Seats, belts, intake, vents, spoiler
Seats and belts are the gift that keeps giving. 2 steps forward 1 back.
The BK harness bar was designed to work with a full interior. Now I have… not that. Without the stock belts in the car the bolts are too long and bottom out. I can confirm the thread is m12x1.75 for the shoulder belt holes. A m12x40mm 10.9 bolt worked okay, but didn’t quite bottom out. You might try a 35mm bolt or just shim it with a couple washers. Fits fine now. driver’s seat is waiting for another set of AMT stud extenders to make a single stud long enough to fit the BK bar forward braces. $50 for one bolt I need. Grr. I was going to just put in a longer stud, but the previous owner hogged out the brace to fit AMT style mounts. Annoying, but the last piece I need to have functioning seats again.
I also buttoned up the intake. I had pulled it out to do the “Flip Tie” mod, but ended up giving up on cutting the radiator shroud. I used the air intake frame like the video linked here, but left it facing up. At least the car is running again. I don’t suspect there is a terrible lot of difference, especially with the hood vents to keep the temps down. I mostly started down this road because it needed a new filter anyways. The paper filter actually had a couple small holes.
Next up was venting the wheel wells. With the trackspec vents right over the top of the wheels it is too good an opportunity to pass up. Pressure builds up in your wheel wells and contributes to lift. This should help with that. I added some screen material to keep larger things from coming into the engine bay. The nice bit is the fenders are composite and super easy to cut.
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Draw the plan
Cut the plan
Added some screening
Finished product through the vents
Next project was mounting the gstream aero spoiler. They say it’s 30min with basic hand tools. Maybe if you are an octopus. It’s not really that bad other than all the hardware is installed through the rear tail light openings. You can fit an impact driver in if you really try. I dropped way too many 3mm hex keys.
Next up- get it in the air and see what else it needs suspension wise. I need to check if the previous owners did z06 springs, or just the shocks and sways. I might leave it for a bit if that’s the case. Otherwise I want to order coilovers and swaybars to do when I pull off the control arms to do bushings.
