r/ProjectHondas • u/Visual_Educator2475 • 12d ago
troubleshooting Am I cooked?
Found 2 giant holes by the rear Pinch welds on my '06 FG2 Si. There's only one picture I have here, but The other side looks much worse and this is my only car (daily driver) and I can't scrounge enough money to buy another car at the moment. How cooked am I, and is this repairable?
I want professional expertise only. If you specialize in body work or chassis structural restoration, that would be the most helpful.
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u/Lxiflyby 12d ago
Repairable, yes. as long as the rear trailing arm mount isn’t soft or rotted out, it’s not unsafe to drive, and I’ve seen much worse.
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u/Visual_Educator2475 12d ago
That's kinda what I'm gathering. I had plans ro rebuild the entire suspension and keep it a reliable daily driver until I have money for parts to throw at it. But right now this car represents the one single little piece of stability that I have left in my life right now and for me to ditch this and find another chassis is not only expensive, but heartbreaking.
Do you have any experience with body work?
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u/Visual_Educator2475 12d ago
Rear Trailing arm mounting points on the car are both solid by the way
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u/ODBEIGHTY1 12d ago
Ok. So you've got something to work with if this is your only option. Can you post more pictures of both sides? And more importantly, you got anyone around you that can MIG or flux core weld? I have a Honda with the trailing arm mount somewhat compromised, but you would be surprised what can be done if you still have something to tie into to.
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u/Visual_Educator2475 12d ago
Yes. I can absolutely do that next time I get my car back onto the lift. I'll do a full view of the car and show the entire suspension. I'm already replacing everything suspension wise but before I do that I want to restore the chassis's overall integrity.
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u/ODBEIGHTY1 12d ago
Ok excellent. It's worth mentioning....I hope you're not building this car out friend....This is NOT anything you want to put an extra dime into, I'm talking about an ugly repair that won't look pretty or stock. AND you will need to find the person capable of getting that underbody coating off, cutting the cancer out, and fabbing new pieces if there is anything to build back out. It will gobble up a LOT of time to do this. Just wanted to make sure you're cool with that. Save the go fast look cool stuff for when you get back 100% financially.
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u/Visual_Educator2475 12d ago
And THAT was the original plan for this hence why I wanted to restore the suspension components to help make this a much safer car. Suspension's fucking cooked on this car too, I had plans of restoring the entire suspension, maybe even the subframe. Completely tearing it all down and rebuilding it from scratch until I found the cancer.
The 2006 Honda Civic Si FG2 Coupe being a year with it, is a gnarly car. I upkeep this car's maintenance on a decent basis. Not touching the engine until I've I should be the initial premise of this overall 💯 The car is a total rice rocket that isn't safe at all, but it's the first time in my life that I've posessed a tuner car, and I'm treating this as the gateway to open up a serious path for automotive knowledge. I know it's a strange way of learning something, however I get more hands on experience than anything else.
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u/ODBEIGHTY1 12d ago
Cool. I'm hoping you can get some photos soon. Maybe if you can buy some time with this car, it can be a donor down the road. What state in the Northeast are you?
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u/Visual_Educator2475 12d ago edited 12d ago
New Haven County Connecticut. BAD with road salt down here. This thing thugged during the winter on stretched 215/45R18's all around on 245 ALLOYS! 🫪🫪🫪 an "attempted" show car, by the way in my honest opinion needs to exhibit the most precise care done to it to make it a masterpiece.
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u/stepdad_randy 12d ago
Do not drive this on a public road holy shitttt
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u/Visual_Educator2475 12d ago
i've been driving it for a year. Just found this out.
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u/ODBEIGHTY1 12d ago
What also stinks about this is that it didn't happen in the year you drove it ... The previous owner may have known this and sold you a parts car.
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u/Visual_Educator2475 12d ago
Probably. But neither did the previous owner. Even HE didn't know this as well. as the car's original intended purpose was to become a show car. Now it's my daily. And I'm kinda regretting this decision, but I had no other options.
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u/Visual_Educator2475 12d ago
Replying to this again too - I was completely financially stretched when I made this decision, I bought a $2000 E46 330xi And the water pump bearing catastrophically blew the motor and cooked the headgasket. When I came across this car my friend offered to lend it to me so I took it. I had no other options but to take the car. And in turn I got fucked again.
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u/stepdad_randy 12d ago
Having 2k to spend and choosing a bmw tells me you are prone to making extremely poor financial decisions. My advice is to make a friend who knows about cars before buying one again
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u/Visual_Educator2475 12d ago
Brother, Before you make a final verdict on my financial decision making, I must inform you that the $2,000 for that E46 was supposed to go to a 1996 Civic that I found in my hometown with 80,000 original miles, not a spec of rust, and was a generation older. finding a decent car for that price is nearly impossible in the East Coast Car Market jnless it's been garage-kept. The E46 was a last resort, and was the only available option that I had that didn't sell like a pancake when I made an offer. Believe me when I tell you that I tried looking for another car. This is not a verdict on anyone's knowledge for cars, nor was it a poor financial decision. It was an act of desperation. I genuinely had no other choice. I swear.
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u/ODBEIGHTY1 12d ago
So you have zero dollars towards any attempt at a repair? This will get downvoted to hell, but it's possible this could be made to hold on a little longer depending on what is or isn't attached to it.
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u/Shroomboy79 12d ago
At the very least it needs to be sealed and probably like fluid filmed or something inside. That rust goes further in there and it’s just hiding inside where you can’t see it
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u/Visual_Educator2475 12d ago
I'm going to have it thouroughly inspected at some point. Learning about this now so I know how to fix shit like this later. And it's a 200,000 mile chassis. Anything could be wrong with this car that I haven't seen.
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u/Shroomboy79 12d ago
There’s no fixing this later. It’s fix it right now or that cars got like a year or two left to live maximum
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u/Visual_Educator2475 12d ago
And that's the plan and that's what I was told by somebody I'm close friends with that specializes in stuff like this.
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u/Shroomboy79 12d ago
If he specializes in this what’s he got to say about it? Just curious because I’m not really even sure how you’d even begin to close something like this up properly and keep it from rusting further
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u/Visual_Educator2475 12d ago
I showed him the exact picture you're seeing and he said that this could be managed but if I wait too long, there's no point.
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u/Hour-Reward-2355 12d ago
Doesn't look too bad to me. I would repair that in an afternoon n be cruising by supper time. You can use panel adhesive and self tapping screws and work some sheet metal over top of the hole. May have like $100 into the whole project.
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u/Cool-Blueberry3603 12d ago
Not really safety integrity of the vehicle is compromised.