I Cut My Car In Half.

"Takuro Spirit" (takurospirit) 11/25/2019 at 12:14 • Filed to: esprit, rust bucket, parts car

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The rest of the Esprit is now >this< much closer to being hauled off for scrap.

It was a nice weekend out, so I began the final steps in preparation for hacking it into bits. Removing the trunk lid, lock, latch, and finish panel above the trunk hinges and springs, which I opted not to save at the moment (because I couldn’t easily remove them).

Then, using my $2 5 Amazon window removing tool, I cut out the back window.

Its very easy to reach around the entire back window when you can stand in the huge rust hole in the floor, and through the t-tops .

I was warned about the shittiness of the cutting wire the tool came with, and had to use nearly 80% of it to cut out just the back window, ( which wasn’t even glued on along the bottom) becau se the s hit kept breaking.

But its out in one piece . Not bad for my first ‘professional’ window removal.

The windshield will not get such treatment, since its cracked and useless.

I lowered the body back down to just ONE block off the ground now, because I pulled the front subframe/engine/trans forward enough to clear room for cutting the body up, and while I was there I hacked off the converter, trans mount, and the rear stubs of the subframe that were in my way, and rotted to heck anyways .

Onto making the first cut into the body , the driver’s rocker:

Then across what was left of the driveshaft tunnel and floor:

The passenger rocker (top tip, avoid the reinforced seat belt mount next time):

Now onto the roof, the last thing holding the car’s front and rear sections together :

And just like that, with the four corners supported by wood blocks (and an extra one holding up the heavy ass) , the car is in two halves:

Now comes the fun part of cutting into small enough hunks to fit in the bed of my truck, and light enough to be tossed into the metal scrap dumpster outside of our body shop. The whole body of the car, rusted as it is, is not that heavy, actually. I was able to pick it up to position it on the blocks. Which was handy, because it fell off the jack I had it on while removing the stacked blocks and ended up in the hedge row a bit. I hope my neighbors weren’t watching.

B ut before I cut up any chunks  I need to get rid of the ballast I have in my bed from when it was snowing last week:

Some people use bags of sand, or rock salt, I use Firebird doors. There’s a good 120 pounds right there.

PartyPooper2012 > Takuro Spirit 11/25/2019 at 12:24

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I see you are making a stretch limo. Any ideas on size? you can probably go longer.... 

MonkeePuzzle > Takuro Spirit 11/25/2019 at 12:29

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based on the rust, I assume you used a butter knife to slide through

The Crazy Kanuck; RIP Oppositelock > Takuro Spirit 11/25/2019 at 12:31

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Takuro Spirit > MonkeePuzzle 11/25/2019 at 12:37

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Plastic butter knife.

MonkeePuzzle > Takuro Spirit 11/25/2019 at 12:40

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the knife didnt even touch, the car fell in half as you approached it and breathed too heavily on it

OPPOsaurus WRX > Takuro Spirit 11/25/2019 at 13:21

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i guess i missed something, but for some reason I thought you were going to eventually put this thing back together. 

Takuro Spirit > OPPOsaurus WRX 11/25/2019 at 13:36

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I bought it for parts, since it was so roached. This is the one that’s getting put back together, using some of those parts :

lone_liberal > Takuro Spirit 11/25/2019 at 13:51

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At first I was like “Hey, I could use that trans tunnel since mine is cut to shit” then I saw the other picture of it. Nevermind. 

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > Takuro Spirit 11/25/2019 at 14:24

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Speaking of ballast, I thought it was hilarious at my old apartment in NJ I was shoveling snow off of my Miata one day while the guy next to me was instead shoveling snow into his truck bed . I was perplexed since we were basically doing opposite work, until I learned that he just wanted to get more traction and snow was obviously a free resource until it melted. It was a heavy wet snow anyways so it surely weighed enough. I didnt even bother digging out my wheels though since with snow tires and an LSD I just plowed my own way out and went on my way immediately after clearing the roof so that I could put it down. Better visibility for seeing around the snow mounds anyways. Im sure that guy thought I was a magician and insane.

Nom De Plume > Takuro Spirit 11/25/2019 at 14:44

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“I cut my car in half after rust cut away half”

My bird IS the word > Takuro Spirit 11/25/2019 at 15:15

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Cant wait to riplace my hinge pins because of those doors lol

Wacko > MonkeePuzzle 12/03/2019 at 12:07

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With a Ma zd a no tools are needed.