carfreak85

Did you get the garbage ones made from bent rod stock, or the super nice machined alloy ones? I can see the problems you describe coming from the original style (bent rod) but not from the newer version.

+1 This will probably be the most lucrative part you could make. Everyone fears a cracked dash and unless you have divine intervention, everyone will need one at some point. Customers for custom brake lights might be a little more scarce. Just my .02 cents.

I want to try that on my wagon! I have an OEM aluminum wind deflector in the basement that I intend to try at some point, but that SAAB piece would look SOOOO much better, and be more functional to boot!

Any word on weather or not they plan to run events up there? Doubtful, but I'd like to get into rallyX, however all the events are several hours away. It sure would be nice to only have to drive 45 minutes to race...

There is no special trick. I thought mine were busted, but with enough elbow grease, you can get them to extend. Getting them back down just requires a (very) solid thump.

Very cool Dave!

What about jumpy wipers? The ones on my wagon skip right at eye level, leaving a puddle that I can't see through. Will greasing the joints help eliminate this jumping?

Seems like everyone has a convoy thread started except for us folks on the east side of Lake Washington. I'd be interested in metting up with folks to drive to the show on Friday and was wondering who else might be interested in joining me. I'll probably have one or two of my own cars. I was thinking about meeting somewhere along the I-90 corridor between Bellevue and Issaquah, but we can pick a specific location as the show approaches.

Phew, I was hoping it was that yard. I was worried it was the Olympia PAP.

Which yard?

I used the BFH method as well, worked just fine, but took forever.

Eh, more like 1" lower, not huge, but I don't have positive camber anymore!

Intake, exhaust, 2WD struts and reclocked torsion bars. Plus the tires. Thats all. Improving your driving skills will make the most difference.

Working on it. I dusted a number of Porshces at the last PCA autoX I went to. Now that I have real race rubber (Yoko A048s), it should be a lot better. Still gutless as F*** though...

Sell your car and buy one that was originally equipped with an auto. Doesn't make a lot of sense to do it any other way.

Actually, you can! Step one, remove tail-lights, fuel lines, anything aft of where you want to cut. Step two, fire up your sawsall. Step three, go to town!

Woo-hoo! So, what did I win?

Is that an EA81 optionally-equipped cruise control switch?

Courtesy Nissan tends to do a large portion of the California Hi-Po Nissan stuff and have pretty reasonable prices from what I've heard. Glad I could point you in what seems like the right direction and on a side note, isn't it neat how the lug nuts and wheel studs are basically identical from the 1960s to today?!?!?! Soooo cool to me at least.

I have no idea if this would actually work, but if the FF-1 studs are similar to EA82 wheel studs, we might be in business. I think original credit for this goes to WJM, but anyway, Nissan and Fuji have been pretty close bedfellows in the past. Nissan has Nismo, which makes nifty little doo-dads like extended wheel studs for running high offset wheels and wheel spacers. I think WJM was able to use these Nismo studs in his RX, but really, I'm trying to remember this from an internet tidbit almost a decade old.

Real close to that for sure. 0.04X for sure.

Might as well convert to XT6/Impreza/legacy 5 lug hubs. Pretty much bolt on and zero precision versus drilling hubs.

Tempting. I have yet to dip my toe into offroad timed competition... We shall see if schedules align.