ok, I borrowed a digital camera and took some shots of the Ground control stuff that's going onto my car here in the next few days. Enjoy!

Car in the garage


the new rear illuminas from behind


The new front spring perches & springs next to the old


Another shot of the new front stuff, look how short!


New rear springs:


Car in the air:


Shiny new camber caster plates to be installed:

 

nice, very nice. how much for the height adjustment?

 

the coil-overs were ~$100 from Ground control.

The jackstands were $20 from Sears

 

Looks good. I have a similar set up. I have finished pics. here at work if you would like to see.

 

Those springs look awfully familliar, who is this?

 

That's because they came from your garage last night

Hi Steve!

 

the springs are by Eibach.

Nice setup....Those camber plates are really nice. I see they went to anodized purple.

 

Thought I would take your advice and check out this forum....THANKS for the info! Let me know how the springs work! You better get to work, jobs are thin out there....hahaha. PS how can I get my own icon under my name?

 

watching the car fall sideways off the scissor jack in your gravel driveway........priceless.

the full coilovers where 100? is that front and rear or is that front springs with height adjustment?

 

Okay... 8" springs... I'm guessing 300-350lb/in?

I think I can reverse engineer that kit Everything except for the shocks. Maybe use 200lb-in 10" springs

 

you have to clear 300 posts i believe for a custom avatar. anybody? 300 right?

 

I'm pretty sure it's just 100 posts.

The $100 was just for the threaded spring perches. The whole kit cost more than that..

It's basically everything from this page:
http://www.ground-control.com/gcrx7cat.htm

The rate for the fronts are 350#, the struts for the front are actually off an Mr2 I beleive(part #BZ1086). They are supposed to work better for high spring rates than the normal Illuminas for 1st gens (good up to about 300#)

We're not sure what rate the rears are. anyone know how to decode GC's numbering scheme?

 

Give me the number off of the spring

BTW - you can get coilover conversion kits for $40 a pair from most roundy-round suppliers, and springs for $30 or so each for 2.5x8" springs, any rate you want. I can duplicate that for $100 in parts

 

live and learn I suppose..

I'll pull the numbers off the spring at lunch.

 

afco has a lot of this type stuff for little $$$ and you can choose all of your rates etc. i don't think they'll have that aluminum hat though.

 

The hard part will be making the seat that the threaded collar slides onto and keeps the whole thing centered... that's probably worth the additional $60 No need for that if one's willing to do a bit of cutting and welding though...

 

You mean the camber/caster plate?

Heck just make your own... everyone has a milling machine right?

 

actually, these require cutting and welding too. The stock spring perch will be hacked off, and if you look at the second picture, you can see a steel collar and doghnut looking piece. Those will be welded onto the housing at the 6.5" point on the tape measure.

Then I want to paint it all all about the same red as the springs.

 

Okay, Plan B - I'll use some spare Honda Accord springs I have laying around, and measure some Scirocco performance struts I have laying around to see if they'll fit in the RX-7 strut housing

I just gots all SORTS of parts around here...

 

wow looks good. i don't see to many GSL-SE's that are black. Are they uncommon?

 

my F-prepared 1st gen. front end

 

me like me like very much

 

not the camber plate, the part on top of the spring in the front sus mod pic. but they don't have the camber plates either and i have no access to a milling machine, just a plasma torch set for 22-18 ga steel. guess i could cut a bunch and weld them all together.

 

The coilover kits come with the upper spring perch, too.

 

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