My 91 AWD protege

[Damkid]

May 31st

Pulled my AWD trans out of storage in prep for the coming weekend



June 1st

Picked up the 91' AWD protege.... Driveshaft was pulled before towing



Went straight into the garage



Hmm rear axles lol



June 2nd

Pulled out the toast tranny and got the new trans bolted up

Here's the trans that come out of it, just a little toast lol




June 7th

Pick up a BG GTX trans for cheap, viscious LSD FTW.... This trans will get used at a later date though



June 10th

Got a temporary permit for it and began driving it

June 15th

Safetied and licensed

Here's an underneath pic when it was on the hoist



I've just gotten started with this car, lots of plans in store

[sasquatch]

I see it has a cast aluminum oil pan in it... is it a bp car or a bpt swapped one?

[Damkid]

All awd proteges were Factory B8, but mine is a BP swapped car, the "T" will come later lol

[Festevil3]

Awesome start to a sweet ride

[Damkid]

Car is still doing great

[FestYboy]

i'm jelly.....

[kumalaba]

looks great chris

[Flyin4stroke]

That's sweet!

[nitrofarm]

Those Fog lights are Money Yo !

[Damkid]

Lol I don't plan on selling that grille, I have a bumper for it to add a pair of 6" fog lights, I'm gunna blind all the on coming traffic I can haha

[Bert]

Gidday Chris! I see from various photos that are posted that you too play "musical plates". Your cars are red, too!

[Damkid]

Lol it's cheaper to transfer plates then buying additional plate renewal stickers lol but I have been considering custom plates for the festiva

[bravekozak]

The Vehicle Licensing Office would probably refuse to print what I like to call my vehicle on the license plates. Even if it's abbreviated.

[Damkid]

So I've put close to 10k kms on this thing already!!!! But I think I have an alignment issue in the rear end somewhere



I bet a rotted rear subframe might have something to do with it, although I haven't fully checked it out yet



Looks like I'll have to dig out my spare rear subframe and swap them out, although its not toooo much better but at least there's no holes in it



While I'm at it, I might as well get this all cleaned up and ready for paint/install



But this thing is so much fun to get dirty haha

[Damkid]

Lately we've been getting some snow and this thing had become incredibly unstable on slippery surfaces, I did some investigating and seen how badly rotted the rear subframe has gotten, the TTL mounting point totally rotted away so it could move freely allowing the wheel to move as it please :shock:

So this Monday that passed I swapped in my spare subframe... 4hrs start to finish, not bad lol

Here's some pics of the damage



And one the other side of the subframe, it had a nice crack happening, my guess is from the added movement of the rotted TTL mounting point



Today I stripped down the rotted subframe so I can make space in the garage

Here is the old and busted complete rear subframe flipped and ready for disassembly



Sway bar removed



Then I pulled the long bolt out that holds the TTL's to the subframe, the center piece of the subframe fell out....



And to think I was driving it like that eeek when I put my body weight on the subframe, that crack grew wider meaning the subframe wasn't far from splitting into two pieces....

Unbolt the axle from the pod and it comes right off



Passenger side



And the center pod out




And the salvaged parts



All tucked away nicely with my AWD parts stash



That's it for today.... Tomorrow I'll test fit an AWD tranny on a KL