C2's Alero Updates

[[ion] C2]

Originally Posted by dbral

Great to hear that you can see the light at the end of the tunnel finally. Having new paint and interior is going to be awesome. Is your color choice finalized? Did you give up on the Subaru suspension?

Paint will be the same color, Ford DX Dark Blue Pearl Metallic.

Yeah my suspension is fine currently, and I don't understand how someone would modify Subaru coilovers to safely fit the N-Body. I'll just wait for properly designed adjustable coilovers.

In other news, the truck's 33 year old fan and shroud catastrophically disintegrated, damaging my new radiator, a hose, and denting the hood significantly.

[dbral]

Holy shit-balls man. You can't seem to catch a break...

[Oldsnut]

You are lucky that your head wasn't near that working in the engine bay!

[[ion] C2]

yeah for real lol the dashcam video is funny, huge bang, parts scattering all over behind me, i'm like wtf was that my fan?

[[ion] C2]

Final results:

• 3 out of 4 runners were cracked (one completely circumferential), re-welded and reinstalled
• one coil and/or its wiring was acting up, so it was replaced

I really want an all-new 321 stainless manifold made but the welder insists I should just run this one as-is for now. It's true that his last repair is the only runner that didn't crack... he knows how to do it right, so maybe it will last a bit. I just know most stainless steels aren't suitable for heat cycling like 321 is. So inevitably, it will fail eventually.


Drove all the way to the shop before I remembered I took the seats out for reupholstering. Can't drive it home with no seats. Sigh.