Suspension

Ok, In this post I will be explaining how I installed my K&W variant 3 race coil over suspension on the front.

First off sit down, rest the coil over in your lap, then push down on the purple insert as seen in this picture and remove the bolt. It will appear like it will release and shoot springs everywhere, but it will not do this so you don't have to hold on to it.

This is the order of the Setup, the metal washer thing goes on top "above" the strut tower in the chassis. the rubber mount which is "not" OEM(supplied by 034), has one green side on it, that must face the purple washer on the shock. I believe when I took this apart (been a while) that the green was facing upwards instead of the way I just told you, yet this is the way I was told to do it. So don't panic. With this mount green down, and if I'm right then Green up on OEM. This picture was taken with the bolt on, however Follow step one and Remove the bold before putting the rubber mount on, bolt goes on last.

Place the rubber mount on the shock, I used a jack for this, however some ways may work better. hold it still and aligned and jack it up into the tower, put the metal insert and screw the bolt back on.

Then this is the result, The front right coil over installed without any other attachments.......soon to come ;) so stay tuned.

Control arms

These are new control arms made by 034 motorsports, made from billet aluminum. Very well made. better then the OE ones that broke while trying to press in new bushings.

 Here is what they look like on the sub frame which is what hold in the transmission for this car.

And this is the unit installed on the car, in which the transmission will rest on, above that is the steering rack and the vacuum booster for the brakes. I was told the bolts for the sub frame should be torqued at 60 ft/lbs because there longer bolts for the aluminum bushings yet haven't torqued them yet.

I started to install the Oil pan onto the engine block, the tool I was using was this;

I was using this torque wrench to torque the bolts on the oil pan to 20 Newton meters (15 Ft lbs). Turns out this torque wrench is to old and became faulty.
The result is this.

A screw that broke in half,  sucks, so to everyone wanting to trying an engine built...make sure your tools aren't broken, lol.

I will make another post when I figure out how to fix this problem.

Powder coated parts

Here are the Intake manifold, Oil pan, and the Valve cover for the engine. These pieces just came back from getting powder coated and they look great.

Sub frame bushing replacement

Ok now that the sub frames are taken care of paint wise, now is time for the bushing. In the picture above are aluminum bushings from 034 motorsports. *Before* taking anything apart on the vehicle put these in the freezer(like the one you use for foods :P) for at LEAST 2 hours. Mine have been in the freezer for well over a month.

Due to laws of matter the molecules in matter get closer when the temperature is lower. Thus the bushings get smaller. after this you can put them in the sub sub frame, should still be a tight fit. If it is hard to push in, just use a rubber mallet and gently hammer it in. Like so.

After fitting all of the bushing in the holes and hammering them down I then clamped them and let them sit over night.

 

 However after this this there appears to be one set of bushings that don't seat properally and fell out, I will make another post when I figure out how I am going to remedy this situation.

To be continued 

These are some new products that I got, all of which mount to the subframe, the control arms are OE.
 Those red rods are suspension tie rods from 034motorsport.com better and cheaper then stock so that is a score.

These are the transmission/differential mounts, track density, and the things in the other bags are delrin control arm bushings both also from 034motorsport

I started to paint the sub frames after scraping off loose rust, which wasn't much, and paint i then cleaned it with Eastwood's "Pre" worked great, then put on Rust encapsulator.

  These are the sub frames after I sprayed a chassis paint on them.
The sub frame in the back holds the differential and the sub frame in the front holds the transmission.

These are the two products I used on the sub frames, both from Eastwood.com and very good products.
Spread very easy and bonded to existing paint very well.