It's time again

So stoked for friday, gotta get it all cute and ready. Maybe even work on the bike, too. droidx pics, this thing has pretty horrible performance in low light(expected) but looks pretty nice otherwise



yutas thing at fatlace's word up event, it was really chill. surprisingly chill for a skid event in the bay area


matts thing

strut bar in the name of vanity

I've wanted a strut bar forever, dude. It looks cool. That's all. But nothing fits an s12, nothing within reach at least. I think an R31 bar fits. Anyway, I love the Cusco bars, except that if I were to order one, I wouldn't be able to realign the mounts since their mounting plates are made of aluminum(I can't weld that stuff). So I just got a cusco style bar with steel brackets off ebay for $60 shipped, not too shabby right?

The bar is supposed to fit BOTH s13 and s14, so there's a few slight problems. I already have to cut the mounts off the plates and realign them to fit the s12 anyway, so it won't be too bad.

Here's the bar, I probably shouldn't have put it on my bed for fear of china lead, haha


Looking alright so far


first, the bolts don't even fit as it should, they're too small


and ALL the holes are ovaled out for the s13/s14 universal fitment, I'll probably weld them shut and redrill them or just fill them in slightly

GHETTO STYLE. s13 tension rod conversion!

I had a particular photo shoot thing today at 3pm which required my car to move around and it didn't help that the SPL tension rods still aren't here, not to mention the lack of an exhaust(still building). So I had to borrow Matt's for the time being, which also allowed me to have things ready for the SPL's.

This car is really a pain in my dick. It looks simple (well, it is) but it took me practically all morning to do and figure out. And when it came time to finally drill the brackets for the new bolt, I called up about 6 shops in the area since I didn't have a 14mm drill bit nor did I have a drill press. One shop picks up telling me to come over, only to tell me that I'd have to wait until Sunday after 30 minutes of questions and answers. So fuck it. I eyeballed with a Unibit and it turned out just fine.















Fuck itttt


retarded monster?



















AND GREEN TEA KIT KAT FROM GRAYSON!

RACK SPACERS

Just popped these pbm rack spacers in. Had them laying around for a year or two but now's the time since with the s13 lca, my tie rods barely have enough threads. Win win! Also currently waiting for some SPL tension rods too, a week or two more since they were out of stock.

pics were taken with my old canon sd550 point and shoot, always surprisingly impressive!



peace out locking plate, SUP DANGER


s12 inners have a surprising amount of threads


spacer


Together. You can see the hockey pucks too


angle, looks good!

NEW LCAS

S13 front LCA's are finally here and in. Seriously took me forever, I figured "Hey, I've done this before. I'll just use my bench vise instead of the C-style ball joint press that I used a ton during my build." Wrong. Then had to wait til the day to go rent one. Thanks JOE(do you read this?) for the arms again(and painting them this cool, interesting color, haha), guy is a saint. He even gave me my cool unequal length header for the ka when my s12 was still in pieces.

Looks like the the sway bar barely lines up, I may have to just get an s13 one somewhere. And I'll definitely need new tension rods, s12 ones aren't even close. It's about time for adjustable ones anyway.

Yuta's 14's amongst my 15's. We threw them all together for this photo thing that you'll see later. You can see my blast pipes in the corner too, since I'm still lazily and slowly building a new 2.5in CAspec exhaust. I've pretty much only made the new down pipe so far.


s13 next to s12 front lca, s13 is 10mm longer








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