Re: BlueScooby's 06 STI - FA510's installed and corner balanced!
Coilovers are installed! Alignment is done and the car is corner balanced
Friday I spent the afternoon tearing my rear interior apart. Got the seats, the trim, the shoulder belts and everything all out and on the floor in the garage. I didn't need to go this far but it made everything easier and allowed me to better acess how to install the RDC rear components.
Saturday I installed the rear coilovers. Took about 4-5 iterations of installing/uninstalling to get the ride height set. Finally ended up at nearly exactly the same 25.25" from fender to ground that I had on the JDM Pinks/Revalves.
Sunday I installed the fronts. Took about 4-5 iterations again, but the final "iteration" was litterally just tightening stuff I forgot to do when I was done previously... :lol: Ended up at 25.5" F-G instead of the 25.75" I measured on the JDM Pinks/Revalves, but I think having a smaller difference from front to rear looks better...
Last night I reinstalled my rear interior, removed the strut-top brackets for the Oswald Performance Rear Triangle Brace for modification, and installed the motors and control board for the rear portion of the RDC system. I haven't conneced the cables from the motors to the strut tops yet as I'm not sure if I have all the right parts/pieces to complete this puzzle. Going to call FA this morning to inquire.
Here you can see why I need to modify the rear brackets for the O.P. rear brace. The strut top is nearly hitting the bracket and won't allow for the RDC installation.
I'm not sure yet if I'm just going to cut that side of the brace out and flip it and weld it back in, or what. I emailed Mickey at O.P. to see what his thoughts are, but I'm likely to modify this myself.
Here you can see the rear control board and motors mounted just behind the rear seat. I used some gorrilla super strong double sided sticky tape and zipties to mount the motors to the two vertical bars that go behind the seat. The control board is just ziptied to the plastic division plate thing. The plastic divider also made for a clean way to hide the wires behind the seat and out of the trunk which worked out nicely.
On to the coilovers!
After unboxing:
After extending them to my initial height assumption (wrong... haha)
Comparing the rears (height not yet tested/adjusted)
First one on the car! (nevermind the brake line... its not yet bolt back and looks weird)
A very bad picture of the inboard clearance between the wheel and strut... Plenty of space basically. The 10mm between +35 and +45 wheels is probably most of the clearance I have. Otherwise I would probably be in the same boat as Gavin...
And a few shamelss photos of the finished product!
The car looks naked with out the big 'ol difffuser hanging out the back

Gotta put that thing back on now...