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Imperfect chassis. How to deal with this?

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Old Feb 25, 2016 | 04:50 AM
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Default Imperfect chassis. How to deal with this?

Dear fellow owners, I know imperfect is not the right word, but bear with me.

The car has been in at least two accidents and here is the current situation:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5x...ew?usp=sharing


Who knows anything helpful, like what is broken here, please share. I would appreciate it. And yes, I have already talked to car professionals. What I need is some other points of view here.
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Old Mar 3, 2016 | 08:42 AM
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Did the alignment shop attempt to set caster and camber? To me seems like the subframe got tweeked. I've done probably 4000 alignments and done many s2000
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Old Aug 21, 2016 | 05:20 AM
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Hi there, spasinsky. I've been through multiple alignment shops and got to a more or less good alignment after changing the front lower wishbones. I have a blog about repairing this s2k. Check my signature.
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Old Aug 23, 2016 | 02:08 PM
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just a wild guess here, but given the alignment settings it looks like the car could have taken a hit on the front left and and back right. aka it spun. your front left caster setting is jacked. i've never seen s2k caster so low. you wanna get rid of the steer ahead if you can. seconding possible subframe issues
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Old Aug 26, 2016 | 12:29 AM
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Originally Posted by deception9
just a wild guess here, but given the alignment settings it looks like the car could have taken a hit on the front left and and back right. aka it spun. your front left caster setting is jacked. i've never seen s2k caster so low. you wanna get rid of the steer ahead if you can. seconding possible subframe issues

The caster difference was due to a bad front wishbone which I changed several months back. You must've looked at the old alignment settings. Here are the new ones: http://s2krevival.blogspot.md/2016/0...on-wheels.html
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