Totaled 96 SE-R

[Wade Jackson]

Eric, that would be your old JWT S3 ecu in the car.  :)
Does anyone still want the parts from a 23yo car?
The car survived 100+ track days without a dent.  Really hate to see it go
like this!

On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:08 AM Eric Waterman <eric.waterman at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Salvage yard suspension and space saver wheels should help get it on a tow
> truck.
>
> Eric
>
> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:03 AM David Pertuz <d.pertuz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Wade,
>>
>> I'm glad your son is OK, but I'm sorry your car got totalled. If it were
>> mine I would definitely pull all the aftermarket parts I could off of it,
>> but wheels and suspension will be tough when it comes to getting it hauled
>> away. I don't think you'll likely get any trouble from your insurance
>> company (I've never dealt with USAA, though - I'm on State Farm) but if you
>> want to keep the parts you may be best off agreeing to a salvage value and
>> keeping it, then stripping everything you want. I dealt with something
>> similar when my dad died in 2005. He had had a minor off-road excursion
>> shortly before he died and the car appeared to be largely OK, until I
>> discovered that the transmission case was cracked. State Farm totalled it,
>> and I pulled off a few of the easy things - JWT ECU, strut bar - before
>> they towed it away. I would have loved to keep the wheels but obviously
>> couldn't.
>>
>> David
>> Chicago
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 8:56 AM Wade Jackson <srwadet at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Son rear ended an SUV on a slick road this week.  The front end is
>>> crushed, and both air bags went off.  I assume the insurance company will
>>> total it.  What do I do now?  The car is full of aftermarket parts and was
>>> in great shape.  The chassis has 307k miles, but the B14 motor only has 20k
>>> miles and the transmission about 70k miles.  Is it worth parting
>>> out?  Anybody care about these cars anymore?  I searched the internet and
>>> only found one for sale in the nation. Could not find any for sale on the
>>> forums either.  I still have my B13 race car so I could take off some parts
>>> to use for spares.  Unfortunately, the race car has not been run in 7
>>> years. How would I even get the B14 to the junk yard without wheels and
>>> suspension.
>>>
>>>
>>> Anybody have any advice?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Wade
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> Thanks,
> Eric
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