Russ' 1994 Hardtop 2GRFE V6 MR2

[immorality]

I had to have the car weighted at the BC Autoslalom Championship this weekend. This is with about 1/3 a tank of gas.

[Goopi]

^ Awesome!

[bbarnumboy]

Time for some weight balancing

[Goopi]

Time for some weight balancing

It's pretty close actually, assuming that it was done without him in the vehicle.

[immorality]

It's without me in it, no spare or tools, just car.

[bbarnumboy]

I want it so close, that what you eat for breakfast affects it!

[immorality]

Control arm bushing: 1, wood vice: 0

[bbarnumboy]

Awesome.

[macatak]

dumbass, you need one of these

[immorality]

I was working with what I had available.

[bbarnumboy]

It's no longer available

[immorality]

I win bitch.

Those front radius rod bushings are a bitch. Who's bright idea was it to include a little window with another little rubber piece like that?

[macatak]

puller worked?

's much easier to take the rod's off the arms

[dh4ever]

4wd ball joint presses are the shit. nearly nothing can beat one of those.

[immorality]

I have a boll joint press tool, but it doesn't have adjustable arms, so I tried out Duncan's 2 jaw puller.

The bushing install was completed last week. This week I laid down a layer of insulation on the bottom of the trunk and another layer against the trunk firewall (where the ECU mounts). I noticed that was getting quite hot as well, but I guess it was never intended to have a header on the other side of it. I wrapped the pipes in the frunk too, but I haven't been back in there to see how much of a difference it makes.

Aly hooked me up with some exhaust bits, such that I can soon get a proper y-pipe made up, and I might be picking up some new mufflers soon...