Finally got the van unloaded and started to figure out what’s wrong with the car.

First, some pics of what we bent/broke at 100AW:

Stage 3:

The tire is still holding air…I love rally tires.

That caused the axle to self-machine the subframe over stages 4 and 5:

My trip into the woods on Stage 14 sliced up my tire:

And did some damage to the door (which I’ve “fixed” using a BFH).

It took all of my 20 ton press to get the spherical bearing out of the bent A-arm and into a new one. I got that installed and took the car for a test spin. The nasty on-off steering issues are now fixed, but I get a really bad pull to the right on heavy acceleration (only at WOT at high rpms). I’m not sure if the rack is bad or if I broke something in the subframe. I guess I get to pull it all apart and find out.

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