KYB/Cattman Suspension Installed

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08-28-2006, 04:03 PM

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KYB/Cattman Suspension Installed

alright like the title says. hope you guys enjoy.

OEM SL Struts

OEM SL Shocks

All the Things Going In!

KYB AGX Adjustable Shocks; set at 5

AGX Installed w/Progress (Cattman) Springs

08-28-2006, 04:09 PM

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More Continued...

Great Price and Quality work. The Best Garage in Flu-Shing!!! Pace Professional Workers...on lunch, lolxz!

The Max Just Hanging Out...

Cattman Rear Sway Bar

Endlinks Installed

Installed w/ "salt nuts"

08-28-2006, 04:10 PM

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KYB GR-2 Struts w/Progress (Cattman) Springs Installed

Front Drop After Springs

Rear Drop After Springs

Also Installed my Nismo Grounding Kit compliments of George...Thank you!

Plan on taking more pics once the drop settles in and me and my boii take it for a real test spin. will be back with a full reveiw of everything! already feel massive change in a lot of things. now REALLY noticing the understeer...much more responsive...much less lean. hope you guys enjoy.

the guys at Pace Auto (Jack 'The Manager') are really great, really listened, and really knew wuh they were doin. recommend this garage to people around the area. great bunch of guys and best shop manager around.

wanna thank brian for the springs, struts, sway bar and endlinks and activetuning for the AGX shocks, and george for the grounding kit. thanks a lot.

08-28-2006, 04:18 PM

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Nice! That should be a huge improvement doing it all at once. I felt every lil mod I did to my suspension and the car handles great.

08-28-2006, 05:28 PM

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Your endlinks are not installed correctly. Niether Brian nor I will warranty them if they break. Please have the shop reinstall them correctly.

http://www.racinglineperformance.com/re_install.html

08-28-2006, 05:55 PM

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Congrats on the suspension upgrade.

08-29-2006, 01:04 AM

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Your endlinks are not installed correctly. Niether Brian nor I will warranty them if they break. Please have the shop reinstall them correctly.

http://www.racinglineperformance.com/re_install.html

owy...lolxz...alright i got you...i'll bring it back asap...and get it changed thank you for the heads up! how the hell is this thing supposed to go in? lolxz i guess we'll figure it out. thankxz though.

wait i don't get it wuhs set up wrong? do i have to move the endlinks to the outside? or wuh?

08-29-2006, 02:09 AM

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The bushings are suppose to surround the rotating link.
The side with the salt nuts are installed incorrectly.

08-29-2006, 07:29 AM

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Hey Sparkle... sweet setup! How much the whole thing cost you? Including the adjustable shocks. Will the front struts work with Eibach springs??

08-29-2006, 10:45 AM

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The bushings are suppose to surround the rotating link.
The side with the salt nuts are installed incorrectly.

wait so your saying those two rubber peices are suppoed to be on the moving partof the links? the rotating part of the endlinks...?

08-29-2006, 12:23 PM

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Hey Sparkle... sweet setup! How much the whole thing cost you? Including the adjustable shocks. Will the front struts work with Eibach springs??

well i got everything together...so it cost quite a bit buh still considerably less than coilovers even on the GDs...

well from wuh i heard your eibachs should be compadiable with the GR2s with no problem...buh just with brian and the others before purchasing! anything. i still need to fix my endlinks cause they aren't installed right.

08-30-2006, 12:16 PM

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alright taz...i reinstalled the endlinks myself...ummm wuh i did was bascially place the rubber bushing on both sides of the rotating link, top and bottom, on both sides...is that rah now? i didn't take pictures didn't have my camera...sorry.

08-30-2006, 12:29 PM

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i did the same thing to my endlinks the first time i installed them - i put them on - came back inside - looked on the forum and saw i messed up - went outside and fixed it

08-30-2006, 02:15 PM

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there are pics in the post above as too what they should look like installed.
click this link http://www.racinglineperformance.com/re_install.html

08-30-2006, 04:25 PM

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hey congrats on your suspension probably see you around I am always in queens myself looks good

08-30-2006, 07:56 PM

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Would someone rather have the non-adjustable KYB's all around or non-adjustable-front and adjustable AGX-rear? How much of a difference would there be with the AGX in the rear? Would the AGX provide less lean under hard acceleration?

08-30-2006, 10:08 PM

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well think of it this way...the rear is much more floatly than the front since the front has the engine to weigh down. and the stiffer the rear the better the response in the rear so it is pretty good for someone lik me. cause i lik having the control of choosing wuh kind of ride i want...control is power

09-01-2006, 04:49 PM

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i wish to make a note on my rear endlinks. it was installed improperly. the two rubber bushings are supposed to be separating the rotating links on the endlinks themselves.

so the procedure is...

1. bolt
2. bushing
3. endlink
4. bushing
5. RSB
6. nut
*7. salt bolt*

correct me if i'm wrong.

09-01-2006, 04:58 PM

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yes, just be sure to put the washers on the side of the bolt head and the nut

just like this

09-02-2006, 05:28 PM

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I was wondering....have any of you noticed a "squatting/cringing" sound with the OEM suspension when riding over bumps/dimps. Before or after doing the strut and spring upgrades? I still have OEM SE setup. I have this sound when going over dips slowly. Thanks