Roxanne: ksnew's fd3s build thread.
07-17-14, 06:43 PM
#177
The car was stuuuuuupid loud straight piped (go figure) since it's a street car I decided to quieten it up a bit. Pretty happy with the results overall.
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07-19-14, 05:21 PM
#183
Ended up deleting the cable hand brake mechanism on the hydro hand brake calipers. I'll still have my cable mechanism on the factory brakes so I can still use the factory hand brake to park the car or whatever. Hopefully they still work fine lol. I don't see why they wouldn't. I guess I'll find out soon enough.
04-23-15, 07:16 PM
#186
Back from the dead. a friend and myself rewired the chassis and it's up and going again. here's a few pictures.
Here's the finalized engine harness panel.
as you can see, we went with breakers instead of fuses and used gm weather pack connectors to make the panel somewhat easy to remove for maintenance or any other need. As far as the body harness goes we still have a lot of work but it's roughly wired. Everything works and I can drive it but we need to go back and finalize everything and make a panel similar to the engine side.
got the steering components all sorted out and whatnot. Got the car to finally align right and was able to get 6.5* of camber out of it.
also another friend and myself painted the car. prepped it, blocked it, primed it and sprayed it all in roughly 8 hours. Since we were busy trying to get it knocked out I didn't snag very many pictures of the car while prepping/painting it.
End result.
Got an alignment and stuff.
then drove the car, with realitively no run time on it up to TN/NC to deals gap for DGRR.
and this is how it sits now.
overall, I'm very happy with how the car acted. There's a few things I need to go back and fix/change but for the most part it's pretty solid. I still have to get the car caged but for now I'm going to enjoy it and drive it some for a change. It's been down nearly 3 1/2 years total so I'm itching to put some miles on it again.
Here's the finalized engine harness panel.
as you can see, we went with breakers instead of fuses and used gm weather pack connectors to make the panel somewhat easy to remove for maintenance or any other need. As far as the body harness goes we still have a lot of work but it's roughly wired. Everything works and I can drive it but we need to go back and finalize everything and make a panel similar to the engine side.
got the steering components all sorted out and whatnot. Got the car to finally align right and was able to get 6.5* of camber out of it.
also another friend and myself painted the car. prepped it, blocked it, primed it and sprayed it all in roughly 8 hours. Since we were busy trying to get it knocked out I didn't snag very many pictures of the car while prepping/painting it.
End result.
Got an alignment and stuff.
then drove the car, with realitively no run time on it up to TN/NC to deals gap for DGRR.
and this is how it sits now.
overall, I'm very happy with how the car acted. There's a few things I need to go back and fix/change but for the most part it's pretty solid. I still have to get the car caged but for now I'm going to enjoy it and drive it some for a change. It's been down nearly 3 1/2 years total so I'm itching to put some miles on it again.
08-06-15, 08:26 PM
#190
Back from the dead again.
Drove the car around and worked more minor bugs out and then went ahead and installed my two way and built a custom cradle/brace as well for the diff.
Pressed out the old worn diff bushings and replaced them with sikky solid bushings.
the beginnings of the cradle. I wanted to support as much of the casing as possible since fd casings are known for splitting. I also brought the cradle up where it braced the diff mount its self in the narrowest point to help prevent it from breaking in the future.
Finished product (for now) still gotta go back and add beefier arms to actually brace it to the chassis but in the mean time I'm just using my current aftermarket brace.
It seems to be working. I've been pretty hard on the car and it hasn't broke yet lol. I'm also running drive shaft shop axles now so hopefully I won't break anymore axles.
Drove the car around and worked more minor bugs out and then went ahead and installed my two way and built a custom cradle/brace as well for the diff.
Pressed out the old worn diff bushings and replaced them with sikky solid bushings.
the beginnings of the cradle. I wanted to support as much of the casing as possible since fd casings are known for splitting. I also brought the cradle up where it braced the diff mount its self in the narrowest point to help prevent it from breaking in the future.
Finished product (for now) still gotta go back and add beefier arms to actually brace it to the chassis but in the mean time I'm just using my current aftermarket brace.
It seems to be working. I've been pretty hard on the car and it hasn't broke yet lol. I'm also running drive shaft shop axles now so hopefully I won't break anymore axles.
08-06-15, 08:27 PM
#191
apart from building the diff I haven't made too many changes to the car lately. I did buy a set of adjustable rear arms and new toe arms so now I will have fully adjustable rear camber in the rear.
Here's a few shots of the car as it sits from the past couple of months. I don't have many pics of how the car looks since it's been painted on here yet.
Still haven't had the time or money to go to an event and really shake down the car yet. There's an event coming up next month I may try to make it to just to see how the car does.
The next big plan for the car in the near future is to start on the cage.
Here's a few shots of the car as it sits from the past couple of months. I don't have many pics of how the car looks since it's been painted on here yet.
Still haven't had the time or money to go to an event and really shake down the car yet. There's an event coming up next month I may try to make it to just to see how the car does.
The next big plan for the car in the near future is to start on the cage.
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