What the...?

[DeeAOne]

yesterday i went to the pull a part in conley and grabbed the whole front suspension assembly off a 94 323. BG chassis.

got some good news and bad news.

good news: the whole assembly seems to be a direct bolt on, amazingly. but the thing that im scared about since it seems to have went in so easy, does every bg have the spline count i need? i got the stuff from a 94 hatch. even the tie rod ends bolt up, and look like they will be straight with just an alignment.

all the did for the struts was simply slap the bf top hat on the bg strut.

bad news: the axle nuts are frozen solid in the hubs. im going to have to take them to a shop to get them out. hopefully wont be too much pain in the ass. but since they are in there, i went ahead and tested the length of axle. and the passenger side length is perfect. this all seems too good to be true. lol.

the driver side has not been touched yet since i need to get the nut off tomorrow, so i didnt bother putting it on.

whoever said the thing about bg hubs with bf struts was right, when one hole lines up, the other is slightly off.









also worked on getting my gauges set up. the finished product:
gotta have old school gauges with a BF.

[JITB]

yesterday i went to the pull a part in conley and grabbed the whole front suspension assembly off a 94 323. BG chassis.

got some good news and bad news.

good news: the whole assembly seems to be a direct bolt on, amazingly. but the thing that im scared about since it seems to have went in so easy, does every bg have the spline count i need? i got the stuff from a 94 hatch. even the tie rod ends bolt up, and look like they will be straight with just an alignment.

all the did for the struts was simply slap the bf top hat on the bg strut.

bad news: the axle nuts are frozen solid in the hubs. im going to have to take them to a shop to get them out. hopefully wont be too much pain in the ass. but since they are in there, i went ahead and tested the length of axle. and the passenger side length is perfect. this all seems too good to be true. lol.

the driver side has not been touched yet since i need to get the nut off tomorrow, so i didnt bother putting it on.

whoever said the thing about bg hubs with bf struts was right, when one hole lines up, the other is slightly off.


also worked on getting my gauges set up. the finished product:
gotta have old school gauges with a BF.

yea you will be golden with the BG hubs. BUT! there is 1 more small issue that happens sometimes with the swap in the BG. And using the gs axles with the bg front, Is that the axles will bind, because the MX3 GS is 30mm wider in the front. So you may need to get the mx3 GS lower Control Arms.


BUT! when i used the GS axles in my bg hubs/front suspension, i didnt have this issue. And a lot of people actually dont have this problem, its kind of sometimes it dont work...lol. but the bf might be different.. so i guess you wont know until u get the gs axles in..

http://www.clubprotege.com/forum/sho...t=axle+binding