srJOEYdet
08-15-2002, 11:59 PM
So after everything I have done, with the bushings, and the tesion rod and all. I went to the alignment shop to get it aligned. he guy told me it is "un alignable" Due to a bent unibody. On a good note I managed to fix the camber with my bushings. THey didn't even require adjusting at the alignmnt shop. Both are at -.82º.
The front right strut tower has 3.5º of caster. The right wheelbase is an inch shorter than te left. Also the right side got pushed back, so the frame is no longer a square. It is a diamond by 1º. This was figured out at an alignment shop, not a frame fixing shop. I am gonna go get a quote tomorrow.
Mainly I want to know If it is even possible to straigten out a unibody car, and Whether it will be weaker than It was before or not. The car tracks as well as It ever did, and has no odd vibrations or anything. (up to 100 mph so far)
What caused this originally was my understeer incident. I hit a curb sliding with the rim parallel to the curb, car at about a 30º angle to the curb. I was going maybe 15-20. After that, I had the news of he bent frame broken to me, and I was about twice as frustrated and angry as I had ever been in my life. So I was taking it out on my rear tires.
I was making a right on a 4 lane street (in the city) With curbs and a few driveways. I did a clutch kick in second gear and lit both tires up good. I powerslid left, right, left, and than my front end started to plow a little cause I got pretty sideways, and I Went over the curb on the right of the street. My front left rim got bent pretty good on the left of the driveway, on a curb. The rears stayed on the street, and the front right went up on the driveway. Than I slid sideways quite gently to a stop, mostly in the dead grass, I figured I was high centered. I said "Fuck!". Than I thought about what I should do for about 3 seconds, threw it into reverse, and got rubber. I dont even remember dropping off the curb. I may have slid to the next diveway when I lost it. Anyway I went to a freinds house and got my spare on, and learned a lesson. No matter how bad you think you are off, it can get a lot worse. Don't be dumb.
Anyway. THe rim is totaled, cannot be repaired says a rim shop. (I'll take pics <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'> ) And I magaged to find a replacement for 200 bucks. Thats only twenty over wholesale. haha. I was gonna sell the car, but I love 'er too much. I just washed her up today and waxed her.
What I figure I'll do while I am waiting for my rim, is put my stock wheels on the back, good ones in the front, and find a parking lot to get to know my car better in. If you catch my drift... no pun intended...
Joey
The front right strut tower has 3.5º of caster. The right wheelbase is an inch shorter than te left. Also the right side got pushed back, so the frame is no longer a square. It is a diamond by 1º. This was figured out at an alignment shop, not a frame fixing shop. I am gonna go get a quote tomorrow.
Mainly I want to know If it is even possible to straigten out a unibody car, and Whether it will be weaker than It was before or not. The car tracks as well as It ever did, and has no odd vibrations or anything. (up to 100 mph so far)
What caused this originally was my understeer incident. I hit a curb sliding with the rim parallel to the curb, car at about a 30º angle to the curb. I was going maybe 15-20. After that, I had the news of he bent frame broken to me, and I was about twice as frustrated and angry as I had ever been in my life. So I was taking it out on my rear tires.
I was making a right on a 4 lane street (in the city) With curbs and a few driveways. I did a clutch kick in second gear and lit both tires up good. I powerslid left, right, left, and than my front end started to plow a little cause I got pretty sideways, and I Went over the curb on the right of the street. My front left rim got bent pretty good on the left of the driveway, on a curb. The rears stayed on the street, and the front right went up on the driveway. Than I slid sideways quite gently to a stop, mostly in the dead grass, I figured I was high centered. I said "Fuck!". Than I thought about what I should do for about 3 seconds, threw it into reverse, and got rubber. I dont even remember dropping off the curb. I may have slid to the next diveway when I lost it. Anyway I went to a freinds house and got my spare on, and learned a lesson. No matter how bad you think you are off, it can get a lot worse. Don't be dumb.
Anyway. THe rim is totaled, cannot be repaired says a rim shop. (I'll take pics <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'> ) And I magaged to find a replacement for 200 bucks. Thats only twenty over wholesale. haha. I was gonna sell the car, but I love 'er too much. I just washed her up today and waxed her.
What I figure I'll do while I am waiting for my rim, is put my stock wheels on the back, good ones in the front, and find a parking lot to get to know my car better in. If you catch my drift... no pun intended...
Joey