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OK. tonight i am ACTUALLY going to start removing the rusty ************ from the wells. its gonna be sunny for the next few days so i can rely on my motorcycle and 2-stroke bicycle for transportation. i just wish i had a small trailer to pull behind the bike or cycle. doh. i'll post pics of the carnage.

we were talking today about creating somewhat of a roll cage type situation to give it some structure and then just laying in some sheet metal to fill in the spaces, and then seal the ************ outta it and the rest of the bottom of the car to prevent anything else from spreading.

go in there with a cutting tool and cut me some wheel wells out!

I am planing to keep those funds separate. i'll let ya know if that changes tho.

cuz thats what i do most of the time at work! actually im leaving for work now. we got about 3.5 hours of work to get done today. maybe 4 tops.

yeah, its definately worth fixing as far as upgrades, i was just going to do a 2" lift and some 26-27" tires on a set of pugs i got lined up, plus some new springs back there, probably going to go with the accord spring setup. hopefully i can get done with work earlier than i anticipated today, i wanna get this project started!!

i'll try to get a better pic of the drivers side, its got rust around the top by the mount, and a verticle 'slice' on the back side of the bumpstop brace.

yeah, im not sweatin the holes as they are NOW, but after cuttin away the metal i just dont want to run into a situation where its too weak to drive it safely across town to the welder guy.

Yeah, i just dont wanna cut it out until its closer to welding time, since i have to drive the car and if its wet i'll get wet! if its dry thats no biggie, as long as its SOMEWHAT structurally sound. i wish the factory sprayed on undercoating wasnt all over EVERYthing, i think i'll take a wire wheel to it when i get a chance and atleast see where im at. any guess as to what gauge steel that would be? i just hope i can get the suspension loose for a lift kit install that i have planned in the future

welll that makes me feel just great! LOL. i saw that link for the free loyale in Richland WA but read it wrong and thought it said Richmond VA, which is 1000 miles closer (yet still 800 miles away) Hopefully my fellow Subaru Alliance members buddy is able to weld the ************ out of it and make it work. otherwise i may have a different soob at the campout and a ea82 and D/r tranny for sale. lol. im hopin not. i really like my car dammit. hah. I think its going to be alot more work than anticipated.

well givin how today went... i'm gonna worry bout my car fallin apart first. LOL!!

oh, by new body, i mainly meant a good candidate for my engine and trans etc, not like a totally stripped down body or anything.

i know. wisconsin sucks as far as rust goes. but.. i know a guy who knows a good welder, so im gonna cut out all the rust. and have the guy fill it up like a mofo. i sure dont care what it looks like inside, it just bums the ************ outta me because other than these wheel wells. the car is really clean, and has a 100k motor and a 5spd d/r we put in last december. the other side is just as bad, i went to unbolt the lower seatbelt point and i now have a 3" diameter hole where it used to bolt to! :-\ (added 2nd pic up top) i took a welding class back in 2000, and havent done it since, so im not really wanting to rely on my skills, since i can see my wheels from the inside of the car i think i'll be taking the motorcycle as much as possible until i can get this solved. :pray for sunshine:

So i was investigatin why i was taking on a little water in my car, and this is what i found! is this repairable?!??!?! or should i start looking for a clean wagon body? edit: here is the other side. not showin the hole where the seatbelt used to bolt to.

hopefully i get a chance to buy some window tint by then, other wise i'll probably be up at the asscrack of dawn regardless of when i go to sleep. :-\

I just reserved site 107. Tom (the loyale), Desmond (if he still goes??) and myself will be splittin that one. hope it can house up to 3 cars? or we could probably stash one somewhere. im sleepin in mine, so cant go TOO far haha.

speaking of how low can you go, I've always wanted to wire up a 'brown note' generator to a car alarm. but having a speaker to produce it is pretty much impossible. I guess it'd have to be like 30ft in diameter, however, i read that some MIT students did it with a speaker made from a trashcan or something. LOL. but just imaging, going to break into a car to steal it or something and the next thing you know you are ************ting your pants!:lol:

LOL... the audio in bass tracks was classic. I gotta see if i still have the cd, it was some crap about a "Stylaphone" or soemthing some brittish guy talkin bout it. oh here it is.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNO4EZU8GSQ Mortal combat sounding ************. i recall the bass was pretty good if you had a tight sealed box I wanna build this for my home theatre.. http://www.decware.com/newsite/hwk15.htm although it'd probably wreck my house... itd be fun explaining that to the insurance company. they got some cool sub box plans on that site.

how do sites work? we just get a big group site? or everyone gets a site on their own?

Yeah, when we did mine, it was that same situation. i dont recall offhand which color wires they were off hand. I cut the plug off the AT selector and made a jumper that way rather than jamming a wire in the socket.

atleast tho, with the capacitors in there you should save a little bit of draw on the system. i would bet you'd be just fine with a 90 amp alternator. I ran my old system in my ford probe 2x1000watt amps w/ 2 1farad caps wired up and it was fine, except when there was a looooong bass sound while driving with my headlights on. never killed the car, but it wanted to! be sure to post some pics (progress and finished product) of the install! i'd be down to see it in all its glory.

oh yeah! well, i got a AM FM radio with one speaker! ************ man, that stuff costs twice as much as my whole damn car!

around here i would expect about a $900 bill to get a clutch changed out. To MOST people changing a clutch and pulling an engine to do so is a HUGE deal, so some places put a high price on it because people expect it to be expensive. I had a wheel bearing changed out on our 00 outback last year to the tune of $570. i thought THAT was high. Same guy wanted $136 to change a outter tie rod end and then $70 for an alignment. which i didnt think was unreasonable. however i changed the end myself ($40 part) didnt move the adjustment nut since the end going on was the exact same part as i was taking off. car goes straight. yay!

ok, after noon for sure... so you dont get sick!

I should have time this weekend. I MIGHT have to work a lunch on saturday but i might take a personal day since i'll be off all the following week anyways. I love having 4+ weeks of vacation! do you know did that house ever get torn down behind his garage?