I'm tearing into the front suspension pan now. I started removing stone guard and assessing what needs to be done. I noticed a little "cake" around one of the A arm mounts on the suspension pan:



That, along with a couple pin holes next to the tow hook leads me to believe the pan is gone. Yup:

Belly of the pan = swiss cheese under the stone guard. My guess it's...

OK, there simply isn't much more I can take off the body! The suspension? Out! Engine? Out! Glass? Out! Steering? Out! Car is now on my rotisserie.

The only things on the chassis are ducting and wiring. Some of the ducting comes off when I start cleaning up the rear axle area.


So, these are the things I noticed during dismantling. Matt and I had to cut one of the tie rods...

Success! The front and rear octagons are now mounted to the car. And, I have the longitudinals mounted. I ended up drilling two holes per longitudinal mounting point. This gave me a little wriggle room as, once bolted up, the octagon wasn't quite true.

The front bolts (8mm, 1.25 pitch) measured 28 17/32". I drilled the holes on the front cross member and it bolted up perfectly.

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This past spring semester, I had a chance to take Chem180, beer and brewing. To condense the class into a sentence, it taught me everything I needed to know to go out and brew an all-grain batch of beer right out the chute…and I got an A.

My first batch was an American Pale Ale. It turned out a little bitter as the American styles normally do. And, it had a distinct off-taste but otherwise was totally drinkable. I had a small party with about 12 people and floated my 5 gallon...

I literally burnt through my 22 gallon, 1.3 hp direct drive Kobalt (Lowes) compressor a few months ago. Some of the things I used with it made the pump run constantly hence it was probably abused way beyond its design limits. I was using an air chisel to take up some flagstones on my front walk this Fall and after a few hours, smoke started curling from the motor and it died. I wasn’t too broke up about this. Other than the fact that it was undersized for my needs, it had the annoying habit...