[Shotimes] Rear Tokico's on backorder

[Kirk Doucette]

I think I know why the sterring is/was acting funny in the 91.

Anyone remember how spent the brake fluid was that cam from my car in Tulsa?
Well in preparation of finding a leak of some type of fluid today on the 91
Fred and I pulled off the power steering cover to see if it was PS fluid.
Well it wasn't but what we found was black muddy (metallic) fluid. So black
that after filling up a Gatorade Bottle with it, it was totally burnt up and
would not let light through..
 A complete flush and fill is in store tomorrow, with the addition of some
LUCAS rack treatment. But this made my brake fluid from the 97 look
transparent.

Also I got one of the ZF racks off of the burnt up Subframe today and will
compare it in a few pics tomorrow, hopefully it's the same and would bolt
right in. The Subframes look very close when looking at certain markings. I
know of one person that has tried to see if it would bolt in but has any one
already done this? This would make it very easy to add some better handling
to the Gen 1-2 SHO.


Kirk J Doucette
NESHOC President
Stormtrooper-97 White

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Ron Porter
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 11:47 AM
To: 'Bruce Malachuk'; 'Kirk Doucette'; TechSHO@topica.com;
shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Rear Tokico's on backorder

Regardless of how the Gen 3 ZF rack works or fits, aren't those relatively
rare pieces that are pretty pricey, even when used? They were only used on
the Gen 3 SHO, IIRC, so availability will be limited.

Although I don't much care for the VAPS setup on this '94 (although I guess
I could try to switch setup to deactivate it), the steering on my '95 was
good, and the Gen 1s had no VAPS. UDPs on a Gen 1 tighten it up a bit, also.

Another question on that '91+. If you have Eibachs, are the spotwelds cut,
and the car aligned to -1.2 to -2.0 camber in the front? On this '94, the
spotwelds were not cut with the Eibachs (don't know what the camber was set
at), and the steering was pretty funky & twitchy. Breaking the welds and
getting it to -1.5 helped a LOT.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Malachuk [mailto:bmalach1@nycap.rr.com]
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 1:38 AM
To: Kirk Doucette; Ron Porter; TechSHO@topica.com; shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] Rear Tokico's on backorder


Kirk,

When you adapt a Gen 3 ZF rack to a Gen 1/2 please add me to a list of ppl
you'll be doing that for ;-)

Bruce
94 Opal Frost MTX
93 Black ATX - winter beater then parts car :-)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kirk Doucette" <Kirk.doucette@verizon.net>
To: "Ron Porter" <ronporter@prodigy.net>; <TechSHO@topica.com>;
<shotimes@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 11:32 PM
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Rear Tokico's on backorder


> Just finished the front end.. everything now is all new. And the Gr-2's
with
> the eibach are almost as stiff as the Tokicos .
>
> It's a whole new car with this setup, a HUGE upgrade over the stock setup.
> But if there were three struts to pick. Konis, tokicos, and KYB . The KYB
> would be at the bottom.
>
> But if you go crazy stiffening up the chassis, with all the bars, urethane
> and connectors (all the stiff goodies) I would pick the KYB's so you could
> have a little flex somewhere and would think it will work out nicely.
>
> Plus with some of the money you save on them you could add other things
and
> be at the same cost.
>
> Im happy with them, I tried them in a few corners and was pleased. Im
still
> learning the car, with much different geometry than the Gen 3 its going to
> be a fun car to drive. This will be the track car for California and
haven't
> driven an MTX aggressively on a course in 5 years, so today starts the NEW
> training session.
>
> One thing I will say that this rack and pinion sucks compared to the ZF
rack
> in the Gen 3. and I have to learn to stop pushing new tires until they
yell
> STOP IT :)
>
> Question to all.. Has anyone adapted or tried to adapt the ZF rack in a
Gen
> 1-2?
>
> Kirk J Doucette
> NESHOC President
> Stormtrooper-97 White
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
[mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of Ron Porter
> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 7:04 PM
> To: TechSHO@topica.com; shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Rear Tokico's on backorder
>
> Did they make AGXs for the SHO at one point?
>
> Yes, I would be interested in the AGX struts.
>
> Kirk has tried the GR-2s in his '91+, and has liked them so far. I am a
bit
> concerned with using the GR-2s with the s, but the AGX look very
> promising.
>
> Ron Porter
>
> Ian
> PS. I might try to bug KYB into making AGX struts for us again-anyone
> interested?
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