Touring International

[Earl]

Gay... you should quit and sell it!

This!

You two =P

[Evil Panda]

Gay... you should quit and sell it!

This!

[244Brick]

Gay... you should quit and sell it!

[Earl]

Hmm........I somewhat like those but at the same time they may be too smooth

[KyleAnderson]

Stumbled across these today and thought of your build...

http://www.boltdepot.com/Metric_hole_plugs_for_socket_caps_Chrome_plated_steel.aspx

[Earl]

Thanks Igor=) It means a lot coming from you guys

[catuned]

hey Earl,

Looking great man! This car is going to rock! Glad to see a ti get so much love and attention!

[Earl]

fierce

Thank you

Cars looking good, can't wait to see it at some shows! Also, I know John lol

Thank you. What is your name? haha

[smiles]

Cars looking good, can't wait to see it at some shows! Also, I know John lol

[floatingdino]

fierce

[Earl]

Just for fun I took a picture of John standing in the bay.


After that he took a picture of freshly baby faced me in the bay=)

[Earl]

After that I installed the front rotors (with my stainless ECS retaining bolts)


Followed by the front calipers


Once the front was tackled I moved onto the rear.

I installed the axles


Then it was time to toss the wheels on and drop it back onto the earth



We were going to drop the engine in for shits and giggles, but didn't have the proper straps and I couldn't air the front of the car up high enough to get the engine hoist legs to slide underneath.

Things are now happening at a steady pace=) I am hoping to get the car out to paint within the next month. My interior and other small tasks should keep me busy while it is away

[Earl]

Thursday I arrived to the shop to see how the fuel rail turned out.


I also installed a little more hardware from Fastenal.


Before


After


They gave me an m10 nyloc nut instead of an m12, so I had to put the old diff bolt back in until they get that sorted.

I went to Summerfest Thursday as well and saw this



I wanted to take it for a ride so bad=)

Saturday I decided to make it my goal to get the car back on all four wheels. With me patiently awaiting my quote, I figured that the car needs to be ready to roll as soon as possible.

With that I started by priming the front subframe and control arm mounting areas. I wanted to make the surfaces as nice as possible to keep from dirtying up my new parts. I didn't want to install any of this until the entire front end was cleaned up and undercoated, but they will be doing that when they paint so I will be dropping this all once it gets to the bodyshop anyways=)

I started by laying everything out (I didn't lay out the struts and calipers since the cardboard was too small)


I then installed the front subframe



After that came the control arms and Treehouse Racing mounts



I then bolted the front knuckles to the struts and then installed them on the car.

[Earl]

Takes too long doing photobucket links on the phone haha

[Evil Panda]

So update us then. lol