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Could be weight, could be a number of things, just adjust the spring to suit and then adjust the shock, just remember the spring will compress so its handy to have a spare jack under the spring bucket after you have adjusted the height on it so the shock can be setup for a little preload but not as much if you dont compress the spring (i.e. simulate the car weight on the suspension arms)

Give it overnight to settle then take it back if its still not right unless you are willing to jack it up, take the wheels off and have a good look. The springs sit in rubber seats and should locate pretty obviously so don't think that would be an issue also the tops clip in and are the same obvious.

Something is wrong that was too easy lol. Stuck the diff bush in the freezer overnight to make it easier to fit, hence the frosty look. Excuse the poor masking lines but I don't really care/ran out of paint. May buy more and make it neater now the bushes are in. Just need to wait till I can get a hand from my dad to get the central sleeves/cylinders lined up as I stopped pushing to adjust my fingers on two of them and they now wont budge so will need to use a bit more grease (used the supplied tube and found another one )and the press to get it sitting perfectly in line with the bush. Very easy to do this bit and happy with the end result. Dam weather is still holding me back from cutting up the oil tank which sucks.

More sinister they should take a while to settle but you can rock the car back and forth to speed things up. Since the 350z/370z has separate springs on the rears it may look like the shocks are correct but it is the springs that adjust the ride height. Not the easiest to setup correctly if you have never done a car with this suspension setup before.

Mine has a 70bhp tranny loss so sounds about right. =)

Welcome back I thought you had a big garage already with roof space and all?

Well done, looking and sounding fantastic

Problem solved hopefully, old central heating oil tank out the back of my dads is 1-2mm thick steel and needs cutting up for disposal so will kill two birds just hope my cheap ass hole saws can cut through it to give me a large enough washer to fit round the lip of the bush (would have used the hole saw but only have 32 and 38mm sizes so will need to do a bit of filing to get it to 35.2mm. Then I should be able to use my large socket over the steel washer. Who said drinking wine on a school day was a bad idea!

Another busy half day getting much better with the saw Started pushing out the bushes for the spring buckets, only to find the new whiteline ones have thicker rubber/plastic innards so the metal sleeve is smaller and I have nothing that fits it Chapped up the lip on the diff bushings and started cutting it off so I can try pressing them out rather than sawing and chiseling them out, sadly ran out of time (missus got home ) Little bit of paint and they are now ready to receive their new bushes the middle diff bush is in the freezer so it should hopefully slide in without too much fuss, probably still have to use the press to get it in though. Any tips on what to use for the spring mount bushes? the inner rubber is 35.2mm wide and has a lip of <1mm(if i remember correct) and I have an old inner diff cylinder that fits the other whiteline bushes snug but doesn't with these, reluctant to file it down so it becomes baw hair thick but fits over this bush As always cheers for wasting your time reading this plonkers ramblings.

It has something to do with a previous item I bought from Torqen

Once its painted and in place otherwise its not that impressive, just hard to get.

Cheers guys for the item not easy to get.

Back from being welded Spent the next few hours grinding and sanding Got it to this stage and happy with it, could probably get it flush but I have tiny nails and can barely feel the start of the weld so happy it wont ruin the new bushes, lesson learnt, go easy with power tools Also a box arrived thanks to Torqen

Very cool! If you don't mind me asking what machine shop did you use and did the bore out the block with a torque plate?

Why not just measure each journal and big end then order some ACL bearings to suit the desired gap? Slight polish of the crank if needed to get them all even. Then plasti gauge to check its all good.

Dropped the subframe off at an engineering shop, deals with high end stuff. But I was a bit scared when they said it depends on the alu used as normally its a cheap alloy and will just blow straight through on car parts He is going to make the groove smoother and a bit wider so it is filled all the way through, needless to say I asked them to test on a less structurally important area first. All going well the MD may drop it off at my home tonight as he lives down my way. If not it wont be till monday and after the staggdo to pick it up. Fingers, toes and everything crossed. Part of me knows it would have been fine to use and I may now ruin the thing just because I want it perfect

As mentioned on the first page, a diy guide of what not to do, probably. Only way to learn is make mistakes, shame I seem to want to try them all, lol.

Also gave myself a fright when burning the diff bushes as one was filled with oil same as the big one on the subframe, seemed strange as they looked similar until it went pop! What else can I burn.....

looks like a 6 series from the back the rest is

all was going well, new saw done the trick. last sleeve to remove, so I go and put a nice 3mm deep 30mm long cut in a weak point in the arm Not happy as I now have to find an aluminium welder to fix it. @~##*

Having to hold off building my new one. . . as the car is immobile stuck in the old one =/ hope to get my big play pen built in July also gives me a deadline to get the car back together. Liking the ideas as at the moment all I know is it will be 5m wide by 8.7m long with eves 2.4m high. The rest is all pooling in the back of my head so keep this thread going!

Sounds like there is a big boat we are all stuck on =)

No problem, just realized its a bank holiday also so don't feel like you need to work, it can wait. =) Night shifts however Don't help you know what day or planet you are on =s

Hey Ewen, can you check your inbox please, need a couple more bits added to the previous order. Cheers.