Salvageable? Need Opinions Let me know what you think

[soawsome]

i local guy around me got in a accident and wrecked his s14 its got a quite a bit of damage. i was thinking maybe i could drill out the rad support and replace that and put on a s15 front end and be done with it.... do you think there will be any other signifigant damage that will cost alot to fix ... i can prob get it for 700bucks or so ... let me know what you think

[lanesteele240]

please buy this car, after you do it please take the spinning hubcaps off and smash them in front of the guy that used to own the car. at 700 you are doing good. a motor and tranny will cost you that much at a junk yard

[SochBAT]

Nothing is beyond repair. Well, not really, but yea. Get it, clean it all up, pull the chassis, all that goodness.

[soawsome]

well maybe i should be more specific ..... i can buy it for 700 and drill out the rad support and put in a new one pretty easy ... after that i dont want to spend more than say about another 700 bucks and i already have a s15 front end .... do you think is possible ? i dont know if it got any serious frame damage that would effect the way it drives would it have done any by the way the pics look?

and how much does it ussally cost to get the frame repaired ??

[TheSnail]

I dont think the frame is damaged, but does the car have a salvage title?

[ZK]

Its repairable... for a body shop looks like at least 6K-9K to repair though.

[TheSnail]

Edit: after seeing the 3rd pic, I have to reconsider the "no damage to the frame" statement I said earlier.

[soawsome]

Its repairable... for a body shop looks like at least 6K-9K to repair though.


Fuck that 6k.... i wouldent consider buying it if it would cost more than 1k lol ..... i mean i just want the thing to be a nice daily driver ... i already have a 350rwhp s13 for kicks ... i just want it to drive straight and look ok and the title is clean he never turned it into insurance so thats kinda good

[chlatboy]

it doesnt seem to have frame damage. Check it out first. Shoudlnt be too hard to make it look nice for under 1500 if you do most of the work yourself.

[soawsome]

lets get some more opinions. what do you guys think?

[s14slide]

I say pick it for the seven, as said earlier, just the motor/tranny set is worth that. Pick it up. If the frames good, fix it. If not, strip it and keep anything relevant.

[!Zar!]

I say it's worth it. You could restore it and have a nice DD or part it out and make your money back easy.

[aznpoopy]

wait a second... NJ

he didnt buy this car from a local garage down by binghamton, did he? within the last year?

[projectRDM]

That's not 6-9k worth of damage. Maybe 4k, if the rails are straight, including new parts. You have a front end so you're halfway there, and you could do most of the labor yourself (if you're qualified).

Seriously though, any S14 that's wrecked is not worth fixing. Buy it and part it out. The more cars we can take off the road for good the better it will be for the community.

[soawsome]

wait a second... NJ

he didnt buy this car from a local garage down by binghamton, did he? within the last year?


no i didnt buy shit i just have a friend of friend of a friend thing. he works at a used car lot that got it .... why what u know about it tell me anything and everything

[zfinger]

God Bless The Spinning Hubcaps!!!

[aznpoopy]

no i didnt buy shit i just have a friend of friend of a friend thing. he works at a used car lot that got it .... why what u know about it tell me anything and everything

my rx7 buddy has a friend who owns a garage.

garage guy had a maroon s14 zenki for sale for sale, it was automatic transmission.

it sat on his lot for about 6 months and got beat on by various people who came by to 'test drive' it.

it wasn't a very healthy car.

last i was there, this dude was real interested in buying it. he said, "yo my buddy's got another one of these things; it's got EVERYTHING... cai, headers, exhaust; everything!"

i asked him if he knew it was RWD. he was like, "no, what does that mean?"

a short while later it was sold; i assumed he sold it to that dude. wouldn't surprise me one bit if he crashed it.

[soawsome]

lol nice ... unappealing ... how much u think it sold for ?

[aznpoopy]

rx7 buddy said it sold for $2000