My ground up (Start to finish) thread
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I just wanted to let you know, as all the others have said, you are doing an Awesome job on this. Do you work in a Body shop, or Machine shop with some of the skills you've shown in fabricating pieces?
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Thanks! no i dont work in a body shop or any machine shop
nor any flied related to cars.
nor any flied related to cars.
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Re: My ground up (Start to finish) thread
Heres what i put off till about everything else was done.
this was probably the worse of the car. basically from the looks of it water, sand, road grim etc. might have got into some of the wheel well seems and adventively rotted lucky it only went as far a the lip. so i had to cut it all out and make my own backing and a peace to reconnect the lip. it took some time since i don't have any body tools or srinkers or stretchers just the old hammer and vice. heres some pics
this was probably the worse of the car. basically from the looks of it water, sand, road grim etc. might have got into some of the wheel well seems and adventively rotted lucky it only went as far a the lip. so i had to cut it all out and make my own backing and a peace to reconnect the lip. it took some time since i don't have any body tools or srinkers or stretchers just the old hammer and vice. heres some pics
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I have to do the same thing in the same exact spot on my car, must be a common rust spot. But I have more rust under there then you. You gave me a good idea how to approach mine. Thank you!
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Glade i could help someone. i still have to go over it sand it then re-coat it
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Re: My ground up (Start to finish) thread
Iv been using these old rims from some 70s truck anytime iv needed or wated to keep the car pre-loaded and be able to work under it. But i needed to gain a some more room so i used some 4x4 and 2x4s to get the car up higher so i can have enough room to coat the underside of the car. i ran out of screws tonight i need to put 2 more 2x4 side peaces on each. the 2x4s have a lip to keep the rims kinda boxed in and for safety even though they will probably never side. because the cars going up higher its going to be hard to try and squeeze these rims up on the front with the car unloaded so im going to probably have to make a brace that will hold the a-arms up and keep the front preloaded while i jack up on the brace... heres some pics...
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Impressive work man. I'm subscribing for sure, can't wait to see how this all turns out. Please keep us updated.
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Re: My ground up (Start to finish) thread
Car looks like its coming out great..very professional rebuild.....for my 2 cents i'd say put the roll cage in....i have a 6 point in my 87......it's abolt in cage.....i also welded extra flat plats on to the top of my subframe connectors to allow the bolts from the rollcage to tie into that as well.......really stiffined up the car.. handels better and rides better too......allot less chasis flexing......keep up the picts!
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Re: My ground up (Start to finish) thread
finally got around to getting the car up higher with everything still pre-loaded in some spots i have over 20"+ of head room underneath the car. . .
Still don't know if im going to use this stuff
Still don't know if im going to use this stuff
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hey fueled soul, cant believe im just now running across this thread.. how much did you spend on all your suspension stuff minus the 9-bolt?
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I am interested in the STB should you decide not to use it. Feel free to contact me via PM.
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dude beautiful work i just started stripping my iroc and reading this thread gave me alot of ideas how to do my front suspension and rust resto thanks!!!
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Re: My ground up (Start to finish) thread
all probably be getting more stuff done on it this weekend all post some pics if i make a good amount of progress. . .
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Re: My ground up (Start to finish) thread
So been playing around with sway bars obviously i cant test or get a feel for how i want the car to roll - understeer or oversteer but i at least have an idea instead of tossing on a 36mm / 25mm combo i think im going with a 34mm in the front and either a 23mm or 24mm in the rear to start out with. i think im scraping the jegsters and going to build my own tubular set of sub frames that would be far superior then anything offered on the market but we'll see. and if i do go that route id have to invests in a pipe notcher i kicked around the idea of fabbing up a set of lcas and a upper panhard bar since i know the exhauste is going to want to rest and bang against the stock one.
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Does anyone even make a replacement for the upper portion of the panhard rod? I was just thinking about your post and was trying to remember if I have ever seen one for sale anywhere. Sure would be nice to replace that stamped piece with either a boxed or tubular unit.
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subscribing....looks amazing so far!
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Does anyone even make a replacement for the upper portion of the panhard rod? I was just thinking about your post and was trying to remember if I have ever seen one for sale anywhere. Sure would be nice to replace that stamped piece with either a boxed or tubular unit.
http://store.summitracing.com/partde...art=upi-2024-b
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There are company's that make them. the upper bar ties in the left and right rear sub frame. i do need to clear my exhauste system besides adding some strength.
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Wow...awesome! Love to see such awesome transformation projects.
Keep it up!
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Keep it up!
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Re: My ground up (Start to finish) thread
nice work man!
you are ahead of me in the project and the pics provide excellent motivation!
what headers are those?
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you are ahead of me in the project and the pics provide excellent motivation!
what headers are those?
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Looks really good, is that a factory painted swaybar or an aftermarket? The silver paint on the steering linkages looks good, did it come painted that color or was that a personal touch? The pic is a little blurry who makes those tie rod sleaves? They look really beefy, almost overkill.. I like it With all those poly bushings and the brand new tierod ends etc. it should handle like its on rails
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Re: My ground up (Start to finish) thread
Been asked several times what im running so im posting a list of parts
Moog AMGK6145T $29.39
Moog AMGK6145T $29.39
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Summit SUM-TR-2227L $26.95
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Moog AMGK6145T $29.39
Moog AMGK6145T $29.39
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Re: My ground up (Start to finish) thread
this is a much needed upgrade for me. im droppin my fron springs an inch. need to get new struts obviosuly, what kind of struts do i need? can i get stock replacement struts or do i need somethin different..
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Re: My ground up (Start to finish) thread
I haven't updated this forever so here is whats going on.
I pulled my dash out to run a new harness.
you can read more about why i pulled it out on post #115 at this thread
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/memb...y-start-3.html
just have a few more things to do then i can paint the firewall.
I also built my own sub frames after all. It took sometime to do but they turned out great.
more pics and info can be found in this thread on my sub frames
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/fabr...al-design.html
I pulled my dash out to run a new harness.
you can read more about why i pulled it out on post #115 at this thread
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/memb...y-start-3.html
just have a few more things to do then i can paint the firewall.
I also built my own sub frames after all. It took sometime to do but they turned out great.
more pics and info can be found in this thread on my sub frames
https://www.thirdgen.org/forums/fabr...al-design.html
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Re: My ground up (Start to finish) thread
I hand scraped and whipped most of the old undercoating and over spray and fixed a lot of small areas. i power washed and cleaned the entire underside. i pulled the rear end back out. It took forever to get to this point if i had to do it over id just build my own chassis and mount the body. Working on the top and bottom floor boards was more work then i anticipated and has eaten up about a year and a half of car down time but it needed to be done. the underside is in primmer i should have a new rubberized coating on the bottom by this weekend along with the rear end and more goodies back in. I would love to have a nice smooth painted underside but the amount of time require to take all that rubber coating off that one of the previous owners put on would be over to whelming and to time consuming to the leave that id want to take it too. this car is going to be driven and raced so the re-coating it doesn't make me feel so upset.
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Wow! Looks like it's goin great. Keep up the good work.
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The entire undersides done. the rear ends in place i just need to torque everything to sepcs. im currently fabbing a upper panhard bar. everything looks great and im very happy with how the underside looks.
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getting the 24mm swaybar ready for primmer and paint
painted
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you going with adjustable lca's or just runnin with the stock ones?
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