Recent content by jake_zx2

Bumping an old thread because I’m trying to wrap up the manual swap on my car, but there’s a few small details missing from OP that I’m hoping someone can help me with 1. does it matter which end of each plug I wire up for positive and negative? And if so, which end of each plug (output shaft...

Edit: let it sit for a little, and it’s creaking again. I think it’s probably the strut mounts, because everything else looks fine. Thanks for the help!

So, just got done in the garage... I loosened all the strut mount bolts and torqued them to spec, and the creaking is gone for the most part. It only seems to happen at full steering lock. For safe measures, I sprayed some WD-40 in there and checked all the bushings (all look good, btw). I took...

Hey guys, sorry for the delay, benn real busy with work. should be able to get the car up on a lift today. However, I did just think of something... I'm 100% sure that I overtorqued the top strut bolt. I was in a rush, they didn't have the tool necessary to torque it to spec, and I had to get it...

So basically, it's not the fact of how or where you have dataloggers mounted, it's whether or not you have them at all

Norm, it's not the tethering that's the issue... it's the fact that it allows you to record data of your driving, which may provoke more aggressive driving on what is apparently supposed to be a "tourist cruising day". It's simply because of novices trying to push their limits too far to achieve...

Now that I think about it, I'm dumb for mentioning the ride height difference because I just remembered that I have probably around 150lbs+ worth of car parts sitting in my trunk, so that's more than likely the reason for that

I'll have to check and take a picture next time I get the car in the garage. I doubt the spring is upside down, I just couldn't remember offhand if there was a diffeeence in size from top to bottom. I assembled the strut/spring/mount off the car using a spring compressor. I'm pretty sure the...

For example, if you went up to the gate with all that stuff Velcro'd on your dash, the marshallers would probably ask you to pull to the side and remove all of it before going out, or they would just not let you go out at all

6 months ago or so, probably not, which is why I always wore a helmet out there. But lately they've been having issues with novices going out there in ill-equipped cars not knowing what they're doing, but still trying to set lap records and either crashing or just being a hazard to other...

Any specific kind of lube? Or just some WD-40 or something

Actually, I noticed today that the front of my car is now sitting a good bit higher than the rear... could that have something to do with it??

Nope, same old ones... car only has 45k miles, and the strut mounts were fine before and looked fine after visual inspection

Hey guys, having a strange problem. So, I swapped out my suspension for about a month or so, then after a few track days, switched back to stock. I didn't have this issue before the swap, so it's interesting to me that's its just now occurring. I'm having a very loud, noticeable creak from the...

Honestly, it would probably be somewhat close... IIRC the S550 runs a 7:50 BTG with a skilled driver behind the wheel, and I think in ideal climates mine could get into the 8:10 area or lower. 20 second difference isn't TOO massive of a gap on a 13+ mile track. Won't be too many updates, as I'll...