tacotanker271
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Ok so the low down on this car is: It was in a accident, my grandpa rebuilt the motor and chopped the front end off (where it was hit) and welded a new front end on from another firebird.
What I have been told from my sister's fiance, who has been the one doing what little work has been done to it has told me that my grandpa didn't weld the frame-horns together good enough and it has twisted the sub frame. I'm not an expert on cars, but when my grandpa welded the front end on, we stood on the car, hung from the rafters in the garage and slammed that car to make sure it would never the welds wouldn't break. How can that not bend anything yet highway driving would? There wasn't even a budge from us jumping on it. Now the man doing the work on it says that from the 2 hour drive from St. Louis to Columbia down I-70, the frame has been twisted beyond repair and we have to drop the engine into a new body. I believed him for a while and began searching for a new body, but I find it hard to believe that I-70 driving is nearly rough enough to bend a frame. Can anyone give me some advice on if the frame is bent, what can I do? And how can I tell if its bent at all? I've done a fair share of engine work, but I've never done body work before so any help would be greatly appreciated.
What I have been told from my sister's fiance, who has been the one doing what little work has been done to it has told me that my grandpa didn't weld the frame-horns together good enough and it has twisted the sub frame. I'm not an expert on cars, but when my grandpa welded the front end on, we stood on the car, hung from the rafters in the garage and slammed that car to make sure it would never the welds wouldn't break. How can that not bend anything yet highway driving would? There wasn't even a budge from us jumping on it. Now the man doing the work on it says that from the 2 hour drive from St. Louis to Columbia down I-70, the frame has been twisted beyond repair and we have to drop the engine into a new body. I believed him for a while and began searching for a new body, but I find it hard to believe that I-70 driving is nearly rough enough to bend a frame. Can anyone give me some advice on if the frame is bent, what can I do? And how can I tell if its bent at all? I've done a fair share of engine work, but I've never done body work before so any help would be greatly appreciated.