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So I'm a retard. So what?

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Yeah. . . I'd post this in the suspension forum, but somehow I think the story is a lot funnier here. :lol:


So I FINALLY got my Tein Flex coilovers today. :x Figured I at least had time before work to install the fronts, so I had at it. Beauty of it all was everything comes preassembled, so you're just swapping out assemblies. Easy <2 hour job.

Anyway. . . got the passenger side in 45 minutes. No sweat, and no hangups. Got to the driver's side, and I couldn't get the control arm to fall. Well, I thought it already had, and figured the spring had more time to relax than the passenger side, so maybe that's why things were so tight. I got the strut's bolts eyes away from the hub's holes, only to jam the strut into the CV boot. :shock:

Shit. So I could see the thing sinking into the boot, slowly. I was freaking out! So I grabbed my floor jack and quickly popped the strut off of the CV boot. Couldn't see any damage, so I took a deep breath. Looked down and thought about the swaybar. Yeah, I had never worked on a car with such a beefy stock sway, so I figured that was keeping things from dropping. (Considering the other side of the bar was attached to a hub assembly that was now sitting 2 inches higher, that seemed to make sense.)

So I released the other hub assembly from the Tein strut body, and viola! The other side relaxed along with the swaybar. Got things swapped out on the driver's side, and put everything back together. Only problem is. . . I queezed the CV boot on the driver's side. . . it's sucking air. Yeah. . . I'm a retard and put a pinhole puncture in a CV boot with barely 10,000 miles on it. :evil: :evil: :evil:

So. . . time to replace that before too long. It's not that it's a lot of money. . .it's the fact that I should have known better. Oh well, chalk it up to getting to know my car a lot better. ;)

On the bright side, the front of the beast is now more than 2 inches lower than when I started. It looks badass!!! Now I just need to install the rears tomorrow morning, and play with the dampening a bit.

I'll post a few pictures this weekend. :P
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hahaha dragster. :cool:
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Post by BAC5.2 »

See what I do for you? You complain to me that it's been taking a long time to get your stuff, and I take care of it.

The things I do that go unacknowledged :(
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LaureltheQueen wrote:hahaha dragster. :cool:
:lol: Yeah, I was thinking that, too. But I had only planned to drop the rear by 1/2 inch anyway. :D
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mmm... front bias. say hello to understeer!
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Indeed. . . .

Next month, say hello to new swaybars. ;)



Meh, besides. . . with the throttle-on torque under my foot, the front-biased handling is almost trivial. I just need to practice my throttle-on and throttle-off turns. You just wait until Sunday. . . I'll show you what I'm talking aboot. :P
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The weather was being uber gay this evening, but you get the idea. . .

Not slammed, yet. . .but I just threw on the front coilovers so I could get to work. :P

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I know the exact feeling, well kind of, my sube is just a little different than your STI. When I was replacing my struts I spent a good 2hrs grinding and cutting the nuts that bolt the knuckle to the strut....with a dremel and a lot of cutting wheels. That’s 2hrs of a cutting wheel at times mm’s from the outer CV boot. At one point it kicked the dremel right onto the CV boot. I thought I had just cut a huge chunk out of it, but luckily the cutting wheel broke clean off and there was no damage done.
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damn! looks way more aggressive
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Yeah. . . think I'm going to go another 1/2" up front, too.

Today was just getting them on, and making sure the car didn't sit TOO low. ;)
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No Kudos to Phil...
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BAC5.2 wrote:No Kudos to Phil...
:lol:

Phil, most of my family is Italian. . . if anyone had a hand in "taking care of it" I would have already known aboot it. ;)


But thanks. :D
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i called showstoppers and let them have a piece of my mind
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I broke a few legs and got things hopping along.
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here's the back!

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nice!!!
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Get that bad ass corner weighted!
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Not going to bother with corner weighting until I can leave the Teins all year-round. In fact, my ultimate goal, once I build a garage, would be to buy a lightly-used alignment rack and learn to do my own corner balancing. MUCH cheaper in the long run. :P
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Looks really nice!
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