In with the new (now I am 1/24 Mazdaspeed)! Love the speed headlights, but they will most likely be getting covered. Matched the paint with duplicolor. AND this time I am leaving in the bumper support to not have to deal with this again, again. Yes.... again. If you look at the driver side frame rail in the first pic) you can see I have done this before.
Loving the headlights! I JUST put the same pair on mine and they look worlds better even though i wont have brights for a bit. I just need to man up and solder the power to the brights to the extra pin on the dual filament bulb. I also still need to adjust them as they are pointing right in everyone's rear view mirror heh heh. I dont want to be that guy... but while i am; TAKE THAT NEW CARS WITH HIDS THAT ARE TOO BRIGHT!!!
Caster I run in the rear position with the ksport top hats front and back. And as for toe in the rear I like to run 0. For the front I run about a +1/8" for smaller tracks, and about a +1/16" for large tracks. What degree that comes to I am not sure. Ever since I switched from - to + my car throws itself into the corners, and under full throttle it just polers through the corner instead of pushing. I also am not concerned about tire life too, since I heat cycle through them before I ever get close to using up all the rubber.
If I need anything more or less than that I can control it with tire pressures or my rear adjustable sway bar. Definitely not a daily driver set up, but I feel I am the fastest when I am putting the least steering input into this fwd car. Its a great balance of the rear of the car wanting to come around and the front end ever so slightly wanting to push but pulling the rear end through the corner giving me a perfect 4 wheel drift and polering though the corner under 100% throttle.
I seem to remember the hats being asymmetrical. So if you mounted them one way you would get stock and if you reversed them you would then get a degree or so out of them.
How did you get those oil injectors/squirters removed without damaging them? I am too scared to even de-glaze the FS-DE using a bead hone with those protruding into the cylinder.