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Alright got the Trailing arm bushing pressed in, but still trying to decide on which set to use. I also got some new goodies from Adrenaline Racing Adrenaline Racing | Your online performance parts portal, Tein EDFC version 2.0 and Tein hood dampeners.

While getting the underbody cleanup I noticed that the drive side sway bar mount had a few cracks, unfortunately it can't be fixed with a weld and grind. Total wrong, fixed it later down the road. This was caused by the stock sway bar mount being hit by a large rock a long time ago...man that was a long time ago...anyways I have an upgraded mount that tied into the engine cradle with a cross bar so this crack although not ideal isn't a show stopper.

The more you look at a car the more you find wrong with it. 

9-24-2006

Finished sealing and painting the under body, cleaned up the suspension frames and installed the front engine cradle in order to attach all frontend plastics to finish the body work, looking good.

10/6/06

Finished stripping Brake caliper and applied the first coat of paint. Waste of time went to a BBK. Also got my Tein Flex's back from being rebuilt and all put back together.

10-9-2006

Started the process of putting the motor and tranny together for mockup time. The way things are turning out I going to do mockup before any paint gets layed on the body. 

11-25-2006

I finally got my carpet that's been on back order for 9 months now. Directly from Japan. Glad I waited, fitment is OEM.

Started fitting up the RE flushmount headlight kit. Some missalignment issues with mounting plates, missing lexan lens and headlight adjuster springs shut me down. Some areas in this design could be improved (and will be), but overall an okay kit. Instead of going with the RE spring bolt adjuster combo, I ordered the specific adjusters for these head lights at: http://www.rallylights.com/hella/90mm_modules.asp. $60+ bucks, but adjustment will be a lot easier and the headlights won't eventually move on you like the bolt spring combo will. After looking at the plates and how they tie into the chassis, I'm going to create my own out of stainless and tie into at least two more points on the chassis to give it more rigidity and durability. I know overkill, but that's me.

Since I'm sooooooo far behind, I plan on spending at least a few hours every day to get things rolling again. LOL

12-11-2006

Well this last week was productive at work (60 hours), but thoroughly frustrating working on the car. Broke the wires on a switch on the tranny, broke a stud on the exhaust manifold, broke an easy out in the process of trying to get it out, not having the drill bits need to install my EGT probes, the list goes on.

Anyways, the lesson for today boys and girls is if you ever do something like this, make damn sure you separate and bag all your hardware if you don't you will waste countless hours trying to find that special 10mm nut you need. 

Whatever you do don't do what I did with the following egt probe sensor location. EGTs in this location are well beyond 1000C and will burnout your probe in no time.

12/12/06

Alright, got the busted stud out; had to mill out the remnants, I wouldn't recommend breaking one of them.

Also got the EGT probes in place. 

Whatever you do don't do what I did with the following egt probe sensor location. EGTs in this location are well beyond 1000C and will burnout your probe in no time.

12-15-2006

Got the hub out of the upright finally, had to buy a separator. However, I have yet to get the stubborn half shaft out of the other upright/hub assembly. 

12/22/06

**** it! Okay the stubborn half shaft is finally out only after death wheeling the CV hub off (band saw was a futile attempt) and then putting 45 tons of press force with a solid footing. Only then, was able to get it off.

So new bearings and retaining clips are in place, getting new 10mm longer than stock wheel studs today and at least the rear hubs and uprights will be all together and ready to be used today.

12-24-2006

Ported the turbo wastegate ports and such. I left 2mm of overlap on the wastegate per Pineapple Rob's recommendations. Checked the turbos and they look okay.