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Front suspension
reassembled and up on the lift
before shot
Front goodies
Dirty
Clean and freshly undercoated
Cut for the camber plate
Girlfriend filling down the sharp edges
Strut assemblies installed
Sway in, control arms in.
AKG adjustable caster CAB
Getting it done, my Dad looking at the progress
Bearing and hub installed
Brakes in, Sway hooked up
Tie-rods in
Fronts done.
Rear suspension
getting some of the parts ready
Disassembling
Subframe out
Chassis before
bye bye diff, it went to James' car
Pulled apart subframe and pulled hubs from bearings
Damn. Well one inner race stuck on is better than two.
Pressure washed the subframe and tacked on the toe adjustment plates
Tacked up the camber plates
Welded, painted, and ground out camber plate
Toe plates done.
This was my work bench for welding and painting
Trailing arms clean painted and ready for reassembly
Re-enforced sway bar mount.
Wheel bearing time
Bearings in
Hubs pressed back in
Got the sway fitted in, then took it out to undercoat.
Reid welding up the diff mounts to re-enforce them.
Undercoating
Diff mount toughened up
Fitting the subframe, I had to see how much of the bushings to shave off. It need to be done to get to the nuts on the outside of the toe adjustment plates.
Assembled and ready to go in.
In, and sway hooked up.
Shocks and springs installed
Assembled, time to do the brakes
Brakes! Hooray!
Stance be damned! this car does real work!Last edited by Jparkr; 03-06-2012, 09:15 PM.
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Originally posted by FunfGan View PostAwesome so far! also just gave me an idea for a cleaner looking sunroof delete... I assume that compound can be bought for noncommercial use?
Originally posted by KoKoSe7eN View Posthow much were the new calipers?
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I love it! I am doing the same thing to get rid of my stupid sunroof =)
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Awesome so far! also just gave me an idea for a cleaner looking sunroof delete... I assume that compound can be bought for noncommercial use?
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