time for moar pics dump. decided that working for money was boring so instead i would waste my life working on my own car. of course i assumed i could get all these parts:
fitted in one day. well i was wrong. by the end of day two, my pile of stuff looked like this:
took the diff off and gave it a peticure:
into:
of course the ebay "1966 impala 12 bolt rear disc kit" was HORRIBLY incorrect. by the time i found out though i was well into the build. had already drilled out the old wheel studs and pressed in new ones, so my opportunity to turn back to drums was over. all i could do was [cringe] weld the adaptor plates on to my diff :s i know i know. but its done now.
*flying car*
all bushes in the rear were replaced with neo's. upper and lower control arms and track bar (pan hard) there were two smaller bushes missing from the kit. but the dealer from energy suspension was good enough to send them to mae. he basically called me a liar and asked if i had "tried to fit them and stuffed them up" i chuckled. "mate, you can press these things in with your hand, how the f@%k would i stuff it up??!!?" so he begrudgingly send me the missing pair:
the kit from UPC was just plain AWESOME! the only mods necessary were shortening a bolt that fouled with my steering stop, and i had to widen the top mounting hole to allow a bigger thread bolt in:
wheels fit on perfectly:
had to buy all new whel nuts though. i dont mind though cos' these studs now are 1/2" which is MUCH bigger than the old crap. only problem is i think my new nuts may be too long to fit the chrome center caps back on, but i will worry about that when the time comes.
the wilwood master cylinder is a perfect fit. allows me heaps of room for the 4-fluffy-4 later on. also has fittings on the RHS so i am going to run my lines down that way, meaning more room again for the fluffy.
and just while i am here. who thinks i should take this:
and cut it off here:
then just put some dumpers on it
anyway, i still have to run all the lines, so she may not be moving again till monday. depending on how pedantic i get with getting the lines to look nice.
enjoy!
