No Respect, Project Nissan Sentra Spec-V part 3, Building a Race Ready Suspension System

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ground control camber plate weld in top mount
We had to cut the top of the stock strut tower and weld in this part for our camber plate to work correctly.

 

Since the stock Spec-V strut towers have a weird domed shape to them which is not conducive to having a camber plate bolted to them, we had to cut the top off the stock shock towers and weld in the supplied mounting plate. Not a job for amateurs or the faint of heart. Fortunately Ritchy Watanabe of Technosquare is a highly competent fabricator and easily modified our shock towers.

KW rear shock top mount
KW’s rear shock mount replaces the stock huge and squishy rubber bushing with this spherical bearing.

 

Gushy rubber is bad in a racecar, the rubber flexes and the suspension looses its adjustment and the wheels point in wrong directions. The stock rear shock mounts are big soft rubber donuts which soak up a lot of shock shaft movement in flex that will be uncontrolled by the dampers. KW replaced the rubber in there mounts with a spherical bearing which eliminates all flex and give smooth articulation to reduce side load on the shock shaft.

The KW coilovers are just scratching the surface of what it takes to make a lowly econobox handle like an exotic, stay tuned as we continue with the cars development in future chapters of Project Spec-V.

 

Sources

KW Suspension
3-Way Motorsports Dampers
 
Nitto Tire
NT01 Tires
 
Technosquare
Fabrication
 
Ground Control Inc.
Camber/Caster Plates 
 
 
Sparco USA
Seats, seat hardware, harnesses, steering wheel, pedals
 
 
Sweet Mfg
Steering column, brackets, steering quick release
 
 
Longacre
Main power cutoff switch

 

 

Read the rest of Project Sentra Spec-V
Project SE-R Spec V

 

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