I’ve pushed things forward and triumphed. Even had the wrong meds which almost pushed me back into deep depression. Felt like hell now the spring has been pretty good for me.
I got all other suspension parts out of the car except struts. All parts have left for sandblasting and powdercoating. They will be sparkly silver 🙂
Got a small 3L ultrasonic cleaner and washed all the bolts and bits. Plenty of discussion between me, Widric and Beldin about getting a new zinc chromate coating for the bolts but overall that could be really expensive. For now the new zinc chromate is out.
Toda is now taken off the car and stock struts are in place, just to keep the hub and brakes and stuff hanging there while powdercoating happens. Ball joints at the end of the control arms were a pain in the ass.
Found out that the front passenger side sway bar bushing was mostly destroyed when the bracket on that side took a big hit. This was way before I got the car.
New bushings are ready. The rear sway bar bushings in the SuperPro kit were for 10mm sway bar and mine had 14mm. I thought this was a difference between JDM and other models, but I havent got any data about this.
Also, I’ve been researching if it would be possible to fit the SW20 Tein Street Flex or Mono Sport coilovers to AW11. Street Flex should be possible but I’ll have to get back to that later.
After weeks of bathing in xylene, I now have 120 clean titanium bolts. Btw, Xylene smells of fun and joy 🙂 I was pretty high after sniffing the stuff while getting rid of the sealant gunk.
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