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Today the power was out most of the day and it was really hot in the garage so I didn’t get much accomplished. I have the positions laid out on the floor for where everything goes so I cut one side free and positioned it…
So the car has sat in the driveway for a week with the tires and wheels on it. After staring at it for a while I decided the rear tires being equal width to the front is not right for the car. So I unbolted…
I haven’t had time to work on the car much but I did manage to put the rear struts back on the car. The new wheels and tires came in so I figured it was a good time to put them on and roll it…
Latest Updates Click here for a complete list of all posts for this project This is the project page of my Geo Metro kit car I am building. This is a pretty big project that involves totally rebuilding my metro inside a totally different body.
The last two days I have been welding up the frame. Today I finally finished welding everything up and put a coat of paint on it to see what I had. The frame has most of the bracing done. I need to get some thin…
I wanted a trunk latch that worked like a real car and not some crazy thing that needs pins or several places to unlatch it like it used to be. I mounted the Metro hood latch to the roll bar using only one bolt for…
Today was a slow day with what seems like not much progress. I first cut out 4 plates to go on either side of the fiberglass to reinforce the hinge area. I bolted them through the fiberglass and drilled the large hinge bolt hole once…
The rear toe bars were fairly easy to build. I took the tie rods off the front end and used a bolt to mount the inner rod solidly. I tried to keep the same geometry as the stock front end but since it is mostly…
Today I built the strut towers. I tried to come up with a way to do it without using a brace across the top but it would be much heavier than just a bolt on brace. So I will make a bolt on brace to…
I ended up digging up a bunch of parts to try and come up with something for the transmission mount that would still be strong. I ended up cutting the stock mount in half and bolting a rear transmission mount to the bracket. Then I…