - slush box
#86/2000 - Sold ( again )
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EfiniX
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posted 03/23/17 11:30 PM
I shopped the car as-is a bit and no one came close to a value I would need to see to sell it in one piece. Know I know at first-blush that sounds like I'm just another mook who doesn't understand the intrinsic value of this dying breed. Please understand that like most project cars, I won't come close to recovering the money, time, and love I put into this car. And it does kill me to pick it apart, but it's a folded-up unibody that even with the best work, would likely never drive straight again. There's just so much going on here. I mean I was only 200-miles (and 2-weeks) detached from over $2,500 in engine and cooling work when the car got creamed. I never even got to run my new intake mani and cam at WOT. So sad...
Maybe it's a consolation that the strongest interest in the motor and tranny so far would put what is a rolling shell back on the road? I hope so. The car has a DNR/DNI and is an organ donor, so barring a VR4 angel, it's headed to that big rally in the sky.
Quoting FlyingEagle:
I think Curtis may have a point.
Can understand parting ways, and parting out, but consider leaving everything in the shell, complete.
Pull the upgraded motor and things that wouldn't be stock that lurk in the engine bay.
Somebody could put it all back together.
When my Colt got hit at right angles, I was surprised the front coupe style doors had no issues with opening and closing and the frame from the windshield back was unscathed.
My Colt was not worth pulling straight and everything got crushed in the engine bay, including the 4g15 that had just been rebuilt some months before. Completely rebuilt. Rusty car, first foray into the Mitsubishi world ....
So, consider that someone may want to buy the complete car and do the body work. It never hurts to try and could save oodles of time on your end.
RIP 543
Ded click
2006 Suzuki SV-650 (for sale)
2011 BMW 335d (~510'lb/tq and 36mpg. hwy. How can you go wrong?)
Edited by EfiniX (03/24/17 10:47 PM)
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EfiniX
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posted 03/27/17 11:22 AM
So, after weeks trolling craigslist and auto auctions, you'll never guess what I found... Asshole For reference, here's the piece of car that got left behind (with a part number that narrowed my searching considerably)  and a detail of the car  I've already had all of the conversations I need to have (my insurance, their insurance, and the police), and things are shaking out fairly well. Doubtful any charges will be brought, but it's assured that the owner of the car will be living with an insurance rate increase for the foreseeable future. The owner story goes like this: She said she wasn't the driver - I believe this since the car was spotted a few weeks later on the road being driven by a man She said the driver said he left a note - demonstrably not true, which will be confirmed when State Farm gets a copy of the police report Of course, this doesn't suddenly make the car "alive" again, but it does give me a fair bit of closure.
RIP 543
Ded click
2006 Suzuki SV-650 (for sale)
2011 BMW 335d (~510'lb/tq and 36mpg. hwy. How can you go wrong?)
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