repairs have begun
(if you hadn't seen, we crashed it at gravity park - there was lots of this stuff going on)
the car ended up lopsided (this pic looks slightly worse than it really is as the pic itself is slanted)
we started by cutting of the bent front half of the subframe, removing the bumper beam, headlights and radiator to get an idea of where the largest bends were
we then cut off the lower half of the frame horns, the lower radiator suppor and part of the headlight mount
after a lot of hammering, bending and so on you can see the headlights are about even but the fronts of the frame rails are still off by about 1". this is slightly deceptive because the passenger's side is bent down and the driver's side is bent up (meaning they are each only about .5" off from proper alignment). for our purposes right now this is close enough. we are doing a quick and dirty fix for Nemadji Trail 2 - once we complete that rally we have over a month of downtime to do a more complete repair. for now the stock bumper beam has been modified enough to be re-mounted, we have another stock subframe and we will make a temporary radiator/skidplate mount that will bolt to the front of the frame. the permanent solution will involve more cutting, and creating a tubular front end (as well as gussetting and boxing sections of the stock frame rails)
