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Re: Finally Moving!!

Posted: October 15th, 2012, 5:25 pm
by Josh
Too late Dan :)

How I did it originally is I cut the bolt holes out of the OE rails and notched them, then fit the AWD protege rails over them and welded them to the car. Worked great, problem was after I lowered the car the pumpkin was too close to the ground and thus I have cut off the Pro rails and mostly cut off the OE rails, I will be using 1/8" 1x2" square tubing as my new rails and I will drill ans sleeve the holes with a bot in the trunk through the rail. I will probably only tack weld the bolt head to keep from rotating. simple as pie. well mostly :) Also I will be cutting off and raising the rear strut tower mounts 2" to get some shock travel back

But all moved in, well like 95% done. still have to clean up the old place. Install my new hitch for the GS, rent a tow dolly and drag that Clunker down to the new place :) oh I will get photos too.

Re: Finally Moving!!

Posted: October 15th, 2012, 10:07 pm
by Nd4SpdSe
Josh wrote:Thanks guys, yeah last time I towed it i rented one from the Uhaul and it did have the turning ability.
I did once for the mx-3. I really liked the retractable ramps on the Uhauls. With a lowered car, once the ramp would of levelled out, they would of bashed the rockers

Re: Finally Moving!!

Posted: October 22nd, 2012, 11:05 am
by Josh
Yeah the guy who bought my RX8 ripped the front bumper right off when he put the car onto the tow dolly. I will need to find some other wheels to put in the front though as Mine will probably get all jacked up in the saddles. I have the front cover off so depending it should not be so bad. Driveshaft to the rea is disconnected. I just have to assemble the rear now and get it road worthy to tow. and install the towing lights into the GS :)