climb385

winter car is so pimp, wait till u see the red leather interior!!!!!

climb385

finally got around to uploading videos on youtube




just a few from my iphone, soon ill get some from the go pro

Slowbalt2000

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Pulls nice

climb385

thanks, some shitty videos but i got to set up the go pro still

climb385

another iphone video

climb385

its been a while, but the car parts have been piling up and more are coming!!!!
but for now brand new lsj hubs drilled to 5x114.3 and lsj front cailpers, picking up lsj rear axle beam and rear brakes hopefully this week

andrewcarr1993

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I sense an engine build in your future.

climb385

maybe someday, first brake swap and wheels, seats and rear sway, some other stuff soon!

conerboner

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nice to see another boosted 2.2... and good choice on the hub swap

TrueStory

Did you do anything to stiffen up the engine or trans. mounts? How is your traction in 1st and 2nd?

climb385

thank you, i love the boosted 2.2 soo much fun and alot quicker than i thought it was gonna be, and as for the hub swap i wasnt going to swap the hubs just do the lsj front brakes with redrilled rotors, but the only guy i found that would redrill the rotors wanted $100 a rotor to drill and for me to sign a liabilty waver because one of the holes would overlap the stock holes, so i said screw it just do a full 5 lug, and might as well do a 114.3 in the process


im running ttr front and rear mount inserts, im ordering powell stage 2 rotated mounts soon though, and a zzp side motor mount with the inaglls (how over you spell it) torque mount as well, hopefully get some more wheel hop to go away, and first gear is absolutly pointless, as soon as i spool 2900rpms i just blow the tires off and will keep sping through 2nd, if i do a 25mph 2nd gear pull i spin a little but not as bad as 1st

climb385

Well got the newest update, got the car up on the stands, finally started to tear it apart getting the hubs and calipers ready to go on hopefully tomorrow or this weekend, gonna get the calipers powdercoated b4 I install everything, once mongo gets back from az I'm picking up the rear axle beam for the swap than I'll have everything

andrewcarr1993

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Just went through the rotated mount process, you want a LNF rear mount, the Powell front mount, the stock upper mount (not any aftermarket one) and I don't have the ingals but it could be beneficial.

You should add FE5 control arms while you're at it, that's what I ended up doing.

kxrida2000

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Idk if you have anyone who does powder coating but I can do it for ya if you need it done.

BlackielawlessSS

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excellent build

climb385

thanks but i got a guy that has done all of my coating, if hes not available tho ill hit ya up


thank you sir, cant wait to get new wheels ordered!! for now im waiting till after xmas for wheels, i got my buddies rsx wheels so i can keep the car a roller

climb385

Well I couldn't sleep tonight so I headed out to te garage to play with the Balt, just to see how stuff fits I removed the 4 lug crap on drivers front and bolted the 5x114.3 hub and the LSJ front caliper (no rotor yet) and test fitted my buddies nismo wheel since I'm storing them, it's a 18x9 +30

once mongo gets back from az ill be getting my new rotors

Everything has since been taken apart so everything can be cleaned and other parts prepped for powdercoat, not to people with bc's and drive in snow in winter! Take the bc's off!!!! Coating got eaten away on my springs, coilovers themselves are in good shape, just the spring coating, getting those powdercoated







And when I say the base model brakes took a beating I wasn't kidding!!!

andrewcarr1993

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FE5 control arms?

climb385

no still rocking fairly new fe1's right now, maybe over winter ill get fe5's

andrewcarr1993

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Got a set from mongo for $100 then put in all of powells bushings for a cool $444, drove to his shop and actually met him and they were installed, cool guy and highly recommend all of his parts.

I'm content running 5x110 though and don't want to have to get rid of 3 sets of wheels to switch, going to finish a rear disk swap in the spring hopefully. I need around $450-500 in new parts since I don't like used.

climb385

yea i plan to do the rear disk swap, not 100 sure yet, i can get a complete loaded rear axle beam for 200, i just need new ebrake cables which are like 15 bucks each, ill have mongo redrill the front and rear rotors, for now tho i might just stay rear drum, not sure yet, and im not too worried about the control arms as mine only have like 30k miles on them and still in good shape, if my rear bushing go bad ill prolly get fe5 arms tho

andrewcarr1993

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Yeah my bushings were shot so I made the switch, I want to swap the rear to disk too but am just going to use Powell's brackets instead of swapping the beam.

climb385

its not worth it for me to buy his brackets cuz its like 225 for the kit, than u have to buy pads, rotors, calipers etc, when i can just get a complete unit for 200 redrill the rotors and call it a day

andrewcarr1993

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I see your point there, but I don't have one of those beams at my disposal.

climb385

Just a little update:
-Coilovers off and springs removed for powdercoat
-rear beam ready to be dropped waiting on mongo to get back from az
- calipers almost ready and cleaned up for paint, was gonna pc them but I don't feel like rebuilding them, rears seem like a pain!!
-all arp studs removed from 4 lug hubs, glad I kept the other 4 new ones, I doubt I'll need these studs tho
-front hubs all bolted up to spindle waiting for coilovers to be put back on






Old 4 lug rotors are trashed!!!