My driver side strut tower is rusted pretty bad. Its a 95 and you can even see the spring and strut thru a hole. even down low by the ecu, theres a rust buildup. Ive stumbled across an eclipse locally from fl that is rust free. my question is, am i better off just cutting out what i need and repairing with other material? or to have these strut towers cut out from the firewall or near there and replace completely? and what should i watch and worry about if so? ive heard people before talk about messing up my alignment. any info is appreciated. thanks.

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I've seen it kind of done both ways, the way i did mine was i followed the rust to good metal and patched it. That was on my rs which had minimal rust. On my gs if i were to repair that i probally would have to go with replacing the whole inner fender well etc. because the rust has virtually destroyed the whole fender well. i guess what im saying is the option is yours. hopefully some others can give you some better info than i can.

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Search. This has been discussed before. But I did have a 95 ESI that had bad strut tower rust (Pics in a thread somewhere) I was going to have the entire tower replaced so that it would still align properly. But I found a GS and stripped and junked the ESI.