Is my car doomed? Bought it like this.. RIP FRAME?

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See title^^^

 

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Mstng93SSP

You have a nice rear end there Dave.

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Wow.....that's not good. Why was it cut? Anything can be fixed, and more detailed pictures would help us assess better.

 

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Mstng93SSP said:

Wow.....that's not good. Why was it cut? Anything can be fixed, and more detailed pictures would help us assess better.

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I don't believe it was cut, the car was in some type of accident but the rest of the car looks fine for the most part. Never noticed that last year, crack was probably hidden with that gunk on top when I bought it. I'll take more pictures

 

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More pictures for reference

 

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General karthief

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Fallow that crack and see how far down it goes

 

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Slyru said:

More pictures for reference

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Also yes I've noticed the shotty wiring job, I bought the car last year and just drove it and stored it. Planned on fixing things this year.

 

General karthief

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We've seen worse

 

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General karthief said:

We've seen worse

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That's what I like to hear!

 

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What year is it?

 

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You understand that these cars have no frame, body is unitized. Unitized is just sheet metal welded together to form a rigid structure.
It all looks pretty normal to me. I would just add a strut tower brace.

 

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You have a nice rear end there Dave.

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Sorry, on my phone it looked like someone had cut it.

 

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I don't think it's 'normal'. It should definitely be addressed. If that's what the inner well looks like, I wonder what the k-member mounts look like.

@Davedacarpainter

 

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Mstng93SSP

You have a nice rear end there Dave.

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I think the best thing you can do is pull the nose. It's really not that hard to do. Get a good look at BOTH sides of the inner fender frame area.

 

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Mstng93SSP said:

I think the best thing you can do is pull the nose. It's really not that hard to do. Get a good look at BOTH sides of the inner fender frame area.

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I’ll do that maybe Sunday if I can get the chance! Thanks in advance for the help guys

 

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Bright side, that part of the inner structure doesn't have much to do with the overall soundness of the car.

Downside, if it can twist any it will through your sheetmetal out of alignment.

It would be fairly easy to fix. Post more pictures when you take the fender off.

 

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Well did you get a chance to yank the front clip to see how bad this is?

 

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Looks to me it can all be welded. If you do not weld it, it will only get worse.

 

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FoxMustangLvr said:

Looks to me it can all be welded. If you do not weld it, it will only get worse.

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Dude... it's already JB Welded and we all know it doesn't get stronger than THAT.

Just pull the clip and check it out all over, from underneath too. If that's all there is it's not that bad and you can clean it up and weld it for real.

 

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