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Old 05-05-2010, 04:36 PM   #78
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Originally Posted by Buggy View Post
I'll have to swing by and see the progress on the car. I haven't seen it since I dropped it off at your place last fall. Maybe when I'm putting my break in miles on the Rx-4 a trip to Goderich will be in order.
Yes come on over, you can even help me build the deck if you time it right LOL.


Time for another update:

While I was removing the front subframe I found lots of surface rust... Something I was so happy I thought this car was mostly free of, well it's not some idiot put a standard brake fitting in the master cylinder, and it pissed brake fluid everywhere! The entire drivers side frame rail doesn't have any paint any longer:





Here is the culprit, a whopping 3 threads of engagement if I'm lucky, not is it stupid to ruin the paint it's majorly unsafe!:



I have also been very busy painting the front suspension components:

Ball Joints:

I also cut off the old rubber boots, and installed the Energy Suspension boots:



Control arms, already have Energy Suspension bushings installed, with a fresh coat of aluminum paint:



and the subframe, 3 coats of matte black rustoleum later:



I have to figure the best way to neutralize the brake fluid and get a coat of paint on there. So updates might take a few days now.
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1986 Base-RB Exhaust, HKS filter, Solid Aluminum motor mounts, S5 TII motor, ACT Clutch, HKS SSQV, Light Weight Flywheel, Haltech E6X, 720cc 2ndaries, Koni Yellows, Tein Springs Koyo Rad, 250 WHP 230 FTLBS Stock turbo, and stock IC at 10psi. RIP!!

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