i just had this morning to get anything done to the red twincam vert and while it might not seem like a lot i was able to finish up and get the car back on the road in about 5 hours. now it was 5 hours at about 85 degrees f and 90% humidity which had biting flies out by the squadron.
the reason my time was short was that i wanted to accompany my kid to a local festival where she was playing fiddle for a new gospel group. usually it's bluegrass but this gospel was just 2 small jumps to the left and then a big jump to the right.
my tubular rear toe adjusting links were about 3 seasons and were due for a little work. i had a spare set laying around that i had set up with full rubber boots to help keep road grit out of the heim joints.
i use heavy wall t6061 aircraft aluminum tubing and first quality spherical bearings to build these. they work great on my suspension, look good, and lighten the sprung weight from the oem units. the 2 key points with these is that it takes about 15 minutes to adjust the rear toe without jacking the car up. i can reach under the car and use a 19mm open end wrench to loosen the right and left hand threaded locking 1/2 nuts, roll the tubes by hand to open or close the links' length and read the toe with a tape measure from the center line of the car to the center lines of each tire.
the oem flat stamped and rubber bushed will not hold the rear toe setting in hard cornering maneuvers. they flex and cannot hold your alignment settings when you absolutely need the car to be the most stable. these links will not flex and they will maintain correct rear toe settings under the hardest cornering. the car will slide sideways before these babies will flex.
here are the red calipers with gray silver vein powder coated caliper brackets and the black silver vein rims.
you may notice the center caps on the suzuki 7 spoke rims. cami man donated those to my cause several years ago and i did them up in the same vinyl wrap i used on the hood. i think this finishes 4 seasons with that vinyl film fake carbon fiber out in the weather full time. if it makes 6 years the cost breakdown will be $6 a year!
and here's a little audience participation piece. this is my second treatment for the intake manifold adornment. do you guys like this better than the first one?
here's number 2.
this was number 1.
i still have the clutch cable bracket to install which will take about another 15 minutes without having to jack the car up. i'll leave that for another day.
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