Absolutely Gutted

[maz13b]

I am glad you are ok mate. Looks like a really bad crash.

[BenLewisMav]

Yeah - don\'t list a thing or start thinking of breaking it until your insurance is sorted. Stick with the light, stay FC :yes

Of course, nothing is going near the car until an assessor comes out, just trying to weigh up where to go from here really.
 
I did have a bodykit on the to do list, and If I stay with the FC I\'ve always fancied a GP sports kitted car. Just not sure whether I could go through the whole \'building it from the shell up\' thing again, even though I\'d be able to do it a lot quicker than 18months this time.
 

Did you spend the money on getting your car mapped and brakes sorted?

I didn\'t manage to find the time to get the fancy brakes sorted (but I was never going to be going fast enough around the \'Ring to need them in honesty). The day before the ferry left for Germany I ended up fitting the turbo on the road outside my uni. house in coventry, then the next morning drove to REworx in Portsmouth to get the car dyno tuned, and as soon as that was finished in the afternoon, to Dover to catch the ferry!
Busy to say the least!
Still, was happy with the results; 340hp @ 0.8 bar boost on a hybrid T04E + Powergains Street Ported 13BT. Geoff commented that it was a very \'safe\' tune and on how smooth the torque curve was. Amazing how much a good rolling road session eased my rotary paranoia and made the car just generally behave better

[BenLewisMav]

So looks like everything is going to be for sale, I\'ve spent a few days coming up with a list but I\'m sure I\'ve forgotten bits...
 
http://www.mazdarotaryclub.com/forums/showthread.php?p=518847#post518847
 
I\'ll consider getting rid of the whole lot just to have a fresh start (thats all the stuff on the list, all the unfitted mods I had planned [Atkins thermal pellet, sump baffle, FD oil pressure reg, WI, etc], plus any other spares you might need from the contents of (now) two broken FC\'s.
 
going to be looking for around £3500 for the lot (the stuff priced up on the list is just short of £5000 alone [and I still pretty gutted about that ]). Priced to sell, so if anyone is interested is important to get in touch soon before anything is sold! Thanks, Ben

[joola89]

Woah!! I\'ve only lost an engine! but you\'ve lost a whole car! Bugger me!
At least the driver didn\'t run away from the scene of the accident like what happened outside my work today. Some pikey had a smash. Turned out he had no tax, therefore no insurance and mot, was on the phone and was 3 times over the drink limit!!! Talking about being over the top!!

Anyways, as posted on the other thread, i\'m interested in the 13bt but i don;t know what is a reasonable offer.

[BenLewisMav]

(for non-members: http://themoderngentleman.co.uk/fc3s.html -this is just a copy and paste of the \'for sale\' thread, hopefully the thread will have been moved to the \'parts for sale\' section that everyone can see by the time you read this!)

[G@NDY]

Interested in the seats and the koyo rad, cant seem to see the pics tho, so could you send a couple to rutpcc@btinternet.com please.

regards Andy.

[pdtaylor18]

2nd dibs on the rad if G@ndy does not want it.

[Prof]

2nd dibs on the rad if G@ndy does not want it.

I think Tim did 1st Dibs, I was 2nd, Gandy was really 3rd dibs...

[pdtaylor18]

ok i will be 4th dibs.

[Skifledanabit]

another FC out of the running, going to run out of them soon glad you walked, hobbled away i mean, with all those injuries, you could get one hell of a payout, my mate got about 2k from a whiplash injury when someone went into the back of her car, you\'ve got more injuries so much higher payout from his insurance company

[Prof]

ok i will be 4th dibs.

Actually - you can be 3rd - I\'m going to see what the stock Rad is like with the volvo fan on - may not need to go to a Koyo just yet.

[Frost]

Ouch.
Glad you ok and that guy admitted he was at fault.
Its sad to see such a fine fc get totaled.
I just had someone tap my rear lightly nothin serious just a new ding to the already bad body work but they did a runner.

PM\'d about parts.

[L18M]

just got the parts from ben. looks lots better now!!
the broken slitter wasnt that bad!
 
thanks again ben for fitting the parts, shame bout the clutch not being fitted. tho car behaved ok on way home.