To Repair or To Replace...

[frohawker]

so i wrecked my CB thursday evening
http://www.cb7tuner.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=129418
and the radiator support is crushed in enough to need to be replaced. That entails taking the front end off which needs to mostly be replaced. I Love my CB and we've had loads of great memories...many of which are tagged in sharpie on the roof....but drilling out spot welds to change the support and then welding in a new one doesn't seem like something i want to do honestly. especially when i'll have to do the same to take it off the donor car. I have a Rotor-over-hub conversion, 11" drilled rotors, V6 calipers, A6 manifold, backordered braided brake lines, lowering shocks and struts sitting in my garage. rims ordered supposed to be in monday. The F22 is built (bored .020, higher compression, chromoly rings, IHE, Unknown type of non-stock cam) so swapping it is a must. My original plan was to do a 5spd swap and rear disk swap but if i can find a car already set up as such.

so the point of this is,

Do i stick with my dear Charlene (aka Charlie) whom i love?

Or do i find a new CB to love with a transplanted Charlie heart?

[bobbycos]

fix her(him). you will never find another that can actually replace the memories

[plee3]

FIX IT! My son just nosed his CB7 this weekend. Looking at girls and not paying attention. Ran in back of a ford explorer. Ford explorer wasnt damaged! My son pissed me off! Well anyways Im going to try to fix this thing. core support is crushed. I think i can put it back together. So, in order to replace the core support you haveto cut it out and weld the new piece in??I say fix it man! our cars are somewhat easy to fix.

[silentdork818]

By all means fix it. Core support changes are easy as pie on Hondas. I was in the same situation in about '04 with my old Accord and to this day I still regret having gotten rid of it for something so trivial.

[90LXCB7Newbie]

keep it

u know u luv ur CB7

cuz i sure do, i just recetly bump into a truck
and his ball hitch popped a hole in the bumper,
i think what it is is that u dont like seeing ur car look that way,

but it will be worth it to get it back to how u want it . . .

[benji]

Fix it.

That's how I got my Prelude, it was in a junkyard with the front end all smashed in. Picked up a new front clip and changed core supports, and life is good. It didn't take more than a day to change everything, it was really pretty easy.

[deevergote]

As long as there's no frame damage, it's always worth fixing.

[frohawker]

so it seems as popular opinion is to fix her

now comes the mission of finding a donor car

[AcCoRd91cBsEveN]

Oo man bro fix it urs aint that bad. I wish i could post up my pics of my accident i hit a guard rail in the high way. im fixn my car now my radiator support was smashd and now is good ill try to post pics i took a few. good luck bro.