Stripping the wreck

Greg from Autosport kindly opened up his workshop to us on the ANZAC day holiday, so only a week after the incident, we got to work stripping the crashed car. It was great to get the ball rolling and start to move on so quickly, as I was feeling pretty down about the whole thing for a few days.

Greg was an enormous help to Sean and I (or more accurately, Sean and I were a little bit of help to Greg), and within about 4 hours we had almost everything off the car excluding rear suspension and interior.

The following Thursday, my brother Sean donated his day off to get the remainder of the car stripped down and the engine out. With some more help from Greg, the car soon looked like this:


The shell will be wrecked and written off with the RTA in the coming week.

The good news is that there is a decent amount of stuff from the car to donate to the new shell. The engine, radiator, piping and exhaust are ok. The gearbox and tailshaft are fine, and most of the rear suspension arms are re-usable. The coilovers also appear to be ok.

There were also some casualties. A couple of the wheels are buckled, and the diff housing is badly cracked. The CV's have punched a big dent in the end of the driveshafts nearest the diff, and will need replacing (see pic).

On Thursday, we'll begin the process of transferring stuff to the new shell.