More pictures and is it rebuildable?
01-04-04, 03:24 PM
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More pictures and is it rebuildable?
My thread was closed...so heres the link, it now has two pages of pictures. I'm sure its totalled, but do you think that its rebuildable within the money that they'll give me?
Ryan
http://ryansphotos.photos.gb.com/sho...n.php?id=92358
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http://ryansphotos.photos.gb.com/sho...n.php?id=92358
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Looks pretty fixable to me.
Don't part it out by any means, that's such a ******* waste for other's gain.
This will be a test of your dedication to getting it fixed and is going to require a lot of hard work.
Don't part it out by any means, that's such a ******* waste for other's gain.
This will be a test of your dedication to getting it fixed and is going to require a lot of hard work.
01-04-04, 03:35 PM
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naw...my catback was all I had and it was bent...but the friggen motor is only 2Kmiles old and has a 3yr warranty. I need a car with no motor for cheap...I wish I could just rebuild this one.
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01-04-04, 03:39 PM
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my worry is that the sunroof is popped up on one side and not the other and when we tryed to put it down, it doesn't fit that well...don't know how visible that is from the pictures.
01-04-04, 03:49 PM
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hate seeing a rex in that state : (
Hope you were ok though...
have you checked if the chassis is bent ?
It looks fixable to me just depends on how easy the panels and stuff are to get hold of and price.
If your dedicated enough I recon you could fix it.
Just check the chassis if its bent/twisted if it is you would have to put the car onto a Jig to get it straightened. and that is alot of money !
May even be cheaper buying another rex and swapping the bits over, engine ect….
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Hope you were ok though...
have you checked if the chassis is bent ?
It looks fixable to me just depends on how easy the panels and stuff are to get hold of and price.
If your dedicated enough I recon you could fix it.
Just check the chassis if its bent/twisted if it is you would have to put the car onto a Jig to get it straightened. and that is alot of money !
May even be cheaper buying another rex and swapping the bits over, engine ect….
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01-04-04, 04:21 PM
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I PMed TurboJeff...as for the chassis- I dunno, i talk to the body shop guy tommorow and he may not have gotten it on the alignment machine by then...so I'm not sure when I'll know. As for buying another, I can't find one that seems like it would be any more thrifty than fixing mine so far. and about the frame- I have friend whose dad owns a bodyshop and he has a frame straigtner...so it won't be free, but cheaper than for an average person.
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01-04-04, 04:55 PM
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I really don't see a point in fixing it. Yea it's another 7 off to the salvage yards (which sucks) but if you did rebuild it chances are it'll never drive quite right again. What will really tell the tale is puting it on a frame rack and seeing how that checks out. If there's any frame damage you really shouldn't bother.
01-04-04, 05:05 PM
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I PMed TurboJeff...as for the chassis- I dunno, i talk to the body shop guy tommorow and he may not have gotten it on the alignment machine by then...so I'm not sure when I'll know. As for buying another, I can't find one that seems like it would be any more thrifty than fixing mine so far. and about the frame- I have friend whose dad owns a bodyshop and he has a frame straigtner...so it won't be free, but cheaper than for an average person.
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I PMed TurboJeff...as for the chassis- I dunno, i talk to the body shop guy tommorow and he may not have gotten it on the alignment machine by then...so I'm not sure when I'll know. As for buying another, I can't find one that seems like it would be any more thrifty than fixing mine so far. and about the frame- I have friend whose dad owns a bodyshop and he has a frame straigtner...so it won't be free, but cheaper than for an average person.
Ryan.
That ain't going to happen unless you do most if not all the work yourself. MANY years ago, I wrecked my 300zx, (the front left was damaged... so left fender, bumper, hood, few other things,) it cost me a little over $4000 at a body shop to have it repair and painted to look new again. Compared to what you have done, it's going to cost you a new FD to have that repaired at a body shop.
Unless you want a project to do yourself, put the accident in your past and move on. Leave the car with the insurance company.
01-04-04, 06:32 PM
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Unless you want a project to do yourself, put the accident in your past and move on. Leave the car with the insurance company. [/B]
Unless you want a project to do yourself, put the accident in your past and move on. Leave the car with the insurance company. [/B]
Sorry Redneck but this isn't a project for the 'do it yourself-er'. Mahjik's right. If you wanted to buy the car back for parts (new engine), that might make some sense depending on the price. But it would make NO SENSE to fix it.
PS: Glad you're OK. That must have been a ride.
01-04-04, 08:22 PM
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kinda what I figured (can't fix it within my means), but I just really want to. Yes I am fine and it was one hell of a ride...the whole time I could hear crushing metal and I was like "dammit, dammit, dammit..."
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01-04-04, 08:44 PM
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damn the backend looks completely shifted, so unless you have something to pull it back, maybe some HYD power or something it may never drive striaght again.
01-04-04, 09:03 PM
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friends dad owns a body shop that buys wrecked cars and sell them. They have a big frame straighning machine...I've seen it in use on a new f-150 that looked like it was crab walking...and afterward it was like new...sorta. Anyway, I'm figuring that my car's done for. Where should I look for a rolling chasis that needs interior and drivetrain but has no body damage?
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01-04-04, 09:11 PM
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as for what happened...yeah, I hit the gas coming out of turn and it came in boost, lost the rear end, hit the ditch, flipped twice and I landed in a farm field on my wheels, facing where I just came from, with no back windshield and my shotgun laying across my neck.
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It looks fixable, by a pro.
The unit-body is definitly bent & will have to be straightened on a chassis-pulling jig.
If you have a place to store the car & buy-back from the insurance company is reasonable, then by all means, keep it.
Make a project out of it, tear it down to the unitbody & built your dream FD
or just move on, it is your money.
j.p.
The unit-body is definitly bent & will have to be straightened on a chassis-pulling jig.
If you have a place to store the car & buy-back from the insurance company is reasonable, then by all means, keep it.
Make a project out of it, tear it down to the unitbody & built your dream FD
or just move on, it is your money.
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01-04-04, 09:21 PM
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The dream thing is what I'd love to do (slowly put every single exact part I want on it and in like 2 years have the ultimate 7 for me)...but where to keep is the real issue. If I can't fix it with the insurance money right now then I can't do it becuase I don't have anywhere to keep the non moving chasis...if it drove, i'd be fine, but the right rear tire/wheel/suspension is funky...
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Originally posted by clayne
Looks pretty fixable to me.
Don't part it out by any means, that's such a ******* waste for other's gain.
This will be a test of your dedication to getting it fixed and is going to require a lot of hard work.
Looks pretty fixable to me.
Don't part it out by any means, that's such a ******* waste for other's gain.
This will be a test of your dedication to getting it fixed and is going to require a lot of hard work.
This person is a retard. And, obviously someone who does not care about money. lol.
It doesnt take a genius to do that math and figure out how expensive it will be to fix it. You can either lose $10,000+ or gain $10,000+. lol, its easy math.