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Project SVT

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Well like it's says I need someone to look at the pic and see if you can see anything wrong....a lil bit ago some lady sideswiped me in the front and well pushed me up onto a curb...luckly it was the handicap ramp part so not really any damage on that side....

But I just wanna make sure nobody can clearly see anything wrong with the suspension,lca, tierods and all that kinda stuff....yea it's dirty and i need new suspension but anyways let me know...thanks!

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its very hard to tell because we cant really see the bushings, end link ball joint cover or the lca ball joint.


p.s.: is the car even in the air? it looks like its resting on the ground. must be a bad angle I'm seeing.
 
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Everything looks straight. I'd try to moving things around (physically) and feel for anything loose.

Definitely get a wheel alignment, it's not uncommon for it to be thrown off from hitting a curb
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well since my rim slid down off the curb it torn into the tire and poped it so i had the spare on....i haven't driven it since it happened. but driving it home that day it pulled a little to the right. I'd assume just because the spare tire. the bushings are worn im sure since it's stock suspension still.i just thought i'd check it out today since i've got my rims now, just waiting on tires.

I figured i'd get a wheel alignment check but i thought i'd just throw it up here first to see what you guys say.
 
Make sure your struts aren't kinked. I've pulled out more then a few that had kinks in them.
 
i may just be look'n at it wrong but in the last pic the A-arm bushing kinda looks like it is too far from the subrame..where the bolt is..looks like the bushing may be ripped or something....whoa...is the subframe ripped?? just to the right of the A-arm where is goes into the subframe...i sure hope that is just an optical illusion!
 
well when i was underthere i looked and couldn't see any stress marks in the metal, and that small tear looking part i think your looking at by the bushing i looked at and it's smooth so i'd assume it came that way.
 
it all looks straight from what you can see using the pictures. as with most csvts, youre LCA bushings are torn to crap just from getting old and worn out.. but i would check for kinks in the strut right where it fits in to the opening in the upright/ spindle (whatever you prefer to call it). i had to pull a literally brand new bilstein off my csvt because it was kinked after i was forced into a curb..

what i really want to know is what youre car is sitting on?? looking at the pictures, and from the shadows i see, the rotor is basically touching the ground and the subframe is like aninch off of the ground?? how can that be?
 
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