Average Joe's build thread

[articdragon192]

Ooo, how much for the Recaros?

[tckracker]

Just Subscribed, keep up the good work!! Show that the Gov't can be changed...

[tknbkthrsdy4anfg]

I could tell you what mountain, but thats off topic, and I could tell you about the seats but that is too.
If you are interested PM me.
in the mean time, I may do a cool little write up about corner weighting my car, even tho I dont know what I'm doing. :ghey:

['90RPS13]

haha, i say do it.

how ya been bud? LONG time no talk.


BACK TO SUBJECT!!!

[ZOMG_S14]

corner weight that bad boy!
and im dying to know about what the carb lady said!
update!
all my sentences end in exclamation points!

[tknbkthrsdy4anfg]

Stance coils are on.
need an alignment and rucas.
couldnt completely corner weight the car because it had too much weight in the rear. my rears are too short and fronts are too long. Will fix tomorrow.
However the fronts were only 20lbs different. not bad.

EDIT: Wow somone 5 star'd my thread? LOL.

[cmcdougle]

Originally Posted by tknbkthrsdy4anfg

Wow somone 5 star'd my thread? LOL.

I'd 5 star your thread any day. haha.

[tknbkthrsdy4anfg]

Hehe. new pics from last night soon.

[tknbkthrsdy4anfg]

Day 14
July 10, 2007
Blown suspension stinks. I’ve been riding on blown KYB AGX’s and Eibach Sportlines for far too long. But today I changed all of that, and got a set of Stance GR+ Pro’s. But first since I have S14 knuckles and drilled out the mounting bolts in my AGX’s to fit S14 bolts and I dont want to drill the Stances out, I made bushings.
I started out with some thick wall steel rod.

Then machined it down some to get a nice smooth surface.

Then I drilled it out.

The made more passes until it was down to the correct outer diameter, cut it out and made three more.

Next I took of my 17x10 rear wheels to see the ugly sight I was expecting.

Eew, blown shocks with all of the fluid on the outside. So, out those had to go, and in go the Stances.

Jeez, these things are beefy.
Next the fronts went on, with my little spacers fitting oh so perfectly.

I didn’t know if this was the right way to do this, I didn’t read the manual, so I set my camber plates as far positive as they would go, that way if I set my wheel camber to zero, I would have that whole angle of adjustment to go negative. Seems like it made sense to me, since I will never use positive camber.

Next we got out the scale pads, which aren’t really supposed to go on the floor, but I was to lazy to get the set up pad.

The wheels had to come off and on a few times to adjust the ride hight, camber and corner weights. And finally I got it close enough for now, since it was getting close to midnight.

So I got out the torque wrench and started torquing things back down. You can tell here how hard I had been working.

The next day I tweaked the right heights a little more and decided it was time to pull the fenders off and relocate the front harnesses that will get rubbed through on a lowered car.

First I took off the fender.

Then took all the thick wire loom off the harness and rewrapped it with electrical tape. pounded part of the seam flat to get the harness above it, and the rest of it at a right angle to hold the harness up. Then I cut out a section of the wire loom and put it around the harness where it crosses the seam.

Next I strategically stuck on some ziptie holders.

And finally I ziptied it on.

The fenders were a huge pain to put back on, exacerbated by the fact I didn’t take the front bumper off. But all in all, it wasn’t too bad and the peace of mind is worth it all.

[wangan_cruiser]

good update man. keep it up hehhehe

[s13poop]

werd joe

everything is looking really good

[jussjepbrox]

nice build,hows the ride on the stance pros i just ordered mine last week should be coming in a few days

[tknbkthrsdy4anfg]

Well, compared to my blown KYB's and Sportlines. its amazingly better.
compared to my friend's M3 with Bilstein coilovers its a little more harsh.

Its not bad at all, I have them set to full soft and its not too bouncy and its not too harsh.

My boss said it needs a little less high speed daming.
I guess that means its too firm over bumps.

[Okinawandrifter87]

Posi rep for good update and 5 star thread Joe =0)

[Irukandji]

joe! I have 5 lug sleeves just chillin in my garage. you could've just taken those instead of making your own.
always ask!

[tknbkthrsdy4anfg]

Originally Posted by n1sm0r

joe! I have 5 lug sleeves just chillin in my garage. you could've just taken those instead of making your own.
always ask!

Awww.

Lol, thats a random thing to ask for. and its okay, I've been :hammer: on the lathe making parts for our racecar all week. It was good practice.

[Slidin240Wayz]

that's a pretty sweet tool you got there. Congrats. It's looking very nice.

[Chaws15]

Dude I think I just gave you +4 rep at the same time... ahahaha doesn't hurt to have more

[NemeGuero]

Niiicceeee.. How you like 'em? Sweet right?

[tknbkthrsdy4anfg]

Bettah much much bettah.

[si2die4]

Nice build, I love all the pics!

[ZOMG_S14]

hmmm, there seems to be a few pictures that were omitted from the build thread lol.

+1 on the wire relocation, im sure you'll feel a lot better knowing your harness isn't getting all chewed up under there.

do you still have more tweaking to do with the ride heights? or did you get those to where you want them?

[tknbkthrsdy4anfg]

Much more with the tweaking to be done.
I need to get ride height dialed
then camber, toe, caster.

[xblack240x]

Haven't been on for a long while, good update... PM'd you cause I want to know what local mountain you drove on, I only know a few, they aren't really that interesting though. Keep us updated, keep us hoping this works cause I'm going to be needing a new engine soon and I don't want another KA.

[ZOMG_S14]

update fool, i know you have stuff to add

[tknbkthrsdy4anfg]

I dont have any pics yet!

[J-Style]

Originally Posted by skater4145

hmmm, there seems to be a few pictures that were omitted from the build thread lol.

+1 on the wire relocation, im sure you'll feel a lot better knowing your harness isn't getting all chewed up under there.

do you still have more tweaking to do with the ride heights? or did you get those to where you want them?

+1 on that Chris!

Joe, where are the lovely pictures of Chris and I?

I didn't know you ended up relocating the wiring harness, it looks great! I plan on doing that after I get my coil-over's, want to help? :ghey:

[tknbkthrsdy4anfg]

New Pics from yesterday!

[opponheimer]

I see one picture

[CKAMC]

I dont recall seeing a picture of your engine bay.

yeah its another Sr swap but sometimes the smallest details show how a person goes about with auto's