unfortunately, they did not come yesterday my brothers drain plug did however..... but swift is going to directly ship me my springs from them and not from the dealer because they are having some issue.

ha, ill time myself.. now its a race to see if i can beat that time hhahahaha

 

well about freaking time!..... now the mad dash to get them installed tomorrow morning, so that i can finally enjoy everything! hopefully i can get everything setup go for a run up in the mountains and come back get lunch then go to school. lucky for me i dont have to go to work in the AM.

 

not sure if im gonna have time to drill access holes for the rear dampers tomorrow, so im gonna preset them 3/4 turn away from full soft(out of 2 full turns) now so i dont forget. other wise ill just through them in and leave the holes for a later date.

 

well nothing can ever go according to plan..... spent all day just getting the driver side done.......driver front pnch bolt snappedhad to drill it out then spent all day going to 10 diffrent stores to find a M12x1.5 bolt, and tap to clean the threads. do to do the passenger side front same situation so i stopped before it broke and will deal with it tomorrow, go do the pas rear the f**ker is seized to i tried so hard to get it out with out breaking it but its gonna go too. now im gonna have to go out and find a just incase replacment bolt for that one too. now im off to class.

 

At least you made some good progress.

I can't wait to hear your impressions of the swift springs,...

I hope the rest of the install goes smoothly, and as we approach a 3 day weekend too. Perfect. ::thumbsup

 

PB Blaster man! It'll loosen those bolts!

 

ha dont think so

 

When applied a day or two before hand BP on all attaching points gives it more time to work.

GL, hope the rest goes smoothly !

 

yea i applied alot of heat penetrants and dead blows, hopefully they will come at tomarrow with a little convincing.

 

well it definitely feels weird having half the car with new stuff and the other with old...in other interesting things taking right hand turns only feels amazing hahaha god i hope i can get the other half done tomorrow. and so far the drop is one finger. i can barely sqeeze in two fingers on the lowered side and three comfortable on the stock side

 

oh god finally im done!!!! ..... but not quite, i have to pull out the rear pasenger one again cuz i forgot to put the stupid bushing on when i was assembling it, i fouund it after i was cleaneing upp the mess in the driveway...... ill post pics on sunday after i put the stupid, stupid bushing in and i wash the car....

 

Sounds like turning left will be good soon. Congrats on a successful and long waited suspension upgrade.

Looking forward to photos

 

Congrats man!! These are the days I am glad I bought a California car. My pinch bolts and sway bar bolts etc all came out with minimal effort. I replaced with new ones and used anti seize where appropriate so that in 40k miles if the car is still ticking we won't have an issue with it coming apart then.

I have heard of many people having to drill out the holes...had prepared for needing to do it and was pleasantly surprised I didn't have to.

Careful with heat next to a gas filled cartridge (strut).

 

yea had to drill both bolts in front, and the rear need two people one to heat and one to turn the breaker bar..... and oh yea i slobber anti-seize allover all the bolts i take out.

 

Well just ordered a idler pulley and a tensioner stop form WMW... and hopefully the squeaking will go away and ill have a bit of insurance for that crank pulley.

anyway here are some overdue pics weather around here has been complete crap and i still havent put that bushing in yet.








And thanks to a buddy we swapped headunits and i now have a orginal looking center console ad can now play things off the Aux line!!!!!!

 

Looking good

 

Nice and clean

 

yea the car is significantly lower. finger width wise lol... i could get 3fingers real loose in front 4 in back now i cant fit 2 in front and 2 is snug in rear. looks good and feels good.

just one issue for some reason the passenger rear tire keeps bottoming out and rubbing and thats the only one that does i tought maybe the stiffer spirngs and a shock that isnt blow would make it not tub but it still does the other side dosnt rub at all any idea whats up?

 

these guys came in this morning.

 

Cool. That's the same tensioner-stop I have.... Haven't had to "test" it yet, but the piece of mind is nice -and I like the design better than the cable-type. Super easy install too.

Looks like you're doing the idler pulley as well.

Your whole car sure has come together nicely with all its goodies! Great work.

 

so i installed the new idler pulley and tensioner stop..... now i have a few questions. how important is that stupid shock on the belt tensioner. when putting on the stop i found that it was completely dead and would slide in and out with such ease. would this lead to me needing another belt soon? i put a new oem belt on in the beginning of march when i had to drop my trans. i had 1.5 holes showing, its 6 months later and i have barely half a hole showing. this i dont think is normal....... and qeustion two is what the heck is still makeing the squealing noise i thought it was the idler pulley but the brand new one is no making the noise. is is possible for the crank pulley to be doing this? or the idler on the tensioner?

here is a pick of my crank tell me what you think if its good or bad and i have a video. and what about my SC lol. oh yea and the squeaking only is there when its cold. once engine warms up it goes away.

Video

http://s228.photobucket.com/user/Gre...80fa5.mp4.html






and here is a video of the dead idler pulley.
http://s228.photobucket.com/user/Gre...21ae4.mp4.html

 

upon secondary inspection i think the noise is coming form the alternator, im just gonna leave it till it gets worse and i can pinpoint it. and the "broken" idler pulley isnt really bad. i think there is suposed to be a bushing in the center and its not there. maybe some one pulled it apart lost the bushing and just slaped it back on. im also curios as to why or what work was done becase there is also a rectangialer cut out in the wheel liner that is opening the bolt on the crank shaft so i have no idea what happend to logs in the books and carfax says nothing. got love carfax lol its useless when buying car hahaha

 

You know moss mini has reman'd MINI/BMW brand Altranators shown at over 50% off.

I'm not sure if it's a new one, or a remanufactured one that's normally $600, but $269 at mini moss seems like a steal while it lasts.

 

I just ordered something NEW and EXCITING! perhaps it should have been done a long time ago too....

 

Well nobody got the mail yesterday so my package sat in the mailbox all day till this afternoon to get it.

so most of you may have guest right that yes indeed i got a pulley

pics as always....

17% from WMW , colder plugs, and a 532 belt