What did you do to your Emira today?

Decided tonight was the night to install the CMS roll bar...I know there's already one built into the car, but I think it looks cooler than the straight harness bar. The Seneca Blue match is spot on, so, quite happy with the resultView attachment 67603View attachment 67604
Do you notice any additional torsional rigidity in the chassis/frame from this?

That and the tillets look 🔥
 
Grp wheel along w milltek v2, joins eventuri, eswkit, aerie short shifter + cables ends and the bollock knob. And one other thing we won’t talk about….

Big two days!
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Did an oil change and cleaned out the panels and diffuser while everything was apart. Man does it get dirty under there!

Also you DO NOT Have to remove the middle panel.. There is nothing under there except some cables.. You can see them in the pic.

Ryan G
 

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ok...good to know. the shifter cables run under the fuel tank. lol
 
Finally got the Emira dialed in properly on the GRP lowering cups w/ 12mm spacers all around. Gonna have to bump up the rear height a touch and keep an eye on the CV boots, but it's looking and driving sharp.
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Planning on doing the same soon. Did you lower it the same amount on all four corners? Just wondering why you'd want to raise the rear back up when the car already has some forward rake as stock.
 
looks great, do you think doing just 12mm spacers without lowering will look odd?
I don't think it will look odd, probably a bit better than the stock spacing. I did it all at once so unfortunately I don't have spacer only pics. I think there may be some floating around the forum, though.
 
Planning on doing the same soon. Did you lower it the same amount on all four corners? Just wondering why you'd want to raise the rear back up when the car already has some forward rake as stock.
Right now it's the same ride height on all four corners which I like from an aesthetics point of view. However, as-is, the GRP adjustable lowering collar and nut are making some contact with the rear CV boot which appears to be causing some premature wear. This is unavoidable since the perch has to be at least the same diameter as the spring.

Thus, I don't really have much of a choice but to raise the rear a few mms to avoid this. It shouldn't make much of a visible difference. I'll post a "final" pic once I've had a chance to adjust the rear and monitor the CV boot (using a yellow paint marker on the GRP collar/nut to ensure there is no contact being made).

Pics below showing the contact if you go lower than you are supposed to with these:
 

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Right now it's the same ride height on all four corners which I like from an aesthetics point of view. However, as-is, the GRP adjustable lowering collar and nut are making some contact with the rear CV boot which appears to be causing some premature wear. This is unavoidable since the perch has to be at least the same diameter as the spring.

Thus, I don't really have much of a choice but to raise the rear a few mms to avoid this. It shouldn't make much of a visible difference. I'll post a "final" pic once I've had a chance to adjust the rear and monitor the CV boot (using a yellow paint marker on the GRP collar/nut to ensure there is no contact being made).

Pics below showing the contact if you go lower than you are supposed to with these:
This is great insight and thanks for the pictures. I'm not planing on maxing out the drop on the GRP sleeves (maybe 15mm) and I'm going to keep the stock rake so hopefully I don't have any rubbing issues.
 
@Mr. Sparkle - You should be totally fine at 15mm. If you want additional peace of mind, after you set the rears you could use a paint marker where it would contact the CV boot and take a peek at it after a little while just to make sure there is no contact there. That's what I'm about to do.
 
looks great, do you think doing just 12mm spacers without lowering will look odd?
I have 12mm all 4 corners and no lowering and think it looks great. Sorry, not the best picture.
 

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