Hey guys, Welcome. I decided to write this little thread as a blog/record to help me keep track of what I've done and discovered fixing up my latest 323 addition to my ever growing list.
While you go threw this, keep in mind I had 1 objective for this car. A cheep, comfortable daily driver. This means I am spending as little as possible for parts, I am not looking to lower it or really add any kind of bling.
Let me introduce you to the little beast. I have yet to decided a name for her. She's an 88 GTX with a unbelievably low miles. 79,000km to be exact. She's bone stock, but lived quite a ruff life all ready. She's was once a TSD rally car with the undercarriage damage to prove she's been off the road a few times. The front ends been his and back yard repaired. She was stolen and recovered twice in the mid/late 90's. Despite all this she runs and drives great, with no real rust issues to deal with.
Not long after I got her home.
I thought about posting the whole story, since it has been quite the ride so far with this car, but I'll keep things more simple. All the pictures and info I am going to post next is work that was completed in 6 days, working after hours and during this last 3 day long weekend.
Car up on the hoist getting torn down.
Stock suspension out, can you spot the problems with it? both rear springs are broken and rear shocks blown out/leaking
stock exhaust system with the cat deleted. This needed to be fixed to pass emissions.
Front spindles/brakes came apart very easy. I pressure washed them as they were covered in road grime.
New front rotors were easy to come by. With it all apart I decided to take a gamble. I replaced the inner grease seals, repacked/reused the wheel bearings.
Great tool for reinstalling the hubs.
While you go threw this, keep in mind I had 1 objective for this car. A cheep, comfortable daily driver. This means I am spending as little as possible for parts, I am not looking to lower it or really add any kind of bling.
Let me introduce you to the little beast. I have yet to decided a name for her. She's an 88 GTX with a unbelievably low miles. 79,000km to be exact. She's bone stock, but lived quite a ruff life all ready. She's was once a TSD rally car with the undercarriage damage to prove she's been off the road a few times. The front ends been his and back yard repaired. She was stolen and recovered twice in the mid/late 90's. Despite all this she runs and drives great, with no real rust issues to deal with.
Not long after I got her home.
I thought about posting the whole story, since it has been quite the ride so far with this car, but I'll keep things more simple. All the pictures and info I am going to post next is work that was completed in 6 days, working after hours and during this last 3 day long weekend.
Car up on the hoist getting torn down.
Stock suspension out, can you spot the problems with it? both rear springs are broken and rear shocks blown out/leaking
stock exhaust system with the cat deleted. This needed to be fixed to pass emissions.
Front spindles/brakes came apart very easy. I pressure washed them as they were covered in road grime.
New front rotors were easy to come by. With it all apart I decided to take a gamble. I replaced the inner grease seals, repacked/reused the wheel bearings.
Great tool for reinstalling the hubs.
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