Custom height-adjustable/quick-ratio struts are finished and ready to install...
09-01-2005, 09:38 AM
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Custom height-adjustable/quick-ratio struts are finished and ready to install...
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Everything is now finished with the rear CQ strut tubes that have been converted to front strut tubes. Got everything back from the nickel plating shop this morning. I'll wait to install these on finishing the steering rack end of the Titanium tie rods. May even hold off and do the Porsche 996 twin turbo brake kit at same time and the ECS S4 rear big brake kit so I only have to bleed the brakes once.
Also pictured are a few other odds & ends I had nickel plated at the same time since its a flat-rate of $100 for up to 25lbs. Only way the plater will accept small-batch jobs is if pieces are pristinely cleaned and bead-blasted.
Tranny pieces are linkage, shift lever, ball/socket plate and mounting base. Also the Bilzcat stainless steel 4000 short shifter all of which will go into my ultra-close ratio transmission. I had half a dozen or so other parts nickel plated as well but I dont have room on the patio table to display them. Besides I know how you guys like me to save some surprises for later ;-)
Soon as the front brkae kits hats/hangers arrive I'll do this install. Should be due any day as they are now at the fashionable one month late trend Richard adheres to so closely (j/k).
Everything is now finished with the rear CQ strut tubes that have been converted to front strut tubes. Got everything back from the nickel plating shop this morning. I'll wait to install these on finishing the steering rack end of the Titanium tie rods. May even hold off and do the Porsche 996 twin turbo brake kit at same time and the ECS S4 rear big brake kit so I only have to bleed the brakes once.
Also pictured are a few other odds & ends I had nickel plated at the same time since its a flat-rate of $100 for up to 25lbs. Only way the plater will accept small-batch jobs is if pieces are pristinely cleaned and bead-blasted.
Tranny pieces are linkage, shift lever, ball/socket plate and mounting base. Also the Bilzcat stainless steel 4000 short shifter all of which will go into my ultra-close ratio transmission. I had half a dozen or so other parts nickel plated as well but I dont have room on the patio table to display them. Besides I know how you guys like me to save some surprises for later ;-)
Soon as the front brkae kits hats/hangers arrive I'll do this install. Should be due any day as they are now at the fashionable one month late trend Richard adheres to so closely (j/k).
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09-01-2005, 10:04 AM
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actually that "84 is better gearing" rumor is totally false...
I've counted every gear in every 4k transmission from multiple 84's with an early-as July '83 build date to 1987 and they're all identical. Just an old wives tale that gave me fits for 4 months trying to find that "rumored" sweet gearbox. Only difference I can find is larger axle flanges on the later gearboxes. Everything else seems to be a tit-for-tat swap part into every 4k tranny made. We had 2 sets of ultra-close gear-sets made with my 5th gear being an 0.63:1 so its not so buzzy on the highway. But 1-4 are very close tho this is no drag-race gearbox as 1st gear ratio is closer to 2nd in my B4Q than it is to first gear.
09-01-2005, 10:07 AM
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and you're not doing it seems a little complacent, but thats just me...
Besides, everone's gotta be somewhere doin something and this is but one example of why there's chocolate/vanilla, chevys & fords.