Here's are the knuckles after I hit it with the flap wheel, not very pretty.
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Drilling the bolt holes wider with the 16mm bit.
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Most of the time people tend to remove knuckles from the ball joint with a hammer, afterwards the edges get mashed.
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And this is what it does to the nut that clamps the ball joint.
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I went with everyones recommendation and got a SS braided line from Techna Fit. Its fairly straight forward except tightening the fitting on the rack was impossible with a regular open end wrench. It was a good excuse to go to HF and pick up some crows feet, basically an open end wrench cut off. It fits on an extension drive for those hard to reach spots. That's the beautiful thing of this sub-frame, the accessibility to the rack fitting was amazing. Doing this with the oem sub-frame would be such a pain.
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Axles and stubby shafts ready to go in. Real stubborn to get in but what axle isn't.
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Had to chase the threads on the slave cylinder mount, I cut the ends off the tap holder, wouldn't have been able to do it any other way.
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Slave cylinder and clutch fork stop installed.
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Heres my issue with the down pipe, now if your running a stock frame turbo and Evo cast or tubular manifold you might not have a problem since its designed around the starter and t-case. Mines is all DSM and PTE so my mines totally hits the starter and even if the starter wasn't there then it would hit the t-case. I had to cut the down pipe right before it goes under the motor or else I would never be able to start the car.
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Here you can see it better hanging from the hoist.
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So an un-expected problem arose when I asked my wife to help me bleed the clutch. My fault for not telling her which pedal to press but she pressed on the brake as hard as she could and Im like why isn't any fluid coming out. Then I realized what was happening, the bad part was the passenger side caliper wasn't on the rotor just hanging by a ziptie and a piston popped out started leaking. So I had to order and replace the seals and damn are they expensive.
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The offending seal.
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Once that was all done I was able to fill with fluids and put it back on the ground finally. I was so proud this thing started on the first try and it was so loud with the open pipe, I got a lil giddy. It was so loud my neighbor from two houses down (another car guy) came over to see what was going on. We took it out around the block for a lil test run on a busy road no less with no front bumper and of course there was cop making a turn at the traffic light. Oh well he didnt notice so I made the turn and opened it up a lil and damn it pulled so hard, I had the biggest smile.
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Next project is some wiring, I bought a Deutsch DTM connector kit a while back and its first job was to make my aluminum gauge panel wire a quick disconnect. Its such a pain to remove this panel with all the wires and when your building a track car you always wanna build it in a way were access isn't limited or if it is to make what ever needs removing quick and painless as possible.
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Connected in the car, you can also see where the relays from the engine bay where re-located to.
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Heres a close up.
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Pins crimped on.
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Being pushed in the back of the connector.
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I finally removed the 45lb Optima yellow top from the trunk and installed the new 3lb lithium battery behind the driver seat with a case I made out of aluminum.
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Taken from the passenger side window.
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