Progress on the MFing Gaylant!
Posted by DR1665
Brian Driggs Elite Moderator Location: Glendale Join Date: 06/08/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 832 Rally Car: Keyboard. Deal with it. |
It's been something like two months since I was dropping Conquest struts off in Prescott Valley for a brother in West Virgina and I've news to report! After spending a weekend last month in Norwalk, Ohio, watching the DSM/EVO guys who aren't as interested in corners as we are at the DSM Shootout, I got sufficiently motivated to get off my arse and put in some serious wrench time on the Gaylant.
You can pretty much go through all the pictures in order in my gallery, but let's just say 195/2000 has gone from this... To this... To this... Rat fenders are just hanging there. The fender supports (for lack of a better word) still need aligned better, and there's just two bungee cords holding it in place right now. The FWD LS we cut the core off has a different front crossmember than the AWD models, so I'll have to figure something out on that front, but I am bound and determined to drive this fucking Galant to Prescott in three weeks. I may not be racing it, and I may not be doing sweep in it, but fucking a, I want to drive it to the rally. I think it would do me some good. Cheers. I'm drinking the last beer of the weekend and enjoying a well-fucking-deserved smoke before racking out for the night. Brian Driggs | KG7KCA | PHX, AZ | 89 Pajero alterius non sit qui suus esse potest Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/08/2008 12:38AM by DR1665. |
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heymagic Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Brian, > > I just got done doing this to Malcolm Davies' > Talon. The core support on his was only different > on the passengers side. The lower 'box' was > missing for the support to mount to on that side. > We just drilled the old one of the crashed front > end and welded it on. There had been some talk on the Galant board a couple months back when I was picking up the parts, but you know how it can go on the boards. One person is sure it's the same, another is sure it isn't. I forgot all about it until we turned the new core over to get a better angle with the Sawzall. SURPRISE! I'm going to ask my buddy what he thinks about chopping the old box to match the new core and going from there. Otherwise, I guess we could fab something up. I'm not too worried about this particular issue as much as I am about driveline alignment. The front motor mount took a solid hit, so I need to closely check out the other three mounts to be sure things are in there straight. I don't want to lose the tcase or something a block down the road because the engine is crooked. It doesn't *look* crooked, but... Brian Driggs | KG7KCA | PHX, AZ | 89 Pajero alterius non sit qui suus esse potest |
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kaioken Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > Brian, you came all the way up from Phoenix to > Norwalk, OH to watch a bunch of busted ass broke > DSMers break there cars. I also attended the > shootout again this year. > Heh. Thanks, Bill. I've been a DSMer for over 12 years, now. Been four of the last five Shootouts. It's one of two times each year when I can get together *in person* with my buddies from the web and hang out. We're 2GNTers. We don't go to race. We go to drink and talk shit and maybe wake up in time for the Q16 finals on Sunday. 
(Oh yeah. And NRP has some bitchin' chili cheese fries. Great cure for the hangover.) Brian Driggs | KG7KCA | PHX, AZ | 89 Pajero alterius non sit qui suus esse potest |
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Still have to trim lower mounting points to accept the AWD crossmember, cap high pressure lines for 4WS deletion, and have it all welded, but so long as my welder buddy can make it over here in the next, oh, 10 days or so, this Misterbichy is going to Prescott on the 3rd. Wo0t! Brian Driggs | KG7KCA | PHX, AZ | 89 Pajero alterius non sit qui suus esse potest |
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Good, I can spank you again in my Focus like at Desert Storm.
So what exactly are you doing to it - removing the rear steering by swapping in a Eclipse rear end? Cool. |
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I don't know what your talking about. If it hadn't been for my job as a busser at a sushi restaurant I'd never be where I am with my car. Oh wait, I can turn that around though since I did meet my ex-wife at said sushi restaurant and the $10K I spent on marriage shit would have gone straight to the car, which is about what I made and spent on the car from working at the sushi bar. So I suppose it's a wash. Though I can't imagine what a hooker would cost for a years worth of sexual favors.
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