Prince Valorum's 95 626 Build Thread

Yeah, there have been complications with the shifter install... It's going to take a while to write it all out, and I want to be thorough.
 
Aww, boo! I figured it out from another thread. Evan spoiled it...Those specs make it easy though, in my opinion... ;)
 
I did? I didn't know it was top secret? Sorry, Wes...

ps- post all the info and pics already!
 
Yeah, just somewhere random or something I read a post saying you were with him when he picked up the "?xxxxxxxxx?" wheels..
 
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Haha, yeah. It's fun, but in a totally different way from the 626.

The plan is to contact a machine shop on Monday about getting the bushings they sent machined down to fit. I'll draw up a picture of why they don't fit since I'm very visual, and I think that's the best way to explain things.
 
Got the bushings done at the machine shop yesterday, and the shifter is now installed!

I put the new wheels on, too, but I don't think I'm going to keep running them as the tires are pretty cracked. I don't wanna risk it. I was looking for track tires for next year after the ZE, and I'm pretty pissed that they don't make a 245/40-16, as that's what I'd run. The closest thing I can get is a 225/45-16, which I'm sure will be plenty in a sticky tire, but 245's are just that much more baller... ;)
 
Yeah, when I was looking at some FD's for myself I saw tires sizes are kinda limited... But you can fit 245/45-16 on the 626? That's so much rubber that's so baller. And where the heck are the pics already!?
 
Yeah, when I was looking at some FD's for myself I saw tires sizes are kinda limited... But you can fit 245/45-16 on the 626? That's so much rubber that's so baller. And where the heck are the pics already!?

I'm pretty sure blackshine said that 245's fit, but 225's are pushing it already on the FD's offset. The tires on there are a bit tall, so I could get more room with a 225/45, but there aren't many options in that size either. :( I don't understand that one, the tires much run wider than the set I have on my 6 wheels, because with spacers, the 6 wheels sit 10mm and 15mm further out than the FD's, but you wouldn't know that by looking at them. Unless rim width increases in both directions, I thought it only went away from the face (towards the interior of the car) if that makes sense.
 
Oh lordy, I need to remind myself not to take so many pics... The lazies are catching up with me, and uploading and posting seems overwhelming... Pathetic, I know.

I'm not sure what I've posted, and what I got distracted from, between the time I uploaded, and the time I should have posted, so hopefully too many aren't repeats.

New bushing and bracket from Energy Suspension (still need to make the brackets, grrr)
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OBD1 harness from a 93 PGT (I believe) from my buddy Evan, left over from his swap
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UDP I got, also from Evan, for a very good price. He was running it on his KL and two of the bolt heads snapped off, even though he'd had them welded on. He's only taking his motor to 7k, so I think some stronger bolts are definitely in order before they see 8k by my hand. I plan to get the machine shop to tap out the holes and put some stronger screws in so they don't break again. It's a stupid design that was revised in the v2 of the product, but that ones's over 800$, from what I've heard. (ie. not happening)
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Just snapped right off, obviously can't withstand the power of a KL!!!!!!! ARRGHHH!
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Grinding off the rest of the old sway bar mounts from the sub frame
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Bushings (machined on left, wrong size TWM sent on right), the job that the shop did isn't "as" smooth, but it was the right price, and I don't think it'll make much of a problem. I touched it up with some sand paper, and it didn't make much of a difference.
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Ahh, that's more like it, instead of the 4.5mm that they used to be, which was far too wide to fit
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Chamfered edge
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Shifter and the bits it came with. I was not sure what they were for at first, but I figured it out!
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The hole in the shifter is much larger than the shift lever
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Insert "stopper"
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Use included paddle thing to screw it in to the desired height
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The ID (internal diameter) threads screw onto the shift lever, and the OD threads screw into the shifter itself
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Adjusted to a height I like for now. It looks pretty unfinished, which I'm not really happy with, but it feels better than just having it sit right against the shift boot. Too bad they don't make the delrin-coated knobs in any other shape besides the stupid ball shape they have now...
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Joy...
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Awesome, my pathetic electric impact struggled on this nut for at least a minute (only torqued it to 80 ft/lbs...) and only proceeded to tear up the nut. Cannot wait until I have air power at my disposal!
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That's a good deal more rubber total on the road vs the 6 wheels (FD's on right, 6's on left)
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ARRRR AGGRESSIVE!
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Time for fender flairs???
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Money shot
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They could use a dose of paint, but at this point, I don't have plans to paint them. They're just going to be track wheels, and I kind of like the grunged-out track rat look. We'll see, it could certainly change when I finally get a decent compressor.

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Story of how I got the wheels. I saw a FS thread on PT and responded within like 2 hours of the post, lol. The guy was suuuuper cool, turns out he's like 20-30 minutes from me, so I just headed over to his house to throw em in the back of the Yota. And guess what kind of car he has? Yep, 06 EVO 8.....

God, it was insane. He had it all apart (putting in a new trans, he nuked 4th), and I was like "omg, that's the biggest turbo I've ever seen...." (me being all newby to turbos and whatnot, it's still a GT3586R, mind you)
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He's like "oh, that's nothing, come see this" and leads me around to his brother in law's 1st gen DSM. Terrible picture, but it's the only way the tires would come out in the dark. You can tell it means business
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Not even kidding, this thing was the size of my head. I was too busy jizzing, being dumbfounded and newby to ask questions like "how much does it put down? What kind of times does it run" Evan and I were both just standing there like, "Fuuuuuu, that's HUGE!!!"
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Like I said, he was super cool, and didn't even give us a hard time for being total turbo noobs. His EVO's stats?

GT3586R
Mustang Dyno - 723 whp & 569 ft/lbs
9.42 @ 151.07 mph

Next year he's going for 8's.... Bought the car brand new on 06, it only has 17k miles on it. I dunno how much more baller you can get....





More shifter stuff, this is the wrong size bushing on the right. TWM claims that the MX6 shifter rod needs that size, and the other size on the left, as if Mazda specifically drilled a special hole in the MX6 one to make it bigger on one side only... Is that the most retarded thing you've heard? It ranks up there for me.... And it makes zero sense because it's a bolt going through it, it's not like it needs to be bigger on one side, wtf!
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Measurement from before, vs the milled one at 3.2mm
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man those look meaty (the tires on the fd's)
 
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