Sometimes you just have to know when to start over...

[Nismo]

Originally Posted by Buggy

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.