rear suspension and underneath resto work on the back is done. and yes thats a stock sway bar. I want to see what kind of handling and traction results I get with the new poly body bushings and greaseable poly control arm bushings, and boxed lowers.
those are bilstein shocks, alum drums, all new stainless fuel and brake lines.
If I wasn't confident I'll be keeping the car forever, I'd probably not have shelled out the extra money for stainless. The car shouldn't ever see any salt roads, but what scares me is the dissasimiliar metal corrosion. Seems to always do a number where the tube clamps bolt them to the frame.
The stainless is harder to manage, but I have a tube bender, so if I need to tweak here and there, its no big thing.
I bought them from classic tube, and have actually bought lots of lines from them in the past, and if theres one thing I've noticed is that the bend placement is always dead-on, its just that their not always bent to the correct angle. So spending $40 for a decent tube bender is worth it.
The cover is from ta performance. I painted it and sanded the fins shiny and cleared the whole thing.
With it being aluminum, you can't use the stock cover magnet.
So I thought I'd use the little flat spot area thats cast into it and place a flat magnet there.
I didn't have one laying around, so I bought one from summit racing
http://www.summitracing.com/parts/FTM-GP101/when the box showed up at my door, I picked it up and as I walked through the metal door frame of the house, the box damn near jumped out of my hand, lol!
It then hit me that I may be asking for trouble. this is one seriously wicked magnet.
So I did a mock up and loosely placed a piece of masking tape to hold the magnet in its spot while I put it up to the housing, and it stayed put. So I guess I'm gonna be ok using silicone to hold it there (see pic). I placed it on the side farthest away from the ring gear.
Since I openly claim to not be the brightest candle on the shelf when it comes to alot of things tr,.....If anybody reading this
forsees big disaster by doing it that way, please speak up, lol.
notice the pic where I got the 3/8's drive ratchet, extension and socket just hanging from the outside of the housing after I mounted it. that is one wicked magnet.
I do have the magnetic fill plug also, but hopefully nobody tells me this magnet is overkill. I have removed diff covers before after onlhy a few thousand miles since the last fluid change, and the magnet always has metal on it
