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it's going huh it's going it's recording how you doing how you doing oh my god yeah you sure yeah I can't really used it the wild stuff it's working so you guys might recall last year I did a video where I installed some NCA coilovers and some control arms and stuff in this car well we've since stepped it up because we're getting better we spent two oh my god look at all the rubber that came off my tire at the change you know I heard it was a soft compound but holy hell you made spaghetti well proof in the pudding I've been driving the car bit harder so it's time for a better better than Street performance suspension which is exactly what we're putting in now we're sticking with MCAS just we're going with a little bit stiffer spring a little bit different valving specifically for this car specifically for the set up specifically for the rubber that I am using we also going to be doing some SPL upper control arms on the front because one of the problems I have is I don't have enough camber in the front on this car so I'm getting a lot of rollover and although this might eat you thirty-sevens is not what I track on I track on grand lights I was getting too much to roll over because I'm wearing a 275 up front on a 40 series tire in an 18-inch wheel not the 1935 like I have right here so we were getting a lot of camber wear on the outside on the track so we need to fix that here's the stop control arm here we have to either cut or shorten this bolt right here find a shorter bolt this is the power steering reservoir mount this will impact with the new control arm if I don't go to remove the brake line from the shock right here okay remove the shock there's also the ABS lines on this side right here the Beast is pushing in right so these will just pop right off I have to undo the three bolts up on top of the shock mounts reduce the lower mount and yeah I mean the shocks come out really really easy it's gonna be ow hurting your hand once I take the shock out then I'm gonna have to undo this bolt right here because this is where the ball joint for the upper mount connects to the control arm right here or this arm spindler and then I've got a new that bolt and this bolt these guys have never been taken off before so I think it's gonna be they're gonna be tight but fortunately once the shock is out I have lots of room and leverage to get my breaker bar in here you know what they say work smarter not harder well I think quieter I did start to try and do it by hand because my daughter's sleeping no but that sucks up the the z34 though is the lower shock bolt and the sway bar bolt r1 it's one piece so that's why on this side open-ended wrench in here keep it from turning but now getting this out can sometimes be a pain in the ass because when the suspension is drooping all the way the sway bar is under a bit of a load so getting this out is sometimes a pain in the butt but that's why we also have mallets and things yeah that's gonna be a bit of a pain the ass to get it all the way out cuz you can see it puts a lot of stress right here on the sway bar end link oh I hit my finger against them caliper I like to be able to feel my nuts okay take it to the top shock mount you have to remove the strut tower bar so these three bolts are here normally would hold the entire weight of the suspension assembly when it's in droop but what I do is I put a jack underneath the control arm and jacked it up a little bit to push against the spring that way it's not all just hanging down that way went and do these now I might be putting extra stress on these threads as it's unthreading because you don't want to do that shade-tree backyard mechanic tree mechana tree so the whole assembly can't come down far enough cuz this bolt and the sway bar is still supporting it so I really want to get the sway bar free entirely can't get that bolt not enough to get the shocks out smashed my finger it's bleeding under there nick is all like EU blood so and then at the back of the car jacked up so I can't get my drill under your head take off the bottom plate because I'm gonna remove the skid pan and just remove the sway bar cuz it's easy to remove and then once the sway bars out then it makes a come out no problem it's just I didn't have to do this last time I'm just gonna I'm no matter I'm going to strike the term it'll be pretty easy from my dictionary you're kind of waiting for that what I thought was gonna fall on your face and just like that get this guy out of here because now this is spent none of the spring and there they went like it stretched out because it's not under any load anymore hey yeah so the idea here is is I have a technique I like to do to try and match all these links up because I need it to at least be good enough to drive to the alignment shop yeah because I mean we do need to obviously adjust camber and stuff so we got support under this right I just wanna find right where it takes the weight like that that's easier - this is caster adjustment you guys have ever wondered now that you can see camber this guy moves in and out for camber adjustment like this moves forward in fact that's caster adjustment literally the only thing holding this thing together now is the lower ball joint all right these are definitely lighter than the SPL this one those times where SPL is gave me the wrong room there's a left and right oh that's how you do them so that's why we have to cut that bowl because as you can see that bolt you can see that bolt will impact on the arm and they make sure to work of it here's a stock arm and it's sloppy rubber bushings which are all about quiet and comfort and all that this there's nothing quite uncomfortable about this car anymore so another piece of out of the park these are SPL spherical bushings these are solid there is no plan than whatsoever basically they are bearing like a bearing bushing you got these inserts that go in there so the only lighter it's a little extra weight gain here with this story of my life but you can see right now like if I mounted it exactly as it is I'd probably be like negative 5 camber so I think I'm gonna lengthen this out a little bit so just in camera this is pretty simple you gotta loosen up these nuts these nuts you know loosen these guys up because these are locking down the adjustable collar or not calling but the adjustable threading because trust me you don't want this coming loose on you while you're driving so it's actually three points it locks here here and there's a collar to keep this from turning because remember there's it's like sleeved and it goes in and out like equally so it's not just sliding along the rail this part also moves in and out but most of the adjustments done here with this main beefy piece so what I'm gonna do is I got to loosen up all the collars that way we can actually turn it then we take a 12 millimeter wrench and we can adjust it that way and it looks like that's also how the camber is gonna be a or the caster is gonna be adjusted so I'm gonna make sure I count the threads and keep it the same on both sides because since I just did one side right now you can see this part pivoted over watch why should I tighten it back up see the way it pivots so if you only had just one side that's how you get your caster figured I might as well put the shot back in here while I've got the spindle arm and all that I'm disconnected because it makes it a lot easier to get this guy I've been there a few hours lit yeah yes we got this for at least three and a half hours almost four hours I guess we got one corner done but we fixed one bolt that was semi stripped we fixed it you got a arms install arms adjusted both shocks adjusted to our baseline hopefully the other side will go faster keywords hopefully guys we're gonna see how long it's gonna take me to do this corner now that we've got all the prep work done yeah so anyway start the stopwatch or whatever stopwatch yeah it's got a bunch of stopwatch it's going all right uh yeah tell me how far in are we but we at 23 minutes and 53 seconds in well would you look at that that's when the shock is in the lower bolt is in it's not torque down I think torqued yet but everything's in place way better than I could say for the other side thank you but the other side like I said we had a lot of things we had to kind of like overcome and overcoming them on the other side meant we overcame them on this side so we didn't have to deal with this stubborn the other side the future the other side the control arm bolt up here or the control arm stud didn't want to go in to the top of the spindle arm you run out how much I tried to spread it apart like a butt crack ended up I ended up getting it eventually though that sucked but anyway this is everything's in right now would you look at that sway bar still hanging down down here though I was about to say that sway bar still swinging the other site still has to be torn off to the sway bar swings so it's doing this job a bar is swaying that's what's wait where's do this way yeah all right time to tighten it all up and then move to the rear the rear that would be faster than the rear is three bolts 25 minutes the rear is three bolts okay betters you passed it in 25 yeah we haven't toured this all down well then we'll go to the back of the car and we'll see what's up see Justin styled sway by which puts them at 85 26 I think I'm just laying here now because I'm dying well the rear should be a lot in fact the rear is kind of a lot of work for a 1000 kilogram I will tell you there's only 1000 kilogram difference between these Springs and these Springs but the valving is a little bit different but there's only three bolts get this off to at the top see out there right there and then wondering er where's the last one down here the shock base and yes I just held up in my hands so uh but now I can basically tell you about the rear there in the back of the car oh here we go call dad when you're ready with the usual torque specs of good in tights German German specs on JVM car you're lost on you the I'm done half day 2 minutes 30 seconds okay remember I was telling you on the front on those control arms how they were real stiff the hind joints the spherical bushings they wear in over time see that see how easy that is to rotate yeah because the spherical there as well so yeah just takes time for those two to get in there so we do the other side then we'll let it down and we'll see how it sits they say that these these shocks and springs don't have to settle I mean it's that's pretty much it something looks really do except drop or down see where it sits drive around the block see where it settles because again I still think suspension settles but whatever and then make some adjustments to the coilovers so with that said we'll do all that will come back in this video so this is where it's at the rear has like this massive gap in the front it's like massively tucked camera trust me it's way too low especially for track so yeah we are going to bring the back down about an inch and the front up about an inch right now it's got that muscle car like 70s muscle car rate going on okay so we actually raised the front versus where it was before we change the suspension but definitely raised it a lot from where it was when we first put it on as you can see I know some of you guys are like hello flesh but no no that's not what we're about here this is about clearance and proper alignment and stuff setup for the track because I'm running a 275 square so for track a little bit extra height will help Claire we're also to get the camber adjust it now because it's higher the camber is is less apparent now there is a specific track camber that I run but I gotta get that all taken care of now there's someone else I can handle that and then the rear we brought the rear down like I said we were gonna do so that's where it sits I think it was pretty good my my one one of a kind te thirty-sevens so guys we're gonna go this took all day way longer than I wanted it to I beat the out of myself pretty sure I damaged this knuckle like the bone I smashed the out of that sacrifice to the car guides right alright see you the next one Nick any final thoughts not really I'm really waiting right now tell if only they could see your face right now it's it's blank you know buddy what about you