Recent content by kgyawa26

The closest Mazda OEM color I can find to the pu grille/rear valence/2013 wheels (all are the same color) is 38R Graphite Mica which was an exterior color option on the mazda3. It does seem to look a bit lighter than the speed grille insert from pictures online but it’s difficult to get a sense...

one must imagine raider needing another two weeks

If it’s anything like how GPT ‘helped’ me with my Matlab code in my last semester of college, it’s a very useful tool for creating debugging training exercises.

Cherrispeed3 Update: Full-on front end refresh, just about everything suspension/steering wise short of the knuckles and steering rack is new. Money shot: Not pictured are the RF fender and fender liner, which I was also able to get. Total spent on parts was $1333. (Thanks Mazda Motorsports and...

Ah, gotcha. I figured it was possible that they were just changing hubs each time, just thought I'd throw it out there to see if there may have been an upgraded motorsport part. Reason I assumed the slicks in those series' would be making more outright grip is based on my assumption of what size...

Hopefully you don't mind a little bit of issue-necro here but I just caught up on your thread from around October to now and the rear hub failure issue really caught my attention, because I know that the 8th and 9th gen Civic Si were both popular and successful platforms in pro-level touring car...

Just a few pics of the car that I took in April on my film camera to keep the vibes good before she's back on the road: If anyone else is a film nerd, the camera is my dad's old Pentax P30t and the film is just generic Fujifilm 200

I'd love to reuse the fender liner, but unfortunately it got cut up pretty good and torn in a couple of spots. Coilovers would be nice, yeah, but that means getting an upgrade for all four corners when the rear end was unharmed in the accident save for probably getting a little out of alignment...

Small update: Car is back in St. Louis, as am I. Absolute dolts at the collision shop wrote a phenomenally ridiculous estimate which ultimately got insurance to total the car over what is completely repairable damage. The estimate they quoted me somehow managed to hit $7113 for the damage, which...

Insurance is paying for a rental for me to drive while the car is getting repaired, and it's a current gen Malibu. Considering I'll be driving it until at least the first week of June, I'll write a little review for fun: If this is the state of the average midsize sedan on the market right now...

Car repair at the collision shop started today, estimated date it’ll be done will be June 6. Glad the car will be able to get back on the road!

Good news: The estimate from the actual insurance company instead of just the shop came back today, the car is not totaled and insurance will cover it. Extremely thankful for that! Now the extra fun part of hounding the shop to make absolutely goddamn sure the parts they're putting on are for a...

Not much that can be done about it seeing as I don’t live somewhere that I can have a broken car that I’m slowly fixing, and I’m still on my parents’ insurance and they sure as hell aren’t going to be on board with me just fixing the car myself. Insurance estimate didn’t total it out either, but...

I was planning on using whatever money insurance gives me and the Mazda Motorsports partner program discounts to get a lot of brand new OEM stuff for way cheaper than can be found at a dealer or even online at like edge or elsewhere. It gets anywhere from 30-60% off the standard cost, and...

Thanks for all the kind wishes everyone. Really sucks that this happened, and I'm prepared for functionally a full suspension replacement being needed in the front. Definitely will need LCAs both sides, struts and springs both sides, at least right side CV axle, both sides tie rods, front right...