10.87 @ 127 carbed 370 six speed
12-21-2013, 08:47 PM
#37
Today started out as many past Saturdays have for me since I moved up to MD. I got up early and headed down to my uncle's place to get to work. I must say that I'm very grateful for him allowing me to keep my car/trailer and tools/junk at his place. Today however, I realized the bad side to parking my car on the trailer in an old garden bed :gocrazy:
I spent two damn hours getting that out of there....ugh....
On to the good stuff! Once the car was finally unloaded and in the driveway, I made sure to get a measurement of ground-to-fender on the front so I had a baseline for setting ride height. The trimmed trick springs were really too low, and made for loading/unloading on the trailer a real booger-bear.
24 7/8"
Since I'm at my uncle's house, I'm trying to take up as little space as possible, so I didn't want to get an engine hoist and have to take the engine out. Found this little gem on Craigslist for $35...money well spent as it worked like a champ!
45 mins later and the kmember is out
Here was the SINGLE interference issue I had. The motor mounts had a radius machined into them and it hit the pedestal saddle before it allowed it align. A little grinder action had us in business.
billety-goodness
coil overs
all put back together and ready to go on the ground
beautimous strut mounts. i gotta get some more purple in the bay now (but not too much)
back on the ground after a quick little run around the block. 25 9/16".
a couple of things worth noting:
-this kmember places the engine/trans in the EXACT SAME SPOT as the spohn swap mounts on the factory k-member
-my factory stuff weighed 118.9lbs
-as optioned, my kmember setup weighs 49.8lbs
total weight savings of 69.1lbs
i will be putting in an s10 manual box for more weight savings, and i'm still working (slowly) on getting more weight out of the driver's seat.
I spent two damn hours getting that out of there....ugh....
On to the good stuff! Once the car was finally unloaded and in the driveway, I made sure to get a measurement of ground-to-fender on the front so I had a baseline for setting ride height. The trimmed trick springs were really too low, and made for loading/unloading on the trailer a real booger-bear.
24 7/8"
Since I'm at my uncle's house, I'm trying to take up as little space as possible, so I didn't want to get an engine hoist and have to take the engine out. Found this little gem on Craigslist for $35...money well spent as it worked like a champ!
45 mins later and the kmember is out
Here was the SINGLE interference issue I had. The motor mounts had a radius machined into them and it hit the pedestal saddle before it allowed it align. A little grinder action had us in business.
billety-goodness
coil overs
all put back together and ready to go on the ground
beautimous strut mounts. i gotta get some more purple in the bay now (but not too much)
back on the ground after a quick little run around the block. 25 9/16".
a couple of things worth noting:
-this kmember places the engine/trans in the EXACT SAME SPOT as the spohn swap mounts on the factory k-member
-my factory stuff weighed 118.9lbs
-as optioned, my kmember setup weighs 49.8lbs
total weight savings of 69.1lbs
i will be putting in an s10 manual box for more weight savings, and i'm still working (slowly) on getting more weight out of the driver's seat.