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So here it is. I either want to be convinced it is possible to fix my frame damage on my car, or that it would be best to just get my hands on a shell and swap things over. Which ever is less timely and costly if you catch me. Nothing is consistent. I take apart my bumper and such, and when I put it all back, my headlights or bumper to hood is off. I have done this plenty of times and can do it very quickly, and possibly in my sleep, but each time, nothing right. I have only got it in the closest to perfect 1 time, and was afraid of it nothing being right when I did it the last time after resealing my projectors. Well guess what? I now have a small gap from my LH projector to the hood, in addition to my slight problem with the gap from the bottom of the projector (very noticeably) to near where the bumper connects to the fender. I want to paint my car red eventually, but if I do another color other than black, it is going to stand out way more.

Can anyone tell me what to do? Should I just get another car? If when I order a front clip, can I just cut the frame and weld that front clip on? Get a new shell and work from there? I am lost.

your talking about the radiatior support??

you can get a brand new one cheap and have it welded in.

Black with pearl

Faust got any pics of the actual frame damage???? like exactly where is it bent.

i agree with 95celgt. if you are having problems with the front end just get a new radiator support. i had to get on for my car it was 200 and some odd dollars from the dealer. you can weld it on without flushing the coolant too. put some pics for us to see. good luck with the celica... don't hate her.

i wouldnt worry about a little gap unless your SUPER particular about it...unless its a huge gap...if your rad. support is bent its not biggie..that can be fixed for little to nothing...i highly doubt your frame is bent unless you crashed your car recently....try re-aligning your hood and fender as well...its possiabl that they could have came loose and shifted a bit...i know when i took my hood and fender off it took a couple trys to get them re-aligned perfectly again but i got it....time and patience is your friend...post up some pics of the gap, your rad. support, and the frame from underneath the front of the car...i'll be able to tell you exactly where your problem is after that...dont panic bro its no big deal

you should post some pics,,
i cant really understand what you are trying to do,,,

That's to give you an idea. The fog lights are like this because the LH is not flush like the other is _ - to give you an idea. It is where it should be, sort of, but kind of slants back. My friend said it would be cheaper to just have a machine pull it since it isn't a major problem. I dunno. I just want her to look presentable, because I don't want to even bother getting another and swapping things out, I just feel like it wouldn't be same. One day she is going be off the streets and gettin' dirty on a course some day anyways, so I dunno.

how exactly did that happened?

yours isn't as bad as mine.. lol.
this is where you can use spacers to make the necessary adjustments.
but it looks to me that all you need is a new headlamp bracket (the thing that is bolted to your frame rail where the bottom of the headlights bolt on to) and a GT4 upper bumper metal support.

Really?


Oh, to answer your question Joe, I bought it with a salvaged title. What happened was that a diesel or some truck hit the car on that side and they did a really crappy job welding the upper radiator support bar and other brackets. So I simply bought a new radiator support bar thinking that would correct the problem. Unfortunately, as you can see, it did not. So now I need to discover the best, least time consuming, and cheapest or most cost effective way to fix that. Because I am restoring the car to it's natural color, which is red. Shockingly, the car and the GT4 parts came in red, so it was meant to be. I want her to be naturally beautiful again. I think AZian advanced might have nailed my problem on the head though.

Any idea how to obtain the right spacers and the headlamp brackets? I dunno how to get this, because we never see these cars at a junkyard here.

use washers and a longer bolt, or cut off a portion of some small piping.. lol.. i dunno, use your imagination

http://www.toyodiy.com/parts/p_U_1995_TOYO...LMGKA_5304.html
^see parts 53808B.. but maybe you can keep using your current one and bend it forward or whatever to fill the gap between the headlight and bumper..

If its not worth fixing because of frame damage. I would just junk the car. Save yourself the time and the money and get something reliable. The amount of money you poor in your car could be used to buy a different car.