An pan man dam can can

Ok, the white snake is getting closer. Click here first for some background music to read by.

I went to KTS today to get something done.

Look at these old Scoot dampers. ALL the oil has completely gone. After talking to Koseki-san I was thinking about rebuilding them. He said basically not to bother, they were old technology and the shafts basically would need to be replaced. And I wanted independant height adjust anyway.

So I did a lot of research and thought about it a lot. Resulting in the other blog post about suspension. KTS recently developed these alloy body, fully adjustable dampers with external extension reservoir tank. so rather go for something less flexible I decided to go targeted for what I want to do.

KTS SC damper system ∑

They were a bit more than I wanted to spend, but they gave me a rebate on my old dampers and free alignment and install. All up about $1500

They have a 30 point setting on the top for compression and another on the external tank for extension damping. Currently I'm sitting in the middle on all settings. I chose 16kg Swift springs for the track as the car will be getting some more upgrades as money provides.

This is the after picture.... you don't need to see the before settings, they were ugly. This is a fairly general circuit setup. I decided not to drop the car too much as the front inner fender covers are still there and they require some work.

I had to do a few things after the install. Running on the street with the settings I found myself immediately feeling the camber and the no damping bounce has gone and the pillow ball clunk clunk has gone. GREAT! A bit of tramlining keeps you awake and concentrating. The car feels really solid and much much tighter than before.

It's getting to where everything is working properly and I can enjoy not worring about stuff and go faster.

Just like Luke Skywalker... almost. You should hear the sound of the thing in here. 1st gear mandatory.  BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

iPhone seems to be doing all my camera duty recently. It's really not good, but handy.

 I'll need to sort out the brake line and air line. a bit close. and I discovered after a good look under the car that there is alot of dodgey stuff that needs cleaning up. All in time. Next tyres. The ones I have are quite tall for 265 and 235. so replacing them will lower the car just that extra few mm. 

For now I'm very happy. 

You can see this car is not the prettiest but functional. It'll get cleaned up eventually.

But here is a sad sight. My cool storage shed photo location is now rubble. I guess ANOTHER BIG APARTMENT building will go here. Japan is getting out of control. It's not like there are more people. Hasn't anyone told them the population is shrinking. 

By the way, gas went up almost 10Yen in the last week now 149yen/L. I guess we are looking at a repeat of 2008. Just when I build an FD and ready to drive. Gas goes up. WTF! It will probably reach 190 like before and I'll have to sell it.

This one likes the taste of the earth juice a bit too much. hehe.

Russ.