So i finished mocking up all the piping in the engine bay, everything fits really well its a nice piece. Not super impressed with the welds that on the new "crash beam" (if you can even call it a crash beam) It looks good in the engine bay tho, I am happy with how it turned out. I will be going to princess auto and grabbing some nicer clamps to put it all together, not a huge fan of the worm clamps honestly. Also as you can see it still fits with the normal coolant overflow tank, but I have since I took this photo, installed the perrin coolant overflow tank, which a decent piece.
Also started to tacking the power steering issue I have been having, since, what feels like forever. The car has been sitting on jack stands in the garage for a couple weeks as I built up the courage to do this install. Removing everything in the way underneath the car was not hard to do, the issue started with getting the crown nuts off of the ends. I was unable to get the pins out so I ended up hammering on a socket, and spun them off. It was a battle that I thought was over but getting the tie rods out was difficult. I tried hammers, liquid wrench, pretty much everything I had. This poor hammer didn't make it.
The rack may have won that battle, but it did not win the war. Ran to princess auto, and grabbed myself an air hammer. The battle was over, I win.
To finally get the rack out, and due to it being difficult to get access i removed the pressure lines from the source, the return line, and the one directly connected to the pump. This allowed me to feed the lines down, remove the whole assembly, and take the lines off and attached them to the new steering rack.
Which is where my fight currently sits, the 2015 rack should be installed this weekend when I get a chance. Once this is on, everything will get put back together, front bumper back on, and its onto a trailer, to get an alignment, then it will need a tune.
Still trying to source a ELH for the car, if you have any suggestions on a good part thats a decent price let me know. I got some quotes on the killer B holy header, but Its a hard pill to swallow at 1700USD.
Thanks for reading
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