2g GSX Front & Rear Suspension Install

You've watched me over-restore both 1g subframes and suspension. This is just like that except with Two major twists. One being that it's shorter because all of the details and restorations were performed in previous videos. The other being that these are not all the factory parts. Many of the parts I had no need to restore because either new service parts or custom fabricated upgrades or bolt-ons were a better option. I picked good stuff!

BC Coilovers.

Volk Metalcraft subframe kit for OEM differential and factory tank + sway bar mounts.

Volk Metalcraft rear trailing arm upgrade

Volk Metalcraft front lower arm upgrade.

Powder Coating by Detective Coating
OEM parts sourced from Amayama.

Including everything in the front subframe, I fully assemble roughly $6,000 worth of new, restored, or custom fabricated parts in this video to achieve this result. I have $900 in the driveshaft rebuild alone. That's what it costs to take all of the finishes, parts and fasteners back to zero miles again. This effort looks out of place at this stage of the game, but this will all make perfect sense once the body work starts.

My collection of parts took years to save for, almost 2 years of a waiting list for some items, and I completely happy to wait my turn. It took me a year to finish everything else that bolts to it after it arrived due to my ridiculous penchant for restoring the OE equipment and powder coating everything. Many of you relate. My quest for most of these parts began in 2017 because I'm not made of money. I had to get what I could hear and there, trying to collect everything I need for everything else as well. But I've always been determined to do this right. After this car's illustrious past, this is the treatment it deserves coming back.

All of the part numbers and parts specs for everything I wrote on that whiteboard are in previous videos in much greater detail. This white board illustration is just a placeholder for torque specs I'll need later. It was never important in this video because none of them were used. I'll finish up the rear torque specs once we've got axles, ABS sensors, a driveshaft a rear diff, and a paint job on it. I'm aware of the need for technical details for my normal productions, but sometimes finishing the project before you're done with everything else can work against your progress, and that's what happened here. This one's rolling out for more progress.

This entire quest, my whole journey here... the shop, the parts collection, the video quality and all the time I spend compiling this wouldn't be possible without Patreon. A channel like this can not survive on ad revenue alone, and I owe all of my success here to my supporters on Patreon.

[munthirkhan]

Mitsubishi should reward you for keeping a piece of their history on the road

[BasedEMT]

Your content is like an addictive substance (or controlled substance as we say in my business) to me Jafro. Seeing all the new powdercoated stuff, and glorious Volk Metalcraft stuff is...man. Gorgeous. Thanks for the content man! Keep it coming!

[zaraaki]

Wow! You just reminded me that my wife's BMW 318i rolled off the assembly line 30 years and 545, 000km ago. It's been a great car!

[richardwilliams]

Haven't seen a engine rebuild and running since 2014. excited to see the gsx back on the road. Great video as always.

[HeidiFegles]

Jafro reminds me of the on any Sunday movie. His voice is perfect for the voice over story telling. Been watching for years. First vid was the valve port 101 and was hooked. Even if I drive a Subaru, my sensors all have Mitsubishi signs on them.

[davep]

I always hated working on these cars, and yet I've been hooked for a while on this progress. Nice to see you bringing the old girls back to life the way they should be....stockish while eliminating known problems. I still remember your wiring video, I think I still have a headache thinking about it. Haha. Keep up the fantastic work.

[aserta]

Being nice to the people who do work for you is the most important step towards a healthy relationship between you and them. If you send a car in, do as Jafro does, if you have something that needs welded, clean it to perfection and so on.

[barnhouseinc]

On a conference in Lansing Michigan… bored out of my mind…What a perfect time to drop an episode! Thank you Jafro!!!

[peters]

Looks beautiful Jafro! Keep up the good work, always looking forward to see the next video!!

[turbo_brian]

So when you paint a bolted joint, you introduce the risk of the joint relaxing due to the paint yielding. Bolted joints are like springs. The paint is a really soft spring, and it can screw with things. Retorque those forks after a 100 miles and maybe again after 500 miles too. Or clean the powdercoat off.

[TheJoecb]

And here I am putting truck bed liner on in place of the undercoating, after cleaning everything with a wire wheel and brake-cleaner 😅

[ravika]

I've been following since the colt awd conversion videos so seeing the GSX coming back together after all this time has been a complete joy!

[davidjames]

Hell yeah! Just spent last winter redoing all my 2g rear with volk arms. They just released a spacer for the roll bar so the attachment point at the control is perpendicular that often becomes off with lowering/suspension geometry changes

[marcushightower]

Damn this dude is still working on a car. I think he has been going since I first logged onto youtube. how did I get unsubscribed???

[Jafromobile]

There was a quiz... What did I do wrong? (troll answers welcome as well, roast me.)

[rasperss_]

Not sure how your video got to me. I like GSMs but never had an interest in owning one lmao. Love the suspension and subframe rebuild though. Youtube algo might of hit me cause Im rebuilding my front and rear suspension completely on my suzuki swift. Nice video definitely subscribing.

[emperorgsx]

🥵Gonna get these arms and subframe in the future for sure🔥🔥

[ksram]

Awesome stuff jafro, I saw that one arm in the upper hole😂 but great stuff as always can't wait to see these cars all finished up

[joegekko]

Late to this one- pretty wild suspension for a street car! Really looking forward to the power steering install.

[Yannc]

I've started watching for the old 10 year old engine content, and now just because of the cool parts XD