Pillar Damage Repair: Yay or Nay?? *Pics*

[heated heavy]

well, i bought my car a long time ago and sort of ignored the front pillar damage and i was wondering if it was even worth it to repair. i havn't got a quote from a body shop yet cause i though i'd ask you guys first if it would be effective and help chassis rigidy. im sure my chassis is already screwed up because of it but whatev's.
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v237/heated/sfsdfsf_001.jpg
also, i dont know if this has anything to do with it, but my front left wheel is sort of tweaked ever since i put the rims on. at first i thought it was just excessive toe-out and some positive camber but i got an alignment yesterday and it still sticks out a bit as opposed to the other side where it tucks in a bit.
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v237/heated/sfsdfsf_009.jpg

[Kid Zelda]

Yikes, I wouldn't even deal with it. You'll always have aligment issues.
How does the car driver though ?

[heated heavy]

you mean how does it drive with the damage? great, just had to take a sledge hammer to the inner-wheel well cause my new wheels were rubbing on the crumbled metal shat.

[mrmephistopheles]

Fraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamer

[Pacman]

Fraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamer

Just dissasemble the front end (fenders and such), take it to the framers to get it square, then have the body shop fix the damage (thats why you take the front end off, to save charges of dissasembly) and you're good to go.

[MakotoS13]

i've seen WAY worse come out perfect.

that's really easy to fix...

[heated heavy]

daaaamn. shit is money. how would the body shop go about fixing the damage? take a pillar from another 240 and weld it in their?

[fastbacchris]

mine was like 10 times worst. fixable without shop

[kcolyer27]

Diy. Get the hammer out and pound it.

[heated heavy]

Diy. Get the hammer out and pound it.
your kidding right? how in hell do you pound something like that out and how long would it take?

[sr240mike]

your frame is probably tweaked. Take it to get the frame straightened. Its gonna cost ya though.

[ThatGuy]

My buddy has a frame machine, we could straighten it for cheap. But we are in North Cackalacky, sorry.
I'd definitely say take it to a shop that could do the frame work. A hard hit at any one of the four corners usually tweaks things. Good luck man. :bigok:

[heated heavy]

thatguy: hey how much does it usually run to fix the frame?? like a ballpark figure??

[ThatGuy]

Depends on how much it needs pulled. But in general it's at least $25 an hour for labor. Maybe more, I haven't worked outside of family and friends in a while. I'll ask my buddy, see what he normally charges.