My S13 240 : Ls swap, Corvette trans,ITB's, Widebody, Stupid wide wheels,

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Mini somewhat related/unrelated update.

Rear hubs came in so got one bolted up and decided to take some measurements about where i roughly think the wheel edge will sit. It looks like it will poke about 2.75". This was with about the camber i want to run, -1.8 ish. If this is intact about where it sits ill probably widen it another 1' and i should be good, between the slight stretch and a pinch more camber. Also took a measurement and the overall width is about 78-79", aka 18 wheeler wide lololol ridiculous. I love it.


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I also started tear down on our old 50s stroller for our soon to be here son Oliver (holy shit he is only 4-6 weeks away from being here). EVERYTHING on this thing is frozen and rusted up. Someone has clearly been in here before as there are a bracket here and there but nothing i can't repair and make it look like it came like that from the factory.
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Only had a half day of work today, so i made the best of the nice day and worked out in the garage this afternoon.

I started out by disassembling the front and rear knuckles so i could use the hardware on the new items once they had all come in. Also decided to throw the hardware along with my wheel bolts in the cleaner shaker thing i can never remember the name of.

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When i removed the front wheels and suspension out of the front floor board, i realized the car wanted to flip off the jack stands, because i had the transaxle and rear suspension all bolted up. It was a good bad thing all the weight is in the rear haha. So i threw the wheels on a dolly set between the frame rails to even out the weight. Once i had finished dissembling the front knuckles, i took the wheels off and mounted the motor back up front.



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After getting there motor back in, i decided it was about time i got the steering rack mounted up to the front subframe. As i mentioned before i moved the rack over to the driver side so that the steering shaft has a direct path to the steering rack, eliminating one u joint, which will help in the feel department tremendously.


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Once i had the steering rack all in place on the front subframe i bolted it back up and decided to halfway mock up the front suspension, because why not right?
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[jalenda9]

Damnnnnnnnnnn son

[laextreme5]

For some reason the garage was extremely filthy even after not being worked in for 1.5 months.
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Anywho, had the front knuckles and LCA's come in today. So i mocked them up together along with the dumpster adjustble tie rod ends, all from gktech.

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After i made sure everything was there I mounted all the rear suspension linkage and the knuckles to the subframe and then the subframe to the car. Reason being is MY FUCKING WHEELS HAVE SHIPPED, so clearly you can see i am excited to mock them up. Rear hubs should be here few days before the wheels show up, so till mock up its just a waiting game.

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I also had a spare piece of alumilite laying around, so i decided to tape it up crudely to get an idea of how high up into the rear body the diffuser will go at the desired angle i want. For street cars the safe range is 7-10*, however i will have a fairly efficient full underfloor and rear wing so I'm going to go in the 12-14* range. Upon holding it up, from the bottom of the subframe (pretty much where the diffuser will start) up to about 1" into the rear body is a 12-13* angle. Which works out great. AS it leaves me room on either side to run AUX. coolers and the license plate in the center. This also means no rear bumper. However since the rear diffuser comes up so high and the coolers and license plate are right above it, it won't have that naked rear end look like the standard typical rocket bunny s13's have. Functional and better looking IMO, win win for me
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[laextreme5]

i would **** to be your wheel bearings lol seriously though, these wheels made my day!!!

Eh, car wont be a DD, and prolly only get 5000 miles a year, not worried about it. Starting with new 5 lug hubs and bearings so they will be fresh and not already worn.

[storey618]

i would **** to be your wheel bearings lol seriously though, these wheels made my day!!!

[laextreme5]

How wide are those????!!?!?! 15J? that's insane I can't wait to see those mounted up.

Yessir, 18x15s. Offset somewhere in the -70 area.

[190Evan]

How wide are those????!!?!?! 15J? that's insane I can't wait to see those mounted up.

[nishy]

Holy tits

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Couple more wheel teaser pics my wheel guy sent me. Ill be refinshing them myself, he was only making the lips and doing the machine work on the faces. Should be enroute to me any day now.

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[laextreme5]

This thread is absolutely golden. Love all your updates!

- Renato

Thanks!

Sadly, STILL waiting on parts. Story of my life so far with this car. Biggest one is the seat so i can start on the cage. need the seat to get the proper clearances and wiggle room for getting in and out.

[TWM Performance]

This thread is absolutely golden. Love all your updates!

- Renato

[190Evan]

[Benwalsh91]

so so so good!

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Just put a deposit down so my front bumper can start being made. ALso waiting on a few details to come back so i can put a deposit down on the wing as well.

While talking to my guy over at Bulletproof he sent me a few picutres of this sick front splitter/diffuser for the evo8/9 voltex front bumper one of his other clients ordered. We were talking for a few minutes and he said how cool would it be to make this work with your garage mak front bumper?? Well needless to say I am now goign to be saving every little penny to afford this beauty.

SO, if anyone knows anyone with aEvo 8/9 Voltex cyber evo front bumper, and doesnt mind tracing the bottom edge of the bumper and making a template for me, so once i have the garage mak bumper in my hands i can compare and see if it will actually work that would be fantatsic. Ill pay for shipping of the carboard/poster whatever they make the template out of and a little extra for the time they took to do so.

God i hope i can make this shit work.



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