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Not digging the leather bra. A clear bra would be better.

 

Hmmmm....Do I detect a little jealousy? He drives the Z on the track, the bra gives him great front end protection.... Nice Z! :-)

 

Doesn't the clear bra do the same thing without the color clash?

 

The black nose mask is to protect the front of the car from all the rocks on the roads here (because of all of the road construction).

The clear mask will help, but is thin enough that a big enough rock could still damage the nose. With the combination of both the black (to protect against rocks) and the clear (to protect the paint from the black mask), the nose on the Z should be relatively "safe."

 

I see, well that makes sense. I had a leather bra on an older car before and it scratched the hell out of the paint, so it became a permanent edition to the car. Now I have a clear bra and luckily no road construction or dirt roads I have to go through.

 

I might have another black bra for sale if you want a black one to protect the black bra from the clear bra.

JK, it's a great looking car (without the black bra)

Chris

 

PDX Racer,

Will we see you up here of the SCCA#2 at Packwood? It looks like the OR region is going to hold events at Packwood as well. Wait until you see the pit area... covered... way cool.

BC

 

I'm planning on it, even if I'm still running with the stock struts!

I was there for the practice/event last fall. Way cool! I'm looking forward to all of the Packwood events!

 

PDX,

What tires did you end up going with? I've been enjoying the tire pressure talk on the nwautox forum, good post.

BC

 

Still waiting for 710s to come in a decent size. Picked up a set of Hoosier S04s (275s) on closeout (I figured I couldn't go wrong at 40% off).

The tire pressure discussion is interesting. It makes me think about those things from a scientific viewpoint.

 

PDXRacer,

The the stock shocks sure were junk, are you going with Konis or are you going big time?

And given the lack of chamber adjustment... it's nice to have a very stiff sway bar to prevent losing even more chamber while cornering. What bar are you considering? I have the 350EVO bar.

BC

 

Installing the Koni SA fronts tonight (and the Eibach front sway bar). If I have time tonight, I'll get the rears installed too.

I found "the secret" to getting the front struts out -- disconnect the front sway bar.

 

Nice ride just lose the bra, other then that, that is a hot car

 

Oh, aren't those front struts a fun installation?

BC

 

Actually, they weren't bad at all -- once I disconnected the front sway bar.

With the FSB disconnected, it took about 10 minutes to get the shock out.

 

You're good.

 

No, my neighbor is.

Actually, after struggling with the left front for hours, my neighbor got back from a DSM meet, and I asked him for any suggestions. His first suggestion was, why not disconnect the FSB? I was going to do it anyway to replace it, but I thought that with both front tires in the air, that it wasn't going to buy me a whole lot. I was wrong.

I disconnected the FSB from the left front, and it took me about 15 minutes to figure out how to get the U on top of the lower arm (hint: loosen -- but don't remove -- the outside and frontmost upper mounting insulator nuts, use a small pry bar to walk the U on top of the arm). Remove the nuts on the insulator, a quick pry, and it was free.

Once I got the left back in (which was even easier than getting it out, just reverse), I went around and got the right front out in about 15 minutes (5 to disconnect everything, 10 to walk the RF strut out).

Props go to my neighbor for figuring out that I was still working against the sway bar. Disconnect that, and there's just enough space to get the strut out.

 

Sounds like my experience... LateApex gave me the "Disconnect both sides of the swaybar" instruction.

BC