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Old Apr 9, 2012 | 05:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Gringo Grande
I must respectfully disagree...mainly based on spending many hours reading Howard Coleman's suspension thread, the responses and threads by other long time owners. I believe it was MooseJaw who took his car there amongst other owners.

With every aspect of my suspension now adjustable and with my desire to have very specific ride height, camber, etc set...along with proof of before and after...I'm not taking this to my local Tire Store Chain!

This is being turned into a track car slowly but surely as I keep an eye out for a nice DD 7 (probably a 1st Gen or maybe a shell to go LS in).
We deal with Edgar at Mazda Pros for the the most part.
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Old Apr 9, 2012 | 06:06 PM
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I believe Pettit Racing does corner balancing... That would be what you are looking for. Regular alignments is probably the one thing you don't want since you have done adjustable suspension.

I plan to have mine corner balanced one day to make sure it rides real nice...
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Old Apr 9, 2012 | 06:47 PM
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finally got my turbo put back on, hopefully for the last time. I have this weird obsession with changing my entire setup anytime the car goes down. I can't help but to start with something new an different from the last. Nothing was broken or damaged last time, just stripped the car down for paint and when I put it back together i decided to change the setup. lol


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Old Apr 9, 2012 | 07:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Gringo Grande
I must respectfully disagree...mainly based on spending many hours reading Howard Coleman's suspension thread, the responses and threads by other long time owners. I believe it was MooseJaw who took his car there amongst other owners.

With every aspect of my suspension now adjustable and with my desire to have very specific ride height, camber, etc set...along with proof of before and after...I'm not taking this to my local Tire Store Chain!

This is being turned into a track car slowly but surely as I keep an eye out for a nice DD 7 (probably a 1st Gen or maybe a shell to go LS in).
Well from that it seems you're just looking for suspension geometry positions, not actual shock bump/rebound and spring settings which is what I figured you were asking about.

As far as ride height is concerned, the only thing to do with that is to get the car corner balanced. When it comes to camber/caster/toe then yeah I completely agree you need to go to someone who knows how to set it up correctly.

I highly recommend a place down here called the alignment factory. It's just a one man operation and the guy's been doing nothing but alignments for many years. Myself and many others from when I use to road race always took our cars to him for competition alignments. He's not cheap, and you have to make an appointment with him well in advance, but as far as I'm concerned he's the best.

You can also go Edgar at mazdapros as the other guys have mentioned, they all take their cars to him for that. I haven't personally gone to him though because I'm closer to the other place.
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Old Apr 10, 2012 | 04:15 PM
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Gringo
The viper guys use this guy:

MIAMI CHASSIS
3051 NW 24 ST
MIAMI, FL 33142

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Phone: (305) 634-5211

Either bring some cuban coffee or your Sig Sauer bc this area is rough.
Afterwards you can check out the best chonga pole swingers @ El Centro which is nearby
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Old Apr 10, 2012 | 04:21 PM
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Kevin, the kevin up on 441 has tenny's and/or grants scales and will do corner balancing etc.
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Old Apr 10, 2012 | 05:02 PM
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Kevin, we also have a set of scales to do corner balancing, if you wanted to come down one weekend.
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Old Apr 10, 2012 | 08:44 PM
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after 4 months of sitting on my car I finally finished wiring the MSD6al-2 and MSD gm 8224 coil.


Stock FD coil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cN-9O...6qMU8iiJgPxFI=


MSD 6AL_-2 and MSD GM 8224 coil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAL_w...CjB8mKxNjVTH0=
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Old Apr 10, 2012 | 09:00 PM
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Yea buddy!!! Gotta love that multi spark discharge. lol
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Old Apr 10, 2012 | 09:08 PM
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Going to re-lip and barrel them to go wider but stoked they cleared the front calipers.
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Old Apr 10, 2012 | 10:13 PM
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Damn!!! love me some equips!!!! looks sick
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Old Apr 11, 2012 | 06:55 PM
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now that i have more spark to burn the fuel mixture I swap the 550cc for the ID1000cc, and was able to get a decent 12.9 -13.4 afr at idle.
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Old Apr 11, 2012 | 07:55 PM
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I washed mine today, pics in my build thread.
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Old Apr 15, 2012 | 04:18 PM
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Picked her up and took her home to meet her younger sister. Will start giving her the Pinguino Racing treatment SOON....





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Old Apr 15, 2012 | 07:02 PM
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very nice bro,
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Old Apr 15, 2012 | 09:28 PM
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I spent all day trying to get my louvers installed.. I found a good enough solution although having proper hardware would have been ideal.

This picture is just a preview, as I haven't painted them yet and didn't really have it installed when I took this picture:
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Old Apr 15, 2012 | 11:14 PM
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Pinguino Racing treatment SOON....
She is already white and black...how much more Pinguino can you get? =)

Edit: Nice Mark!
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Old Apr 16, 2012 | 04:12 AM
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She needs some mechanical TLC.
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Old Apr 16, 2012 | 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by jm93rx7
She needs some mechanical TLC.
what she needs is a Semi P Port full bridge treatment.
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Old Apr 16, 2012 | 09:52 AM
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Originally Posted by FC3S1991
what she needs is a Semi P Port full bridge treatment.
This one is going to stay simple.
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Old Apr 16, 2012 | 02:16 PM
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I'm about to go out and take some better pictures with the louvers finally installed but I'll probably just post most of them in my build thread, I hate to clog up this thread with my pictures :P

Last edited by jeg0024; Apr 16, 2012 at 02:29 PM.
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Old Apr 16, 2012 | 02:22 PM
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I'm a Mark
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Old Apr 16, 2012 | 02:28 PM
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Oh got ya, didn't know he was referring to a 6 day old post :P I didn't go that far up the page lol.
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Old Apr 16, 2012 | 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by jeg0024
I'm about to go out and take some better pictures with the louvers finally installed but I'll probably just post most of them in my build thread, I hate to clog up this thread with my pictures :P
I think pictures are better than this USELESS post...
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Old Apr 16, 2012 | 03:50 PM
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^It's still better than the post last week of just a smiley face from someone no where near the SE lol.

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