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build diary August 1, 2005: It was a busy weekend of fabricating. The differential mount has been finished and will definitely not move now. A piece of 3/16" plate (it might be 1/4", I forget) is welded to the side of the transmission tunnel and the baby PPF is bolted to that with 3 1/2" bolts. Some nuts are welded on the backside so it's easy to connect and disconnect. The rest of the transmission tunnel has been plated now so it looks much better, but now I have to remove the diff to pull the driveshaft. That's probably easier than the previous technique of pulling the seats and the transmission cover when I think about it. Not that anticipate much need to pull out that driveshaft. On top of the armoring of the tunnel, I managed to get the sway bars fitted. The rear went in really nicely and is a stock 1.8 Miata rear without modifications. For the front, I shortened the arms on a stock 1.6 bar slightly. I'm proud of the mounts I built for the front bar as they're both strong (I hope) and light. They're not as pretty as I might like and I realised as I was welding them in that they're quite visible, but you can't have everything. Last night everything was painted up and I'll be able to start reassembly tonight. Now I just have to redo a few wiring connections while I have the dash out and install my cool LED tach. I'll be driving this car again soon! entry 918 of 1439 |