My name is Earl, and I have a Stainless Steel bolt fetish =)
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earl, are you done with this project yet?
well it's a winter project.
so he can't work on it during the summer.
because logic.
to be fair. he did do a shitload of awesome work
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earl, when ever i come to your shop barely anything gets done. remember when we were lighting stuff on fire and then we were kicking a piece of paper around? or when jake came over and we played frizbee for a good hour? or when you were getting upset cause your car wouldnt go any lower, so we spent the day trying to figure that out, and then we found out your car was already laying on the ground?
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HOLY SHIT. I was over here thinking "why does he just know how to change a suspension" and "why does this guy have a dedicated garage in milwauke" and now I see. This guy know how's to build a car! I am impressed. Passion at its finest. This is for an off road set up? (I didn't read the whole thread)
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I am doing a horrible job of getting anything done on this=/
Literally all that happened Saturday is I cut my rear bumper with a box knife to start getting it to fit around the tire better and then Andy made a template for mounting my compressors, manifold, and anything else I may want to locate in my tool well.
Hopefully my mirrors arriving sparks something in my brain. Otherwise this thing will continue to sit and not get finished because my motivation is absolutely zero.
Before
After
Otherside doesn't fit as well. Both sides need to be heated and bent a little.
Tool well template
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I didn't have a whole lot of time on Saturday but I got a tiny bit done.
I went to the junkyard Friday and cut the coil harness off of an M50 with a piece of glass.
I need four of them to make the harness for my COP kit. I grabbed the other two incase I mess up, or if someone else needs them to make a harness.
I decided that since my car won't be able to drive until after Winter, I will replace all of my front suspension. My thought is that then my car will be almost all new and I won't need to take it off the road next year to replace any wear parts.
I started the by removing my front swaybar.
You can see that compacts came with a pretty beefy 25mm swaybar (basically 1"). The Sport compacts came with a 26mm sway bar. The M3 came with only a 23mm swaybar. I know that my M3 endlinks work with my swaybar so you would think M3 guys would use these as upgrades.
I will be getting new bushings, brackets, and repainting the bar. The rest of my front suspension overhaul will consist of control arms, inner/outer tierods, and a set of Treehouse Racing eyeball arms.
After taking a look at all of that, I started to take my steering rack out to find where it is leaking since I couldn't tell with it on the car.
I got this far and then thought I couldn't get it off because I don't have the proper size wrenches for the inner or outer tie rods.
I realized when I got home that I could have just undone the tierods from the knuckles and took the whole assembly out. I will just do that when I get to the shop next time.
After all of that it was time to go to the Dubs Downtown show in downtown Milwaukee that my friends were putting on. The turnout was great and the meet was awesome overall besides the rain.
I finally got to see my friend Nick Feras 350 swapped 928 and was happy with the outcome.
There were a lot of other great cars there but I didn't take anymore pictures.
I did however end up picking my lip up from my friend that he was helping me repair. It is now structurally sound and needs some filler to smooth it out and reshape it. I threw it on for a test fit as soon as I got back to the shop.
I am not sure how I feel about it. I like it but it may be a bit too aggressive for the look I am going for. We will see once it is done being repaired and the whole car is painted. Maybe the floor not being flat at all has something to do with it too. The lip sits high off the floor, but Shaun Quills is on the ground and he is at the same height as me when I am aired out.
The last update is that my mirrors should be showing up this week=) I am hoping sooner than later. I cannot wait to see how they look installed.
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What's the over/under on this being operational before the snow flies?!?
I need to see this running, I am too emotionally invested in this thread/build to see it not come to life.
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