overshooting low

It's been a few weeks with the car up on jackstands having to wait for parts and plates. The front coilovers are set a bit too low for the time being (i will check height when the other wheels go on). I'm using tein flex that I bought from the good people at r-crew, cut the bottoms off and welded them to the oe strut housings. My cousin made me top spacer plates

I had initally tried the short stroke route with mr2 kyb agx and they just weren't low enough. With these coilovers, my downpipe pretty much touches, but hey, i'm on 14s right now and the flexpipe has always been a bit low. If its still too low with the new wheels I will redo the fronts a little higher.

In other news, i put in t3 control arms (which took much longer than they said they would take to make) and a solid differential mount from thezstore.

Ring around the rosie and other maintenance

On Saturday, I replaced the headlight rings (god, zstore ships sooooo damn fast, got in like a day and a half of ordering) because BOTH rings failed on me and were bouncing around all crazy while i was driving at night. It was so bad I had to not drive the car for a couple days. I also replaced the window channel felt strips, which were totaled out when i got the car (the driver's window would be quieter while halfway open than closed.

In terms of non maintenance stuff, I test fitted one front flare.

Fat lip and the bling

On saturday of last week, i put my front lip on (with the helping hands of chris i. and corey). It fits well, but i need to put some bracing in. I also replaced some of the fuel hose going betweeen the pressure reg and the fuel rail.

On friday, I got brand new c pillar emblems from Aileen :].

Tension back home

Today I put my zccjdm tension rods in. They're nice and sturdy and have plenty of adjustability. I did a quick throwtogether alignment just to have the wheel centered. I will get it actually aligned when I put together the rest of the sus.

Out of Control Speed

Today i replaced the speed sensor cable that broke on me a couple weeks ago. My solid diff mount, transmission crossmember bushings, and zcc tension rods came in. Just waiting for a couple more things to work on the sus.

Between now and the prevous post, i got a pressure reg and dialed in the fuel pressure.

One up steering

Got a new(er) steering wheel, its a Momo mod7 with copper spokes.

Don't touch the mustache

Today I had the day off so I decided to work on the mustache bar bushings, since its supposed to be a relatively tame install. It wasn't too difficult, just had to undo the bolts to the diff, frame, and a couple other things and it popped off. The old bushings had to be burned out, which was kind of a pain in the summer heat.

Predictably, it's reduced some driveline slop