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Old 02-11-03, 08:33 PM
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I'm sure everyone has seen that the rear suspension of the FD is totally self contained in a subassembly (subframe). Has anyone ever heard of someone trying to install this rear suspension subassembly into an FB?
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it's been done by a few Japanese owners I know of...
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People in Japan?
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Yeah, theres a pic floating around somewhere of a yellow FB with a body kit, supra-style wing, and a good shot of the rear suspension from the side with the car jacked up and the wheel off. I'll post it if i can find it.
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People in Japan?
I can't stop laughing at this.

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Lots of people in Japan!
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People in Japan?
Heh, heh. very nice. Anyway, I wasn't able to find the pic. The site I thought it was on seems to be down. Oh well.
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357, if I remember correctly it was the IRS from a 300zx, and he had swapped the front suspension as well (rotors also), and was running 300zx wheels
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What? Japenese people in Japan? no way...
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heavens to betsy, japanese people in japan, what is this world coming to!
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purple82, were just giving you a hard time. It's just funny because the way your post reads is like you would expect anything BUT Japanese people in Japan.

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not only is this site very informative but also very funny


and sorry back to ur suspension question
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Very interested in this.. At one point i thought of trying to through a kit together from the miata for 1st gens.. And resell them...

But most people probably could not come up with the $$..



Either way, i plan on doing this to mine.
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I can take the ribbing.

zyounker, how much was the kit going to cost? Something about double wishbones in a fist gen...
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I can take the ribbing.

zyounker, how much was the kit going to cost? Something about double wishbones in a fist gen...

I never got to a solid price.. ( you kinda need to do it to really know how much it will end up costing)

If i ever get around to doing mine (need to sell my other car 1st) I will probably keep the fabricated parts around to resell so people can peice there own "kit" together.

I just wish we had some decent junk yards around here.. so i could go take measurements off of a bunch of differnet cars.. (to find the best replacement)


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on ebay..

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...category=33583

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Holy cow, 375 for an entire suspension setup seems like a really good deal.
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That rear end is missing the diff.
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