My first worklog *323 Inside*

[escortluver19]

wow that suck man, sorry to heard that. at least you ok. hope its nothing major on the car.

It was 6am, but from what i can tell the body panels look untouched as well as the front end.Im hoping at the most, i bent a LCA, but i guess i wont know till i swap in the mx3 arms.Ima try and take pics of where it happened just to give you an idea of how scary that **** was.I thought for sure i was tipping it on the side.I guess this car doesnt want to die yet

[Crazypunkerguy]

Did it have my old rims on it at the time? I am sorry to hear that it got messed up if you need any parts I can pull them from the parts car I have!

[Kris]

aghhhhh man i hate when F@#$ers cant see our 323 !!
sorry to hear man.i really hope its nothing major

[escortluver19]

Did it have my old rims on it at the time? I am sorry to hear that it got messed up if you need any parts I can pull them from the parts car I have!

no, it had my ****ty steelies on it.I could care less about the rims, as long as the car is still straight.It seems to track down the road straight, but im guessing i bent a control arm or just tweaked the suspension a little.I have no plans to get rid of this car, so itll get fixed no matter what it is.

[escortluver19]

Did it have my old rims on it at the time? I am sorry to hear that it got messed up if you need any parts I can pull them from the parts car I have!

did you pick up that egt? Ive been thinking about swapping a bp in the car for winter, then swapping the v6 in in spring.I was hoping we could snag up that car, and work out some sort of deal on the parts.

[smoke187]

that's almost what happened to me doing 65 some lady tried to turn into the side of my car when i was right next to her

[IMACHU2]

"I wrenched on the car a little bit, accomplished the rear disk conversion.I used a full mx3 sub frame, but didn't swap proportioning valves.The car stops pretty damn decent, the calipers will be replaced with egt pieces at the end of the month".

Nube question: Escort GT calipers? why? (I am putting an MX-3 complete rear sub frame in my car also). Not why that's stupid, why are they better-er then MX-3 calipers???

[escortluver19]

"I wrenched on the car a little bit, accomplished the rear disk conversion.I used a full mx3 sub frame, but didn't swap proportioning valves.The car stops pretty damn decent, the calipers will be replaced with egt pieces at the end of the month".

Nube question: Escort GT calipers? why? (I am putting an MX-3 complete rear sub frame in my car also). Not why that's stupid, why are they better-er then MX-3 calipers???

mx-3 calipers freeze up.IIRC, the pistons dont rectract into the calipers.It happened on my donor car before i pulled it apart, caused the rotors to grind away pretty quickly and the car dragged along.I ended up using the subframe from a buddies mx-3.

[IMACHU2]

So are egt cailpers less prone to freeze up then? Or do you just have some kickin' around and they fit

[escortluver19]

So are egt cailpers less prone to freeze up then? Or do you just have some kickin' around and they fit

ive been told they are less prone to failure.

[escortluver19]

So i checked the car over and nothing looked bent.I decided to just swap over my mx3 flowers and put my coilovers in the front to match the back.Now the car drives straight as an arrow again.Ive never seen a rim so bent that it would pull the car to either direction.I also started working on the body work in the back, got the filler panel pretty straight, just need to fiberglass over the small creases.Ill be on the lookout for a round style center garnish soon, then the back end should be good again.

[escortluver19]

I gave the car a wash to keep the salt to a minimum, and decided to take some pics of how the car looks.Its now sitting on ebay coilovers on stock struts until i replace the struts.The mx3 flowers are wrapped in 205s and work pretty good in the white stuff.Im getting the itch to swap this car in the next few weeks, Ill have to see how the weather cooperates









The pics are anything but sufficient, im going to start shopping around to replace my 4 yr old digital camera.

[MD323]

kill the Pin striping mang! that was literally my first move when i got my 323

[Kris]

aghhhhhhhhh nice 323 tho

[LaFlava]

damn I wish I had rear disks. stupid dx. nice looking hatch.