YEP! Yep and YEP! It's already bolted up!



Just had to swap out the perches. The GSX had 3-bolt perches, the Colt has 2, but the bearings and shaft at the top are the same size.



I've gone from a 8" solid rotor to a big honkin' 10" dual-vented rotor and the 5-lug hub.



The wheels on my GSX will end up on this thing eventually, but I have a set of 16x6.5" '92 GSX wheels in my garage for the mean time.

The only thing that bothers me so far is the tie rods on the steering rack. They're only secured by 4 threads and a lock nut. I had to back both of them out 6 turns to get it to line up straight because the little arm things on the back of the hub are shorter on the GSX than they were on the Colt. If I have to back them out any further to align it, I'm going to have to get some tie rods off of a Diamante or something that are longer. My mission is to use all stock parts wherever I don't have to fabricate stuff. Certain things like Intercooler pipes and exhaust stuff just don't exist, so I'll have to make my own.

 

glad to see more progress being made on this man! I can't wait to paint up the grad slam!

 

UPDATE: More progress... and PICTURES! :yay:

People like pictures because I type less when I have 'em.

Today I worked on the Colt from before the sun came up to an hour after dark. EVERYTHING has been stripped from the interior now, seats, carpet, headliner, everything on the firewall except the pedals and chassis harness, the seatbelts, e-brake...

AND! It now has a clutch pedal! a shifter! a completely restored and bare-necessities chassis harness! a customized GSX ECU in a 91 Colt ECU case (so it bolts in easy)! I was sent the wrong clutch pedal assembly (over a year ago, good luck, right?), the shifter cables need some work...

...but what it doesn't have now is 58.6lbs of AC components (previously stripped) or get this... 36.8 lbs of seat belts. Yes. The frikkin' seat belt systems in this car weigh more than many 4 year olds. The control unit and wiring harness for the automatic belts were a pain to remove because they're tied into 4 different chassis harnesses with 29 wires. It's all cleaned out and ready for a roll bar/harness bar, and to start cutting and welding the rear up without starting any fires.

So, losing the AC, seatbelts, stereo equipment, non-essential interior parts such as speaker mounts, back seats, spare, jack, tools, and electronic parts and wires for features this car didn't come with... It's lost 196.4 lbs. Yes, I weighed it all. Sure I'll be putting some back, but holy cow. I could lose another 60 by leaving all the rest of the dash and interior parts out. The front bumper weighs 75 lbs, back bumper is 44... and you can bet something aluminum is going to happen with that stuff. I don't need weight up front with AWD. I will have it down to around 1900 lbs when it's all done if I'm lucky.

 

Cant wait to see it finished

:thumbup:

 

Soooo.... Keepin the 4 speed?

 

Man, I remember reading your colt thread forever ago. Good to hear that you're still working on it. Keep up the good work. I'm interested in following the progress.

 

I love it, and the color. you going to call it the streakin bannana or something?

 

Nah. It's gonna be the grand slam breakfast. Maybe I should photoshop a sample. lol.

I haven't been able to work on this thing much since I bought my house a year ago, but all of that is changing now.

Hahah... Holy shit. I thought something looked wrong with that. It takes someone on HAN to point it out for me. I called MS Recycling in California on all the car parts they got wrong, and added that one to the list. Thanks! I was suspecting the clutch assembly and cables were from an '88 colt, and they are. Looks like everything was from an '88. I'm waiting for a call back because they owe me some parts. I wanted to make it a factory fit, but maybe I'll just use the shifter from the Talon? Jamie and I are going to hit the junkyards this weekend and might find what we need before I get a call back, who knows?

It's going to have a 5-speed AWD tranny. The car was a 3-speed slushbox and that's in the trash.

ME NEITHER! I'm starting on the block tonight. I'm going to hone the bores myself because the leading and trailing edges look a little shinier than I'd like. ...and if the rings go "sproiyororiang" when I pull the pistons out, they're going back in it. They're chrome rings from the factory and they last nearly forever. If the bearings are all 1 color, they're going back in, too. I might throw this thing at a machine shop to get it tanked and new freeze plugs, but that's about it. I have to flip the bearings for the balance shaft and re-install 'em to block off the oil passages. They can be a pain to get out. I have a stub shaft from a Mirage that's bolting to the oil pump gear to eliminate the shaft. Mirages don't have balance shafts. I'm really trying to keep it stock.

I have another 6-bolt block on the floor from a '92 Talon that I'll probably build to tha hilt for a 67 trim if I need it... but 350hp on a 1900 pound car should be worth 10.20's already, so I probably don't need to do that because a factory 6-bolt block is good for up to 450 at the wheels. I have stood by the dyno and witnessed 457 awhp.

 

Damn I forgot all about this thread.

Just to let you know I already picked up my injectors down at Unnatural for $150 and should have them in the car by mid winter and dyno'd on race fuel. Sorry I didn't get back to you but it slipped my mind completely until today while at the shop.

 

Wow man. I just sold both sets of blue tops for $40 each. Of course, they're not brand new like yours are, but holy cow I could have saved you some $. I wish I could have helped you out! I'm using the set from my 2g, and the other set turned out to be from my old civic cx (and I don't have a clue why I saved them).

Today I cleaned up the front case assembly with paint thinner and scraped all the gasket crap off. Tomorrow I'm cleaning up the rest of the parts (oil cooler, oil pan, valve cover, timing cover, 14b turbo, water pipe, intake manifold, coil pack, throttle body) and packing the oil pump gears with grease. I unpacked all the new rebuild parts and lined up a workbench, a thing of beauty. Once the motor starts going together, it's going to happen really fast, and this thread will get interesting.