Thanks guys!

I got my Cusco pillow ball upper mounts today for when I eventually order my coilovers. Hoping to have them on the way sometime in February or early March. I won't install them until April when the weather up here in Michigan breaks anyway, so it's not a huge rush. Found these brand new on the forum for a good price and planned to run them anyway, so I scooped them up!



I should hopefully have a couple other items arriving this week as well...

 

hey what are the drag tracks like up there, i was stationed there from 05-08 and may be moving back some time this year, to the farmington hills or Canton area, i know milan is near there but i have never been.

BTW your build is coming right along, well done so far, can't wait to see this thing if we end up at the same event :-)

 

Thanks man! The only drag strip I have ever been to is Milan, so I am probably not much help there. I have heard there is one in Lapeer, but I think Milan is quite a bit nicer track surface wise. Maybe I'll run into you at some point up here!

 

My Cusco parts arrived the other night: Three point front strut tower brace with BMC stopper, rear strut brace, and optional three point bars for the rear strut tower brace. I tossed the front bar on last night, and hopefully I'll have some time to get to the rear brace soon. Thanks to Cusco and PT for hooking it up! I see a few more of their goodies in this car's future someday.







Sorry again for the low quality cell phone shots. If I am ever outside of the office in the daylight again, I'll take some actual pictures with a camera, lol.

 

Looking good!

 

Thanks!

Finally found the time to install my Cusco three point rear tower brace last night. I trimmed all of the panels to fit so that I can still get to the spare tire if I need to in a pinch. Excuse my poor photo quality again, haha:





Install was surprisingly easy! My next purchase will probably be the coilovers. Hoping to order those sometime next month. I'll have a surprise to post up arriving tomorrow as well!

 

Time to add some decent photos to this thread, lol:







I decided to go with a set of Work CR Kais for this season. 18x9.5 +20, so pretty standard sizing for an Evo VIII. I think it should look pretty cool. I wasn't planning to buy wheels before my coilovers, but FR Sport had a pretty nice sale running on a set of these and I couldn't pass it up.

I also picked up a set of Work lugs to go with them:



I'm planning to run a 245/40/18. Hopefully I can pick up tires and get the coilovers ordered by sometime late next month!

I grabbed a couple of quick shots of the car itself as well while I had the camera out this morning. The car is filthy, but it's a year-round daily at this point, so I'm not super stressed about it. Hopefully the weather will break a bit for us soon. I've had the car for almost exactly three months, so I wanted to have some progress shots to refer back to.







I've got one more part coming next week for the bay that should clean up the driver's side a decent amount.





Lastly, I made a really quick exhaust clip this morning when I got to the office. I thought it would be good to have to compare the idle of the GSC S1 cams with the HKS 272 when I install them this spring.


That's about it for now! Patiently waiting for Spring at this point...

 

Nice thread man, hope to see it out on Woodward this spring. I have the same wheel setup on mine as well.

 

Looking good.

 

Dang nice! I think I saw a pic of your car with Ishin's in a driveway in his thread. I'd love to see more of it with the CR Kais! Sorry for biting your style, haha. I didn't see it until after I bought mine.

I got my ARC UICP in the mail last night- pretty stoked! Should really clean the bay up a lot. I ordered couplers for it today, so I should have time to install it and my new battery next week.





A couple other goodies should be here Monday. My gauge panel for the center console is also nearly complete, so those should hopefully be installed by next weekend when I get it back! Excited to post the pics, I think it turned out really nice.

PS: I'm currently looking for a RR JDM rear bumper. Probably a long shot, but if you have one for sale or trade for USDM rear + cash, shoot me a PM!

 

on ebay right now they have PU JDM rear bumper knock offs pretty cheap. i haven't seen one personally to verify but they are cheap and look good so ...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Urethane-03-...fc1412&vxp=mtr

 

Was there a specific reason for choosing ARC parts???

 

This car is in desperate need of an S15 Silvia front end conversion!

 

I wondered the same thing. Waste of money on expensive useless parts and the only other reason I could see is because all the magazines have them plastered on their pages. But to each their own.

 

sorry to thread jack, could you share where did you order your cusco bars from?

thanks

terrence