Ok, so it COULD have been really bad but thanks to my defensive driving I managed to make it through relatively unscathed. Unfortunately 8Ball took a pretty good hit.

I was on my way home from INTENSE and had just exited I-270 which runs around Columbus. Easing on to Rt-3 which is the main road through the town I live in I went under the 270 underpass going about 40 in a 45 and proceeded through a GREEN light intersection. Just as I entered the intersection I caught a large object coming from my left side at a good speed and instinctively jerked the car right and slammed the breaks.

Apparantly a young female had decided to make an illegal u-turn from the south bound lane into the north bound lane and had I not moved to the right and slowed down she would have t-boned me in the driver side. As it was I managed to get over enough so that just her passenger side front corner clipped my driver side and she was able to finish her turn and straighten out.

The lady was driving an 08 Honda Civic and had just moved to the area from out of state. Neither of us were injured and we moved off the busy road and called the police after exchanging information. She was cited for the illegal u-turn and now I get to go through the fun of getting my car fixed.

This may just be the push I needed to go ahead and get my G8 or maybe I’ll just call Ed and get a door and pocket the insurance cash. Have to wait and see what happens in the next few days.

Here are the pics:

Found this video of my car on YouTube today.

This is a video I put together a year or so ago to show the advantage of the INTENSE Limited Slip Differential for the 4T65E-HD Transaxle. Apparantly someone liked it enough to put it up on YouTube.

This was a pretty crazy video shoot. There was so much smoke by the time we were done that it looked like the building was engulfed in white smoke and the neighboors almost called the fire department. One of our part time employees coming into work said they could see the smoke cloud from a mile away.

After we were done and we moved the car out of its burnout spot the pile of rubber that had accumulated around the tires was still smoldering. In fact to this day there are still two rubber patches in the concrete that can’t be cleaned off. We joked for a week afterwards that the car still had that new burnout smell.

 

INTENSE Racing rented out Norwalk Raceway for the day and invited a few of us locals (and some not so local) to come out and race. The car felt strong all day and got stronger with the cooler weather. Some small computer changes and a few smaller pulleys on the good ole Gen V supercharger and I came away with a personal best time of 12.986 @ 104.75. My season goal was to go 12’s and it finally happened with only one more track date to go. The motor is making some nice power and the winter will give me time to shore up the transaxle to hold it all.