Megan rear camber arms and rear lower control arm bushings

[Sirnixalot]

Whenever I have parts i just can't resist the urge to install them. So 3 days before i get married i am under the car changing out bushings much to the wife's disapproval . As such i only completed the drivers side.

The inner bushing's inner sleeve was rusted solid to the camber bolt so i had to end up cutting the bolt on both sides of the bushing to get it out. With no camber bolts on island i welded one of the eccentric washers to a new bolt temporarily. New OEM camber bolts should be here early next week.

The outer bushing is a spherical bearing from factory and didn't need to be changed but i dismantled it thinking that it had an outer sleeve which i needed to use for the new Superflex bushing. This was not the case and i had to end up making a sleeve for the super flex sleeve from some exhaust pipe i had laying around.

Stock outer spherical bearing

Bushings installed and greased

I plan on removing the arms again to ad a small bit of plate to the control arm right under the bushing and removing the rust/painting them

As for the Megan upper camber arm, a mounting bolt and nut were rusted solid and had to be drilled out. While attempting to retap the nut it fell apart so a new nut was welded in it's place. It will be re-enforced with some plate early next week as well.

The passenger side arm was installed earlier and it went without a hitch.

I am almost out of antisieze at this point

More updates to come as i get more parts

 

[1990AWD]

looks pretty sick! keep up the good work!

 

[Sirnixalot]

thanks!

I just installed the intercooler that went with the hard piping kit but it was way too shiny for my liking sooooooo it got a little flat black

old

15 years of service, time for retirement!

SR71 intercooler...

Started raining so this was the last pic...i need to paint that vertical bar on the bumper black too

Only issue is the clamps that came with the kit are too big for the intercooler piping and are loose (not sure how the previous owner missed that) so i will be replacing those some time tomorrow after i finish work.

 

[Sirnixalot]

swapped out the loose tbolt clamps to some worm drive (jubilee) clamps and painted all the grills, pipes and emblem black. (got some "overspray" on the couplers and clamps )

I hope that other corner light arrives soon....

 

[Sirnixalot]

relocated a Deka ETX-30 to the trunk

 

[lizoyd18]

love that car i dont see a lot of those out here

 

[Sirnixalot]

thanks

Got the "projector" headlights it came with aligned properly. They were projectors retrofitted into reflector housings but they were mounted so the beam pattern was crosseyed no matter how you adjust them.

Just waiting on the other set of indicator housings i ordered to arrive.

 

[mike96]

i had a CD9A when i was stationed in japan... i miss that car to death. it was a blast to drive. but if i could do it over again i think i would try to get my hands on an EVO3 or maybe even an EVO5.

 

[streetdsmpwr]

Lovin the car, I wish I could get one of these. I really like the blacked out intercooler and grills.