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authentic · Post by **authentic** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:33 pm

siren676 wrote:Depends how low it is, 290-300mm hub to arch in the rear seems to about the limit on stock eccentrics/bushes for -2°(-1.5° +0.5° cert tolerance)

Hmmm, I'm at 285mm

. Hopefully I can get away with it.

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 10:36 pm

siren676 wrote:The general rule with swaybars is for stiff springs use soft swaybars and for soft springs use stiff swaybars.
Since you're now running pretty stiff coilovers factory sways will be fine

Thats a general rule but Im not sure it applies to drift, one of the experienced Japanese guys told me that sways make transitions snappy and to get rid of roll lower your car or go stiffer but dont touch the sway bars.

BRM · Post by **BRM** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 11:53 pm

In some of our race cars, sway bars are only used to trim after the spring rates are set.

In one of them, we don't run any sway bars.

Angreal · Post by **Angreal** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 3:13 am

Furai wrote:
siren676 wrote:The general rule with swaybars is for stiff springs use soft swaybars and for soft springs use stiff swaybars.
Since you're now running pretty stiff coilovers factory sways will be fine
Thats a general rule but Im not sure it applies to drift, one of the experienced Japanese guys told me that sways make transitions snappy and to get rid of roll lower your car or go stiffer but dont touch the sway bars.

Yep, it's definitely snappier.

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 3:57 pm

Thanks to the awesomeness of Jif, I now have some sexy new tail lights!
yay! gone are the days of bigass orange globs!

authentic · Post by **authentic** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 5:20 pm

Booyakasha. Passed my cert. Had to raise the rear ~10mm to get within camber tolerance but I'm all good with that. +/- 5% gives me 14mm to play with anyway.

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 5:25 pm

authentic wrote:Booyakasha. Passed my cert. Had to raise the rear ~10mm to get within camber tolerance but I'm all good with that. +/- 5% gives me 14mm to play with anyway.

Nice! Hope mines as easy.

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 5:34 pm

Nice job man!
Had a suspicion that you would have had to raise it.

No other queries when you took it?

authentic · Post by **authentic** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 5:58 pm

Nah everything else went smoothly. I gave him the spec sheet for the Falkens to show that the stretch was legal, so there was no question there.

I was stuck at 2 and a 1/4 degrees

so he gave me the option to raise it till the camber could be set at 2 degrees, or I could go away and get some eccentric bushes. A quarter of a degree didn't seem like much so I just said to raise it. Sits at 295mm hub to fender in the rear now.

dylann · Post by **dylann** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 7:16 pm

Put the tein adjustables in the rear of the car today, it's like driving on clouds! even with the damper cranked up most of the way.

The tires rub on the guards at the sight of a moderately sized bump however so i'll have to raise it a little bit.

Angreal · Post by **Angreal** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 8:26 pm

dylann wrote:Put the tein adjustables in the rear of the car today, it's like driving on clouds! even with the damper cranked up most of the way.

Should try my car

Angreal · Post by **Angreal** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 9:24 pm

Saw a car that reminded me of Kieran's car since he mentioned centre exhaust a while back before going twin pipe (to each their own) while loitering in the Southern 100 pits.

authentic · Post by **authentic** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 9:44 pm

Can't say I hate it. But it doesn't really suit a near-factory Roadster. If it had other 'functional' mods, or a bumper cut-out then it would be better.

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 10:14 pm

would look far better if they'd covered up the original cutout

Furai · Post by **Furai** » Wed Jul 10, 2013 10:39 pm

I was thinking of that but way smaller tip.

chris · Post by **chris** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 9:26 am

Awesome news that you passed your cert!

Might be down your way later this year. Wellywood Mx5 meet?

Post by **jif** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 11:35 am

schwing !!!!

gotta say it does look better on your red one than it did on my blue car... damnit.

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authentic · Post by **authentic** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 1:50 pm

chris wrote:Awesome news that you passed your cert!

Might be down your way later this year. Wellywood Mx5 meet?

Hell yeah man. I'm jealous of all the meets you guys have up in Auckland, would be good to have one down here!

chris · Post by **chris** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 3:07 pm

Awesome! I'll find out the dates that I plan on heading down and keep you posted!

authentic · Post by **authentic** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:22 pm

Sounds good dude!

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 7:26 pm

Picked up this ecu for my turbo build, its a Link G1V5 with adapter box to NA wiring loom.

Skilfil · Post by **Skilfil** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:15 pm

Nice I was looking at that ECU but wasn't sure it was any good.

Finally, I have a hard top. So much quieter for daily duties and it looks good with my shiny bar through the rear window

Miatsu by Skilfil, on Flickr

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:29 pm

looks great with the blue... I always liked blue 5's

siren676 · Post by **siren676** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 12:03 am

swapped my fuel flap for a mates

MrGrey · Post by **MrGrey** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 5:53 am

you can't get more JDM than that

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