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HipHopHippo
12-20-2012, 09:19 PM
Are these beyond repair?

http://i742.photobucket.com/albums/xx67/ishootyourface96/20121220_212946_zpse21ef9c4.jpg

http://i742.photobucket.com/albums/xx67/ishootyourface96/20121220_213057_zps05e9ced4.jpg

http://i742.photobucket.com/albums/xx67/ishootyourface96/20121220_212955_zps07032cb1.jpg
S14Driftr91
12-20-2012, 10:00 PM
Id say that can be fixed, cut it out, box it up, weld, spray some undercoating on it... Any good body shop can fix this.
HipHopHippo
12-20-2012, 10:10 PM
Id say that can be fixed, cut it out, box it up, weld, spray some undercoating on it... Any good body shop can fix this.

awesome, thanks
Cease_Super_Hicas
12-20-2012, 10:27 PM
That's nothing campare to my old hatch. Mine were all smashed up! Hahaha
HipHopHippo
12-20-2012, 10:40 PM
That's nothing campare to my old hatch. Mine were all smashed up! Hahaha

Well thats good to hear, i thought these were pretty bad haha
Qemyst
12-23-2012, 09:01 PM
Yeah, def fixable. For some reason ONE part of my frame rail had a big hole on it. Everywhere else on it was fine. Cost like 120 bucks for a high quality metal shop to clean and patch it. It's way stronger now than it was as a result.
HipHopHippo
12-23-2012, 09:57 PM
Did you happen to look at the second picture? I just realized that I posted the other two as a link. The second picture is the part towards the back where one piece of the frame rail slides into the other, and I hope its that cheap for me to fix lol
az_240
12-23-2012, 10:07 PM
Def fixable... these cars are unibody so it doesn't matter as much as you might think.
HipHopHippo
12-23-2012, 10:10 PM
This is all very encouraging, thanks for the help
jerry_beans
12-23-2012, 10:21 PM
Did you happen to look at the second picture? I just realized that I posted the other two as a link. The second picture is the part towards the back where one piece of the frame rail slides into the other, and I hope its that cheap for me to fix lol

I have one bend identical to that one!
HipHopHippo
12-23-2012, 10:25 PM
I have one bend identical to that one!

how did that happen?
racepar1
12-23-2012, 10:26 PM
That's a tough fix, but it is fixable. Definitely not something to throw away the chasis for. Some japanese companies make replacement frame rails and a very competent body shop could fix it as well. Your average "Pedro's T.J. style paint and body" won't know what to do with that though. What worries me is the rust bubbles that I see. Once you start grinding off all the undercoating you may find out that there's not much material left to weld to.
HipHopHippo
12-23-2012, 10:31 PM
That's a tough fix, but it is fixable. Definitely not something to throw away the chasis for. Some japanese companies make replacement frame rails and a very competent body shop could fix it as well. Your average "Pedro's T.J. style paint and body" won't know what to do with that though. What worries me is the rust bubbles that I see. Once you start grinding off all the undercoating you may find out that there's not much material left to weld to.

Yeah, I have a friend who works at a good body shop that does welding that I'm going to check with as soon as I get home from my vacation. What is a reasonable price range for this to be fixed? I know qemyst said he paid $120 bucks for his but I don't think I'm getting quite such a good deal..
jerry_beans
12-24-2012, 11:32 AM
how did that happen?
Dude I have no clue, I was the first to drop the car (it was bone stock when i bought it). When I did the z32 brakes/five lug convertion I checked the rails and they were fine!, but I just recently swapped exhaust(a year later) and I saw my frame rail was bent exactly like that. Don't really remember hitting frame that hard anywhere just the usual scraping over driveways and speed bumps.