Cool to get some play on Bangshift!!

 

Someone tagged me on Facebook this morning. I saw when i got to work, lol.

 

Nice! Gonna be bangin gears again with my new to me s10. Your in car vid makes me miss it.

 

car is getting some love this winter









big shoutout to Jason at PA Racing for the awesome products! can't wait to get them on now

 

Nice! Looks like something that will cause anger when installing if there are scratches.

Going to start a 30x40 shop build. Gonna break me.

 

yeah, gonna try not to scratch it, but i'm sure it'll get scratched a little, lol. gonna have to make a wood cradle or something for jacking now, lol!

 

It will get scratched soon as the car goes on the bumper and comes down on 2nd gear shift

 

bwahahaha, oh to do that with a 26x10.0...the scratches would be welcome then!

 

Yea, I'm sure you will get creative and make something. There has to be come concave plastic or just some rubber pad you can use.

How much was the k member?

 

the k-member as optioned retails for $600. it's chromoly and is a custom color.

 

It sounded so clean at every RPM. Seems like you got that thing tuned good. Nice work man.

 

Sounds great looks like a blast to drive!

 

Very nice. I love the dash.

 

I must say, for chromoly and custom color, that's not a bad price. Can't wait to see pics of everything installed.

 

today i had to see how the purple looks against the white....so pumped about this combination



and i had a buddy asking about the underside of the strut mounts, so here's a picture of that for future reference:

 

Reminds me of the pro form purple on their carbs. Gonna look fantastic Matt.

 

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.

 

Looking good! I do dig the purple.

 

looks great!

 

thanks guys. i'm going to replace my fuel fittings with black stuff i think, and maybe get a purple throttle cable bracket to make it clash a bit less against the blue/red AN stuff. i'm very happy with the way it turned out.