Suspension update #2

I haven't been happy with the front ride height of my car for a while now. It's set at its lowest setting, and still had about an inch of wheel gap in the front. I took this weekend to rebuild the front suspension. Basically I wanted to give the front another inch of ride height adjustability. I took everything off the car and disassembled front the struts.

I ground down the current spring perch.

I then sanded off all the paint in preparation for the tig welding




I cut some small 1/2" sections off a piece of 2" pipe john had in his scrap bin.


After measuring, I lined everything up and  using john's TIG welder I welded the new spring perches on.

In process.(thanks to my buddy chris for all the action shots. you can visit his photo stream here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocell/)


Finished and ready to install.


I'll be driving up to Clearwater Beach on Tuesday, so I wanted to make sure the car was tip top. I cleaned the engine bay, drained the coolant and replaced a cracked plastic coolant hose buried deep in the engine bay below the intake manifold.


It took a couple hours, but it's all ready to go.