It looked so simple at first!

scarsofcarma · 08-02-2013, 05:08 PM

Props to you cool build

I'm guessing you've owned a mustang or two in your day?

GySgtFrank · 08-02-2013, 05:41 PM

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Props to you cool build

I'm guessing you've owned a mustang or two in your day?

Just a few.

Boxes of brand new spare parts needed a new home and the RX7 needed suspension and brakes. Match made in heaven, or , maybe someplace considerably lower.

chibikougan · 08-02-2013, 05:48 PM

Middle Earth?

GySgtFrank · 08-02-2013, 06:02 PM

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Middle Earth?

When things just refuse to work it's more like the bottom of Satan's outhouse pit.

Oh BTW just for you Chris. Remember how we were talking about how you can break a shock without proper overextension support? I snapped my Konis messing around with the axle while on the FDstands, before I got the straps in. Modified a brand new set of Tokicos, I happened to have on the shelf, for my old 1968 AMC AMX. Fit like a glove. I can now add AMC to my list of off brand parts on the car.

JL1RX7 · 08-02-2013, 07:52 PM

Gunny's been around since before middle earth. So someplace other than that!

RedR1 · 08-06-2013, 12:01 PM

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Oh BTW just for you Chris. Remember how we were talking about how you can break a shock without proper overextension support? I snapped my Konis messing around with the axle while on the FDstands, before I got the straps in. Modified a brand new set of Tokicos, I happened to have on the shelf, for my old 1968 AMC AMX. Fit like a glove. I can now add AMC to my list of off brand parts on the car.

Dang. . . . FDstands. . . . I WILL CUT YOU

how did they snap? over extended too fast?

GySgtFrank · 08-06-2013, 12:50 PM

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Dang. . . . FDstands. . . . I WILL CUT YOU

how did they snap? over extended too fast?

The suspension was hanging from the shocks (figured I'd be OK since it was on the stands). I started messing with the driveline angle by jacking the front snout on the axle. With the shocks at full extension they didn't have any give and snapped the shaft on one, bent the shaft on the other. Not one of my smarter moments.

JL1RX7 · 08-06-2013, 02:28 PM

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The suspension was hanging from the shocks (figured I'd be OK since it was on the stands). I started messing with the driveline angle by jacking the front snout on the axle. With the shocks at full extension they didn't have any give and snapped the shaft on one, bent the shaft on the other. Not one of my smarter moments.

Better you did it now than at high speed in a corner.

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