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My Driveway (GC8 & CP9A), Displaying my Evo 5 and STI TypeR cars
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Very complete.
Rays makes some nice wheels, it's a shame I don't care for their customer service. The guys at SSR and Work Wheels treat me well.
This post has been edited by BmwNeoType on Jan 10 2010, 03:33 PM
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Thanks for the comments. I'm a firm believer that if you use everything OEM in a project, it comes out alot better no matter how much longer the project takes. I have more pictures, but it's nothing really exciting. More angles of us cutting up the rear, and disassembling the rear cut, welding blah blah. I realized I didn't post pictures of the exhaust choice of my cars. (Again, please ignore the incorrect Evo 4 badging lol) Blue GC8: NO PICS YET! lol I realized I have none, but it's the Prodrive Oval-type. I'll have to take some tomorrow. Gunmetal GC8: GD STI axle back matted to an HKS 3" catless downpipe. It use to have a JDM Fujitsubo axleback, but it's become my daily driver recently. California Cops love pulling over cars with fancy looking exhausts and the Fujitsubo was definetly fancy. I miss it though... Evo 5: JDM Blitz RealizeTT Evo 5-6 catback. Again living in Cali sucks for exhaust choices, so I imported this one and painted the piping black for more stealthness. The muffler really looks factory asside from the bling muffler housing that I'm thinking of spraying flat gray and just leaving the tip chrome. This post has been edited by my3awds on Jan 16 2010, 10:13 PM
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~SIGH~ lol ok, but I won't post EVERYTHING because it would just be too much for this thread. So I'll just post important pics: The bottom of the rear cut, floor section removed, and gas tank removed. All the rear components removed and preped for cleaning Process of removing each panel thats useless or the same as the Mirage Disassembly of the rear stock suspension Spot weld cut EVERY single oem spot weld, and cleaned carefully each section. Drop the stock rear floor pan. Line up the new floor pan to go in Weld-Thru primer the edges of the Evo floor pan, line everything up, self-tap screw the floor in, then go around and spot weld everything like OEM Clean everything up, grind smooth the welds, seem-seal the edges, paint the inside, truck-bed coat the wheel arches, DONE. WHEW, that took alot lol. I have pics of the front swap but please don't ask me to do that HAHA. The front suspension and wishbones all transfer over and are all bolt on. There's quiet a few swaps online already that have done this since the Evo motors drop right into the Mirage, so nothing new to be seen hehe. But I'm sure someone's gonna want to see it anyway ~SIGH~ [ Post merged on Jan 17 2010, 09:43 AM ] It's funny , I just noticed I'm not in any of the pictures since I'm the one taking the photos. Makes it look like I'm making my white friends do all the work...sort of reverse slavery LOL (no offesne to any extremest out there) This post has been edited by my3awds on Jan 17 2010, 09:39 AM
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Well I'm not sure how much you know about how car manufactures put together cars so excuse me if I sound condisending. The way car manuf put together cars is by pieces. Floor pan, frame rails, firewall, etc all pieces. It would be very expensive and time consuming if they had to seem weld these parts together. While it's a performance gain to prevent chassis flex and it's sometimes what shops do when building track cars, it would just take the weight of the car up to seem weld everything together and raise the price of the car. So not to sacrafice regitity, weight, cost, the way they join 2 pieces together is by "spot welding". One piece will have holes along the edge of the piece, and the other piece will have marked spots where those holes will line up. Once it's all lined up, they weld only those small sections of holes.
So to remove a section properly while maintaining structural regidity, body shops will remove sections by 'spot weld cutting' these sections. It's basically just drilling out the holes on the top part where they filled it up with weld, and leaving the 2nd part uncut. This removes the top section from the 2nd section.
The self tapping screws is what you understand it to be. To line up the rear floor pan, it's hard to line up each section of holes and then weld them without them being held in place first. So to do this, you go over a small section, line 4-5 holes up, then use a self tapping screw to hold maybe 2 of those holes in place. Done with that section, repeat on another until the whole area is in place and ready for spot welding like the factory. After all the open holes are filled, you remove the self tapping screws, and spot weld in it's place. You can kind of see that if you follow the pictures above. Hope that helps some.
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Well if you manage to get the rear cut like I did, you won't have to fab anything other than maybe the hangers for the drive shaft. On the Evo4-6, there are 2 hangers with studs coming out of them. On the Mirage, there is only 1 hanger with no studs coming out of it. Simple to fab up some bolts running top-down so no biggie. Thats it, everything else is there. Brake line bolt sections all the same, fuel lines all run the same, wiring goes through the same section, all of it.
Not really much you can use off an evo7-9. Only things that are transferable are:
engine tranny and xfercase (not drive shaft) motor mounts rear under sway bar struts / coilovers (drill out the holes of the knuckles up front a bit, since the evo 7-9 have slightly larger holes). Brakes system Seats Steering wheel 5spd shift assembly (7-9 has slightly shorter throw and better solid feel. This can be installed into a mirage as is). 5spd shift knob (not 6spd)
That wing is a good start, but it's your brothers you say? I think I heard you say you got the trunk and reflectors coming in correct? I have a set of Evo 4 taillights I'll be selling soon if you're ever interested.
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