Is this beyond repair?

[Roysneon]

Oh. That group is even too dumb for me.

[Farbin Kaiber]

No, somebody on the FB page.

[Roysneon]

Is ThatOneEuroE30 the v6 Camaro kid?

Is that the one with the Direct Exhaust Injection or the zero lag turbocharger?

[Farbin Kaiber]

Is ThatOneEuroE30 the v6 Camaro kid?

[ThatOneEuroE30]

Every time you post, logic and reason get slapped in the balls.

Lolol I always work against logic its what I do. seriously tho check my build thread my car has what I would say stage 3 maybe stage 4 rust and I'm bringing her back. It not a hard thing to do what so ever it just takes along time cutting and fitting things to line up right.

[Roysneon]

75% of me wants you to keep that cause fixing rust isn't really a hard process just time consuming.

Every time you post, logic and reason get slapped in the balls.

[ThatOneEuroE30]

75% of me wants you to keep that cause fixing rust isn't really a hard process just time consuming. The rest of me however realizes that you have never welded and would probably have to go buy a lot of the tool to get it done properly. I say strip it down to the bare metal and have a scrapper come take the rest. Use the parts from that car to put on another (if needed).

[heatmakerz]

That chassis has stage 4 terminal cancerous rust that is honestly beyond repair. For $500, scavenge all the parts you can off of it, find another cheap rust proof chassis to start your build with and roll that chassis into an alley and just walk away. All in all, not a bad pick up for $500.

[Roysneon]

Drop the front and rear subframes and drivetrain, call a scrapper to come get the shell. I wouldn't even bother keeping any of that interior, personally. If you don't want or need the bottlecaps you can probably sell them to someone with an old Honda for a couple hundred if they're in decent shape. Then you have front strut housings, trailing arms and rear subframe to rebuild/sandblast/replace bushings/ reinforce for the decent shell you'll be looking for.

[petrolhead]

So down to the most important question. Is it possible for me to save this chassis?

Probably no one here knows how skilled you are.

Or should I be looking for a new shell?

Absolutely you should. You've only seen a glimpse of the total rust until you've taken the car completely apart. Trust me. Even when the shell is without any parts, you'll find more rust inderneath/behind the stuff you cut off. That chassis member and floor isn't particularly difficult to replace. Cut, grind, fit, weld.. But they're only the tip of the iceberg I suspect.

That shell is totally doable, there's no such thing as beyond repair.. But there are better E30 shells out there. Click the link in my sig. There's my project, end result will be around 30% of all shell parts replaced. Honestly can't recommend such an undertaking to anyone, since were not talking about rare cars here.

-Jarno

[nando]

when I originally saw your thread I thought that car is way, way too rusty to be worth fixing. I didn't say anything but since you're asking - part it out and find another shell.

[jhaurimn]

$500? Take all the parts out of the car you can, and scrap it. Around here, you can get $250 for scrapping a car, hopefully its that case around you as well.

Definitely not worth saving, especially since you only have $500 into it.

[flyboyx]

holy shit! that is scary bad.

[Shock(/\)ave]

As much as I would enjoy driving all of my cars throughout the year, not "saving them for their eventual next owner to enjoy" (though that might well be a future child of mine), this is the reason I can't bring myself to do it.

That is one scary image. :(

I hate to type this, but the crunching sound that you heard was the car being totaled.

With persistence you'll find another shell in much better condition than this one is in. Please don't despair and give up: a nice E30 is an excellent and very rewarding car to own and enjoy. :)

[TurboJake]

I'm not one for saying this. But, new shell. You have a parts car.