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Customer brought car in for alignment couple weeks ago. She decided she didnt want to pay to fix it so i offered her $1,000 for it car has 120k ish miles on it and clean as hell. Runs like a top. As it sits now we have about $1,500 total investment including car cost, and repairs! I think we over did the repair on the rear but i would rather over do it then have it tweak again. BTW the alignment turned out VERY good when i thru it on the machine. Were hoping to maybe see a turbo sometime this year, who knows.... BTW my son did most of the fab work and welding on the rear brace
Before i sent car to frame shop
Fvcked up rf lower control arm
Buckled rear unibody
We replaced the right front lower control arm and took it to the frame shop. This is after i got it back from frame shop and we started prep for a brace.
Little bit of undercoating to blend the repair. I spy a 66 442 in the background
I'll post more pictures after some wheels and tires and a nice day for pictures ...............
Last edited by tfnaaf : 03-27-2007 at 12:04 AM.
Reason: added pictures
Well dropped and new wheels , they look sorta familar do u think? There only 17's mine are 18's... haha Got 3 from our scrap pile and bought one new one.......
That's tight. Nice welds. I took my exhaust to the local "Performance shop" and they blew donkey nuts at welding. I swear it looks like they friggin shot the welds on with one of those things that shoot baseballs really fast....well anyways, good lookin.
maybe it's my eyes or the Jim Beam, but the wheel still looks to be a bit tucked under in one of the "after" pics....maybe it's the way it's sitting agains the curb, i dunno
nice work though on the fix, but i gotta ask....wtf did she hit??
the previous owner slid into the curb on the right front, then the right rear swung around and hit HARD! it must be an illusion , the camber is as close to perfect as can be without a camber kit.
BTW thats my son in the pictures doing the unibody welding. I did do the exhaust welding. My son was having problems burning thru so i did it to make sure it all wasn't going to fall apart
