Kronn 98SH

So I'm driving over to my father's house to help him out since he just had surgery yesterday. A mile from his house I come to a railroad crossing that was just repaved because it was horrible. I've gone over this crossing a couple of times since it was redone. Unfortunately, this time I went over in the right lane. The railroad crossing in the right lane is basically a motocross jump now, but I didn't know that and went over it at 35mph (speed limit is 50mph). I went airborne and landed just short of the other side. My car bottomed-out and it ripped my exhaust system clean off the car. The force of the muffler being shoved backwards 6" ripped the lip off my rear bumper.

Here's the damage. I know, shitty cell phone.

FaTBoY707

ouch!!!!

ej1love

damn, took the lip off too? *****

HDTV

oh boy

VtecFreePrelude

did it **** up the header or did it seperate at the flex pipe

kjcrew_eg

Where in the bloody hell in OKC were you? 1/2 of the new paved roads in OK are still **** despite being new.

Kronn 98SH

The header is unharmed. It completely removed the last Y of the Tri-Y.

Northbound on Sooner Rd, just north of I-240.

Kronn 98SH

Furthermore: Immediately after the incident, I walked back to the RR crossing to see if anything was left behind. As I was standing there looking around, 3 other cars bottomed out, including 1 small SUV. So it's dangerous even for OEM suspensions.

My car is only 1.0-1.5" lower than stock.

95greenlude

Contact the city and make them pay for repairs....

Kronn 98SH

Update:

I took some better photos.





^^^ You can see how it ripped the clip right out of the bumper.



And here's what it looks like now that I've repaired it.

ej1love

weak *** clip, lol

VTECepidemic

perfect excuse to get a better exhaust

jnv255

Damn, that sucks

Kronn 98SH

I already have $800 into the exhaust and that's not counting the header + installation + dyno + tuning.

getsuummm

I thought that track was better before they re-paved it. It was actually kinda flat with some bumps. Now it's a huge speed bump.

Kronn 98SH

Speed bump for the inside lanes. The outside lanes are bonafide MotoX jumps. But it was definitely better BEFORE the repaving.

Update: Just got the exhaust fixed. All total I had to drive 50 miles with an open header. What a pain in the ***. Damn pipes were banging on the crossmember the entire way and it was OMG loud. I definitely turned some heads with my Honda sounding like a Harley.

So here's the total damage. The flange on the Tri-Y header got scuffed. The cat didn't get touched. The elbow bends were both scuffed and tweaked to about 100° each, making that section look more like a Z. Because they were crush bends and got bent more than 90°, they were almost flat. Got that fixed. Got the new flex pipe welded on.

Grand total for damages: $158.50 ($75 for flex pipe, $75 for labor, + tax) Lip repair was free.

HiEn84

Damn that sucks but atleast you got it fixed

Kronn 98SH

Now that everything is fixed, my CEL came back on. I expected code 80 (EGR), but instead I'm getting CEL 63, ATTS 43, and ABS 16. I wonder what those mean.