heinzboehmer's 2002 Topaz 6MT Coupe

[Bry5on]

I got ECS ones as Turner was out of stock for a while. the adjusters are in the center which is not as good as at the wheel, but better than at the subframe/above the exhaust.

Give the wagon a shot, you should be able to feel the difference in toe on initial turn in, but it might be tough to differentiate from the rebuilt rack at this point. Really good change IMO

[heinzboehmer]

You should’ve gone with CSL rear toe specs! Also, you want my ground control spherical lower control arms?

I thought about it, but didn't want to mess too much with toe before a track day. I've learned that toe really impacts how much I enjoy driving the car and decided I'd rather stick with something that I know is fine, rather than spend the whole track day annoyed because I didn't end up liking the change. Will probably mess around with it when I do the camber arms though.

Did you end up getting the turner ones instead?

[Bry5on]

You should’ve gone with CSL rear toe specs! Also, you want my ground control spherical lower control arms?

[heinzboehmer]

Track day tomorrow, so got the car ready for that.

Clock spring replaced with a new one:



Then got an alignment:



Rear camber is maxed out. I really need some camber arms, but I'm dreading the install. I did order some E36 diff bushings to replace the poly ones I have, so maybe that'll finally get me to do it.

I also bought a rear dashcam for the car. I decided to tap into the existing parking mode power module and run a long USB cable to the rear. Soldered some stuff and ended up with two output wires from the module:




Also added a connector for the long cable for easier servicing:



Now onto routing the cable. Easy choice would have been to route it along the seam between the headliner and the door, but I really didn't want to have it interfere with the side airbags, so I did it a bit differently.

Here's the output out front:



Connected the long cable and routed it back towards the sunroof:



I then routed the wire along the perimeter of the sunroof, this definitely keeps it far enough from the airbag:



Pulled it out through the alarm ultrasonic sensor hole (just as a middle stop cause feeding it all the way to the rear was not easy):



Fed it through to the third brake light area:



And out the passenger C pillar:



Still had some wire left, so I zip tied that out of the way:



Trim back on and done:



I did rip some of the fabric off of the pillar trim when reinstalling, so I reglued that real quick, no big deal. Pretty happy with the end result and install was a lot less painful than I expected.

[heinzboehmer]

Never mind it died
Oh well, back to using the worse looking key