Staycation day 1 of 14 begins. First of numerous Saturdays!

Take Wife to the airport at 7, come home & if cool enough disassembly of the suspension commences.

 

You have a garage, right?
Get a rolling Haier and vent it outside and cool off the garage to get work done.

 

Garage yup, swamp coolers don't work so well here thanks to very low humidity.

 

I mean an actual window/wall/rolling ac unit, not a swamp cooler.
I mean it's a different kinda heat but I don't really let any weather ever
stop me from doing something I want to do!

 

"Different kind of heat"

Not sure you could more polar opposite than FL & AZ

 

Got home, new foaming pressure washer attachment & Chemical bros soap was here it was semi cool so I washed the car.






Also, getting ready....
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A company makes spacers for the intake that needs the intake to come out to install so I found instructions.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/11...l_B0400_sm.pdf

 

I suppose if I wanted to badly enough I'd spend the money on a rolling AC unit, I'd rather spend that on a Generac generator/battery system. (I know it's 10x more)

I'm ok waking up early and doing it after October. It's 70 at 3am right now.

 

Disassembly has commenced.

 

if the heat bothered me that much I would for sure get that though, if my garage allowed me to park inside to work I would get one now even.
You guys get a lot of rolling blackouts and power outages there?

 

 

Couple times a year but it's brutal when it happens and with the battery, we can run of it on peak and "save money" like when my wife buys a purse that's 50% off. er ya we saved that 50%.


lol

I got out there at 4am, it's 69 now and I was still hot.

One of the fucking injector seals fell out of the old intake. I bought new ones so that was not the issue, I didn't know if it fell in the head, finally found it in the sealed frisking bottom of the engine compartment..

That was no fun.

 

Dude, I just had a hell of a time chasing down a misfire on my S4...
learned pretty quickly how to deal with direct injection and reseals and double
and triple checking my work...lol...
glad you found it, would have been a butt pucker when you turned it on later.

 

It's done. I also bypassed the stupid throttle body "coolant" hoses. Of course, the back one leaked. It was a major PITA to find but it's done & feels great! Going to do a log & send to my tuner to see if any tweaks are in order.

 

Definitely an aesthetic upgrade.
Does it provide any other benefit?

 

if he's sending a file to the tuner there's no way he went to the trouble for a look

 

Purportedly 5hp stock (they advertise the 6at at 200/6mt with this manifold at 205, but definitely better flow.

On the way to the trip to get the file I heard a horrible nose. Stopped, serpentine shredded itself.

I came home, got another car, went to O'reilly & found out there were no masks in the fucking car.

Came home, removed the belt and got the part number for Gates & Continental and am going to rest. I'm freaking beat.

 

Went back out with MY mask, put several disposable masks in both other cars (my car has another "my mask") got the Continental belt, installed it, cleaned the Injen air filter & drove 15 miles on the freeway & sent the log to the tuner.

Car feels great.

 

I had forgotten about my Wifes' current Mexico car.

2016 Paceman,

She sent me these this morning.

 

MAP sensor fastener is totally different on the old manifold. Found one that fit.

 

Suspension has commenced.

 

Fooking front endlinks are wrong. GAAAAAAAA. Putting it back together sucks!!!

What I need:





What they sent:

 

Decided to use the OEM end links in front, disassembled the rear interior panels & removed the two nuts from the shock mounts, it's 105 now so I'm taking a break.

 

Do you at least have a big box fan or something? That sort of dry heat isn't super terrible with some convection.

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I have the garage door partially open and the side door open. I have a small fan I'm moving to blow near me.

 

In between working on the car, I also erased & reinstalled my 2015 MacBook Air. Mail has been doing a weird thing where it stops getting mail and the annoying solution was turning WIFI off & back on.

So far it's fixed. Love how easy OSX wipe & restore (via Time Machine) is.

 

Ate lunch, no more garage for me today.

 

It was 109 but I wanted to get more done & figured assembling a rear "strut" is easy NOT!

My spring compressor that was great on the jumbo Tundra shocks SUCKED on these puny shocks (front & rear)

Got one rear done, had to use the old front shock mount that came with the fronts to get near closing on the shock.

Was only 108 when I came back in, still need to assemble the other rear.

 

Got the second shock assembled, much easier than the first. ready to disassemble the car. Hopefully, I'll start tonight.

 

One down. 37k strut looks new.

 

Passenger side done, I'm beat, front sway and full rear tomorrow. Hope to get out there at 3am.

 

The 86 suspension was pretty easy to swap out, but the heat can certainly make things way worse. Good progress so far.

What springs did you go with? What alignment kit(s) did you get?

 

Eibach Sport. I was under the (illusion)? 1" wouldn't need anything but a new alignment.

It has been super easy so far, (air tools rule) really the hardest part has been the stupid clips holding the ABS & pad wear sensor wires to the struts. (how the fuck is that possible)?

it's still freaking 92. If it were even 85 I could have knocked the progress so far in about an hour, I just can't stay in the garage that long.

 

Got up at 4, outside at 5, realized the undertray which is a slew of work to disassemble has to come off so gave up on the front sway until I get the over/front pipe & do the exhaust & got into the rears, shocks are a pita, got the sway & passenger side out, set up the driver side ready am taking a break.

 

Done. Front seems low & back seems high.

Got lucky, it just broke 100 when I came back inside.

 

Back seems to be settling.
Funhouse mirror makes me look fatter & more oddly shaped than I am!

 

Is your wife a luchadora?


Nicely done...
bro, stop fuckin around with that little ass fan...get something that will make you feel cool.
Something like this...if you can find the older model, even better.
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/...?ie=UTF8&psc=1

You're in the shade...81 degrees in the house...get a gallon igloo brand thermos and keep it filled with ice water.
You would be surprised how much more tolerable it'll all be if you are hydrated and getting blown.

I found the eibach with the pretty linear design to be kinda harsh in my S4 (no plans to track though). I ended up with h&r sport...again...then
wasn't happy with the rear not being low enough and finally settled on h&r super sport. yes I've done springs on this
platform 6 times now in a short year and a half.

Car looks good...
I love your tenacity and attention to detail.

 

I hope it settles, this will annoy me to no end. (and need to be remedied) The back was a serious pita, the tolerances are perfect and it was hard getting the shocks out & in.

I am certain the sticker is the work of our Grandson.

Need to slow down or I'll need a vacation from my staycation.

lol

 

Honestly, my desire to do springs and shocks but my love of a perfect drop are what led me to cut dead coils off in the first place.
I have a bit of a reputation for doing so around these parts...only ex wife's accord...on the ctsv on the audi before i swapped springs.

Even with both rear off the ground and sway bar undone it was hard? I have gotten better at doing it on my S4 every single time.
The rear springs are the biggest pain in the ass I've ever encountered...finally found a method using a spring compressor upside down in
one particular spot to get it out...then I compress the new one down all the way outside the car and use a ratcheting tow strap strap tied
up and wrapped around it to hold it that way until I can get it back into the car and positioned before letting out the slack slowly. Very unconventional
but it works!

 

Your rear spring perches are installed upside down. The inside of the bowl should be facing the ground.



Also, quick tip to make the install much easier - drop the lca. you have to get an alignment anyway, so pulling the eccentric at the subframe is the easier bolt to remove. Disconnect the sway, and then the LCA will swivel down. That gives you a clear path to slide the strut assembly into the chassis mounts. To reinstall, attach the LCA to the strut first, then use a floor jack to raise the LCA into position on the subframe.