We swapped in the Eibach springs from the silver car, with no spacers.
The brakes on it were crusty as hell, so I swapped the calipers and such off of the silver car onto FUCC. By crusty, I mean that the rears calipers were frozen and had to get beaten off with a sledgehammer, and the fronts worked for a generous value of worked. It's my understanding that stock for stock swaps are free, and brakes are free anyhow, so no budget hit on that.
It's also going to wear the WRX wheels and tires. Tires are free, but the wheels are a $50 ding to the budget.
I think it might be mobile under its own power by late Sunday- the brakes really need to be bled, since it got swap pieces at all four corners.
In any event, I think I'm sitting at an $850 car at the moment.
Once it's mobile, we'll start chasing down any gremlins it has, and when I'm motivated to do so, I'll update with some photos.
Im getting excited for you!
Random build photos.
Disgusting brake fluid.
Crusty brakes on somewhat newer rotors?
Applying the wire wheel to the crank pulley.
As an aside, when we were swapping the suspension, we did the front first. The rear was still lifted, and it had a bit of rake to the stance that really looked pretty good.
I'll post a photo of that when I get one from my team mate.
I started removing the interior, since I won't be using most of it, and figured the car could shed a few pounds. I haven't seen too many farm cars that didn't have mice, and figured the car didn't have them because it had aggressive, carnivorous, stinging ants.
Instead, I present a story without words.
Snakes, mice and ants all together? Like a whole ecosystem?
In reply to Dusterbd13 :
Yep. It was like the Wild Kingdom in this car.
Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) said:
In reply to Dusterbd13 :
Yep. It was like the Wild Kingdom in this car.
You gotta call it Steve Irwin now.
The FUCC was briefly mobile yesterday, but it was very apparent that the Forester CV Axles were not going to work with the car dropped down. I'm taking the axles from the other car and putting them in. I think that's a zero budget hit swap. Somewhere near the end of this, but before the Challenge, I'll tally up everything we did to the car. I'm quite positive we'll come in under $2k but I'm getting very curious to know what the final value is going to be.
Now I'm going back outside to get those CV Axles in the car.
I was working on getting the rear CV axles out so I could replace them with the correct ones, and this happened. Apparently the bolt is frozen in the knuckle. After that, the day got much worse. I'll now be working on swapping in the rear knuckles from the parts car.
I also found out that the rear anit sway-bar was binding very badly. I'm afraid to try to loosen the nuts on the bracket, so I sprayed the heck out of it with PB Blaster until I could move it by hand.
In reply to Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos) :
Apparently this is common w/Subarus of this era. I watched a few YouTube videos on various removal methods a while back in anticipation of facing this myself eventually. Good luck!
Yeah. There's going to be a few nights laying on the ground with the lights on after work at this rate.
If the FUCC remains out of bounds, the line out option is to take the Freebaru and just compete.
I spent hours messing with the rear suspension. The main issue is that the Forester CV axle will not come out of the car unless you can rotate the knuckle a bit. The CV axle is frozen in the hub, and the main bolts are also frozen into the knuckle.
Having a lift and an air hammer would help out immensely, but I have neither item. If heat doesn't work tomorrow, I might be cutting it out. The silver parts car is sitting right next to it. My main concern is the bolts holding in the links are going to be frozen.
Trying to make it slightly better has turned into a huge mess. I'm worried I'm not going to finish in time.
Today it became very clear that the suspension had frozen together, and wasn't going to come apart properly.
So, I started cutting.
That got it out.
Unfortunately, I got a bit crazy with the reciprocating saw and cut into the sub-frame for about half an inch, so this had to come out. It probably wouldn't have mattered, but just the thought of leaving weakened metal in place, no matter how trivial it might seem, didn't sit right with me.
Always make sure you're aware where the full length of your saw blade is going to be cutting, everybody!
