Gts-4 Parts

[STU?]

Hi everyone just after abit of advice, im from the uk but posting on here as he gts-4s are rare over here and i thought you lot may be able to help me with a few things and more in the future.

Had abit of an encounter with a curb in my gts-4 (i was actually being sensible , i think i lost it on some diesel) anyway i hit with the passengers side rear wheel, the wheel is fine small amount of curb rash but its in rely good shape. I wasn't more than 20mph tap but obviously things are going to bend.... After abit of an inspection the bottom arm was definitely buggered along with the drop link, i have replaced the wishbones with japspeed adjustable stuff and a pair of polybush drop links. Dropped the car on the deck and i still have positive camber. Im thinking the top arms may have stretched ??? there isn't much visible damage that i can see apart from where the wishbone has lifted the plate over the top of the bottom wishbone mounts. All in all im thinking drop the rear frame and replace it along with replacing arms etc (probs with adjustable ones since the bushes are 20 odd year old anyway)

I think my passangers bearing is ****ed after the bump its noisy now . also could my hub be bent ???

My question is what parts do i need for the gts4 , do i buy gtr rear subframe? or gts and all the arms are they gts or gtr ??? or can i use either... the bottom arms ive fitted are japspeed and said on there description non gtr.

The plan is take the car off the road over winter and drop and rebuild a new frame for it i just need to know what bits i need. Also repair a small hole ive found in the inner arch/sill

thanks Stu

[GTSBoy]

The entire rear end is the same as GTSt. The front end is the same as GTR.

Take it to a chassis specialist - the sort that crash repair shops use to fix cars that don't want to come straight. You need someone who is able to carefully measure the car to see what you've done. It is not uncommon to bend the rear subframe. it is also not uncommon to bend the mounting points on the chassis rails where the subframe bolts on. The arms are definitely the weakest link, and sort of act like a fuse, but you can damage the bigger and tougher parts of the car whilst only bending the arms a little bit. It all depends so much on how the car hit the kerb.

Sadly, you have to be prepared to pay someone some money, otherwise you can just keep throwing new parts at it and not fix it.

[STU?]

Thanks for your reply , the rear frame needs the bushes done and i can see it has bent the bottom arm brackets slightly , i completely understand what your saying about taking it somewere to check the chassis but im going to do the frame swap with new bushes first along with new arms as i was planning on doing this anyway. if it doesnt sort it out i will take it somewere to get pulled.

Can you tell me the differences between the gts and gtr subframe? just i know the hubs on the gts4 are gtr and the axel is apart from the diff