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Hey all, we just hit the door here at the house 1:34AM eastern. Craig had a pretty decent start of the run and it pulled to the left sometime around 2nd gear. When he corrected, she came around too quick and those big 44 DOT's did the rest.
Craig is fine and faced more danger from the phucktard fire dept/security people than the wrecked truck. They seemed more concerned with arresting me and the wife than caring for my son. One of the phucking idiots was pushing my son like he was gonna whip his ass or something!!!!... and this was just after he climbed out of the wreck!!!! Thanks again to the members who were nice enough to come over and apologize for the actions of others.
Truck damage is mostly cosmetic. The front frame rails are tweaked a little and the cage on the drivers side looks a little out of square. The front engine mounts are broken but the mid plate mount is in tact. The steering rack is trashed (again). The chain in the chain drive is also broke again??? Gonna have to step up a bit in this dept.
Craig is off work the rest of the week and I called off tomorrow. Of course, more damage assessment may deem it necessary to cancel but from what I can tell, we are going to hack the body off, fix the the other stuff and get the nitrous controller hooked up for the Braxton County Fair race on Saturday. I'll try to get some pics posted up before we begin hacking. It looks way worse than it is.
I need a billet compressor wheel for the 480 as ours wont survive the nitrous.
I got to meet Purn. I heard him talking about PBR and he had a PBR shirt on so I just had to ask. lol
If anyone has a good vid of the crash, please post it up. The wife threw our camera so its trashed. Craig's girlfriend has a decent vid right up until the roll over.
Anyhow, yea it sucks balls. We knew it was gonna happen eventually. You can't do this crap without a few dents and scrapes.
It's no different than anything else in life, get back on the horse as quick as you can and keep on ride'n.
Glad everyone is ok!
I saw a picture in another thread and noticed the intercooler in the cab. You may want to put a sfi blanket around it, I recently blew the side out of my intercooler and it wrapped the 1/4" aluminum plate around the frame rail. I couldn't even imagine if a chunk of the tank popped and hit the driver!