something something.... DANGER ZONE!

[ricko1966]

Cool.sounds like you got it . In most instances for your average guy /average alignment car with no adjustment,I say just do it with a tape and a level. I am starting to realize this isn't cheap grocery getter stuff. If you have access to a rack and are trying to shim toe some of the machines themself have the software to tell you what shim with what cutouts to put where to get rear toe and camber. Does your machine have that capability?

[ricko1966]

Cool.sounds like you got it . In most instances for your average guy /average alignment car with no adjustment,I say just do it with a tape and a level. I am starting to realize this isn't cheap grocery getter stuff. If you have access to a rack and are trying to shim toe some of the machines themself have the software to tell you what shim with what cutouts to put where to get rear toe and camber. Does your machine have that capability?

Look at moog #k100-329 these are similiar to what I have used. iirc you could change camber and toe with one shim and the fancy alignment machine told me what position the shim needed to be in.k100-329 that number is just for reference they come in different degrees and for different vehicles.

[ryanprins13]

Look at moog #k100-329 these are similiar to what I have used. iirc you could change camber and toe with one shim and the fancy alignment machine told me what position the shim needed to be in.k100-329 that number is just for reference they come in different degrees and for different vehicles.

I assume your talking about the plastic shims, they are nice, its what i used. He is after more though
This is what he got: https://fordfestiva.com/forums/showthread.php?t=60642

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[shorestiva]

It's the latest hunter rig so it would do the shims but since I'm lowered and going way outside what those plastic shims will do it's no help to me.

[ricko1966]

It's the latest hunter rig so it would do the shims but since I'm lowered and going way outside what those plastic shims will do it's no help to me.

I am laughing ,seriously, because when I was doing this stuff for living people would scream bloody murder if I told them I'd have to put in a shim to bring things in to spec.Why isn't that included I think you guys are crooks etc. And you guys are going way beyond that just for fun.

[shorestiva]

Messed with the alignment all sunday. I've got it close but something is still a little off. The no door pulls was getting annoying so I rigged these up.

[ryanprins13]

Messed with the alignment all sunday. I've got it close but something is still a little off. The no door pulls was getting annoying so I rigged these up.

Right on. Unless you have expensive tires or you want to race right away just drive it for a week or 2 or 3. The suspensions going to settle and youll have to reset it anyway. If you replaced the struts that is. I think you did.

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[ryanprins13]

New struts are in. Took the die grinder and put some small notches in the coilover sleeves to help water and dirt drain out. Probably not necessary but whatever.




New struts modified and painted so they hopefully won't rust.



Swapped my bump stop stack around.



Some goodies from the festiva store showed up so I installed them with some new lcas since one of my ball joints was bad.




New taillight gaskets also.




Started pulling my auto belts.

I see you replaced the lcas and you have 2 different looking ones. What brand(s) are they? And the urethane bushings that go close to the ball joint- were they a snug fit or loose slipping them into the lca? And are they soft like rubber or hard? I bought MAS brand ones and they feel almost like hard abs plastic and are loose when i stick em in the hole. Never had new ones so i dunno what they are supposed to be like, lol.

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[shorestiva]

I just replaced the rear struts all the springs and front struts have been on for over a year now so it really shouldn't settle that much. Delco control arms. I guess they came from different batches so they look different from each other. These bushings fit pretty snug. I've always run the bushings that came in the control arms before so I dunno how they're supposed to fit.

Just signed up for scca track day at summit point Oct 21-22. So I've got a month to sort this thing out.

[shorestiva]

Running on megasquirt now.

[RobotKarate]

What was all involved with getting the MS system up and running? Pretty straight forward? Which system did you install?

[shorestiva]

What was all involved with getting the MS system up and running? Pretty straight forward? Which system did you install?

Added a variable tps and deleted the vaf so I had to add a intake air temp sensor. But I think that was the only changes I had to make to the wiring harness. To me it's straight forward but this is my 3rd or 4th MS setup and I deal with wiring at work all the time. This is a older version of the Stratified generic unit. It's pretty much the same as the one they currently sell though.

[chrisofna]

What TPS did you find to work properly? Are you running a stock distributor or the Miata CAS?

[shorestiva]

Kia tps with a Sadfab 3d printed adapter. I'll post links when I get to a computer tonight. BP disty but the b3 one will work also.

[chrisofna]

Ah. I found the adapter of Thingiverse. I'm highly considering doing Microsquirt for the fact that the B6T computer is ultra limited on it's capabilities and the Microsquirt is very reasonably priced.