I was riding around my neighborhood today with no hood on when I noticed something really odd...when I accelerated the right fron side of my car would lift like 3 inches, and when I depressed the brake it went 3 inches in the opposite direction. closer inspection revealed a crack in my frame in front of my passenger mount. I did not do this swap (H22A in a CRX) nor do I know who did, but it looks like they did a crappy job when they cut out the frame. I dont care I got the car for dirt cheap, I just need to know if i should fix it or pull the motor and trash the body. thanks.

 

This guy here had the same problem or similar and he had it fixed. Let me see if I can find the thread.

 

How bad is that rust

 

The rust isn't bad at all this just happened I think.

 

You can fix that you will to lay steel plate over the crack and weld it.

 

Thats what I was thinking when I saw it I just dont know much about fab work or welding and didn't know for sure if it would work.

 

It will work ,its before the strut tower so it should be a easy fix after you get ever thing squared and straighted back up.

 

Yeah I can definitely tell that somethings not lined up, the left headlight is like sitting crooked and the bumper doesnt line up on that side. Thanks alot for the advice. I was thinking about getting rid of the car.

 

How much do you want for it?

 

make me an offer. a reasonable offer.

 

Does it run fine besides the other problems?

 

It needs a few minor things- it has a fluctuating idle between 1500-2000 rpm. not at idle but when you rev it up to 1500 it fluctuates. The other day when I was unplugging the ecu pulled a wire loose and havent re-soldered it yet. so v-tec stopped working. but these are simple problems. the car has a six-puck unsprung with a fidanza 8lb. flywheel the head is fresh, less than 500 miles, it has a 30,000 mile block. no grinds in tranny. very smooth. the body is almost perfect besides the to fenders have a few dents. I ran the car 3 times - a 13.7 then 13.9 then 13.5 this is on street tires with alot of wheelspin, I wasn't used to the car, only had it a day before I ran it.

 

it could be fixed, put it on a frame machine, get that thing squared back up and even and weld that sucker up with some reinforcement.

 

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yup yup

 

make the the car is STRAIGHT. Use measuring points from the manual for the front end.

Once its straight, Weld both sides. Then lay a 1/8" plate over it and weld all the way around the plate, do this on both sides. Use a large mig or an arc welder. On the mig run 0.035" wire and do a vertical up mulit-pass. If your using an arc welder i recommend. 7018 run it around 135-140 and use 3/8" rods.

When i say both sides, i mean both sides of the crank, both sides of the car is obvious.

Goodluck.

If you want to sell PM me.