Ok, good. I left the tank mounts, but trimmed out pretty much what you just mentioned. Ill have to find a way to reinforce them now since its a tad flimsy.Certainly is, it's not very easy to package it all in there but it can be done. My buddies car is done that way. We cut about 6" of the spare tire well out towards the front and had to plate it back in to make room for the coil overs, so you can count your spare tire out, lol. but stock tank coil overs and arb = 1.32 60' for a street driven fox....not too bad!
Does anyone know if there is enough real estate under the rear of a fox to accomodate an ARB, coilovers mounted inboard of the frame rails, AND a stock tank? I'd really like to keep the stock tank with a couple of in-tank pumps for a stock-ish look.
That's how my car is set up, and the ARB clears the shock bar. Let me know if you need any specific pics.
So I have no pictorial evidence of what transpired in the garage tonight, so I present to you a tale of the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Oooo eeeee oooooo eeeeee ooooooo........ wah wah waaaaah....
The good:
The suspension is in, as is the ARB.
The bad:
The ARB hits the cross bar for the coil overs
The ugly:
A couple posts up, it was discussed how tight clearance was gonna be around all the moving parts. Well, it was so tight that I had trouble getting the gun of the welder up in there, and even more trouble getting my face/helmet up in there to see what was going on.
So, I won't be posting any pictures of the welds. They're there, they're gonna do what they're supposed to do, and they're uglier than sin.
As for the ARB/cross bar situation, I think I can shorten the links to angle the arms down a little more so they wont hit when I launch. I plan on having it rolling this weekend and the engine in this week.
And I'll bet you guys think I'm the only one that loses my s hit in the garage.
So,.... uh Collin,....... when you couldn't get the weld gun up there, and your helmet kept crashing into suspension/rear end/floor components in order for you to get a good eye on the weld,... and since you couldn't the weld quality suffered,........ how did that make you feel?
Did any bad words come out of your mouth?
I have the handheld face shield that came with my welder that I keep just for situations like that,....I have seen guys tape a dark lens to a piece of cardboard for the same reasons,.... only way to get your head up under there sometimes
Well it was like this - Those front two mounts for the tank are RIGHT next to where I had to weld the shock bar. So it's either cut the mounts out, weld in the bar, then ARB, then weld both of the mounts back in, or just try and stick it up in there with the crap in the way.
Well, we know now what I chose and I kinda regret not taking the longer, more tedious road that would have yielded much more satisfactory results. Hi, my name is Collin, and nit-picky details and I don't really get along.
I'm trying to become a better person when it comes to this kind of stuff. I've always been a slap it together and go - I need to learn to take my time now that I have a car that deserves to showcase what I can do. I am completely capable of doing anything, I just need to take my time and force it to be nice.
Maybe I should rely on the internet to rate my work and belittle me until I get it right?
Alright, I'll go fix it.No problemo,
You suck.
Alright, I'll go fix it.
You can find 110v welders for cheap that are good to learn with. Welding can be compared to painting - it's all in the prep work. If you have good clean metal and a good ground, the rest falls into place, just takes practice. You adjust the voltage and wire speed until you get the pretty beads that everyone likes to show off.I just wish I knew how to weld.
Ok, carry on.
Did you mock up the rear shocks when you moved the cross member back?
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