88 alpine from the bay to Dirty Jersey (New wheels)

[oxymoron]

Put in a full day yesterday on my engine. Did the crank seals and oil pan gasket also new water pump gasket and sealed the rocker shaft plastic doohickeys . So now I should be free of any oil leaks. Today im istalling new sachs clutch and putting the engine back in. Yesterday I finished the front suspension too. It got new control arms and tie rods and new bellows . I painted front and rear subframes and added condor solid bushings

[oxymoron]

It seems I was to pumped to finish my write up, the Condor bushings and new front end brought the car to life ! Here is a few more photos . I've been working in a fab shop so custom strut braces and who knows hwhat else will be coming this winter . Perhaps a cage what does r3v think? Would a cage ruin my car ? Any who :
rear sub and trailing arms before

after



Engine going back in was trickier than getting it out for whatever reason


Cleaned up the front end and replaced control arms tie rods strut mounts , added drop hats and rack bellows.





And now that I have a metal shop to work with ; give me ideas ! Thanks for looking

[oxymoron]

Another update, picked up some zenders ! I ordered spacers since the front hits the tie rod end, more pics next Friday

[scabzzzz]

Nice work man. I like your enthusiasm.

Wheels look great

[oxymoron]

Than you , I'll be posting some better pics somewhere cool once I shine up the car and wheels and get the spacers in the mail

[oxymoron]

15mm of spacing all around 195 50 15's look really nice with room for more tire next summer

[oxymoron]

took a pic on my way upstate . Unfortunately I was a little late for the sun I was hoping for.

[oxymoron]

Got some down time at work so I made a front strut bar.

I uses 1/8" plate and .o95 tubing

Found a perfect hole saw to cut out the radius



Then bent up my pipe and here she is: loosely based on sparco


And primed and painted



Andd now I really need to paint my engine bay. That's all thanks for looking

[oxymoron]

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Suffered a hit last night on the way back from 5 guys. Her insurance is going to pay and everybody was ok. Looks like this panel is only 180 bucks.I've seen a few people cut it out and replace it I'm a little weary to do that. But at the same time this is a good opportunity to go and learn to do some body work. Who has replaced this

[TimKninja]

the panel shouldnt be terrible to replace. but more then likely youll need to get the trunk floor pulled. Id leave that to a frame shop .

[White325is]

I wouldn't replace it. Just spend some time with some 2x4s and hammers to get it back in shape. Where in jersey are you located?

[oxymoron]

I up in vernon. I work in a fab shop that builds chassis and bodies for dirt track cars so I have some.guys that are good with sheet metal and I'm a welder. I need to empty my trunk out and look at the floor but I don't think it's going to be too bad. The car slid right over my bumper so the damage is hopefully right above the floor

Also, any body shop suggestions in the north jersey area?

[White325is]

Yeah. It looks to be above the floor. If you need any of the trim. Hit us up at the shop. Info@gutenparts.com
I believe we have some in stock.
You're an hour from us. We have a great body shop next to us if you're interested in checking them out I can pass along the contact info.

[oxymoron]

Thanks I appreciate it. I would definitely like to come check out the shop and the body shop once I get a check from insurance I'll have a better idea of what I wanna do with it since there's zero e30 budget at this time.. it will probably become a winter long project

[oxymoron]

So I've been waiting to hear from her insurance but the body shop totalled it. They quoted 2500 and change. I'm obviously going to keep it so I'll be interested in checking out gutenparts for trim , a tail light and maybe some other goodies while I'm there.