After many years of being overwhelmed by life and other financial obligations, I'm finally prepared to bring my 88 G92 back to life.

​About three years ago, after a poorly executed maneuver, I slammed my driver side rear end into a large curb at about 35-40mph

This resulted in a shifted frame. I've replaced the axle and all other bolt on parts that were bent, however the frame is shifted about an inch or so towards the driver side.

I've been to about 2 shops in the area, contacted many. One wanted to do all the body work of they fixed the frame, and I already have a guy for my body work.

Another shop quoted about 1700 with laser precision. It seems not many shops in my direct area want to do work on a classic car.

The car still drives, but is noticeably, uh, sick, if you will.

Does anyone in Michigan have any experience with frame alignment shops in the Detroit area? I believe 1700 is a little high, but I dont really know.

If this is truly a fair price, I'll dish it out, but I'd rather spend less, so I can spend more on body work and paint after.

Thanks in advance.

 

1700 sounds crazy to me. That's like 20 hours. 2 hours setup/measure is standard, then I would think 8 hours to pull and square would be fair.
Unless there's a lot of hidden damage. Then all quotes go out the window.
The rear subframe/rails are usually pretty tough unless you've got some rusty areas that allowed the rails to give. In that case no one is gonna touch the car without replacing a bunch of parts and restoring the structural integrity of the car. It's a liability issue.

 

There doesn't appear to be any hidden damage, I suppose that is why they would consider it "hidden" though. It's not very rusty down there, one of the reasons I wanna save it, I actually had the car shipped up from Texas. In fact it's pretty clean if you ask me, only 50,000 or so original miles. The quote was just visual. I'll try to get a picture put up tomorrow depending on the weather.

The cruddy thing is, right before I pulled this genius maneuver, I was set to get some SBCs put on the following week.

Speaking of which, I need to get a whole new exhaust, unrelated, should I have that done before or after the SBCs?

 

Yeah put up a couple pics.
I'd do the exhaust after the sfc's.
I have a couple friends up there, after I see the pics I'll talk to them and get a recommendation.

 

Let me know if you need different angles, and please excuse the mess!

 

I have questions..

1. Did you replace any bent suspension parts?
2. Does the hatch pull-down work, or is it bound up from the rear end being shifted?

Other than the rear axle being not centered in the car, it doesn't look that bad. The driver's door sticking out at the bottom is possibly worn hinges...

 

Driver side is definitely from the frame, as I couldn't open the door easily after the incident.

I replaced a few suspension parts, anything that could be bolted on. Namely the panhard bar and the control arms back there.

I also had to replace the driver side axle, which was a but hard to find, as this was the disc brake axle with the 3.45 gears.

The hatch opens, but the entire mechanism shattered, I'll need to buy a whole new unit.

 

PM sent.

 

Unfortunately, my friend said his guy closed his shop up last year or so.
If we hadn't just got bought out by Gerber I'd say bring it to me to look at it and measure it. But that's not an option with the new company...

 

Darn, well thanks for trying.

I'll be checking out DynoDaves suggestion, so hopefully I strike gold!