my 93 SSM FD build

[MaczPayne]

That was perhaps the largest double post I have ever seen!

Anyhow, I'm jealous of your 275's all around.

[Brent]

Picked up some RE-Amemiya headlights for the car. They were already painted SSM and were a really good deal. They'll save me some weight which is always win win.

Prob. be putting them in this week hopefully.

[Brent]

M2/RaceShop Roll Bar with every attachment except door bars and passenger seat brace:


My Seat:

New 6 Point:


I'll write some more on the install of the all this in a few days.

[93vrfd_houston]

hey brent that thing looks great man. i just read the part you posted a while back about your wiring problem and your description yelling as you drove down the road after getting it fixed. ha, that makes me want to drive mine so bad!

[Brent]

I haven't updated this in a while so I thought I'd share a little more while I had a few minutes. I currently have around 1500 track miles and around 1000 normal miles on the car without issue. The only issue I have had was when I broke a zip tie on my HKS Twin Power Harness. Here is what happened:

I thought I'd share a recent experience I had with my HKS Twin Power that is on my track car. In mid June I was at Talladega Grand Prix Raceway at a track day when mid turn, my steering wheel was locked in the turned position. I was able to force it back straight before going off course. I could hear something dragging and assumed I had some type of steering malfunction and immediately pitted in. As soon as I got into the pits and raised the hood, I realized my twin power was missing. It was mounted to the firewall with the harness ziptied out of the way of the steering column. It's impossible to know for sure, but I'm guessing a ziptie broke and the harness caught the steering column, at which point it ripped the Twin Power from where it was mounted and it caught in the steering rack which you can see in this video:


It then was dragged on the ground for around a 1/4 mile before it dropped out the bottom of the car and onto the track.

Here are the pictures of the aftermath:





It ripped the ground out of the harness, stretched all the wires etc... I was more surprised that it ripped the screw out of the firewall and didn't rip the harness in two pieces. Anyhow, I hooked the stock ignition back up without the HKS TP. I started getting break up again. The next week I put the harness back together and make sure the harness is in good order and replace the ground in the harness. I hook the Twin Power back up, and too my surprise, the red light comes on. So I continue to test it and my break up is gone

I ended up remounting it on the cruise control tray:


Here is my car at the NASA event at Road Atlanta this past weekend with the Twin Power installed:


I, by no means, think the twin power is the optimal FD ignition set up as it simply increases the dwell time of the spark, but it's currently all I need. I'm sure I got lucky to an extent that it still works but I also don't think they are as sensitive as alot of people make them out to be. Just thought I'd share my first hand experience with them.

The M2/RaceShop Rollbar: I thought "this shouldn't take more than a night of work." Was I ever wrong. I purchased my kit used missing a few bolts and the bottom bracing brackets that go underneath the car. No big deal, right? To compound things, mind has both diagonal bars. I had the main hoop installed where I thought it was suppose to be, but could not get the other bars to line up. I finally figured out exactly where the bar needed to sit and ended up having to jack it back(using bracing jacks) to push it back where it needed to be. I then had to fabricate the bottom brackets, which I didn't mind doing because I don't like the fact that the original ones sandwich everything together and bend the floor. So I made new ones out of steel and molded them to the shape of the underside of the car. I ended up only needing 1.5in bolts all around. I also replaced the shock tower nuts(the ones that go to the studs on the struts) with nuts that are threaded all the way through. The stock nuts are only threaded halfway through the nut and, with the extra thickness from the new rear strut bar, I couldn't get them on more than a couple of turns. Here it is once I was finally finished with everything:

[Brent]

And... I'm a bit of a picture whore

[fire85gslse]

Originally Posted by Brent

And... I'm a bit of a picture whore

you whore! Guess I need to post the ones I have of your run at road atlanta. Maybe one day my FD will be running again and will get it to the local speedway run.