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I've got a Primitive diff skid brand new that I'll let go for $60 plus shipping if you're interested.

Depends the spring rate of the springs you are running. First you have to leave them on full soft for about 500 to 1000 miles to break them in. For daily duty I run 1 turn front and 1/2 turn rear with my H&R springs which are stiffer than Eibachs. I firm them up an additional 1/2 turn more for track days. With Eibachs I would go with 1/2 turn in the front and leave the rears full soft.

Congrats falcor! It's been a long time coming. Tell me it doesn't feel like a completely different car....go on!

FWIW, Drive to Survive kept me sane these last few months sans the 2020 season.

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Well lookie here at who popped in! Hey there Delta! Great to see you still have the car. How many miles on her now? Some of the OG's here are starting to put their GTs up for sale, or have already sold. We must be the hold outs.

Still got this?

RacerX Engineering gave up producing products a few years back. Brian was done. He considered another run of charge pipes about 3 or 4 years ago and we never heard from him again.

You must be young. Lol! Stickers go on windows ONLY! As you found out. Lol!

Uh....herro! Guess who gets the garage.

Yeah, that doesn't work on the 5th Gen. Our steering shaft coupler is about 2" longer than the solid ones in any other Subaru.

They are kind of a satin black. Definitely not flat or gloss.

The F1R wheels are trash. And they are either going to be heavy, fragile or both. TSW and Konig are both well respected companies that make reasonably priced well built wheels. I've been running Konig Torch since 2014 and have been very happy with the quality and weight for a modestly priced wheel.

I believe the 81-85 GT got the 4cyl 22RE. Regular Celica, GT and GT-S I believe all got the same with the GT and up getting IRS. The Supra got the 6cyl 7MGTE. To my knowledge none ever got the 1JZ until later generations when the Supra split off from the Celica which became FWD.

Thinking about picking up a 1985 Celica Supra and swap in a Lexus 1UZ 4.0 liter V8 and R154 5-speed to cage and build into a track day car....

Pavement surface isn't going to make a very big difference in understeer vs oversteer. We are talking car balance, so the grip of the pavement doesn't matter, the balance will always be the same. And you're not really lessening grip with a larger bar, you're lessening roll and redistributing the pressure that each tire is exerting on the road to produce grip. Yes, on uneven, bumpy pavement with stiff springs and sway bars the car will tend to "skip" sideways a bit, but that's why you invest in proper tires to grip and control that skip into more of a predictable, controllable slide. Thanks! I was surprised. Fred used to log 1.2g with DOT rated track compound tires on his 3.6R..

It's not a problem. These cars are tuned from the factory to be super biased toward understeer. I have the stock 23mm FSB and Whiteline adjustable 22mm RSB set to stiff, Koni shocks and H&R springs, and on track the car is very neutral, biased just ever so slightly to oversteer. I was never caught out at all, totally predictable and safe the 2 times I got some oversteer. Registered 1.1g going thru a couple corners at Laguna Seca....on high performance summer street tires.

Of course bud! :wink:

Careful, you might trigger him.

I always put a vise-grip over the flare nut wrench and lock it down tight. Even quality flare nut wrenches will spread as you put pressure on them to break a fitting loose, leading to it slipping around the corners of the nut and rounding it little by little. I've never had to struggle breaking a flare nut free since, risk rounding one off, or needed to use unusual amounts of force.

What year was this? Because I'm pretty sure that Frederick was the 1st to put Konis on a 5th Gen and I was the 2nd. And I never heard a word of anyone buying pre-built Koni setups for the 5th Gen from Infamous. I was the only one that offered Koni building and donor exchange to the 5th Gen owners here. And I only built less than 15 sets, most of them with brand new donor KYB struts because I couldn't keep enough used donors around.

KYB aren't high pressure gas like Bilstein shocks. It was never going to be dangerous. They have something like maybe 10psi in them, not 200.

You recall correctly. I cut the strut with the pipe cutter about 1.25" below the silver cap (5th Gen strut), then get a measurement on the inside and grind off the last 1/8" or so and the mushroomed material to zero in on my exact measurement. Use a bench mounted belt sander. The pipe cutter goes quickly, maybe 5 minutes, and the grinding take about 20 for each donor strut. I've done about 2 dozen of these personally.