HELP!! how hard is it to replace the whole radiator support "car is totaled"

[4doorex93]

Hi guyz i totaled my cb7 today. I need to know how hard it is to replace the radiator support assembly.if it needs to be welded in and about how much a shop would charge. i can get the whole thing for $90 bux. I am gonna buy the car back from insurance company cuz i just dumped $5,000 in to it.

[ChIoVnIdCa]

Where in MA are you from I am parting out my car and you can pick parts up local. And did you tell them you put a lot in to it before the accident beacuse they will change the value of the car and give you more money sometimes.

[accord91lx]

i totalled my cb7 the other day in the same way.....just got another cb7 today for $200....lol the kid was dumb its worth over 2,000..... but heyyyyyyy gotta love the youngins... basically im sayin shop around for another cb7... you could prolly pick one up for the price to fix yours.......

[slobluaccord]

buy it back!!!!! Then switch the parts to a UN-Salvaged car, and sell the salvaged one!.



Anyways. I think your talking about the entire front metal piece that kinda looks like and H sideways.

If so, yes. You must replace it with welding.. I paid 100 bucks, but that was cheap.

Maybee 300 tops.

[aero]

Look at the link in my sig (my members ride thread) and check out what my car looked like when i totalled it. Beleive it or not, 300 later, you cant even tell anything happened.

[4doorex93]

hOLY CRAP AERO MY DAMAGE IS EXCACTLY THE SAME AS YOURS WAS,I MEAN SO IDENTICAL ITS SCARY WHAT DID U DO TO FIX IT. aNY ONE OUT HERE IN MA THAT CAN HELP ME OUT HOLLA AT ME CUZ I SPENT MY WHOLE SUMMER AND OVER 5,000 BUX DOING ALL THIS TO MY CB7. i WAS IN TEARS. "chiovnidca" I am in quincy mass ill drive just bout anywhere in ma to get parts. I NEED for a 93 ex. ill post pics of the damage tomorrow

FRONT BUMPER SUPPORT,AND THE 2 SUPPRT BRACKETS.
92-93 grill
a passenger side apc projector light
new passenger side clear corner
hood
ac condencer
92-92 ex bumpercover.

[aero]

Heres what parts it took to get it to the state of the pics right below the damage:

Battery
Main Fuse
Headlight
Just the middle part of the rad support(right behind grille)
Radiator

Those first pics of it right after the damage was fixed.. I did all of that work in about 2 days between finals in my college parking lot w/just some standard tools while it was snowing. To get it to the state it is now.. found a hood, and for the rad support, i just bent the parts above the headlights back and flattened them as much as possible.

I used a winch type thing and connected it to another car, and pulled it back to shape. Works fine for now. The only thing is.. the bottom crossmember was bent back and up, so the a/c condensor radiator thing(the smaller radiator) would not fit there anymore. Also, the radiator doesnt sit in the two places where its supposed to. But i have been driving it for about a year now w/no problems.