My Car is Fixed!

[octothorpe]

For those that don't know, I race my daily driver (I also used to race a vintage Jaguar MkII, but I sold it about 2 years ago –and regretted it e'er since). Racing puts some serious stress on your car, and within the last couple of months, my front axles developed a horrible clicking noise whenever I turned the wheel, and applied the accelerator. I *also* needed to adjust the camber of my wheels, as they were seriously out of whack, since the new springs have settled.

Well, all of that got fixed this morning. New axles, A-arms, and camber kit, with poly bushings!. Life is so much better. I can't wait to abuse the new kit on the twisties!

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[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

What make of car?

[theoctothorpe.livejournal.com]

Well, it began life as a Honda Accord, but since then, the only thing that's stock is the leather interior. I even had a Japanese Prelude engine put into it (it's faster and more torquey than the US version =) )

Complete and total re-do of the suspension: Koni Yellows (struts), Eibach springs (also lowers the car by about 1.75", hence the need for the camber kit), 17" aluminium rims (OZ Racing), and currently Kumho rubber. Quite sticky, and cheap to replace, along with strut bars, and poly-bushings replacing the rubber bushings. As far as engine stuff... the basics (aside from the totally new engine) AEM Cold air intake, 4-2-1 header, Thermal cat-back exhaust. I had an AEM engine management chip piggybacked, but the internal chip works well enough once you "train" it (kill the battery, then let it reset idle.)

All because sometimes you need to pick up milk... quickly. That and Hondas are easy to mod yourself.