# 951 winter progress

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Thanks for the info Newman, I’ll look into it. The car also has a 20 gallon fuel tank (oh, I lost 2 gallons of fuel capacity :() so the fuel cooling with under 10 gallons at low rpm may be a moot point.

Today’s update, got a TON done today, started working with suspension and went from there.

![http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7718.jpg](http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7718.jpg)  
Got the passangers front suspension in after an extra coat of black.

![http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7738.jpg](http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7738.jpg)  
Motor mounts and steering rack install, after cleaning up the steering shaft and greasing the u-joints.

![http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7724.jpg](http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7724.jpg)  
That was hung up though by a snapped off bolt in the 3 piece crossmember where the steering rack bolts up. As I bought the piece “slightly” used it wasnt a huge deal, just about 40 minutes of drilling and using easy outs.

![http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7735.jpg](http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7735.jpg)  
Tossed a wheel on just for fun 🙂

![http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7725.jpg](http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7725.jpg)  
 ![http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7726.jpg](http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7726.jpg)  
 ![http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7729.jpg](http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7729.jpg)  
 ![http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7734.jpg](http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7734.jpg)  
 ![http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7739.jpg](http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7739.jpg)  
Started stripping the interior out again, removed the HVAC (which was full of leaves and what not, see the following photo) Started working on the wiring. I talked with my wiring guy (haha, my father) and he’s going to help me create a new harness for the car, it’s basically going to retain lights, wheel stalks, cooling fans, gauges, and that’s about it. So we’re removing the factory fuse box.

![http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7720.jpg](http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7720.jpg)  
 ![http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7731.jpg](http://www.mturck.com/944/Jan07/DSC7731.jpg)  
Nasty HVAC stuff, weighed in at 33lbs.

So yeah, that’s about it for today, I did do some underbody stripping in the rear of the car, but nothing to make note of. Probably going to attack the wiring again tomorrow.

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