Sunday, January 24

Suspension work continues

Saturday I spent the day at a friend's shop, John, from 90 Inclusive. He was nice enough to lend me his spring compressor which I used to remove the springs from the rusty parts car struts, sorry, no pics. I then cut them up to use as new center sections on our current struts.




Once everything was cut, and the surfaces prepped, I was ready to weld them together.




John took a quick snapshot of me using his Tig to weld the new collar on the strut housing. I forgot to take pics of the finished pieces, but I will upload some this week.

Saturday, January 23

Rebuilding suspension & motor mounts



I took out both motor mounts, and they had both sheared completely. I was planning on replacing them with hockey puck s, but i dont think the hockey pucks will be thick enough. Plus hockey pucks are $8 at Sports authority, and I need 4, 2 for engine and 2 for the trans. If anyone has some old pucks they'd like to get rid of, please let me know.





While I was at it yesterday, I decided to go ahead and redo the front suspension. I was never very happy with how it turned out. The top screw of the bilstein doesn't reach the strut housing and wont hold it in securely. I kept the front suspension from the parts car, and i'll be using it to cut and weld the new strut housing.





Today should be a busy day

Sunday, January 17

Houston, we have a problem.

Today, after trying to chase a no-start issue, I spotted something very disturbing, I'll let the pictures speak for themselves...


The motor is already an inch out of place in these shots.... That means that it needed to move a total of 2 inches over, towards the passenger side to make these dents.



It turns out that at the last autox, I broke the motor mounts. Probably because of the cold front we had. It was in the 40's that morning.


...not good.

Wednesday, January 13

Soul

The DirtE30Originally uploaded by Ocell


Shot by Chris Owens at the Jan 2 autox, He's captured the spirit of the car in one beautiful shot.

Check out his photostream at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocell/