Wolf Dilworth on 02:05:50 PM / 28-Jun-11
Use a very sharp utility knife to score along the underside and break it free. Tedious work at best. A little steal wool along with water and elbow grease will shine up the bare metal bits. Do yourself a favor and mask off the paint before the steal wool trick.
For sure! Ill give all that a go later on. Last night I got quite a bit done. Finished removing interior, removed the rest of everything in the back, played with a dremel, dropped the old subframe, and almost installed the new one.
Put new wheels on the front
Finished removing everything from the back of the car
Then I test fit everything I do have for the rear end so far
Then I promptly took it all back off again
Removing interior
This is something I had fun playin with last night. The b and c pillar plastic interior peices I plan on keeping and reusing, but I didnt like the back end of them.
As you can see, the back end looks a little weird without bein cut.
So I dremeled them :)
Ill probably be keeping and reusing these little pockets. I like em.
Removing carpet
Carpet out
Then I test fit my new front seat. Nice fit
I screwed up though and have been sitting on the chair while its been in my garage...its fine, Ill just need to bend back the tabs today or tomorrow.
Out with the old!
In with the new!
Alright, so Maxpow (Andrew) came over last night to help with the Subframe install. Now, neither of us have had previous MMR bushing install experience, and w/ the diff bushing being super wide, I was hoping we wouldnt run into any problems. Well, after some amazing thinking, I found out how it was MMR wanted their subframe bushings installed on the car and I gotta admit, their idea is brilliant to say the least.
Now, first thing you need to know, is when you drop the subframe, get this little plate off the bolts hanging under the car. Reason being is the MMR bushings are totally flat at the top and so is the bottom of the car. You dont need a metal plate with a little bit of rubber in there...trust.
When installing the subframe, normally you install this little plate under the subframe like this.
Notice that little nub of metal? Whats the point of a solid mount if that nub is going to be my weak point in the suspension. So we flipped the plate over to see how it would look.
HELLA FLUSH!!
Problem that I have now though is the stock bolts arent long enough to connect to the chassis still.
So tonight Ill be going and getting longer bolts and hopefully installing the plate like this tonight.
(the subframe isnt all the way in yet, thats why theres that big gap)
Now, for those of you wondering "Yes, thats all great, but now you have a big gap between the chassis and the middle of this plate..thats no good, what do you plan on doing about that?"
Maxpow thought of something brilliant.
The subframe that we pulled came off his old car and still has the sway bar endlinks. Well, turns out the endlinks fit perfectly over the bolt, and between that gap. FUCK YEA!
Almost there.
So this is how she still sits.
