• From: Mass.
  • Registered: 2018-09-05
  • Posts: 5

Topic: Racecar Friendly Frame machine in New England.

Unfortunately our team had some heavy rear end contact during a yellow flag at NH last weekend and we are looking for a local to Mass. frame machine that could help us straighten the car back out.

1992 Civic Hatchback

We were rear ended on the passenger side. Rear subframe is bent forward a bit(1/2”), including rear control arm mount. Small wrinke by at the end of our trailing arm by toe adjustment. 

We tried yanking on it on the track with the trucks, but could not manage to get it toed back to a raceable alignment. 

Damage  was most visible when we got the car home on a lift and could see everything from underneath.

No movement in the cage or fuel cell cage/mount that we can measure or see.


Any help or recommendations would be appreciated!


Thanks

Siso

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Re: Racecar Friendly Frame machine in New England.

I'm not in new England but the subframe is bent?  That's usually replaced not bent back.  Can probably find one for not too much just tons of labor.  Also there should be many adjustment links available for a civic which you could use as a workaround to get it aligned.
If the main "frame" is bent, we'll that's a unibody car so...?  Like the subframe mount location is bad?  Or the entire car is a taco?

  • From: Camarillo, CA
  • Registered: 2021-03-26
  • Posts: 457

Re: Racecar Friendly Frame machine in New England.

^+1 on replacing just the subframe. Depending on how bad the damage is though, the mounting points between the subframe and chassis may be tweaked, so it might not accept a new subframe... which puts you back to having to use the old one.

I don't want to make assumptions on how bad your damage is, but have you exhausted all of your options? Have you tried a porta power? Bracing the car up to a tree and yanking it out with a truck? Just be safe with the latter, but I think most things are yank-able.

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