The silver bullet

[the510keeper]

Wagon Jon has had the Silver Bullet for a couple weeks working out some details, Im just not good at.

 

I agree he does look constipated :)

 

Why do they call him Wagon Jon

That's why

 

Reran some fuel lines did some electrical, new ground straps and so on

 

Now back at home with less then 2 weeks til Canby. I'm looking at Victory with a sigh babe, looks like we might be driving a Chevy truck to Canby WTF

Then i remember Virginia

http://community.ratsun.net/topic/32093-meet-virginia/

Check it if you haven't

 

On with working instead of crying, Vodka, 5 hour energy, and cranberry, try it I dare you. Had one of Victory's' concockions

Work till 3am and couldn't sleep til 4am wow.

 

1st Goal install the front seats, Getta Recaros (brackets are all electric and 3 point mounting base)

Here's the story

First remove this hunk of concoction shit

 

Virgin base to work with :)

 

Cut this u shaped metal away from hunk of shit just removed, (this will bolt back to the floor)

 

Remove the sliders from your fav 510 seats.

 

Bolted the u shaped base to the base of the seat, drill holes in the 510 sliders, then welded them solid.

 

 

Stock risers fit and good to go. One cool thing about these Recaros is the width between sliders is the same as stock 510s. No holes drilled n to the car itself

 

however I did have to weld in a support bracket for the front as the factory support was gone when floors were replaced

[TENDRIL]

i wish i would have put the sliders on....

[Ranman72]

Recaros for the Win you will be riding in style 

[the510keeper]

Andrew took the day to mod and install the pass seat

 

 

Victory painted and installed the dash grids and the dash pad

 

Then she cut out a bunch of rear deck boards

 

 

 

Fucking cut open wheel wells

 

Had to weld tabs on to the outter area of the cut wheel wells to mount the flares

 

Opened these up to accommodate the angle of the flare

[izzo]

Man..

 

I went to do that seat swap today. I followed a few guides, they were basically all the same, for toyota MR2 seats.  When I got the seat out, and all torn apart (mr2 seat also).  I noticed the adjuster on the 510 seat was in the front, not on  both sides as in your pics. What a fucking let down :(

 

Think I got it figured out but have to wait until I get a few dollars in my pocket for some more 1X square tubing and cutting discs.

[Ranman72]

looking sweet  

nice that andrew could help 

 

canby here we come 

[Ranman72]

so I sneeked a couple of pics of the dash while at James today it looks fantastic 

also met Andrew who was hard at work 

 

[Dguy210]

so I sneeked a couple of pics of the dash while at James today it looks fantastic 

also met Andrew who was hard at work 

 

[hang_510]

seats went in easy.  ;)

look good.

 

 

I agree he does look constipated :)

 

 

is that a bag of ice?

did you kick him to git-R-dun?

[Ranman72]

seats went in easy.  ;)

look good.

 

is that a bag of ice?

did you kick him to git-R-dun?

LOL didnt notice that 

[the510keeper]

Bag o cookies yo

 

Yep Randy and Jackie came by, hooked us up with 1inch spacers. Push the wheels out a little more to fill the rear flares out

 

 

Then Victory and I removed the flares and cleaned things up, little painting. It was like 68 degrees and raining all day, WTF

 

The square area above the flare is the mail box door

 

Mirrors have been decided on

BMW 320i

Weld in a plate and so on

Also changed the pass door, don't ask me why

 

Victory has also been busy polishing the front end parts, pretty

[Ranman72]

it was cool to see how these mirror plates get cut ground ,fine tuned and welded in 

Mirrors look good 

spacers for the win looks much better 

no lug nuts yet 

[the510keeper]

Trying real hard to make this complete before the 20 hour round trip to Canby. So why in the fuck am i posting when I could be working on it?

I don't do well in the shop once I paint something and the smell lingers, not to mention Victory says I need a break.

 

Today task finish gas door and stuff

 

On to the wheels, Yep we got some 16s on the rear and 14s on the front, why you ask. The rears were originally cut our for huge box flares. With the 14s in back, there was a lot of room, and the rear flares are a couple inches bigger.

14s fit great in the front, and I had a complete set of them already.

 

 

Also installed a different door on the pass side, so We metal prepped it and cleared it, the gas door and recleared a fender edge.

[Ranman72]

looks sweet

what size front tires did you go with it looks and fits good

[MYDAILYROUTINE]

Lookin good! What's the price tag on this one sweetie? :D

[the510keeper]

Lookin good! What's the price tag on this one sweetie? :D

Well Cupcake :poke:

 

This sexy bitch is 10k

 

 

Wheels are 185-60-14s (bro hooked up the numbers on what would be close, Thanks Randy)

[the510keeper]

More Pics

Pic whores

 

Victorys phone

Wire brushed the wheel wells

 

Sexy new Pass door, clear baby can you see it, my favorite color yo

 

Had to weld this bracket in to keep the pipe from rubbing the radiator

 

This little bracket to hold the coil

 

Driver door

[the510keeper]

Well decided to take the plunge and replace the fucked up rocker on the pass side.

 

Had Andrew remove the doner rocker

 

Then Victory stripped it

 

Got most the pass door put back together

 

This is your best friend when installing new rubber or just sealing out the weather.

It's also clear so if you get carried away you wont see it as bad as the black 3m weather stripping adhesive.

 

Sexy new rubber

 

New electric fan 12inch, had to notch the lower molding. There was no room between the engine and radiator.

 

[the510keeper]

Wagon Jon came over and helped finish up the electrical. Actually re wired the complete engine bay, couldn't get somethings to work. But now everything works :thumbup:

It was hot so he made a little fort

Then Victory got us all milk shakes Yummi :thumbup:

Wiring mess

 

The pass kick panel got cleaned up pretty well, what a fucking mess before

 

Andrew stepped in to take care of a water line that was kicking my ass

 

 

Also in the process of redoing the drivers door, welded up old mirror holes and getting ready for another coat of clear

 

Mounted the electric fuel pump, got a bracket form Randy Z guy extraordinaire, Thanks Buddy

 

Then Johnny wired her up

 

Headlights check

 

It runs

 

Victory "no pictures today" Johnson, painted the 320i mirrors, yes she paints too

 

Not bad for a 12 hour day, only a few more like this before Canby.

[]2eDeYe]

Man, this car is cleaning up real nice. Excellent work. :cool:

[the510keeper]

Yup I hated this car in the beginning

But after all the work I'm starting to like it

And definitely want to drive it

 

Today was the first drive with this engine in this car its been 8 months since this engine has been n a running car.

Drove it to the alignment shop and looking forward to see how well it rolls afterwards

[Skib]

I think I still have the door tag for this car....

[the510keeper]

Door tag good, found the dash vin

 

Some other guy was suppose to give a me a title, like months ago WTF.

[the510keeper]

Yesterday recleared the drivers door after filling the mirror holes and welding in the new mirror plate.

 

I stripped and cleared the inside exposed area also, looks way better then green.

Baked it in the sun shortly after, and rehung it that night.

We installed a black door to be able to drive it to the alignment shop. (while clearing the door the car was getting an alignment)

 

Last night worked out the driver door detail, installed door panel etc, Also got the emblem and running light installed on the lt fender.

 

Blacked out some window frames

 

Then there was complete light orgasms

 

Victory wanted to crown the car with a Ratsun sticker

 

We picked the chrome sticker

[Ranman72]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHH   SEXY