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Frame worth fixing?

Old Apr 28, 2011 | 01:54 PM
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I ended up slamming into the curb and a pole on the way home from work and this is what happend. The wheel snapped off of the axle and the the impact from the pole destroyed the frame. My options are to repair the car in my garage or to sell the whole thing to someone wanting to sell the parts. Ill post pictures.
 
Old Apr 28, 2011 | 02:11 PM
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Old Apr 28, 2011 | 04:06 PM
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Not worth fixing. It kind of hard to say for 100% sure but based on the picture the whole unibody is tweaked. Your going to need 8-10 hours on a frame machine to get everything right. Then you would have to fix all the cosmedic stuff.
 
Old Apr 28, 2011 | 04:11 PM
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Make friends with a good auto-body shop guy who can cut you a deal... Ultimately it depends on how much you love your car.
 
Old Apr 28, 2011 | 06:28 PM
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How do you know its the frame? Looks to me like its just body damage. Either way you could always just buy a roller and swap.
 
Old Apr 28, 2011 | 08:22 PM
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You can buy a nice straight V6 body for under a thousand and swap your motor and trans into it for a lot less money and time then you can fix this and you can do some upgrades along the way.

The reason I think the body is tweaked is the gap at the base of the door also I have replaced a few axles from sliding into curbs and most times when the hit is hard enough to bend the axle tube and the 1" plus thick alxle the mounting point for the axle housings are a mess. Those control arm mounts are not designed to take that much of a side impact.

But 2d picture can be very deceptive.
 
Old Apr 29, 2011 | 08:36 AM
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wheres the pics of the frame?
 
Old Apr 29, 2011 | 09:12 AM
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If it's as bad as you say, then I would strip the entire car down and part it out. You can make some good money doing that and then possibly buy yourself another maro.
 
Old Apr 29, 2011 | 09:30 AM
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I want to strip the car down and part it out but I just dont have the room to do it and I dont want to risk breaking things. so I think im just going to sell the whole thing for someone else to part it out and ill just use the money as a down payment on another camaro with a v8.
 
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