was able to get the trany in solo! was tring it with a jack but to no avail , so I became the human lift put it on my chest and lifted it up with my arms and legs! lol got it in in a couple minutes haha...

went to the store to get gear oil and the cheapo pump I bought broke had to get another one,

got it done took it for a drive seems good!! 6 puck seems to engage pretty nicely( was worried it would be somewhat harsh, then again the 3 puck doenst bug me either tho lol)

unfortunitly it was raining so couldnt get too wild with out going sideways!

 

Car is in the shop to fix my door and fender from the hit and run.
Cant wait to have her back!

 

Where'd you take it to?

 

I'm trying to install FD oem rear mud guard but couldnt remove one of the three inserts - the one facing front of the car. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

 

Check my new kicks out.

 

Took it to Kadel's Autobody in Beaverton.
Just got it back today, looks like they did I fine *** job on it.
Havent gotten to the pin stripes yet though. They are sending a guy out to my house to finish those.
Ill post a pic here in a bit.

 

Dropped off the fiberglass Mariah hood to a place to get it fixed up. Also did some polishing on the 2 rims that have showed up so far. Hope the other 2 show up soon.

 

oh gad dam - just went blind from awesomeness

 

Well, I drove it...does that count?

 

It's no longer carbureted.

 

Put the engine in the FD. Minor things to button up and it is cranking time.

 

Installed the new Koni setup.

Shocks are Koni yellow rebuilt for new spring rates:

Front: 900 lb
Rear: 750 lb

Springs are Hyperco.
Genesis dividers with helper springs.
Notice that the Koni setup lets me use a real upper spring perch, also from Koni.
This prevents the springs bending under load.

Upper mounts are TriPoint monoball mounts

TrueChoice Koni rebuilt the shocks and cut new grooves for the shocks, but the new grooves left the car too high at even with the coilovers as low as possible.

So yesterday I took it all apart and cut new spring perch grooves.

Lowered the rears by .75 inch
Lowered the fronts by .348 inch

Now it can be properly corner balanced.

Koni vs Ground Control



Cutting a new spring perch groove in an old blown shock.



Installed - primer is where I painted over bits chewed up in the lathe.
Didn't have any yellow paint.

 

sold my 87 t2 to my dad!

 

Rolled my fenders on the fc.

 

Working on fixing the passenger side windshield rim water leak. Wired my antenna extension to a switch that didn't do anything in my console, and am pulling apart my dash/console to try and fix the wiring that the previous owner and the owner before him fucked up when they swapped the engine and Turboed it. There's tons of **** to do on this but that's why I bought it. They didn't even put a gasket between the turbo and block and left the turbo bolts finger tight

 

The guys looked at the hood and were talking crazy money to repair the hood. I'm going to look at other options, I know CompLogics dad does fiberglass work, I'm prob going to run it down to him to take a look at it. Anyone else good at fiberglass work ?

I got an MSD in and hooked up finally, and I made a cool little bolt for my air cleaner cover.

 

pulled the motor for a rebuild!

 

Replaced my bent toe rod!

 

Primered the Engine bay and FC cross member in prep for my TurboII/FC front suspension conversion.

 

Slapped on some diff wheels for the sunshine. Too lazy to put on the boot today...

 

We got the front end ripped apart, started putting in the rack n pinion setup, have to find a place to press in ball joints. Turns out it had some suspension techniques springs, so now I have a set of racing beat, green sus tech, and grey sus tech. I guess the greys are older and linear, greens are newer and progressive. More parts to sell.

 

Day two of sitting on my days off of work. Waiting for the next paycheck. I have to get rid of these 16" Neeper aliens that it's riding on.

 

Started it after large bridgeport and custom intake manifold. Needs tuned, too much brap brap.


Heads + cam.

 

 

Man that sounds good!