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Threw on some WL 24mm poly bushings for the swaybar. OE rubber was a bit crunchy. Put xmember back together. Ready to start putting the car back together. Last piece will be swapping and rebuilding the evoX calipers.
Evo X calipers on deck. Swapped over my RB pistons, seals, bleeders. Austin needed to borrow my Evo8 calipers so he forced my hand. Helped him get his head on and hes almost ready to get his engine back in his car. Also put subframe back on my the car. Ready to start putting my suspension and Dallas's uprights with eX brakes on. Excited!
hmm the mounting of your oem bov intrigues me. Do any inquired minds know if I would run into issues if i swapped my bov from the intake to the upper IC piping without re-tuning the car?
I actually bought a set of braces a long while ago, never put them on. I figure once I've got a cage that issue will be gone anyway if I tie in the front strut towers.
I call them placebo braces. I've seen people market them for just about every sport compact car there is and I've never once seen someone post data proving that it's made any improvement whatsoever. It's always just claims of the car "feels better".
They don't actually tie into any suspension points on the car. As long as the suspension isn't moving from chassis flex then you're just adding weight to the car. Look at the factory strut bar, it's connected to where the strut meets the strut tower, and braced to the opposite strut tower as well as triangulated to the firewall, that's the reason why people are able to quantify performance improvements with strut bars and LCA tie bars on most macpherson strut suspensions.
Feb 23, 2019, 01:05 PM
awesome stuff!