In Cincinnati the best place is "Performance Alignment".

 

How are the rates?

 

your gonna pay, but its worth the $$.

 

They are pricey, but Jeremy knows his stuff. If you had COs and adjustable end links he can even corner weight your car with you in it. He is a suspension setup master. Plus....he has a old Galant VR4 that is an autoX beast.

 

so i saw a silver 8/9 on tylersville road tonight at around 8pm. Had a jdm rear bumper, and an exhaust. Seeing as how I only caught a glimpse of it, thats all i can tell you..

 

Well.....looks like the snow season is over. Time to put the car back in normal mode.

FYI....I installed the new version Whiteline rear end links....Much better than the older heim joint style that rattle and pop after 6 months of use. These new style ones should last a lifetime.

Also, my green just got a new 18psi WG actuator. Hopefully I can hold boost a little longer and even have it come on sooner.

On the bench....full set of Blitz gauges, Copper exhaust mani gasket (mine is leaking a smidge), Turbo blanket, Unorthodox Cam gears, Whiteline anti toe kit for the rear, and Whiteline front endlinks.

 

Tis the season finally. I am going to drop off my manifold and turbine housing this week to get powdercoated, then the red goes on. Should be lots of fun dialing in the new injectors and switching over to v7. Anybody know how much the Mitsu MAP sensors are going for?

 

Nick....I want to say they are going for about 120ish.

Get those parts ported before you get them coated. Help that Red SPOOL ! !

 

FP ported the turbine housing and I ported the exhaust manifold so they are good to go. Though I called FP yesterday and they recommended against coating the turbine housing. Said it would just lead to premature cracks. I guess I'll just do the exhaust manifold.

Paul, did you have a thread started about your suspension changes? What shocks are you using with those springs, and what exactly were your complaints with the JICs?

 

I am on stock KYBs with Tanabe GF210 springs. -1.9 camber in the font, -0.9 camber in the rear. Progress rear sway at the mid position, no side to side pre-load. Cross camber is near 0. I run 0 toe all around.

I found these settings are not so aggressive to cause excessive tire wear, but work well in most cases.

For the hard core drivers like Greg and Eli, they run much more camber all the way around and I am quite certain they may even run a little toe out in the rear to aid turn in.

My complaints with JIC is that the COs are horrible. They cannot work in cold weather, they corrode like nobody's business and in my case, the front's adjustment knobs, because they are on the bottom of the strut, locked up. I tried to make an adjustment because the fronts were feeling kind of stiff and the damn knob broke off. I tried to get JIC to repair them....they claimed I was in an accident and that they won't cover the damage. I was never in any accident. After JIC held on to the set for several months, I had to threaten them with a law suit to get them to send them back to me. They didn't want to send them back unless they got my credit card info....Hell No!

Anyway, I have them sitting on my garage floor. Junk!

 

I just bought a used Passport 9500ix! Cant wait to get it in the mail!

 

Oh and my turbine housing is coated....no problems at all. Buschur even recommends it.

 

HA.....Westchester cops and the highway patrol will still catch you. The best radar detector on earth is keen eyesight and your right foot.

 

Were do you get your powdercoating done?

 

There is a guy on CSS that goes by mustangboy or something like that. He has a nice little setup at his house in Independence, KY and does great work at absolutely incredible prices. His little business is called Killer Koatings and you can email him at mustangboy@zoomtown.com.

Yeah Paul I know a lot of people recommend coating the turbine housing, but it seems just as many say the exact opposite. If it were a T3 or T4 housing I would coat it, but they want a million dollars for these stupid machined evo housings. I plan on getting this thing pretty damn hot on the roadcourse and I'd hate to have to swap it out.

I asked about the suspension stuff cause I have the JICs on my car too. This is like the 3rd set of JICs I have had on different cars and I have never had any problems with them. The housings are cadmium plated, but the salt corrodes them instantly. Apparently they don't use salt on the roads in Japan.

I am running the slightly crazy camber on my car with a little toe out in the rear. It does help with turn-in big time, but it will erase the inside shoulder of the tires if you don't drive like mario andretti every day lol.

You ready to experiment with speed density on my car?