^ You were right there, numbnutz. Evan even tried it. Playing with the balance control goes a long ways when welding on cast aluminum. Or so I learned from someone in the know, after the fact.
I just made a down payment on a car. It's from kansas. w00t http://s548.photobucket.com/albums/ii359/Dcardsrule/
I got a call at 8:15 saying he broke down in Albert Lea. I figured he gelled up over night, and it ended up being the case. I met him after work at 3:30 in front of Northstar Auto Auction, and drove it home. I didn't have time to go do a burnout, plus with the clicking axle and lack of plates, I was less inclined anyways. Maybe next weekend. It ended up being cleaner than I expected. The car is 99.9% rust free. All the normal nasty spots are all solid metal, and the one little spots of surface rust is also solid by how it sounds when I tap on it. The front end has never been repaired beyond a bumper cover and a little spray in the front, as none of the core support or any sheetmetal under the good or along the frame rails has been eff'd with. Now, about that color....... Not bad for $840 shipped :biggrin: It might be a few months before she looks like this again. I may paint the door handles this time. I dunno. I have time to think about it
Wow, that thing is retardedly clean. so when does this ones tear down begin, when the OG is all stripped?
I need to finish tearing the wrecked one apart, and welding on the rest of the castor stands on it. Then the fun begins.
^cool, that's what I figured. Now that I have a seemingly dependable car again I'd totally be up for coming down some weekend and lending a hand
Progress finally. After working on everyone else's junk and other events, I've finally had time to get the old car out of the garage and start tearing into the new car. And it really is like working on a new car. No rusty bolts. Even the fender bolts are coming out like butter. I got the motor out of the new car, along with the AC and most of the other useless junk from the engine bay. Five days of wrenching has made me a little sore though. I'm not used to rolling around under cars all day.
The new car has chrome door handles. AFAIK, only the turbo cars had the plastic painted door handles. They both crack and break. These, however, are not cracked at all. I still don't know if I'm going to stay with chrome. I like how they look with the other chrome trim on a dark car. A white or silver car is another story...
Pre-facelift turbos had chrome handles. If you need any spare white handles or anything else from my 93 let me know. Its getting close to going to the scrap yard.
Can I get a moment of silence for this small picture break.... Yeah...... All that is left of the FWD fail in this car is the fuel tank, and it has 12 gallons in it at the moment. Of course, no car from Kansas would be complete without piles of dirt...
It actually only took about 10 min to drain it, its just that the stock fuel pump flows waaaaaaaaaaaaaay less than the walbro. I just don't like drilling holes in things filled with combustible materials
^ I didn't find one. The AWD tank didn't have one either. Thanks to mad-mike for helping me get the front crossmember/suspension in. This is why all the old Legacys have rusty-ass fenders on them. It is comforting to know that most of this stuff has to come back out for paint
then use a torch... or a cutting wheel.. more sparks means less boom reminds me of the time my tech decided the only way to change a fuel filter on a Chevy pickup after the bolts rounded from being rusted on was to use his cutting wheel... I wasnt too keen on standing next to him witht he hose.. but we got it done!!!
wow. awesome progress!! I forget, do you need to do any driveshaft carrier fabrication for an AWD swap in an EJ car? that was the most difficult part of my swap, I had to make some mounts, which weren't perfect and eventually ate the bearing and u-joint, so I eventually switched to a 1-piece shaft.
All the mounting spots are there, just covered with plugs. In theory, that is. I'll know for sure tomorrow when I get to that. First thing on the docket is removing the extra evap crap from the green car that I didn't know I needed until I got hte tank out of the brown car. Once I have the tank in place and dealt with I can move on to the rear subframe and diff. Then get the tranny in place. After that it is motor stuff and making my IC fit with some sort of bumper beam.
*****. haha. Your an engineer, you should know it's the fumes that are exlosive, not the liquid haha. I welded fittings on to a 55 gallon fuel tank last week and I'm still here...(it was washed out and partially filled with water...) actaully I just thought the tanks were plastic in these cars. Awesome progess!
I know I could drill a hole in the tank, but two wires and I have a running fuel pump. Easy as pie. I've watched someone weld a full acetylene tank before....
