Further STR progress

This update will be pic heavy, short on words.  Here’s some stuff in no particular order.

With the camber arms installed, left front at full bump (control arm in contact with frame) – no rubbing-

This is about 1.5″ from the above, somewhere around where ride height will be.  These tires are narrower and about 1.5″ smaller in diameter than stock so there’s lots of room.

Here’s a view at approximately ground level in respect to the car with the corner at full bump.  Very low!

Parts returned from the powdercoater.  In contrast with the wild colors on the 240sx, went with some understated shades of gray here.   Better than the cheap-ish black paint they all had from the factory.

 

Here’s the engine compartment coming back together, the steel gray powdercoated CAI and strut braces in view.

A shot of the 34-row oil cooler, which mounts to the driver side in front of the radiator.

 

This picture shows the modification made to the Kinetix control arm to get it to produce some extra negative camber.  Need to remove about the thickness of the jam nut (10-11mm) to give enough adjustability to get camber where we want it (around -4, +/- 1 degree).

This last pic shows the Mocal sandwich adapter for the oil cooler.  The later 370z’s have the oil/coolant cooler also shown here, and which takes up a bunch of room to make this part of the install really tight in every dimension.

 

Goal is to make a local practice event in about 4 weeks, and the real season starts up about 4 weeks after that.  Still need to install springs/shocks and get things tuned, plus a few other odds and ends…