Thread: The transformation has begun...

Looks good man!

Just a lil update. Well, there is no more in regards to rear suspension and brakes, it's bare back there except for the exhaust and fuel tank. Just ordered a few things, will be here Monday more then likely. Ordered new fuel tank straps and the tubular trailing arms to match the lateral arms.

Waiting to hear back on the GXP rear calipers, and found a great local hardware store that has flange bolts/nuts in larger metric sizes. Here are a few pics in the meantime, at this point I'm painting/detailing more than anything else... Still have to drill out and retap the one trailing arm bracket bolt that broke.

Here ya go, look ma, no suspension, no brakes.


Here's a blurry picture of the lateral arms painted, just going with a hammered silver look.


This is just showing the new GXP drilled rear rotors, no clue what kind of paint/primer/coating is on it, but it doesn't come off with carb cleaner. Also,
the new rear hubs, along with spindles and backing plates media blasted and painted.


And finally, this is a pretty good example of what the entire suspension looked like while taking it apart. It's working on these that I wish I was Arizona, California, or wherever they didn't have snow.


That's it for now, will probably post some more next week, should get the fuel tank straps and center support together next Monday night.

Figure my biggest hurdles are going to the e-brake setup and brake lines. Not sure where to locate a pocket friendly flare kit
for the bubble style brake lines.

yeah snow is a pain.. im almost afraid to go under mine after seeing the rockers be so rusted

Cool project - in for updates.

Only having 1 car makes these projects tough for the DIY'ers like myself.

Originally Posted by GTPrix

Cool project - in for updates.

Only having 1 car makes these projects tough for the DIY'ers like myself.

The daily driver is a 92 Geo Metro - great on milage but laughable on cool factor. I also have a 70 Camaro I'm still building also. I had people wanting to buy the Metro when gas was $4 a gallon but wouldn't sell. Like you said though, if not for having it, couldn't be doing this.

too bad i couldnt ship brake lines, got plenty of those at the junkyards here, they usually charge like 5 bucks for the whole damn thing front to rear, if that is what you were talking about

Didn't do anything to it over the weekend, worked on it last night, got the new straps painted and installed. Center support is painted and now back in, put the lateral bars in but not tightened, set them to match the old ones. The HT Motorsports trailing arms arrived on Friday, new GXP calipers came today, along with the e-brake cables, need to the Geo inspected so that's tonight thing while down at the garage I'll media blast all the remaining small parts I have. Here are some pics of some assembly...

None of this is tightened, but it's getting back together, slowly...


Just a picture of the finished lateral rods here..

looking hot, i wish i had the cash/knowledge to do this to mine

looks great! you should have an album in your profile that shows it all when you're done. i was thinking of doing this to mine, now you've inspired me! lol

Almost done with this project, have to grease all the fittings, bleed the brakes, do a really rough alignment to get it there, and hope for the best. Bending the brake lines wasn't too bad, flairing was a PITA, but that was because I got a cheap tool, decided to do inverted flares in combination of the bubbles... Was able to get broken bolt out of trailin arm bracket mount, took about an hour, but got it... Although not done, car is back on the ground, the B&G springs dropped it more than I thought it would...

Some of these may look like duplicates of past pictures... Passenger side front.


Driver side front. Painted the caliper brackets gun metal, used G2 caliper paint on the calipers.



Next couple pictures are of the passenger rear brake/suspension, pretty much done..






Best picture I could do to get the whole car in it, as it sits is how far it dropped, I didn't even roll it back and forth to get the front to settle yet... The tires do fill the wheel well..



Last picture just showing the lines comparing tire to quarter panel... 19x8.5 with 38mm offset.

lOokin real good I'm envious

where you get the tips? how much you think the back caliper weight each?

Originally Posted by Bio248

will you please just roll your car out of the garage and take pictures....?

x2 lol. your gf going to have one nice gp. gp=girls power