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View Poll Results: Should I fix this?
Hell yeah, that looks awful and would definitely bother me
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Hell no! It's a track car and that's a badge of glory
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Old May 25, 2017 | 07:56 AM
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Originally Posted by RedCelica
Problem is that there's denser metal behind it. Would have to be pulled with a pneumatic suction dent puller. Which are $65 at harbor freight
IMO that is your answer. Invest in one of those and DIY. I bet you can make it look decent enough for a track car. The investment in time and $ may be worth it for future repairs
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Old May 25, 2017 | 10:54 AM
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My personal approach on this is if you want it to look nice and pretty and prob be slow because your worried about damaging it then fix it! If you wanna set wicked fast laps then leave it. Personally it's a track car and track things happen. If your worried about it getting scratched then leave it in the garage like the majority of these "hard parkers"
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Old May 25, 2017 | 11:11 AM
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That just adds character! And it won't look half that bad after you take the black marks off.
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Old May 25, 2017 | 11:50 AM
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Welcome to the club. T-shirts in the mail.
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Old May 25, 2017 | 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by King Tut
Welcome to the club. T-shirts in the mail.
^^^lol. Exactly.
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Old May 25, 2017 | 01:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Kirk180
I say leave it. I haven't had an impact like that yet (a few near misses). However, I have folded my front fenders under pretty bad in a spin out. So much so they ripped through tires. What did I do? Hammered them back out as straight as I could, and then went back and rolled and pulled them even further. It's been two years and I'm still rocking them. Maybe hammer it out as much as you can and roll with it.

I got a feeling that more street street guys are going to say just as the one guys did 'fix it, it's a $10k car' or whatever. And more track only guys will say 'roll with it'. At the least I'd say wait til the end of the season to fix it, if you're going to. That's what winter's for. In the meantime get more events out of it
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I knew I liked you, Kirk
Originally Posted by bgoetz
IMO that is your answer. Invest in one of those and DIY. I bet you can make it look decent enough for a track car. The investment in time and $ may be worth it for future repairs
Originally Posted by charlesardolino8
My personal approach on this is if you want it to look nice and pretty and prob be slow because your worried about damaging it then fix it! If you wanna set wicked fast laps then leave it. Personally it's a track car and track things happen. If your worried about it getting scratched then leave it in the garage like the majority of these "hard parkers"
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That just adds character! And it won't look half that bad after you take the black marks off.
Originally Posted by King Tut
Welcome to the club. T-shirts in the mail.
Get the black out, and work the metal until it passes the 50 ft rule. There are lots of videos on how to pull dents. Some pretty powerful suction cup devices (in the old days you drilled a hole for a screw or welded a pin) that should get it pretty close just popping it. It might even be within the range of Dent-x or equivalent.

What you don't what is to paint it, unless you are comfortable spraying it yourself.

They went over so easily, in the 1970s we had multiple cars competing for the name 'Rumple-Opel-skin'. I had mine fixed before the start of the 1977 season, and rolled in on Lime Rock's Zig-Zag straight in the rain at the first race.
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Old May 25, 2017 | 01:48 PM
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Just get a big vinyl band-aid and put it over whatever's left after you clean the scuffs off. I wouldn't worry about the 50/50 rule, there's MUCH worse stuff that hits the track at every event.
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Old May 25, 2017 | 01:49 PM
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Seriously, I thought I taught you better than this
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Old May 25, 2017 | 02:54 PM
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Originally Posted by InsaneSp
I wouldn't worry about the 50/50 rule, there's MUCH worse stuff that hits the track at every event.
Truth.
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Old May 25, 2017 | 04:46 PM
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Originally Posted by InsaneSp
Just get a big vinyl band-aid and put it over whatever's left after you clean the scuffs off. I wouldn't worry about the 50/50 rule, there's MUCH worse stuff that hits the track at every event.
I do have some CF wrap left
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