Alright so now back to the subframe. I found this nice transmission floor jack adapter. I wasn't about to attempt lowering the whole thing without a nice support base on the jack!

Before:


After:


I loosened all the bolts to the subframe, then placed the jack under the subframe and supported it while I unbolted everything:



I then started to lower the jack, but I didn't set the transmission adapter at the correct angle so the subframe needed some rubber mallet pursuasion to come down, including the differential:





Everything out of the car now:


And the diff seperated from the subframe:




Now I need to clean up this subframe and paint it. I am waiting on the spherical bushings and camber links and everything will go back up once I get all the bushings pressed in.

 

does your car have ABS ?

ps looks very nice !!!!

 

No ABS on this vert.....

 

niiiiiice

 

props to the fact that you do your own work.


but damn dude the way you painted that tans and diff housing is ghetto bro

 

"Bro" learn to write properly I have a transmission not a "tans" and if you don't like the way I did something keep it to yourself instead of letting the world know your issues. It's people like you that I hate posting on internet forums so you should appreciate the fact that I am taking the time to post this up for everyone to see.

This isn't your car, it's mine so don't tell me you didn't like the color because it sure as hell isn't going on your car.

 

the fact that you angry with me does not change the fact you where to lazy and cheap to disassemble the transmission and the differential housing in order to paint them in lowrider like fashion. that $20 could have most likely went to something useful your car actually needed.

i was not trying to be a dick, i was simply offering constructive criticism on how you could hone your workmanship skills. because anybody who knows what they are looking at knows in fact that your paint job is second rate.

so maybe you should go to painting classes to learn how to mask areas off properly, and common sense to remove seals before you apply paint.

bro

 

:grabs popcorn:

 

Hey, you can spell transmission! Who said I am building a lowrider? Maybe I should rename my thread just for you and call it the TII convertible low-rider thread. I even thought about not even wasting my time replying when i saw the word low-rider

No, if you really want to know the reason I painted them, I want to prevent dirt and corrosion in the future, applying layers of paint/clear coat will help that. Those $20 dollars actually went to something I needed and act as both functional and aesthetically pleasing to me. This is far from a show car...

You probably have lived your whole life being a dick to other people, therefore you don't notice it. Read a book on ethics and moral duties, maybe you will learn something. The constructive criticism you gave me was very helpful, I learned a lot from "your paint job is ghetto bro". I think that will help me "hone my workmanship" a lot, thank you. By the way, I could care less if my paint job is second rate (see comment #2).

I have my engineering classes to worry about than to waste my time learning how to "paint properly". I'm pretty sure if I keep it that way I will get further in life. Any seals I painted over I have replaced with new ones if you really have been following this thread, which is the reason I painted over them in the first place.

Again with the "bro".... Regardless, take your issues somewhere else because your in the wrong section if you want to chat...

 

i dig this project

 

I completely understand why you painted those parts, I do wonder about the thinking behind the color.
Typically, I'd see those components painted either silver ( makes the casting look clean/new and any scratches to the paint reveal only the silver metal underneath) or black ( looks spiffy, hides oil/grime).
In a show car, you might even see them painted body color.

You went a different way and since there is obviously thought behind your actions, maybe you could elucidate?

 

I had aluminum paint, but I wanted to go with something different, I really don't mind if it gets rock chipped down the road, just experimenting

 

 

Awesome work man~! Where in MN are you located? I might have a little work for you to do for me as well~ =).

 

nice build, I love turbo verts

 

Any updates?

 

Too cold for updates.... waiting on warm weather at least above 30*F : )

 

wow, clean car and clean build! I had a HELL of a time replacing my shifter spring... ended up having to pull the entire back section off the trans to find out that I actually did not break anything.

I'm glad that you're fixing this car up properly, seems like you got the budget to spend money on little stuff like that front seal cover that most people would have just overlooked. Anyway, good luck with the car, keep er shiny side up!

 

excellent work man...

 

Thanks for all the comments!

Ok, it finally got warm around here and this week I have been on spring break. My food is cooking and I figured I would upload some new pictures on the progress.

I don't know if I mentioned it before but I decided I was going to undercoat the 7. One of the main reasons for it was because I am doing all this work to it and the last thing I want would be to have all these nice upgrades and the body to rot. To start off with, the chassis was clean as it was but I want to keep it that way.

With nothing else left on the rear of the car, I removed the gas tank. It was really easy, just disconnect the lines going to it, access the two covers in the trunk and disconnect more lines! Then undo the two bolts closest to the front of the car that go to the straps and drop the tank:



(You can see that it is not necesary to remove the two bolts that are impossible to get to on the rear of the tank holding the strap. Those can come off once the tank is removed.)





Some things I didn't take pictures of: I spent TWO days cleaning the whole chassis. It was a mess, probably the nastiest thing I have ever done. I remember reading on Aaron's website how he undercoating his car and it got all over his hair and skin and wouldn't come off for weeks. Well I came prepared and got one of those painters suits because I do not want this stuff on me.

Side-track: I figured now would be the best time to drill the hole for the differential bump stop (a.k.a pinion snubber). At first, I tried to drill from inside the car. There is a brace in the way and will make it impossible to get the drill bit to go straight. I looked underneath the car, and sure enough the marks where there!





Make a guide hole using a punch so your bit doesn't walk all over the place:



Success:


This is the stuff I used to undercoat the 7. I recommend to anyone doing this also get the "black shell" since the silver color the regular stuff leaves isn't very pretty. I haven't taken pictures of the black coat since I forgot to take the camera out today and I am still waiting on the 1st coat to dry:







Like I said, the color isn't the best and almost made me re-think this whole undercoating thing. But with the black coat it looks very pretty

Once the last black coat is applied, I will start to put everything back together. I had my suspension bushings pressed in and I will also post those up as soon as I get those back!

More pictures to come...

 

how'd you put that undercoat on?
Car looks is very clean

 

^^^I used a brush, but you can use a spray gun for the silver stuff according to the instructions. The black stuff is very thick...

And here it is after the two coats of the black stuff, the nightmare is over!!!

 

Looks good. I like your attention to detail. I'll definitely be keeping up with this thread. I need to do the undercoating on my car. Rust is so easy to prevent and such a bitch to get rid of, its almost stupid not to do it.

Are you going to use one of the basic autozone bump stops for the pinion snubber or do you have something else in mind?

 

Wow! Everything looks awesome getting sprayed like that!!

 

--I got the energy suspension bump stops. They came in a pair and were around $10 from summit racing. Pictured on page 1 with the lenses.

I bought some fuel lines and miscellaneous hoses to replace the old lines underneath the car and on the gas tank. I was hoping to get the tank back up in the car today but I ran into a problem. The overfill hose for the filler seems to be cracking on both the tank and the actual "filler" section, I don't want to have to do this again so I have to replace them. I couldn't find anything of that size around town so I guess I will be ordering from Mazdatrix on Monday.

New hoses on the gas tank (tank needs a wash!):



Small filler hose on tank:


Small filler hose on "filler" section: