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Well, the pics speak for themselves. The rear stuff should all be on in the next few days.

Of course it didn't, cause there's no way he could beat an S30 - the winning streak would be over!

Unfortunately they have never animated Wangan Midnight. You are seeing the intro to the video game. Manga -> ton of live action movies -> video game The movies have a lot of very true to life details in them - the car even sounds exactly like a real turbo'd triple carb Z (they might have actually used the car that the engine bay shots were taken from, but I'm not sure.) It is cool. I just wish my first year japanese speaking skills went a little farther, no subs.

From the movie, it looks like he is using the HKS plenum.

http://media.putfile.com/sfinalsolutionforWhitesCSPAN Not only was the hurricane targeting black people, so are electromagnetic death rays. Luckily, this guy has a solution.

I don't understand how you guys can stand to live in Kalifornia. San Francisco, welcome to your almost guaranteed rise in violent crime, now that you're a "criminal safe" zone.

Andy, no need to apologize to me. I am just frustrated with Ground Control. I like the Ground Control plates, I really do. What I don't like is that Ground Control was dishonest and continues to be. On the phone, the GC rep told me that the slots were only to make it easier to install and did not provide caster adjustment. I said "why are you advertising them as caster plates then?" and he said "I couldn't say." Since then, the advertisement has not been altered. From what you are saying, I am guessing you might be able to move the plates a couple fractions of an inch farther towards the outside to gain some clearance. When I last looked under my strut tower, I did not get the impression that it would really help, but I will take your word for it. However, if you follow their instructions for drilling the mounting holes, (which I did, although I found them very poor) I do not think you will have any room in the tower to move your plates back enough to make any real difference. My goal for the front suspension was adjustable camber and enough caster adjustment to get both sides even, that's all. I am not going to chop out my front fenders and this is not a race car, so I didn't need 14 degrees of caster or anything like that. But my options appeared to be: AZ-Z adjustable front control arms for 600$ a pair, which includes adjustable tension compression rods, and would have given me a large range of camber and caster adjustment, and a very easy installation. Downside for a street car - no bushings. GC camber/caster plates - 300$ a pair. Downside for a street car - no strut isolator. Installation was a nerve-wracking PITA. What I ended up doing was having to buy these for another 200$: For less than 100$ more than what I paid I could have gotten a larger adjustment range without hacking up my strut towers and making it necessary to weld on my strut cage mounts to the tower (can't bolt them up any more.) I think I probably would go with Dave's arms if I could do it all over again. I like GC's products - I am running their coilovers too, and I like the way their bottom spring perch is tightened down with a screw that shortens their diameter instead of a set screw that goes into the threads. I just think their support is garbage and their advertising is misleading. Their instructions for the coilovers would have given me very little range in the rear if I had not gone to the trouble to mount the suspension with them tacked on to double check (and take it back off again.)

I have a 78 that I installed the GC plates into. There is NO room to move the plate side to side under the bottom of the strut tower on my car. It not only has 0 caster adjustment, it took some filing just to get the plate to mount flush to the bottom of the strut tower. I notified GC that their plates provide absolutely no caster adjustment. The guy admitted I was right on the phone. You'd have to take so much material off the plates you'd probably hit the bolt holes that they use to mount into the tower. I notice they STILL have not changed the way they are advertised. They are lucky I did not go to law school, because they SHOULD be sued for this BS. I would NOT have bought these plates knowing what I know now. I was counting on having a small amount of caster adjustment, otherwise it was not worth the money to me. Mr. Coffey, would you please post some pics of the EMI plates? I might start recommending those to my friends if I had an idea of how they were adjusted and looked.

No, that's people's way of saying "you are asking for too much money."

Sounds fine...as long as it's not bent.

Thats the best reason to get one...this is who I bought mine from: http://www.freewebs.com/pallnet/

If it was a 5spd NA 280zx that you turbo'd, you should have a 3.9 rear - get a 3.54 from 81-83 auto or turbo car, or any 280Z.

Rub on what?

Heh, buying 3 sets of wheels in a wholesale deal and buying one set from MSA would probably be the same cost. Having tried to set up group buys in the past, I have a feeling if one person doesn't front all the money and then sell the rest (at a decent markup, unless he wants to lose his shirt) this is not going happen.

I have the PDK bars, because they go down to the framerails and stopped my 1.125" sway bar from tearing them to pieces. Good stuff. I still have not installed the triangle pieces that go back to the firewall though.

The dry ice did not work for us. We got an air chisel and it worked like it was designed specifically to remove interior coating from a Z.

Where did you get the HKS turbo manifold for the AE86?

*coughcoughMAGAZINEcoughcough*

Hey, I am sorry you had trouble fitting your radiator hoses. However, I think you're being pretty unfair to Dave. He didn't have a application to tell you because he went in and found a hose that worked and got the part number. As far as customer service, Dave has always bent over backward to help me with any issue or question I had (some of which were due to me buying one of his kits second hand from a 3rd party.) I don't think cutting a radiator hose down a few inches constitutes "serious modification" to his radiator. If they're kinked, they are too long, cut them down. I don't understand what more he could have done except come over to your house and cut the hoses for you. I think we're all lucky he's decided to put so much time and energy into making parts for our cars, and I hope he continues to, despite threads like this. My life would be much harder if I had to do the R&D he does and fabricate the parts from scratch.

Begotten.

You're getting the v3.0 kit right? I just started assembling mine...just have to figure out what to do with all these v2.2's now.

HAHAHA! That's good stuff.

Scheisse. I stand corrected, sir. I'm very glad you brought that to my attention, I was definitely assuming the backspace was a measurement from the inside lip. That means I have less room to work with than I thought.

Wouldn't that be 4" backspace? 19mm = .75" and 9.5"/2 - .75" = 4" I'm planning on getting some of those wheels, but if I go wiht 9.5" rears, I will probably get a +6 offset...don't want to cut into my stock fenders as they are still mint. We'll see.

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