Damn a month 1/2 you got lucky pimp.
My stuff was scratched to but wasn't trippin since ur never gonna see um one the rotors and wheels are on.
I'm runnin ksport s-chassis tie rod ends their pretty stout
Good work so far

 

What are those little brackets coming off the balljoints for? Sway bar mounts? Hope your not planning on running sway bars lol.

 

Its pretty cool aside from extending them an inch he welds on those pieces which are adjustable bump stops which you can set to stop the knuckle from turning too far and raking the f out of your Baller wheels/lca

 

The 2 sets of tie rod ends that i had from ksport sucked, the shank bent and one broke!!! i made my own out of chromoly 5/8th

 

not much but picked these up. dude at mazdatrix was super confused when i told him i need an extra set of rears

 

We stopped being lazy and actually did some work. Did the sound deadening on the driver and passenger floor. I don't know what's less fun this or the bushings.....



Got a good amount out at least. Meh



Also got into the front end a little. I think it was more grease than metal....



The rack wasn't much better



Wire brush. Degreaser. Death metal. We know the drill



Gold all in my frameeee



Even felt extra rick Ross tonight so I hit the brackets too. Pointless



Also note the amount of instagraming going on in the background. We probably do more of that than any real work

 

damn gold is the exact color im gonna do to my rear subframe! dont think im biting off ya if u see it in my build thread haha. Looking balling though man

 

 

Sleepy tom

 

Man this thing is going well! You have led me in a right direction with some things. =]

 

awesome! glad to help

 

Dude at this rate you'll have your second one done before my first one

 

Haha I doubt it we still have a long way to go

 

just went through the whole thread...i'm in on this

 

did something productive today. the stock inner and outer tie rods were shot as hell as well as the boots so we got all new stuff as well as replacing the rack bushings and the PS pump hose that were deteriorating



realized how incredibly gay removing the inner tie rods were. shout out to mazda for not making wrench flats on the rack. superrrrr sickkkk make my life easy. they came off after about 100 f bombs being yelled at it

i got a little excited and put one on already but heres the new ****/old ****



gold n silver



got all that crap back on the subframe and torqued down. looking pretty flossy. its ready to go back in the car



this setup better give us good angle or else



we also have all the sound deadening off we just need to clean all the glue residue off. anyone know an easy way to do it?



were pretty pissed cuz our friend who had our subframe didnt do anything on it and was just wasting time so we got it back, finished drilling out the rest of the link holes and gave it to another (more reliable) friend to be fixed this time

 

god dammit somehow some of the photos didnt show up. heres what they were supposed to be

 

How much did the new rack bushings run from the dealer? Thats been on my to do list for a while now.

 

Im not 100% on the retail price because the parts guy at the local dealership is a buddy and hooks it up but I believe they're no more than 20 each. Still think the rx community is blowing it for not having poly ones available

 

so clean and pretty

 

what outer tie rods are those?

 

abercrombie

 

Yeah they're the ones that come in his kit I believe they're originally for s13s

 

I'm running those tie rod ends on my FC as well, love them, even on stock knuckles they feel way better than stock.

 

Ive debating doing my FC *** backwards. I wanna set up for drifting. You have been some of the best help ive seen. Once i work out a place to start tearing apart i will put up a thread as well. Keep up the good work. Ill be watching

 

Awesome man glad we could help you out! Ill keep an eye out for your build thread