Sloppy Mechanics

Assuming everything comes in, I should have this puppy on the ground (well, suspension done) by end of month. Yessss!  (Manifold’s back, Housing getting welded, and waiting on some other stuff yet too)

So along with the suspension fun

 

Traction Arm Cut Down

The factory arms are 8.25 center to center, but after inspection I realized that these FleaBay arms were 8.5 center to center. I ended up removing .75 of an inch off, that way I have some play inwards yet too. I used a simple die grinder with a hose clamp around the shaft to keep me straight. The inner adjustments are LONG so if you hack an inch off, no worries, as you could still make 9” damn near total length.

The ladies seem to like 8” long  as the total length,  so I figured the same for m for my traction arms too.  This should really help out my toe curves under compression.

 

Modified Godspeed FLCA

Nothing like making gold out of turds right? Well being that I’m to cheap (aka: can’t find the balls in me) to buy some of the 500/600 dollar arms out there (I’m not JDM tyte, whatever), I decided to follow user Def’s Guide on Nissan Road Racing Forums

 

Pressed the stock junk out­

 

QA1 Left, Ebay Right (rod end)

QA1 Right, Ebay Left (spherical bearing)

Refreshment Time.  2008 Weyerbacher Blasphemy in my Shawnee Craft Glass

 

Here is the hardware needed. Forgot to take images of the spacer shims though

L to R: Upper Locking Nut, .5” spacer (for roll center correction), Godspeed Spacer (need to drill to .75” ID and then face down to roughly .85 in total height, and then the 3/4” bolt for the ball joint itself.

 

 

Fully Contracted, the arms are a little shorter.  Not bad. This can allow for more ‘fender room’ potentially.

All done! Don’t mind the chipped paint, I spray bombed them again. MITB quality here. At this point it’s a nice piece

 

Whew. More to come  shortly with the foam filled  subframe and total install pictures.