Would you need to align the car and second time after you readjusted the height to fit the new wheels?

 

Do it now.... Adjust accordingly... Get an alignment after you get the new tires and wheels. Thats what I would do.

I say that but I still haven't gotten an alignment and its been almost a year and I have only adjusted the height a few different times.

 

I bounced a grinder when it got caught between a bad weld on a radiator support into my shirt and then through my arm a bit.....

 

Performance wise: Do it now so you can break them in, relax the springs and work out the bugs before you install the new wheels and tires. It's trickier to solve a problem when you change more than one thing.

 

Yea that's true actually I forgot about spring sag.

Yea I'll probably install them now. I was even thinking about running a few laps at a track day then swapping over but that just sounds like too much a pain in the azz

 

Hope you have a current tetanus vaccination. Feel better!

 

The grinder was trying to take out your shop bling... It's easy to get messed up when your using tools that cut and strip metal... They don't discriminate against skin.

 

 

Left it at the shop yesterday for my first tune after my motor rebuild, and it wasn't even touched yet ��. Today hopefully they will do it, if they are not too busy.

 

Well I it's not every day you see the Black Knight in a meme....... HAVE AT YOU!!!

 

What are your engine specs?

Did you upgrade or just rebuild?

 

It's a simple shortblock rebuild, Wiesco 11.1 pistons (.20 overbore), Eagle rods, ARP hardware, block is balanced and blueprinted. Heads are stock for now.

 

How much was it to have your rods and pistons rebalanced? How far off were they?

I heard eagle rods tend to be off by a bit most times.

Did you have a failure or just upgrade for precaution?

 

How much was it to have your rods and pistons rebalanced? How far off were they?

The shortblock i ordered from Built Industries in FL had all parts installed, balanced and blueprinted was about 3300 before core exchange.

I heard eagle rods tend to be off by a bit most times.

Not too knowledgeable on that so I can't say much.

Did you have a failure or just upgrade for precaution?

In my build thread, I shared that I bent a rod and started knocking on my stock shortblock, Hense the rebuild.

 

No, not mine; just thought this was a neat pic of the process.



I was just shootin' da shid with my P/C guy last night and my never having actually watched the actual proceedings, found this pretty interesting.

Mine are getting done this week.

 

Dropped it on its chassis trying to raise the azz high enough for the jack stands I have

 

But that said I did manage to install my front coils.. the rear are giving me problems with some stubborn strut bolts.







Old vs new



OEM struts and springs are still good. Some of the bushings are aged and crumbling. Might resell these. Lot sense of life left still if you replace the rubber.

 

Swapped out Cats & upstream O2 sensors

Old vs. New:


O2 sensors:

 

New cats......and here I am with mine in the closet lol

 

So thats what the heat shield is supposed to look like... Mine rusted off before I got the car... How was that access to the 02 sensor on the manifold? Or did you just swap out the ones on the cat?

I thought about taking mine for a drive today.. But now im sitting on my couch being a bum.