i wanna see this sunroof rust
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DAMNIT, yes please help me out, what have you been doing to upload the pics. I had a few in there but yea I guess almost of them arent showing up.
And yes, rear subframe is not removed. I plan to send the tank back in with the subframe still in place. I do plan to restore the rear subframe as well, But Im thinking of doing that at a later date, once I can get the car driving, because I plan getting a storage unit and rebuilding the original m20 in there - somewhere that Isn't an hour drive away from me. While I have that space I plan to take on the subframe too.
Not having a garage at my finger tips (or in general) anymore FUCKING SUCKS... I don't know if I mention this already in an earlier post or not, but ,my family had to sell our house, and we all split up and are living in different places/states, this whole crash fiasco happened THE DAY BEFORE we had to be fully moved out.
pic of the old garage set up :(
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I went back and forth with a few choices. Ultimately, I went with something that made me chuckle over something that is funnier, but could be offensive. You could say I went for the "daily driver" bumper sticker, vs the "track build". Next post will require pic of it on your new shell to complete the agreement.
On an actual project related note... all the heavy and dirty shit under car to get to the gas tank is a pain. Assuming you are doing all this on jack stands like myself lol. Are you dropping the rear subframe as well? I was able to weasle my way around the subframe, with box wrenches, to swap the gas tanks on my re-shell. Get a quality set of ratcheting wrenches if you don't already some. It will make it a lot easier.
Swapping the gas tank with the subframe in SUCKED, but I did not want to do the subframe yet, as I know that meant I would have to do all the bushings, and the ones on the car are the original rubber ones it seems.
Also....the only photo I see is the bumper sticker. I don't see any others if you tried posting more. If you need help with that, I can show you what I've been doing with my posts and flickr.
Keep up the good work man. I will be following.Leave a comment:
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I'm back from the dead, got a couple updates. Slow progress as usual,
BUT school semester ends in 3 weeks sooooooo once thats over I can begin devoting my life to this car and I can really make some decent progress
Also, I learned how to use Flickr so I can hopefully upload photos easier
as of now heres where I am
More or less finished stripping down the interior of the new car, carpet pulled, and Fully pulling the hacked harness now
IMG_9035 by Max Max Rodriguez, on Flickr
IMG_9039 by Max Max Rodriguez, on Flickr
Got the exhaust, drive shaft, and heat shields removed in order to drop the gas tank to finish pulling the harness, plus gas tank on the crashed car is a new unit, not original like this one is.
IMG_9222 by Max Max Rodriguez, on Flickr
IMG_9223 by Max Max Rodriguez, on Flickr
IMG_9221 by Max Max Rodriguez, on Flickr
pulled the sun roof on the donor car and was greeted with some rust
The sunroof panel was fully collapsed due to being rusted out. Previous owner WEGDED A BOLT and a huuuge ball of TINFOIL to keep it held in place and not fallen in. Some insane craftsmanship if you ask me.
Consequently the sunroof section of the chassis is rusted out. Passenger side drain has FULLY rotted away.
Unfortunatelt for me keeping the sunroof is non negotialble, I love that sunroof. So its gunna have to get repaired somehow. Thoughts? Is this too impossible to weld? Harvest it off the Crashed car? All input is appreciated :)
Untitled by Max Max Rodriguez, on Flickr
IMG_9037 by Max Max Rodriguez, on Flickr
IMG_9038 by Max Max Rodriguez, on Flickr
Admittedly, there is a lot of dust type of dirt that I did not bother to take a pic of after wiping clean.
I sold the gauge cluster and steering wheel from the new car, so I recouped a little money there too
As of now that's unfortunely all the updates I've got
Next steps,
repeat all of this on the crashed car -
finsih pulling/swapping harnesses
drop exhause, heat sheilds, driveshaft,
drop/swap fuel tank
work on getting interior back together
then go from there
Also I face the wrath of JasonWilson48 's bumper sticker of choice. TO BE HONEST nowhere near as bad as I was expecting
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Having an uncut harness is a good thing...
-sincerely a dude who has a car with a pretty hacked harness...Leave a comment:
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Also that comment about my nails LMMMAOOOOOOOO. That shit had me dying. No, I do not play guitar... Sometimes I just dont really care and see how long and repulsive I can let them get hahahah. Everyone gives me shit for it, I know its fowl but something about it, free will I guess XD Best part is, for work im a line cook, dont come eating here lol. But for the record, I have since cut them and they are mainting an acceptable length... for nowLeave a comment:
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sorry for the silence yall, don't worry our talk about wokeness didn't scare me off lol. But thanks, JasonWilson48, and everyone else, you get it and you understand :) ANWAYS.. FUCK a chassis swap is not for the weak. working on pulling the entire chassis harness rn, so I can swap the non fucked up one from my first car. There's only 2 wires on the whole thing that have been cut/depinned. In the grand scheme of things its not much and a cut and splice would be a fix but I want to do the right fix. Im just slowly chipping away at it, the school semester is speeding up too so I've had to sacrifice a few weekends.
I'm starting to feel like I can't see the finish line, but I think im just too eager to gettiing it done. I know I'll get there, i just hate having to be patient... Don't we all?Leave a comment:
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