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| 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.
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| 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.
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