First off .... I blame Warmmilk (the forum member, not the drink) for putting the insane idea in my head of being as fast as the fastest cars around PGP in my Z (see earlier thread on NW forum). But at the same time I need to thank Warmmilk for helping me see the light. Thanks dude.






After calling around and doing my homework, I decided to do the install myself. What could go wrong, right? (<-- famous last words).

 

Oh boy that looks F---ing sick.

 

anytime man, thats what i'm here for


dude... don't you watch top gear...

 

Well based on what happened to me I will think hard about going back Speedware. I did some installs myself (coils, brakes, camber arms). I told them I installed these myself and to do a once look over just to make sure I installed everything correctly (I stressed this plenty). Well turns out I installed the toe bolts in the wrong spot (instead up top, I installed them on the bottom spot. SPC has a picture of how the rear camber toe bolts are suppose to be installed with a red spot where they are suppose to go, well I never got to view that and was not included in the box. It was only a picture on their web site. Opps on my part. Anyways, these can easily be removed and installed in the correct spot). One of the techs at GTM kept wondering if this alignment was right or not. Something in his mind keep saying "the alignment is wrong! check it!". Once they hooked up my car to the alignment machine it was showing a -3 degree camber. So with the toe bolts in the wrong spot wtf were they aligning? My tires would be toast in about 1,000 miles. They told me this was their "street setup". A -3 camber for a street setup? That makes no sense. Even the tech "missed" my messed up install even when I paid for them to look it over. Did they really do a once look over? I'm guessing they didn't. Speedware is expensive and the techs could "over look" something like what happened to me. The only shops that I heard constant good reviews from are CarNutz and Drift Office. The other ones listed not sure. Next shop I try if I can't do something myself will be CarNutz.

 

problem with the spc rear camber kit is that the bolt that they supply is to weak, so it stretches and the alignment gets out of whack after a couple hundred miles. speedware redid my alignment for free 3 times because of this issue till they caught this and replaced the bolt with one strong enough... so its not that speedware "overlooked" this, its that the hardware isn't up to par...

 

You are wrong. I installed the toe bolt in the totally wrong section. They totally missed it. Please view image below.



In green is where it was suppose to go. In the red is where I put it (It would have been nice if SPC put this image in the instructions or box). As I say again, they did not catch my mistake. They are the professionals right? My car was never driven from the time it left the Speedware to the time it got to the GTM. So we can put that "toe bolt is to weak/speedware didn't over look anything" claim to rest real quick. I will say that they did the corner balance fine and I was able to get my money back for the alignment. Just helping out others before they decide on which shop to go too.

 

You could try Randy's ring and pinion. It isn't a hard job since you aren't changing gears/pinion depth. If it was my part I'd do the work myself.

I have a mag base dial indicater and some blue if you want to do it. That and a torque wrench with loctite is all you need. You just heat your new bearings with a hotplate and drop them on. Install old ring gear and set preload and backlash as set before disassembly.

 

I misread your post, I thought you said that they caught it but alignment was still out of whack...

They installed my spc kit and after catching the weak bolt thing, I didn't have any problems

 

I figured you mis-read it. That's why I didn't cuss you out. Well good to know about the weak bolt. I'll remember that. So what they use instead?

 

there's some bolt shop next to speedware, they got a real grade 10 (the one spc sent just has grade 10 stamped on it, but its just a regular mild steel bolt) bolt from them and milled it out to the same shape as the one spc sent

 

Interesting. If my bolts ever get out of sync, I will make sure to pickup that different bolt as well. Thanks milk.