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Whats up guys! i've been on this board for a while but rarely post. For those who dont know me. I too and joining the AWD club. Been busted my ass this week end to get the front end stuff finished. I have coppied and pasted everything over from another Forum, SDDSM.org Thought I would share my work with everyone!


Alright fella's! I got alot done today. Tomorrow I should finish the rest of the front end stuff. When I am done with this I will be able to slap on an AWD tranns and Xcase.

For starters I had to remove this cross member. Obviously it sits right in the way of where my Transfer case needs to go.



Here is a pic of what the cross member looks like. Time to make some new motor mounts! My front mount, which I welded solid a little wihle back was actually broken. Awsome!






This is what the rear mount braket looks like, it points straight down which would also get in the way of the Xcase. Luckily When mitsu made this bracket they did not offset the holes and made the flange flat. All I have to do it flip it upside down and that takes care of that.



So now i have to make a new rear cross member to hold the rear of the motor up. I started out by grinding down all the paint and yucky stuff that might catch on fire while i'm welding.



So I made some brackets, like these! to hold the side of the new cross member.



Finally got the bracket welded onto the innder fender. Yeah, I burned a bunch of holes, and yeah, it looks like shit. But holly fruit and banana was it hard to weld in a spot that you only have 1 foot left to right, and have to stand on your tippy toes and hang your head upside down in order to get a good angle.




And the other side





Now I lay my new cross member in there, cut a little bit of the stock motor mount off and lined everything up to tack weld.




Here is what my rear cross member ended up turning into, Not bad ehh?



Lay it in, bolt it down. DONE!!!




Tomorrow I will be doing the cront cross member. I can smell the awd already...


:eggface:



Okay just got done working on the colt, again. LONG day. all I did today was make the new front cross member. Heres what I had to work with. I had to connect the mount bracket to a mount, then connect the mount to a new cross member.



I made a piece like this. This would work by its self if I was going to drive around like Grandma, But Since I dont I need to add a little extra support.





This is where the stock bracket for a tow hook would go. I removed mine a long time ago so I thought I would use it as another mounting point for more support.




I cut a piece pf plate steel to shape




Drilled some holes and test fit, Wala!



Time to connect the plate steel to the first piece I made.




There we go, BLING BLING!!!



Oh snap! More bling!


Bolt that puppy onto the car and Call it a day!


Next up, I'll be installing the rear subframe and rear end crap, But not untill early June. See you next time!

Looking pretty good!

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John
89 Colt GT(2)
88 d50 4g63t, crower 272's, dsmlink

Thanks, I need to touch up a few things here and there. But it should work just fine

Way to go

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'18 X5
'19 M5 Comp
'07 997 Turbo, 1144WHP/1001WTQ
'17 Fiesta ST

uh oh... Someone's a copy cat

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91 colt beater..

now i understand why i've had a few questions about the front cross member in the stock 4WD Cyborgs.

Do you have any pictures of the "AWD mounts" of a Cyborg?

nope, not yet, i will be getting my 3" 02 housing installed in the next few weeks, i'll try and grab some pic's then

Common man, Every body's doing it!

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...and Dave is the reason I have my colt

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'18 X5
'19 M5 Comp
'07 997 Turbo, 1144WHP/1001WTQ
'17 Fiesta ST

here is a pic of the 4WD engine cross member.

you can see it curves to clear the transfer case.

wow.. thats WAY differnt.

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91 colt beater..

This weekend my rooommate and I were trying to get the front done but ran into a problem. When we mounted the 1g awd tranny in there it would hit the passengers side wheel well frame. We were trying to get the engine to sit in there close to flat but just can't do it. Have you run into this problem? Also we where using the 1.6 tranny mount. Just trying to find if anyone else has ran into this same problem.

Yes when i mocked mine up the engine was not sitting flat the tranny side was about a inch or so low. Going to have to modify that mount that bolt to the engine bay or drill the holes on the tranny mount lower.

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Adam
93'FD Touring non-seq
05'WRX

I've been working on putting the rear end in this bitch for the past two days now. Lots of hard work, all paid off when I snapped this baby

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