VIP - its so hot right now, UCF21 build

[aeok18109]

what what another REXUS . Im over in Marietta. like 3 minutes from the Roswell Rd/120 interchange.

[aLaFleur]

Hey, you're in Georgia. Cool. I want to see this sometime.

[TMA-1]

Hey, you're in Georgia. Cool. I want to see this sometime.

Definitely gonna have to meetup, would love to check out that Merc of yours!

[TMA-1]

Got the coilovers on this weekend, pretty straightforward minus some issues with the rear lower shock bolts. Man those things musta been torqued down by Thor at the factory. Ended up rounding off one of the nuts pretty well, went all around trying to find a replacement and couldn't. Got it back on there but definitely plan on hitting the parts dept tomorrow to try to get one. I need replacement clips for the bottom of the back seat too, whoever popped it open before broke all but one of them.

No pics of the car on the ground quite yet, couldn't really get it off the jackstands because it was too low so I'm just gonna leave it up in the air until the fender roller guy comes out Saturday. Let him do his magic and than do final adjusting of height, hoping to get it all dialed in within the stock adjustments.

I look at these pics and the only thing I can think of is its SO CLOSE TO BEING DONE.







I will say that now I'm second guessing my rear tire size and thinking I shoulda gone with more stretch much like the fronts. Guess we'll see what happens this weekend when the fender work gets done.

[Thom]

Looks good man. I see there is still lots of thread left tho.. ha.

[TheTynosaur]

that looks so good, lot of georgians in here

[kittenpuncher]

Static is the best way to do VIP, no scrape no win.

[scweet14]

damn, makin me miss my LS. i was slammed in the front and never hit the wires once under there. it was probably just luck!

[C.Johnston]

looks awesome! love it

[TMA-1]

Looks good man. I see there is still lots of thread left tho.. ha.

Haha, I know right. That should be solved momentarily

that looks so good, lot of georgians in here

Thanks! Yea I didn't realize there were so many on here

Static is the best way to do VIP, no scrape no win.

Totally agree, whats the point of havin a car that only looks good when its parked/aired out

damn, makin me miss my LS. i was slammed in the front and never hit the wires once under there. it was probably just luck!

Ha I miss your car too, always followed the build thread on it. Hoping to get it lookin close to what you had minus the oil pan busting. I got a couple ideas for a skidplate, hope to tackle that in the next few weeks.

I'm pretty crappy at wiring and electronics in general so I mainly tucked it like I did out of paranoia.

looks awesome! love it

Thanks! Really appreciate that!

[TMA-1]

Tackled clearancing the UCA, drilled the pilot holes when I installed the coilovers. Got a good quality 2.5" hole saw and used air tool oil to lubricate the saw while I was cutting

First taped off where I was gonna cut





Then after what seemed forever the saw finally went through



As you can see the metal is really two layers with the bottom being the largest



Grabbed a can of undercoating to spray on the hole



Prepped the area and went to spraying, Tina Fey approves



Annnnd the finished product





Now the UCA has plenty of room, only thing it'll hit now is the big seam under the strut tower but I doubt it'll ever get to that point

Also installed my hub rings, took off the fender trim, and pulled the plastic clips to get ready for the roller this weekend.

Speaking of the rear doesn't have a fender liner but I noticed theres a decent layer of undercoat on the fender lip, do I have to remove that to roll the fenders? And if I do how does one go about removing that stuff from it???

[Evilist]

did you not file the hole to clean it before you painted it?

[TMA-1]

did you not file the hole to clean it before you painted it?

Are you talking about the last pic? Thats just the rubber that was still kinda sticky when I took off the painters tape, it didn't come off exactly clean.

[TMA-1]

I cranked my rears down so I could see how much fender work I might need, I turned the coilover until it stopped completely. It felt like it bottomed out in the shock mount.

But here's the issue, once I lowered the car this is as far down as it got, am I missing something here?? Thats not even that low! I have the rear sitting on some wood with the front still up in the air on jackstands, could that be causing it? I don't see how there would be a difference in weight between it sitting completely on the ground and the way its sitting now.





And before anyone asks the rear are the rears, they were the longer pair, had R on the side of them, and had the 10k (vs 14k) springs in them

[Minuki]

So you have 10kg springs in the rear instead of the 14kg? I would think that would be the other way around?