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What should be a simple thing, can be as complicated as one can possibly make it. Setting a proper ride height is not a trivial matter, however. Too high and you look like a 4×4 and have an excessively high center of mass. Too low and you scrape all the important stuff and also lose…
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Design A multi-material assembly consisting of a stainless steel threaded base, coupled with a carbon fiber reinforced plastic retainer for the shift boot. Altogether this adds 40mm of height to the shiftknob position, along with 65g of weight. The net result? An optimally positioned knob providing the best leverage and a welcome addition of mass…
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Fortune Auto 500. A household name when it comes to aftermarket coilover suspension upgrade options. My experience with them hasn’t been so stellar, but perhaps it’s not as much due to the suspension itself as I previously thought. There are a few different factors influencing my perception here. Overview #1 and #2 are closely related…
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Richard Hammond complains about Honda in a TopGear episode on the NSX-R: When they start to change the material of the gear lever boot to be a mesh and the antenna can now be lowered to half height, they’re just fiddling. That describes well where I’m at with this shifter right now. If you’ve read…
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An exhaustive search for an exhaust system is exhausting! Okay a bit too much there, I know, I couldn’t help myself. I’ve spent years researching the best exhaust system upgrade for a 370Z. I’ve watched countless youtube videos, read dozens of forum posts, and tuned an attentive ear to the exhaust sound of every Z…
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As I dive into in Part I, after much deliberation, I went with a shift extender setup as opposed to a chassis mounted shifter setup. Installation The installation on its own was incredibly simple: Yet, it took me over a week to complete the installation. Why? I wanted the original shift boot to look clean…
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Enter: The Chassis-Mounted Shifter My first introduction to a chassis-mounted shifter was a while back when I sat in an E46 BMW M3 with a CAE unit installed. Seeing the beefy looking metal components, ‘Sequential Transmission’ was the first thought that came to mind. I was surprised when the owner of the car mentioned that…