So yesterday I pulled in the spyder into the garage to start the AWD swap. First step was tear down I decide to work from the front back. I pulled the bumper,cv axels, trans,clutch, flywheel, radiator, exhaust, turbo, manifold, stock intercooler and piping. After everything was out and a 12 pack down I called it a night.

Today I made some pretty good progress by getting the front mount intercooler and hard piping in, flywheel, ACT clutch, AWD trans and CV axels. I thought everything has been going very smoothly and making pretty good time until I looked over, and there sat the new and old throw out bearings.

So I had pulled everything just to put the bearing in and reassembled everything. I am just about to mount the starter and CV axels and decided to call it a night. Lots of parts to install over the next week. But transmissoin witch i thought would be the most time consuming with working in a tight area is complete. the FMIC is on brackets made and installed and hard pipes ran. hope the rest of the build goes smoothly.

Awesome, hope I can see it finished before I leave monday!!!

You should put up some pics.

If I could load photos from an iPad or iPhone I would post them up. I will try and get them on the computer and load them. Finish by MONDAY!!! Wow that is still a lot of work to do before Monday... But I will give it a shot for you bro! I think that hard part is over though. The guy next door is going to weld all the stuff for me, so the cost of the welding in the bolts and hangers will be free...today I hope I can get the rest of the front done and start dropping the rear end.

The front is the easy part.
Getting to the back bolts in the spyder is a TOTAL pain in the rear.
If I was you I would tear out all the carpet before he does any welding. When we did it the welder put a hole through the floor board and started the carpet on fire a little bit.

The rear the hard part you think so? I have pulled 3 rear ends on these cars and to be honest the tans was harder getting out then anything else......

Yes pulling the rear ends out is easy... its those short bolts that hold up the spyder rear that you need to take out so you can put in the longer ones for the awd subframe.

So I finished the front end and took out the rear subframe, got the short bolts out no problem... Was in the middle of cutting the hole for the front bolts when the wife started yelling for dinner so decided to call it a night. So add to the check list of finished parts is the JIC magic coil overs fronts suspension, drive shafts and pulled rear subframe. Tomorrow will be the gas tank and rear subframe bolts. Hopefully by we'd night will be putting in the transfer case and the 20g turbo. But just aiming for the full subframe swap to be completed and the exhaust on with the car on the ground by wed. So going to make sure I take my time and do it right.

So plans have changed... Was planing on getting this on the ground already but due to work in the army we have been flying 12-14 hour shifts helping out the fires out.... Guess it won't be getting done as quickly as I wanted....but everything has been bottled up and ready just need to tie up a few loose ends

Got to do what you got to do! Appreciate all you do for CO!

The DSM isn't going anywhere.

Thanks kreez, deff a good feeling when we have put out a fire that the firefighter said would have taken out a whole nejborhood and would not have been able to put it out without the helicopters. But your right the spyder is not going anywhere and will be here to finish after we put out the fire

So finally got everything together and on the ground, I went with the 16g turbo and not the 20g just to start. I took it for a pull around the block and there are a few things that I need to clean up. The tune for one, I am still learning ecuflash with ceddy mods and logging with evoscan. Should be a fun day tomorrow with getting the tune in a drive able form. Also need to figure out the whole gas level sensor thing... Not working right now but will do that as well.

Can't wait to see it back on the road. We need to get the meets rolling again. I'm half tempted to make some cards to put on the windshields of all the DSMs on post...

I have thought about making cards to put on all the DSMs I see out on the road.... I took it for a drive and did a we pulls have to get my tune down pat before start driving it around as a daily again....