[59Sky]

Been busy the past few weeks, but I am indeed going to do an X-brace transplant.

And yeah, I'm pretty anal retentive about my work. Kinda have to be being a dealership mechanic. Doesn't matter if it's a 2007 Subaru STI or my dad's '68 Camaro. If I'm going to do a job, I'm going to do it right the first time, schedule be damned. Do it once right or spend the rest of the time you have with that car fighting annoyances instead of driving.

And when I posted that I hadn't found alot of info on X-brace transplants, but speaking to few Tulsa T-Bird club members who have retractables it's apparently a pretty common practice.

And Mark, thank you for being the voice of caution! The biggest thing being a young guy is trying to make sure my reach doesn't exceed my grasp, so to speak. I appreciate all input. Now that I've spent some time with the car I really feel I've got a good one to work with for what I want to do, but I recognized even at the time it was pretty boneheaded to buy a car pretty much sight-unseen. Just got lucky my enthusisasm didn't bite me. "Got lucky" being the main part of that statement. Could have ended up a full on disaster.