Wishno's winter beater project thread(+misc vert action)

[ck_taft325is]

Spray bomb it. It'll help the ugly factor greatly and you can do some off-color primer if you really wanted.


You pulled up in this thing when I sold you the A's and man, I was a little jealous. I love me some 4 door beater.

[Wishno87]

I removed these today. Wasn't as difficult as I expected with the engine in the car.





This will be replacing my clogged M42 rad for now.



These are a bit of a pain to install tough.

[Wishno87]

Haven't updated in a while so I guess I will let you guys know why I haven't done anything the last few months.

I have left the RDs on until I change out my headers because the larger tires raised my car just enough to be able to get into my college parking lot without dragging my exhaust flange on every speed bump. Unfortunately I could not change my headers until I got THR CABs because the raceland headers do not clear the stock CAB bracket. Probably going to get this stuff on in the next week or so.

This thing is so ugly right now that it is hard to get motivated to work on it.



More stuff I need to install.



I got some cheap SRDish knockoffs because the cloth sports just were not cutting it for this car.

[Edev]

Also got an E36 power steering res bracket so I wont have the bottle flopping around everywhere.

You're going to love that. It cleans it up so nicely. It's even better when it doesn't leak ;)

[Wishno87]

Got my new raceland headers today to replace the ebay SS longtubes. This should help my subframe clearance issues so I dont have to notch it or run a bunch of shims. Probably going to wrap them and have the flanges put in a place where they wont drag everywhere.





Also got an E36 power steering res bracket so I wont have the bottle flopping around everywhere.



Delivered the pan donor M50 to its new owner today so I will finally only have one engine in the garage :D

[Matt-B]

last pic is a flux capacitor right?

[Wishno87]

Have the Racing Dynamics on now till I get the type As rebalanced.



Today I got the E34 M50 throttle cable in as well as got the ECU sort of tucked away above the glove box.




Some goodies for the future.





UUC braided clutch line for when I replace the clutch slave.




My E34 hoses were kind of ghetto rigged the first time I put them on so I hope for better results the second time around. Any advice for how much to trim off each side?


Cool trinket for the vert.

[Matt-B]

come fight me :D

[Edev]

I did read it, the way you worded it, to me you state you got a alignment done, and it still vibrated...and eric stfu

Awh, you hurt muh feelingssssssss.

[Matt-B]

I did read it, the way you worded it, to me you state you got a alignment done, and it still vibrated...and eric stfu

[Edev]

lol

[Wishno87]

so you paid for alignment and got jipped?

Please read my post. I said one of my front wheels has had no weights at all for a few hundred miles. Then I put on some properly balanced wheels on and now its perfect.

[Matt-B]

so you paid for alignment and got jipped?

[Wishno87]

So I have had front end vibration on this car ever since I started driving it and I got an alignment on friday. Afterwards it still vibrated so I was thinking the wheels are out of balance or the rotors are warped. Well today I took off the front drivers wheel and it has no weights at all now! I put the Racing Dynamics on for now and finally everything is smooth and quiet. Going from a 40 sidewall to a 55 sidewall makes the car feel like its gliding on butter. Pointless post I know but this was a big relief to me :)

[Wishno87]

bummer...HR race get them...

HR race would just make matters worse. Especially in the rear. I just need to do coils once everything in the swap car is all working right. Still have some vibration in the front after the alignment so I think the tires are out of balance or my rotors are warped.