turbojeff

iTrader: (30)

Check out the link. Look at the last 3 pics. It might take 30min for the site to update.

http://community.webshots.com/album/89560034SgoVwL

Thanks to Mazda the CYM project will progress...

tomaszjc7

I've seen CYM's??

DCrosby

That's your album, on the CYM you're rebuilding, I saw that a week ago....

turbojeff

iTrader: (30)

Wait a few minutes and check back.

I checked, they are up now.

ijneb

Looks like a new floor?

turbojeff

iTrader: (30)

It is, available from Mazda, although I doubt they've sold many...

zmarko

Nice new floor. How much did that thing run you?

bigmack000

it look sjsut liek my car rigth now. has the smae kidn damge on the fender ares but my frame rails at messed up as well
joel

Flybye

Factory subframe connectors

bigmack000

heres soem pics of my damage.



and the rad suport is messed and the area where the front fender covers . parts are cheap labor kills me.

how much does it cost you to fix the car with fornt end damage like that jeff

joel

artowar

iTrader: (1)

I've never seen a new, separate floor pan, but the floor pan on Mark Valskis' old FD looked that clean

turbojeff

iTrader: (30)

Ouch man. Someone "pulled" that car but didn't fix it.

Frame rails would cost me about $575/ea, core support is cheap ~$100, you'll probably need the headlight buckets ~$150 ea. So IF you bought new parts at a discount your looking at $1400, not including the fenders, hood and bumper cover.

I'd strip the car in the front, remove the motor, suspension, etc and my body guy would probably install and paint the parts for $2000 or so. Maybe your looking at a $3500 repair. That actually isn't very expensive...

Those frame rails are not hit that hard, check this pic.
http://community.webshots.com/photo/...72581993xYtjLm

That is a bent frame rail, your car had a relatively light hit.

bigmack000

yeah i didn' tsee the damage till i pulled the motor. fenders front fenders are still good and iam getting a new hood any ways. i already got every thign striped off pretty much. and my uncle is a auto body guy as well save me moeny there . its around the same price but in my dollar to fix here .

what pissed me off is that when i got the car asked if it was in a accident got a no . i was dringin around like that for a year. it must have been a back yard job cause nothing came up on the vin when searched it. jsut **** me off cause now its a extra 3000 to get the fd runnign again
joel

waysho

You are nuts dude... Ive seen you rebuild too many cars over the years.

Sonny

Nice work, Jeff. Man, you have a taste for hefty projects!

Sonny

RobertoMartinez

i bought a front clip for my fd and had it cut at the factory seams at the fire wall and under the car at the frame posts and then stick welded back together on a frame machine. it cost me 2500 for labor from a friend. mine was hit in the front at slow speed. im kinda nevous but i have a 30 year naval welder welding the car, and the body guy does alot of hit rx7s so my panties arent that tight on me....lol....we'll see what happens.

turbojeff

iTrader: (30)

Shouldn't be a problem. People think the factory uses some type of super welding and they "won't trust it after a repair". I've seen FDs hit and factory spot welds that were not attached at all, actually there were 5-6 in a row that were painted behind the weld. Once the car was hit the panel opened up and revealed the welds did not penetrate to the other piece of metal.