mikh338

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well tomorow starts the fun. have a bunch of parts to go on the car tomorow we will be doing mostly suspension stuff. will be installing, J&M strut tower brace and weld in 3 point SFC's, front and rear drilled and slotted rotors with ceramic pads and paint the calipers, umi rear sway bar and spohn tunnel mount adjustable torque arm with ds safety loop. wish us luck lol its going to be a long day\weekend. there will be plenty of pics as well.

02CamZ28

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good luck and in for pics

mikh338

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so i got the strut brace on, the 3 pt sfc welded in, fixed my rear exhaust it was really hanging low and looked bad, and got the torque arm and dsl in. i had to modify the crap out of the sfc to get them to work i was pretty mad and it took a lot more time then it should have.
car up on my cribbing blocks i made, what a life saver, so much room to work and it kept my suspension loaded

strut tower brace installed

readjusting the rear tips they were hanging so low before looked like ***

modifying the driver SFC so the y pipe would clear, had no choice it would never have gone in the way it was

modified, welded in and primed and painted

welded onto the subframes, not bad for being upside down and on my back

driver side installed, you can really see now why it had to be modified because of y pipe

passenger side installed, had to redrill the hole where the lca bolts to it, the hole was way off, thanks a lot J&M good work haha

spohn tunnel mount dsl installed

spohn adjustable torque arm installed

another view installed


tomorow will be the UMI rear sway bar, brakemotive front and rear cross drilled\slotted rotors with ceramic pads and poly tranny mount

bwkmaro

your gunna love all this stuff going in. hell if you did just one at a time you can feel the difference haha

mikh338

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yeah i know, im getting ready to head back out to finish it up with my buddy, we cant wait to take it for a ride with all the changes

ranman02ta

looking good

DarkblueTA

Very nice. Can not wait until I can start modifying my suspension more.

mikh338

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finished the car up today. got the rear sway bar installed, got the torque arm all set to the right degrees(set it for -2 on my angle finder) and made sure the driveshaft was at 0 degress(factory setting). Got the new brakes installed and painted all the calipers gloss black. heres more pics!!!

poly tranny mount installed

up on all levels of cribbing blocks, toonnnnsss of room underneath

UMI rear sway bar and poly bushings

wheel off for brakes 315/35/17 drag radial

shot of the poly endlink bushing installed for swaybar

new cross drilled and slotted rotors going on

painted the calipers black looks so much better now

new rotors and calipers installed

shot of brakes installed with wheels, i like it so much more

SuperSport01

Nice mods! Now you need to replace those original shocks.

Ballzee

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look like you had some fun this weekend!!!!!

mikh338

iTrader: (16)

yeah i cant wait to do shocks, i just have to figure out which ones im going to get. i think thats the only suspension mod that is not done on my car now besides a new rear end and tubular k members which i will not be doing anyways

mikh338

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me and my buddy are both exhausted and our bodys are sore as hell lol

DarkblueTA

Seriously! I just bought a set of Bilstein's from Strano (Thanks Sam!). I am on stock springs and I can not believe how good the car rides and handles. It's a totally different car. Love'em!

The rears literally took me an hour to swap out.

The front took 6 hours, but 3 of them were trying to get the springs swapped over to the new shocks (you need 5 coils on the stock spring with the autozone spring compressor. My advice, take them somewhere and have them swap the springs. I tried with 3 coils and no go).

EDIT: Seriously, I really like your mod list. Just wondering why you painted your calipers black instead of another color (say red) so they stand out.

ACDenali

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Looking good man. Glad you're taking good care of the car!

mikh338

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i was goint to paint them red at first but decided on black, they look really good in person, i thought red was to much. every suspension part is red and the car itself is obv red. black just seemed like a better chouce

DarkblueTA

Good deal. Beautiful car and awesome pics/write up.

mikh338

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thanks a lot man, i try to help people on here as i ask for help a lot also. it really helps out

2cat95ta

I like the block idea! I'll have to see what I can find for blocks to install my TA. Glad to see I'm not the only one running decarbons with other suspension mods

mikh338

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lol those are the next thing on my list, i just cant decide what shocks to run but believe me they will be gone soon

mikh338

iTrader: (16)

yeah buddy, it was worth the 800 mile trip each way to get it from you lol