Back on the block

Finally after finishing up the suspension, radiusing and tacking the fenders (thanks for letting me use your welder, Jason) , and ghetto aligning, i was able to finally drive my car again for the first time in several months.

Since the last post, i got another pair of front strut housings from Keith (kais) since my previous attempt at fronts were still too low. Henry (jumbosandbox) was nice enough to let me use his welder and helped me with the difficult areas. Serei mounted my tires for me just the other day, so i've had all these components sitting still for quite some time because i havent had a lot of time to work on the car until now.

Today i put it all back together for the most part. It still needs a couple things to be dailyable but its at a decent spot now. Aileen helped me with some nuts and bolts on the lip as well as brake depressing so that i could torque the wheels on. Ok, enough words, here are the pics

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.