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So about 4 years ago I was scrolling through Birddogs build one here and made this comment:
I followed along for quite sometime and finally decided that it was time for me to have my own coupe. Found one online that seemed about what I wanted, went and looked at it and came home with it the next day.
A little rough on the outside, but minus faded front seats in the interior it was pretty clean.
The first thing I knew I wanted to do was replace the basic stuff, thermostat, new plugs, wires, oil change, etc.. however, on the way home from Autozone the front brakes locked down on the highway causing the snowball effect that has been going on over the past few months.
I bought new calipers and went to bleed the brakes, unfortunately, I learned that working on this car would have two nemesis' 30-year-old parts, and the previous owner worked on it. While bleeding the rear drums I found out the bleed screw was cross threaded and would not go back in correctly and now leaked brake fluid everytime the brakes were pushed. So I decided to start looking for a rear disk setup and stumbled on an IRS that had all poly bushings, 4:10s, MM adjustable tie rods, and the heavy-duty cross member.
Then the fun began on the swap, did a lot of reading and asking birddog for help and got it in. It wasn't too difficult because it damn near bolts right up, but there are a lot of tiny things to knock out during the swap.
Got the old rear out
The front of the subframe bolts right up, and the rear will bolt in but first you have to mount the bracket to the frame of the car, which requires a few new holes to be drilled. I decided to cut a access hole in the trunk pan in order to make a nut plate, which I can weld the nuts to, then weld that to the frame of the car. So I could weld the pan back together and not worry about the nuts turning if I ever had to take the bracket off for some reason.
Which I found the only rust on the car at this time, just a little in the spare tire area also found the original spare and all the jack tools and jack.
Although useless to me now I thought it was pretty cool to find. I believe I am the third owner of the car.
Fixed the rust issue by sanding it down to bare metal spraying rust converter, then hitting it with the rubberized coating spray. The rest will be done in a similar manner in the future, then covered with "dynamat" and the carpet pieces put back in.
While waiting on my shipment from LMR one night I got bored and tried to see what I could do with the old paint, to old me over until I can paint it, or have it painted. Didn't come out terrible, but 30 yr old paint that was left outside for years uncovered will only yield so much in results
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A little rough on the outside, but minus faded front seats in the interior it was pretty clean.
The first thing I knew I wanted to do was replace the basic stuff, thermostat, new plugs, wires, oil change, etc.. however, on the way home from Autozone the front brakes locked down on the highway causing the snowball effect that has been going on over the past few months.
I bought new calipers and went to bleed the brakes, unfortunately, I learned that working on this car would have two nemesis' 30-year-old parts, and the previous owner worked on it. While bleeding the rear drums I found out the bleed screw was cross threaded and would not go back in correctly and now leaked brake fluid everytime the brakes were pushed. So I decided to start looking for a rear disk setup and stumbled on an IRS that had all poly bushings, 4:10s, MM adjustable tie rods, and the heavy-duty cross member.
Then the fun began on the swap, did a lot of reading and asking birddog for help and got it in. It wasn't too difficult because it damn near bolts right up, but there are a lot of tiny things to knock out during the swap.
Got the old rear out
The front of the subframe bolts right up, and the rear will bolt in but first you have to mount the bracket to the frame of the car, which requires a few new holes to be drilled. I decided to cut a access hole in the trunk pan in order to make a nut plate, which I can weld the nuts to, then weld that to the frame of the car. So I could weld the pan back together and not worry about the nuts turning if I ever had to take the bracket off for some reason.
Which I found the only rust on the car at this time, just a little in the spare tire area also found the original spare and all the jack tools and jack.
Although useless to me now I thought it was pretty cool to find. I believe I am the third owner of the car.
Fixed the rust issue by sanding it down to bare metal spraying rust converter, then hitting it with the rubberized coating spray. The rest will be done in a similar manner in the future, then covered with "dynamat" and the carpet pieces put back in.
While waiting on my shipment from LMR one night I got bored and tried to see what I could do with the old paint, to old me over until I can paint it, or have it painted. Didn't come out terrible, but 30 yr old paint that was left outside for years uncovered will only yield so much in results
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