Shock towers, inner wings, aprons and firewalls repaired and refinished, including the mounting points that rust behind them.
4.9 50 reviews from Cleveland customers
Rated with the BBBArc Wheels Welding LLC, since 2023
Black ownedIndependent shop on Cleveland's southeast side
An engine bay is the hardest area on a car to make look right, because everything in it is visible from several angles at once and none of the surfaces are simple. It is also structural in a way people forget. Shock towers, inner wings and the apron are the front of the car's structure, and on most vehicles they are carrying suspension loads directly.
So engine bay work is two jobs at once. The structural repair has to be right because the suspension is bolted to it, and the finish has to be right because you are going to be looking at it every time the hood is open.
Shock towers, which crack around the top mount and rot at the base where they meet the inner wing.
Inner wings and aprons, which trap everything the front wheels throw at them and rot from the back where nobody looks.
The firewall and plenum, which rot from above because the cowl drains onto them.
Battery trays, which corrode from acid rather than salt and take the surrounding structure with them.
Mounting points for the engine, gearbox and steering, all of which need to be exactly where they were.
Engine bay smoothing is a popular request and it is worth being honest about what it does. Removing unused brackets and filling redundant holes looks excellent. Doing it over rot, or removing something structural because it looked untidy, is a problem you will find later.
So the structure gets repaired first and the tidying happens after, with anything load bearing left alone or replaced rather than removed.
Finishing in a bay means dressing welds on surfaces that curve in two directions with limited access. It is slow and it is why engine bays get skipped or buried in seam sealer on cheaper work.
Removing brackets or bracing because they look untidy, when they are doing a job. If it is carrying something, it stays or it gets replaced, and we will explain which.
Yes, and it is common on older vehicles. Towers crack around the top mount because that is where suspension load concentrates. The repair reinforces that area rather than just closing the crack, since closing it puts you back where you started.
Filling redundant holes and removing brackets that are no longer used, so the bay reads as clean surfaces. It looks excellent when the structure underneath is sound and it is a bad idea when it is being used to tidy over rot.
For most structural work, yes, or at least most of it. Access in a full bay is the limiting factor on doing the job properly, and we would rather say that than do a compromised repair.
Not if mounting points are measured and recorded before anything near them is cut, which is standard here. Tower repairs are one of the few places where a few millimetres genuinely changes how the car drives.
Most quotes come back the same day the shop is open. Free, no obligation, and if it cannot be repaired you will hear that straight.
