My Lovely 1Ga

[Blindmouse]

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My Lovely 1Ga


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[Blindmouse]

Last pics from my dsm in one piece. some renovating begun..

Day one: rear body parts& muffler is down.. and the interior is out..
Day two: fuel tank & rear brakes down..
Day three: rear suspensio...fuuuuck..
electric impact wrench and 800newtonmeters, broken the trailing arm bolts both.

I had only one choice: cut the suspension bolts between the body and the trailing arm's bushing.

day four: I welded a washer then a 19mm nut to the trailing arm bolt's stump.. then the cutted bolts slowly comes out about 1-1,5hours/side..

 

[Blindmouse]

last some weeks update:

Rusted rear licence plate console "repaired"..

Chemicals removing all of iron-oxydes too slowly.
Jacking point reinforcement repair..

I'll wanna weld them in asap.

 

[Blindmouse]

Rear inner sill before...

...and after. okey okey i know the result is ugly ASF..
But who can weld better the 30+yrs old metals under the car over your head in a tight space at your front yard?

 

[Blindmouse]

I'm in a dilemma..
i have a set of sideskirts from a Talon TSi..
put back the old little Eclipse sideskirt, or paint and use the large TSi sideskirt? I can't choose yet..

 

[Spleen8urLSX]

Just stumbled upon this, I too have a GS that I converted, and now ironically am converting back in a different manner 52 turbo set ups later. In my opinion I always was a fan of the 1ga side skirts. Less common makes it stand out a bit and you see far more 1ga Talons than Eclipse’s. However it comes down to taste, if you like the Talon ones better by all means roll with them.

 

[Blindmouse]

Closed the outside too some days ago..

Aaaaand, look what comes to me from Japan!!!

 

[Blindmouse]

Long time no see.. but the chemicals working soo slowly.
I was runnin' to some deep shit again..

I have some good news.. the sidesills is mostly contains steel.

 

[DreamChaser7]

What chemicals are you using? Have you tried ospho? Converts iron Oxide to to iron phosphorus almost instantly..pretty cool stuff.
BTW your car is on my calendar right now..

 

[Blindmouse]

What chemicals are you using? Have you tried ospho? Converts iron Oxide to to iron phosphorus almost instantly..pretty cool stuff.
BTW your car is on my calendar right now..

Using a phosphoric acid based rust remover and converter.. we don't have and i dont know ospho but i think this maybe same working concept.
But I brushed the rust through days, sometimes weeks, but the fluid can the rusted steel converted to clean steel, like on the first pic the lower left piece... but a dropped, becouse that piece was too thin... rust eated up almost the full thickness.. I did make a new one rather

Then cleaned up the rust's little remains with wire disc on the angle grinder.. and got 3 layers of special epoxy based rust converter&primer, called Brunox.
The orange "paint" is the motip's weldable red oxyde primer. Used it on the new pieces inner side too..

 

[Blindmouse]

Okey long time no post..
Penguin is almost "done".. just needs a rear brake caliper renovation...

Underbody painted.

Rear suspension is back..

Bent a brand new main fuel line.

Fuel tank is up!
Fuel & brake lines repaired..

And the last week:

 

[Mech Addict]

That’s a lot of steel surgery to get the cancer off. Looks like you’re decent with a welder. Way to not give up- I would find that much too daunting.

 

[Blindmouse]

That’s a lot of steel surgery to get the cancer off. Looks like you’re decent with a welder. Way to not give up- I would find that much too daunting.

That welder machine is one of my best friends.

 

[Blindmouse]

We just went a Japanese car show 3 months ago.

 

[Blindmouse]

Some car meeting again..

 

[Redrocketlaser]

Some car meeting again..
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Are those Camry wheels? I mean I see the mitsu logo on the center's but they look like 2012 Camry wheels.

 

[Blindmouse]

Are those Camry wheels? I mean I see the mitsu logo on the center's but they look like 2012 Camry wheels.

Wrong. 2.4 4th gen OEM wheels... fun fact: IMHO they looks better on my 1gen instead of any 4th gen...

 

[CrackedDSM]

This thing is so gorgeous, man. I've always loved this car. I remember it from DSMTalk too(I think I'm remembering correctly).

 

[Blindmouse]

This thing is so gorgeous, man. I've always loved this car. I remember it from DSMTalk too(I think I'm remembering correctly).

Thanx man!! I think you remember correctly, but that was long time ago..
Here'a an another pic to you.

 

[Blindmouse]

Some new photos. 25years of owning this ride.