Slowly now.. EASY does it...

[biggo]

I always find welding and fabbing the best part of the build. I think the beer is there for restraint but i havent tried it on an 86 lately.

Tub looks good, I would have rathered it with out the crease on the front. What turbo? why do thou wish so many horses IN YOUR CAR!!!!!!!

[blair]

Wanna tub mine? HAHA

great job mate!

[--Redwork--]

The crease is just the bend fron the very front where it joins the rad support... not much I could really do about it... other than make a new radiator support... Wont notice it once the engine is back in...

And Biggo... you can NEVER have to much hp... especially when its wide and responsive horsepower...
The turbo is a GT 3071. with .63 T3 external rear housing.. (i'm sure I've said already)
Should see full boost of 20ish psi at 4000.. some ppl even get it on full boost before then... So should be epic fun.. baaaaaaaaa da da da da baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[R&D Mechanical]

Looking good mate!

[--Redwork--]

I started modding the X-member tonight.. pics will be up tomorow.. got some other stuff to sort tomorow...
Have heaps of pics for steep by steep.. So stay tuned.

[--Redwork--]

X-member... Started...

First.. drill the spoit welds out. You should end up with something that looks roughly like this..
This is after I stuck a cold chisel in there to open u the gap..


Second.. cut through the steering rack mounts inside of the welds.. with a bit of luck it'll turn out like ths..
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Then mark our how much you want to move the rack forward...
I chose ALOT. and ended up with this..
Please note that that it took an air hack saw to cut through the interenal baffels and get it to this stage.



And here is what it looks like BEFOR you start... for future reference

[--Redwork--]

I hope this is all to you guys liking...
I'm a guy that Loves really really tech build threads.. so I'm aiming to make mine as informative as possable..
I'll aim to get poictures of everything I posibly can..so if you guys want extra info on some thing I've done please ask... And I'll try my best to either get a picture, or explain it as best I can...


Also I should note that I'm curently very drunk... super LOLS>>>>

[--Redwork--]

UPDATE.!!! there is No update... have been stupid busy... racked up 50 hours already this week and its only thursday, AND I still have tomorow and saturday to go..... so MAYBE , if your lucky, i'll have soemthing to show you sunday night... But only if your good...

Also note the fact thats is almost 11pm and I have to get up at 4:30..

[biggo]

How do you do that? I work my 8 hours everyday but im usually too rooted to work on cars druing the week. Can i have some of what you're having?

[--Redwork--]

Do what.?? work lots hours and still be motivated.???
Tell you the truth I'm totally rooted... only really get the weekends to do anything, unless I finish at a sane time eg 4ish.. And then I still have no time to work on the car cause I;m trying to get other stuff I've been neglecting done...
Currently my house is a mess.. Don't think there's any clean dishes left.. I have a growing mountain of washing to do plus many other cleaning issues I want to attend to.. So with a great deal of luck I "MIGHT" get to spend some time on the car tomorow... maybe.