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Taking the front bumper off. There are 20 bolts that hold the front bumper on.

2

You have to pop up the headlamps to get to some of the bolts

3

The hood locking latch and one horn

4

The old radiator. Aluminum from an Audi.

5

I cut out the lower chassis support. This holds the strut rod mounts. I then welded in a tube that will be connected to the chassis. More on that next week.

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Close up. I trimmed all of this down to the frame rail after taking these pictures.

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Passenger side

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This holds the strut bar for the front suspension. You adjust caster with the strut rod.

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I guess the other image was not good enough

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This box is 2.5" thick and 19" tall. Perfect for test fitting the radiator. This is the position it will be mounted in.

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The wonderboy. He helped me alot tonight.

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I also made a new upper srut bar. Combining a AE101 and a AW11 strut bar. Finally I have a triangulated bar.

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I need to clean up the welds. I kept blowing through the AE101 bar. It was much thinner than the AW11 bar. But once cleaned up it should look pretty good.

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Here are the 1.5" aluminum coolant pipes I ordered. You can see the bar I welded in as well.

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Bolts welded in with large fender washers as backing plates.

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Perfect fit over the RSm cross member

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These will fit nicely.

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another view