Guess I should tie in all my little updates to this thread...
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Late September, I made a little weekend trip to Portland (7 hours driving) to visit Richards (Veilside180sx's) garage for some quality time with the 240. We made some custom brackets for the Evo L seats that would give me the most head room possible... click
here for details.
Evo L seats installed.
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October, I installed a new cat-back exhaust setup, the Apexi JDM hybrid megaphone exhaust. It goes from 3" to 3.5" on the piping so it's not so restritive and with the resonator and larger muffler it's the most quite 3" exhuast I've heard yet... oh yeah, and it doesn't sound like I'm blowing through a straw under WOT anymore
. Link to the install
here
Muffler after a fresh coat of flat black paint and install.
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October, had my first track day turboed... with no major problems! putting down traction or trying to accelerate out of any of the corners was a joke with the open diff and 225 width street tires. I'll be dealing with those issues come next season. The writeup can be found
here, starting at post #53.
A good shot from the track day.
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October/November, I rounded up the last of my parts to install the new Koni setup, 8610's in custom housings with GC hardware up front and koni sports in the rear with GC's. First impressions of this setup are very positive, but proper testing won't be done till next year. For more details on this setup, click
here.
Comparison of the Silkroad to the new Koni fronts...
The new ride height... for now, not so high in the front anymore
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Currently, converting my hubs over from 4x114 to 5x114 and doing what it takes to stuff 17x9 +35 5zigens wrapped in 275/40/17 RA-1's under the car. The rear is not the issue, the front's will be. I will also be needing to purchase some wide fenders for the front once I get the wheels on there and see how much more fender I need. also have access to a eastwood fender roller for the rear.
New hubs...
New track wheel/tire setup.
That's all for now
