I feel pretty stumped right about now

[BMAR240SX]

So out of all days i decide to go looking around the car i come across this

[BMAR240SX]

Sorry for the picture size

[danielsan]

looks scary, i hate rust. i hope thats fixable with some new sheet metal. take care of that quick before the strut tower goes.

[srpowered240sx]

sucks, get to grinding and see how deep it is.

[BMAR240SX]

Well thats the lower front driver side strut tower and its right above the frame rails, i poked it and its not strong at all, i am going to take it to the shop and see what they say. I don't have much of the benefit to have my own garage to take it on myself and frustrates me a bit cause i do not want to pay for something i can likely take on myself with free time.

[r34 gtr]

That made me cringe.

[psmith]

That is painful..... Good luck to you.

[BMAR240SX]

That made me cringe.

It makes me

[dickie]

time to find a clean shell.

[BMAR240SX]

Time to save money for a 1998 and make this a project

[BMAR240SX]

She has a real overall clean interior, paint needs to see a better day lol, and the engine runs fine just needs to tune up. I have had the car for just about 3 yr's in august and all its seen is storage till 2 months ago

[dickie]

if project = bottomless money pit, then sure!

[Priceless89]

that sucks. That is exactly what I did. Looked around the car, and found that. I didn't even bother with it. So I bought another one. sadly its just the chassis. but its rust free!

[BMAR240SX]

Well on the condition that i put her on the lift and see what esle she wants to throw at me

I mean i have to see whats going to happen i am just about to go to college and i am going to need a steady car to get me back and fourth, but recently i have been craving a track car and i guess this opened up a idea for me

[danielsan]

if your going to make a track car part it out and get a clean shell. a good clean shell should for cheap if you look hard enough.

[BMAR240SX]

Na i want to practice some stuff on this shell if i go through with my plan, before i get another one

[BMAR240SX]

Well i took it to the body shop and they said around 150, what do you guys think?

[TrueVillan]

That is nasty. I dont know how much that would cost so I dont know about the price. But make sure they get all of it.

[PhopsonNY]

Yeah it's a bi#$h...

Either way its gonna cost you... as I said below, I took it on and pretty much stripped the whole car, but in the process we took advantage of the hands on process to improve on factory compromises.

Good luck...

[BMAR240SX]

Yea he took a quick look and said 150, but im going to tell him to take care of the rust on the tower also just to get that out of the way.

[BMAR240SX]

I feel like i got robbed, i paid 150 for this

[m tr4nch]

whoa... is that even welded? looks a little weird to me. hmmm

[BMAR240SX]

I don't know wtf, i left my dad the money and told him to bring it to the shop and stay during the process. So the guy doesn't bs in which he did because the job looks very sloppy

[Priceless89]

That sucks man. I also agree it doesn't even look like it was welded. but if it holds up.......i guess it's good then?

[BMAR240SX]

Well i am going to check it out tomorrow myself depending on the weather, hopefully it isn't bad but i am pretty unsatisfied with the service.

[Priceless89]

yeah, I would at least expect to see some welds just for reassurance. Hopefully it works out for the better. Otherwise make them do it right. Don't tolerate any of there sheit either its your money

[BMAR240SX]

Well i am going to peel off some of that black stuff to see if the welds are under it or something

[m tr4nch]

it looks like they just threw a piece of sheet metal over the rust and put some tar around it or something. and the bracket holding the brake line looks bent up at the bottom compared to before. wtf..

good luck with it. don't take no bs!