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Damn Wagonist, that's what I was looking for, and not at all what I wanted to hear. Thanks a ton for the input. I'm gonna have to keep my eyes peeled for another one of these beauties to become available and be ready when it does, because in the 3 or so months I had it, I truly fell on love with it. If anyone wants anything off of it, shoot me a message, and if I end up taking it apart I might have something you need. I appreciate everyone's help.

Ok, before I give I'm and scrap this thing to get it out of my street, can someone explain what exactly constitutes as the frame? I know the firewall is pushed in and what not, and the control arm is bent in, but the part that the control arm is attached to looks fine? I don't care if the cosmetics aren't pretty, but is there a way to redneck measure the frame once I identify what the frame actually is? I'm not really a car guy, just learning here, but I love this car and this accord that I got in the meantime isn't me.

Yeah guys thanks for the comments. Lesson learned for sure and everyone of you has a right to speak your mind to me. No excuses from me. It was a bonehead move and I am very lucky that I didn't do much worse.

Well I'm in Clearwater Florida and would love to see what's good go to someone who can use it. Let me know.

So I have a 86 gl10 wagon and just started getting around to messing with it, and like an idiot last weekend I was texting and driving [i know] and jumped over a curb and hit a tree and busted my beautiful wagon all up. Its sitting in front of my house now and I don't know if it's salvageable. Can you tell from the pics if my frame is bent? The roof has a link and the passenger door is inoperable. I can get it to open but it's not easy. Please let me know if you think this is worth getting the body work done to the point of simply allowing me to do the suspension repairs and have it drive straight. I can text someone pics? Don't know how to post them!

Thanks everyone. Going to test everything mentioned the next chance I get. Forgot to mention that I getting a 12 code from the o2 sensor in the ECU, but the research I did here prior to my post indicates that's prettying a bunk error.

1st off, I've never been much of a car guy, but I had a 98 explorer sport that was getting old and was not great on gas so I started looking for weird stuff on Craigslist to replace my Explorer with. So about a month ago, I bought an 86 GL 10 Turbo from a kid for 1500.00 that ran pretty well I thought. The brakes don't really work, but I figured that I can make it a DIY job and start to learn how to repair cars on my own. I drove the car for 2 weeks and it ran great and I loved having the turbo. I started looking on the internet and saw all the cool stuff guys do with these and got pretty excited. The car has a digital dash and the fuel light is always on. I figured I would fix that eventually too. One day, I had to drive about 40 miles more than normal, and I guessed that I had enough gas. I was picking up a friend and once that was done I started looking for a gas station. Well, I ran out, but was able to sputter into the gas station very roughly, and filled it up. Back on track! Just ran out of gas, but lucked out and it wasn't an issue. Te next day I had to make the same commute. On the way back it felt like I ran out of gas again. I walked a block and put like 3 gallons in. Never got it to start again. It would start for a second and then just die out. I ended up getting towed home. It sat in my front yard for a week while I watched YouTube and read. I didn't have a lot of time so I got a rec from a friend for someone who would come look at it cheap. 5 minutes after he got there he got it running. He heard something click when he turned the key to the on position, and opened up the ECU under the steering wheel. He said that the red light coming on meant that the cars alarm was being set off for some reason, and we needed to reset the computer. So he unplugged the wire set closest to the driver seat from the ECU and plugged it back in. It worked and it ran great. He left the paneling covering the ECU exposed in case I stalled out again. And he said if it happened to just unplug the same one and it would reset it and it would work. And it happened again, and it sort of worked. And it happened again, and now it doesn't work at all. It cranks but will not turn over. After reading as much as I can grasp, and searching and watching videos, I am now a little more understanding of the ECU. I pulled that out and had a friend who is an electrical engineer test it out. He says it's all good. So, what is my next step? I will say I bought the car from the second owner who had it for 2 years. It had 175000 miles on it but he said that the original owner swapped out the old motor. I know it has turbo, but the newer motor that was said to have 40k miles on it only says EA82 and not EA82T. Not sure if that matters, but wanted to be as detailed as I could. I appreciate any advice for a next step that you can give me.