Stop Fast! (The Install)

[gofer]

Since my cars down and out for a few weeks there is no better time than the present to knock out a few things on the "to-do" list. I borrowed an air compressor and a die grinder from good DSM buddies, then I went to a local tool depot to get a carbide bit and some eye/ear/face protection. The end result was sweet, all the work getting there was terrible and now I wish I would have just gotten the JDM Galant knuckles! Too late now, so onto the pictures...
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Stay tuned for the master cylinder install and pictures of the car when its back on its wheels again.

 

[GsXdSmKingGsX]

Me=Jealous

 

[snowborder714]

^That.

What types of issues did you run into that made you wish you just went with the Galant knuckles?

 

[gofer]

Hours of grinding and fitting, along with not knowing the integrity of my front knuckle anymore, makes me wish I had forked over the cash for the Galant knuckles. You can see how much "meat" I had to remove from them to get the bracket to fit. To canter the caliper down doesn't require as much grinding, I just felt that it looked tacky. I'll post pictures of it angled down too so you can see the difference.

 

[cdonaldson88]

Nice rims man

 

[Nikolay_Ruskov]

I don't know way but i didn't took out so much from my knuckles.But i took out more from my callipers.You took out so much that it doesn't look safe to me.

 

[housegsx]

Yikes! I don't know about all of that grinding, I would have mounted them in the downward position. But even that requires quite a bit of grinding on 2gb knuckles.

I never did mount mine because of clearance issues with my OZ wheels. But I agree, if I was to try it again, it would be with the JDM knuckles.

Looks great though!

Oh, did you get those brackets plated or is KMV shipping them like that now?

 

[T is for TURBO]

Eeek... I know you put a lot of time and effort into that. But, in all honesty, I wouldn't run those knuckles any more. You just created a huge stress point where there normally wasn't one.

 

[DSMunknown]

I gotta figure out if my Galant knuckles will bolt on to a Colt.