Frickr

i was changing tires today and i noticed that my subframe looked bent right around where the swaybar connects into the frame. any ways to fix it?

Frickr

can you guys see what im talking about or do i need to point it out? the first picture you can see it the best right were the lower control arm hooks in, on the left hand side it bends in from i think the swaybar.

Malakai

What do you want someone to tell you?

Bend it back? OK....

Take off the LCA and everything else around there and use a hammer and bang it back straight.

Frickr

any cheap ways i can brace it up till i can get a ASR brace? and also i wasnt even sure if it was bent, i didnt know if they had a bend like that from the factory, or what.

Frickr

after i bend my subframe back, how many more problems am i gonna have? once metal bends it becomes fatigued and looses all of its strength. aside from the ASR brace, anyone have pictures or have seen how someone else, or themselves have added extra bracing to this point on the chassis? cant go wrong with stiffening up as much as possible can i? although what about welding this area? sheetmetal heats up really quick, and i dont want to stress the metal any more then it is.

Frickr

no body has any kind of ideas or anything? i dont want to get it all bent back into place and have the thing tear apart in a few hard corners, or have problems with things lining up, or bending more later down the road. any help would be much appriciated other then just bend it back? if i bend it back it will just bend right back into the place it is now, and be even weaker then it is now, and possibly break out then i will have more problems then i have now. im planning on going with a much larger sway in the future, and dont want to have more problems come from this problem now.

PowerUser

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Malakai &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">What do you want someone to tell you?

Bend it back? OK....

Take off the LCA and everything else around there and use a hammer and bang it back straight. </TD></TR></TABLE>
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And untill you get the ASR subframe brace don't even think about putting the sway bar back on.

Do not cheap out on stuff. it will only cost more in the long run if you do. And if you decide to leave the swaybar on there guess what could happen? that little bend *could* make its way into the actual subfram and unibody of the car ripping it away from the car's body.

If you're really worried about it take your car to a trusted well known body shop and have it looked at. And if you actually know a guy who works at a body shop even better!