the galss fits no problem on the fluted. that's what i have. 95 rear section, clear glass.
That looks really good, I like it a lot better than the original placement
The new subframe is BEAUTIFUL
Thanks, the gold turned out better than I expected or hoped it would
The other is MSI isnt it?
I believe so but I am not familiar with theirs, TSS has been on my radar for a while and it's a local business but I mostly chose it because a bunch of stickers and a card ended up on my windscreen one day
It took a while but I finally parted with more money than I was comfortable spending on a legit Japanese plate, it it so much bigger than a US plate and the holes actually line up with the original mounting bracket
Getting the subframe out this way was a pain but it worked, I fought it for a while before remembering the heat shield bolts
With the subframe gone it is much easier to see and access the V-bar bracket bolts and if I had to do it again I would just drop the subframe to get to them
The tubular frame was much easier to install than the steel one was to remove, I had a lot of trouble getting one of the bolts out and even more trouble getting the new bolt to go in but otherwise a really easy installation
Since there is no heat shield bracket on the TSS subframe I had to backwoods engineer a prototype flexible solution, taco lat links compliment the tubular frame nicely like the poly endlinks compliment the 24mm sway bar
There is no toe adjustment now unless I get adjustable lat links and I really didn't want to go that route, road testing confirmed wonky alignment and a lot of noise from the left rear wheel because somebody who installed a new axle never dented the nut and it backed itself out and trashed the wheel bearing I want to punch that guy in the nads whoever he is
While the hub was at the machine shop getting a new wheel bearing pressed in I took advantage of the better access and tapped the captive nut, there was some sort of blockage but it was removed easily and the new bolt went in perfect
I put my P1's back on for a better test but the lack of center caps really puts me off with those wheels, I found one that I was planning on using to fix the others but I just stuck it in to see if it would fit
The size is a match but the color and the fact that they aren't original still bugs me, not as much as an open hole there but a little bit
I painted the originals with the rattlecan that best matched the powdercoat but I want to go over the Prodrive and OZ logos with white paint or silver or something to make it look less like a button, the color matches well enough that I probably won't go looking to get a custom color rattlecan any more