New Front Suspension

While we were waiting for our wheels to arrive, I wanted to take advantage of the time we had, and we decided to scrap the H&R Race Springs for some custom coilovers. We ended up saving about $100 from our budget. I took the stock struts and cut the spring perches off. I then sectioned the strut in order to lower the placement of the threaded sleeve. I have done the same on my street car without lowering the perch, and the lowest setting is not low enough for this car.
I then Re- welded the parts back together in the new order. Basically i cut out a 1" scction from below the perch and moved it above the perch. It was a lot of work, and if I had to do it again, i'd probably only grind off the existing perch and weld i a new one instead of cutting everything apart.


A lot of time was spent griding in order to get the sleeve to slide on with no problems.



I shot them with some green paint, and they are good to go.

Work has started again!

Well, it has been a while since i posted any updates, but we've been busy behind the curtain acquiring parts and coming up with a game plan for this year. These are the plates I designed, and my dad machined out of some scrap aluminum. They will allow us to bolt up some wide-5 wheels (15x10) to our 4x100 bolt pattern.




We got our new Hoosiers! Got them for free too! 275 35 15. Look at the difference between stockers and those!



A quick shot of where we expect the offset to be on the rear. I used my DD because I was working on the wheel bearings, and already had the wheel off.





Another quick shot of where we expect the offset to be on the front.