A gasket is placed on the housing to prevent rearend fluid leakage and the Moser Engineering aluminum performance cover is set. The cover bolts are torqued to 25 ft-lb.
Another option for the 12-bolt housing units is the choice of rearend covers. The chrome cover is the standard choice (shown on the right), and customers have the choice to upgrade to a stronger Moser Engineering aluminum performance cover.
Upon arrival, the Norco High School students checked the 12-bolt package to make sure all the pieces arrived safely.
Here, some students of the Automotive Technology program at Norco show how light the 12-bolt appears to be. From left to right: Chris Agamaite, Jason VanLoon, John Dimond, Jeremy Weaver, Zac Cloar, Dillon Maddox, Zeb Francoeur.
The students assembled the suspension pieces to the 12-bolt outside of the car before attempting an install. The BMR Panhard bar has already been attached to the mounting point that Moser supplied with the stock-type rearend. This housing will work with any third-gen application.
Here, the students place the 12-bolt into the car. As you can see, (especially with the project nature of our F-body) installation was a snap. Notice that the BMR lower control arms have already been attached, as well as the Bilstein struts. Now we're waiting on the springs from Eibach and about 10,000 other parts before we go racing.
The Moser 12-Bolt is now officially part of Project Road Rage. Watch out in coming issues as we put the finishing touches on the suspension (with pieces from BMR, Bilstein, and Eibach), get ready to wire the car up, and fabricate a road racing-specific rollcage-complete with NASCAR-style door bars.