 Hello boys and girls, welcome to part of the, what do we call it? Low budget... Hack job. Ice. We're gonna hack up the crush bar, the crush bar slash bumper beam because it doesn't fit as you saw in the last episode. We need to bend it inward a little bit more so we decided to cut it like this but not all the way so we're only bending the bottom piece of it so we're basically bringing down the both ends down this needs to go the middle needs to go up just to make it easier for us and then we're gonna weld it back there's obviously going to be a bit more space in here probably an inch we are probably well probably not we'll see I'm gonna cut a new piece of steel and just weld over it and call it a day then clean this up the rusty bits here and there paint it alrighty a little update so this is this is what we are missing that big of a gap so now I'm thinking just cut a little piece right over here done not not even bother with the top and bottom just cut a piece for here or maybe just a little longer one because we could just kind of fill this in should be okay maybe less what what about this this gap here it's supposed to be like that yeah yeah look at the look see it was only touching the middle because it was pressed again against the much harder in the middle so yeah this is good all right this is what this fender looks like now as you can see there is a there's a big old crack here there's one more here and there is one more here there's a hole here another one here yeah so I did fix a few dents here and there there was a dent right here on the rust spot there were dents right over here anyways this guy whenever you I'm gonna weld this together but before I'm gonna weld it I'm gonna drill a little hole right where the crack ends the tiny hole will actually stop from cracking it even more then I'm gonna weld it on the inside and then grind the outside Banda will fix that we are not gonna worry about this area too much because this starting here this is under the car just to you know throw some welds on the inside just to make it a bit stronger let's see what look is doing all right so this is what it looks like now all these were all welds were done on the inside you don't want to see how it looks on the inside trust me so I was cleaning it and cleaning it and cleaning it but we only have one month left so this will have to do look is still working on the bumper beam so now I'm gonna since this behind your pants oh shit hot welds hot welds under his pants all right so I burned through a few spots here and there that's why I decided not to go any further welded up over here here some of this actually came out okay but from here and down that's underneath the car and we're gonna probably put a little bundle on this area as we bundle this area here so now I'm gonna apply this stuff yeah we are straight this will be good all right so now we're gonna clean it up paint it and put it on the very last time hopefully we still need this plastic over here so we have something to attach the fender to and now this stuff is at work this needs to turn black all the way this is good stuff I used it on a different car so this is the inside of the fender and this will convert rust to primer put it on as thick as possible you know two three four coats even sometimes as long as it turns black and then it will be fine I did say I'm gonna show you where the fenders well the one we had the original one on the car is starting to rust here and here I guess your typical area this area that's also a typical cancer area that's good so what we're gonna do we're gonna as you can see it's already sanded I'm gonna give it a paint just this area just to cover up the bare bare metal and install this one and look how this turned out this is the outside that's that convert rust converter stuff so when it turns black it's good that means that it's working and it turned out good if it's gonna turn brown like like this area a little bit this is kind of brownish that's because it's not rust it's either paint or it's dirt a little bit here and here you can see a little bit of brown I'm gonna worry about it so this is gonna get a coat of primer and one more area here and yeah just just overall clean then I'm gonna install both fenders align them we got the bumper the bumper beam is already done so that's primer white bumper beam so we still need to probably zip tie that plastic piece foam stuff thing whatever that goes in between the bumper beam and the actual bumper cover so that's what we're gonna do install all this stuff we have this plastic I actually took it off somewhere but bolts down to the fender and that clips on the bumper cover yeah we got to actually look as I took it off his 07 STI which has been a part for probably 10 years now okay nine and a half nine and a half nine yeah right guys a quick update Lucas is working on the struts now we're trying to re-grease them re-greasing the struts cleaning yeah let me see yeah just getting the old grease out we're gonna put the new grease in and we got a lot four times here we got dry and fenders came out good now it's time to put this on the list mm-hmm sticking to do for what we need I don't know if you're seeing this guys but this one is kind of yeah you do see it a little bit it's polished here yeah it's polished and which means it's a rubbing but we're gonna sell that I was rubbing on the different strut oh yeah different strut yeah so it may be different so all right let's see what's going on over here started to fix these dents this is aluminum probably gonna leave it like that this guy is zip tied fender is in that's the original one lines up nicely fix this dent when I put Bando on this in this area and right here so this lines up this then we can't fix from the inside because there's it's obstructed by some metal bracing whatever so we're gonna put Bando on this one so still working on this basically what I'm doing is I'm using a black putting it underneath the hood and mean I'm on this side look is on the other or gently bending it down to where it's supposed to be not sure why it's like that this is it was up half an inch now we're down to a quarter so not gonna do it anymore I'm gonna install this one and see what the difference is see how this one will line up getting somewhere we know that this is all messed up over here I mean here this hole is in a different zip code than where it's supposed to go it's okay because of a race car so yeah yeah race on the race cars doesn't matter so I'm gonna try close the hood okay do porches no way no wow wow white body that's a white bite right there that's a huge gap check it check out the semi-good side okay we gotta move some things around yes hood this way that's where you need to bring out the hammer it's gotta go back to the body shop okay guys I'm working on a second strut housing and as you can see this old grease needs to come out and after I remove that I'll repack it with mobile mobile one centering grease there you go mobile had to do it what to go look up look I mean we had an inch before yeah can we move the hood this way because did that that's pretty tough better what no not better just notice something I know it's finished but it looks like we got a white body thing going on on this side see how the wheel is in inside the fender and this I mean this one's also in but let me straighten on the what that's right okay so this one it's in all also but not as much you can kind of tell by the bumper here yeah we got some towing going on all right so we're gonna exhaust we do have a gasket from from what car is it universal one we have a I think we have a Honda yeah some not even it's so hard to get an actual exhaust gasket for this car I don't know no no not even out as on no Napa I don't know so I'm gonna do a bit more massaging and show you the results alright guys last touch zip ties to hold the brake hoses got a beautiful freshly painted strut replace you you won't be able to see it but we will replace the strut here too I told you now on that side you want to remind me oh yeah we were definitely good enough okay I bet you it's gonna be like this way and that way when we drop it all right so we are basically done with the mechanicals in the front all you gotta lose the fender liner here the fender is somewhat adjusted still need some adjusting the hood we got a bigger gap on this side than the other we glued up here we'll see this oh it's a glue this bracket was broken we use the epoxy gorilla glue yeah that's what we use so this is gonna stay overnight this is ready to go well tomorrow we'll be gonna mount it it's not gonna be perfect next day taking off the fender again I think for the fifth time because we actually cut this then we welded it more or less in the same spot and then we attach the light which is already glued so now what we got to do is cut this again move just this piece from here to here move it back so we can line up this hole to the light and the fender that's the fender light right yeah that's the fender hole and install the light and then mark it and weld it again I think this piece you see this this is the piece of the radiator core support yeah so now if we cut this and we can line it up we should be fine okay yeah we're right yeah we are way off and we have a do an issue what yeah it's not that's not done what you thought are you so that's done I was just joking I'm glad we didn't take it for a test ride yesterday okay so I took out the spark plug cables wires or coils and you can see yeah we have we have oil see that one there yeah but we're just you know it's just for a little extra lubrication so I'm just gonna replace the spark plugs and that's gonna be it today call it a day guys check out these spark plugs this is your ideal little bit brownish colored spark plug it is worn this camera doesn't do well at close-ups anyways this part of the spark plug where the actual spark happens is a little bit worn it's not ideal it's not bad this I mean might as well replace them they are they seem original NGK original spark plugs so the gap is probably bigger than it should be but it's not too bad but the coloring is good this one though looks like it's burning a bit of oil which is nothing major to it's not too bad and it's also a tiny bit worn so the ones I bought Bosch spark plugs simply because NGKs were not available and we wanted to get it done today so Bosch double platinum that's what's going in they were like five boxy piece so you know might as well this is a cylinder 2 and 4