float_6969 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 02, 2019 11:07 am
Looks awesome!
Thanks, man! I'm happy that she's coming along
As for some new updates:
Front suspension is just about finished up.
GKTech swap hubs with some extended ARP studs and SKF bearings. Unfortunately couldn't find Timken fronts available anywhere.
Cleaned up the knuckles when they were out - they were in excellent shape. Removed the dust shields to fit my big boy rotors
Plopped the new suspension arms on. Again all Diftech fully adjustable / spherical rod ends / etc etc. The fronts of the ISC coils also have pillowball top plates
And dem big brakes ...
^^ You can also see the refreshed inner wheel wells pretty well here. Spent a couple of hours wire wheeling off the old flaking material and the rust underneath. Fortunately it was all surface rust and there were no deep pits.
I did run into a few hiccups that I might as well share with the world:
1. GKTech claims their hubs use 12.8 mm wheel studs. Not sure if mine were old stock or what, but they actually used 14.3 mm knurl studs, AKA S14 fronts. I used the ARP kit (originally for Evo III) that changes to M12x1.50 and extends the studs to 3" total length. If you get these, definitely measure before you buy studs.
2.
The ISC N1 coils WILL NOT FIT HIGH OFFSET WHEELS. I will be running an effective 17x8 et15 after spacers and that should *just* clear. I may contact them about putting a disclaimer on their page, since I'm not too happy about chunking on spacers and can't return my wheels. At least I won't have to worry about brakes clearing lol. (For reference, the old crappy coils fit a 17x9et15 with PLENTY of room left, which should be equivalent to a 17x8 et28 I think? That would rub like hell on the N1s)