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We will keep a running update of our progress and if you have any thoughts or ideas please feel free to PM or post on the other forum.
Here are a few photos of the purchase day and the two days after.
Enjoy.
On the trailer, our first encounter.
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First time on the Rack
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The ingenious homemade downpipe we discovered.
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A few spring helpers
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A ghetto fabulous exhaust mount and exhaust
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First weight reduction
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The VF11 turbo is seized, the plan is to throw a td04 and a wrx intercooler we have sitting around on it and call it a day for a while. It does have the 3.9 limited slip and obvious 2.2T with a 5 speed. Step one is to get the brakes fixed and loose as much weight as possible.
If anyone needs legacy parts besides drive line, let us know!
PARTS NEEDED - (New or Used) : (PM with price or donation Very Happy)
Right front steering knuckle with hub.
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Here she is before we started to tear into it.. I wanted to see how she would look with my numbers on it, LOL..
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The power plant! Turbocharged 2.2L closed deck goodness!
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There was a god awful knocking noise while driving this thing. After further investigation we found out that the transmission cross member was not completely secured! The bolt that goes into the body on the passenger side would not get tight, or loosen. The threads in the body broke off, so the damn thing just spun.... Well, we needed to address the issue sooner or later..
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Here is Nick getting ready to fix the problem...
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And the cutting torch...
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After that, we got the transmission out and called it a night.... The fun would start the next day.
While I was working on taking the motor out, Nick was busy with the bad right front wheel bearing..
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What he found when he pulled the knuckle out.. Looks like we need a new knuckle..
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Strike a pose!! Engine is out! Nick on the left, me on the right.
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TDO4 on the left, VF11 on the right..
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Starting to strip the engine bay of unwanted crap...
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Pile of crap... The bumper beam will make its way back on the car but only after a diet!
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Another 15.26 pounds of weight deleted!
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So thats a good 80lbs shed off of the front clip of this vehicle already! Thats a pretty decent start to this project. My goal was to drop 500lbs to get the total curb weight around 2500-2600lbs.
As she sits right now..
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