I'm working on repowering a 72 Honda N600 into a VFR800-N600 BEC, and I'm not sure yet, but I may have a unibody tweak..
I still have to take measurements, but it seems like one of the front corners is a bit high (or the other is low).. If the measurements bear it, I'm thinking it's off by about 1/2" (on 4 jack stands under the frame corners, there is a diagonal teeter-totter of almost 1/2" up and down).
The problem lies in where I am in the build- I grafted/narrowed front and rear Miata suspension into the car, so my factory unibody car now has a short front and rear section of frame rails (where they don't belong).. I'm wondering if the car body warped a bit when I did all that welding on either end.. Anyway, I'm about ready to add some reinforcing to the front section, and once I do, I'm thinking it would be even harder to put the frame on a rack and have it straightened- in short, likely easier to fix it now as opposed to later..
In the grand scheme what I'm really wondering is
if it is tweaked by as much as a 1/2", is it enough to worry about? Truth be told when I narrowed the Miata bits I was very careful, but surely I was off here or there by a bit.. I'm cool with it to a degree (no pun intended
), but it does kind of bug me that my platform may be off.. then again, this is a locost deal, so if most cars on the road are a bit 'off,' then I'll learn to be ok with it!
Just wanted to see what you guys thought before I plunk down 100.00/hr to a guy who's never seen frame rails in a Honda
Although it's surely apples to oranges, I had a mid-fifties Ford truck frame body-off once, and you could lift one corner of the bare frame almost 4" without the other corners moving- blew me away the flex that chassis allowed..
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Dean
1972 Honda N600 Restomod "ccrunner's N600 VFR800 repower"
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