The Giant Ugly Thing is Getting Replaced

I've finally decided to replace that giant ugly thing with a new camber arm and tow arm setup for my car. It's been a beast to deal with, but I'm excited to get rid of it. The process was quite straightforward once I got started. I began by adjusting both arms to similar lengths to the factory setup, which would make installation easier and allow me to make adjustments from there.

As I worked on the project, I couldn't help but notice how dirty my face was. We had just visited Nicole's friend, and I hadn't washed up properly since then. The gloves I was wearing were caked with grease, and every time I touched my face, it got dirtier. I ended up washing my face before filming to get a clean look.

I have to admit, the process of replacing this giant ugly thing with a new setup was quite intimidating at first. But as I began to work on it, I realized that it wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be. The key was to adjust both arms to similar lengths and make sure they were locked in super tight.

I also discovered that these adjustable arms could be used as an extra alignment tool if you didn't want to mess with them at all. It's a clever design, really. By locking them in place, I could ensure that the camber arm stayed in the correct position.

As I worked on the project, I couldn't help but think about how much better my car looked now compared to when I first started working on it. The new camber arm setup is a huge improvement over the old one, and I'm excited to show off the results in future videos.

Speaking of which, I've got some exciting news to share with you all. BC has been a huge help in getting me the parts I need for this project. They sold me a true coil-over setup that fits my car perfectly, and it's been a game-changer. I'm also excited to announce that I'll be giving away the plans for my project on my website, LzmFG.com.

The giveaway is part of a larger sweepstakes where every ten dollars spent on my website earns you one entry. If you spend $50, you get five entries into the sweepstakes. The prizes include a set of Cosmos wheels and a set of B-Series coil overs in your specs for whatever car you want. It's an amazing deal that I'm excited to offer to all my fans.

I also want to give a massive shoutout to BC for their help, as well as Marco for coming over and teaching me how to do the quick conversion, and Jinju for helping me get the parts that I needed for the tie rods, angle setup, and camber arms. It was a team effort, and I'm grateful for everyone's support.

One thing I did test during this process was the stock handbrake. I justed it with a 10 millimeter right by the ashtray and it locks up phenomenally. The original plan was to not do a hydro in the car, but show that you can make a stock handbrake work well enough for fun and drifting. Maybe we'll still do a hydro in future videos.

Finally, I want to let my fans know that I'm actually having more fun working on cars than I thought I would. It's not always easy, but it's rewarding to see the end result and share it with all of you. So, if you're interested in learning how to work on your own car or just want to stay up-to-date with my projects, be sure to check out my website and social media channels.

In the next video, I'll be focusing more on dialing in the car rather than the bigger stuff. We'll also be doing a bumper tuck, which I'm excited to show off. And, who knows, maybe we'll even get some testing done on these cars soon. Until then, thanks for watching, and I'll see you tomorrow!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enI'm sorry guys if that whole point to build the car super fast kind of got thrown out the window because I haven't been able to work on the car at all today until now which is 9:30 p.m. physically I messed up timing and I went to go do a Entrepreneurship speech at UCF today and say it after four questions and between that and the mega long upload it kind of set me back a little bit so now I'm just gonna do a little bit here and there but I think to you guys still since I'm ahead of the game with videos I'll still be able to put a lot of stuff in each video now what we're about to do is probably one of the coolest mods on this car because it's practically free with drifting it isn't necessary these cars of a decent amount of angle stock but it is nice to have a little bit of extra angle to kind of catch you in case you're about to spin out if you want to enter a little bit harder or just be a baller before we can add angle we need to identify our limiting factor in this case there's a little bump stop on the lower control arm that we can actually just take right out and then there's also a stop that's on the knuckle itself so if you look when the wheel is turned all the way it hits that bump stop now before I go do these little angle mods I want to get a point of comparison so I'm gonna put the camera directly underneath the wheel try to put it in the same spot again after we do the mod and then hopefully if I put the frames side-by-side you guys will be able to tell the difference this right here is what you will have stock right from the factory still not terrible now to be able to remove the bump stop completely we're actually going to have to pull the wheels off in this little stopper just comes out with two 14s I actually misspoke when I said that this was on the lower control arm I actually don't even know if I said that at all but anyway I'm not too familiar with the names of the different components and this type of front suspension setup but anyway this stop will come out just with an adjustable wrench if it gives you a hard time you can also use a 19 millimeter impact on it but as you can see we now have no bump stop there no bump stop here we already just a tad bit more angle we've got quite a bit more angle now and believe it or not we're still not actually hitting anything in relation to those bumps tops nothing's really touching we still got some room to play around in here so what is the limiting factor not the best shot of it but it's actually the rack bottoming out in theory yes I could just do a rack spacer which I conveniently have laying around however since these tie rods are old I figure why not replace them with some nice upgraded aftermarket tie rods they come with a bit longer threads and the spacer that just kind of slips on in regards to the budget build miss of this build I guess you could say this is a part that is unnecessary you might be able to get away with rack space errs on stock tie rods or there might be a company that makes a single rack spacer like this this one was pretty expensive though because this one's build aluminum but I'm sure that there's a budget option out there feel free to comment below and help out some people in the description I feel like that's something I should touch on real quick too I saw a few comments of people saying like oh like your cheeping out on the build why are you doing that when you don't do that with your car and like that's I wouldn't do it as cheeping out the whole purpose of this like I explained you guys in the beginning I'm not trying to do a crazy build to compete with other people doing giveaway cars i legit want to show you guys that you can create a very capable very fun drift car on a budget if I go and install y5 in a turbo on this thing it's not gonna be relatable and it's not gonna help those people out there they really want to get into drifting but might need a little bit of encouragement showing them that yes it's like stupid easy and yes you don't need a very high budget taking off tire rods is pretty self-explanatory we just slide the boot off you might have a zip tie you might have like a weird twisty clamp thing depends on who played with your car before so we shall remove the boot actually I lied we do this the front we do the front first very important and often overlooked make sure you use two wrenches yes you can in theory and get away with using one but it puts a lot of unnecessary stress on the rack and your tie rod ends so we're gonna hold it on each side if you don't use two regice I'm not gonna tell on you but when someone breaks I warned you we didn't hit herself in the face with an adjustable wrench it's a good day if you want to be fancy you can try to leave the nut where you had it or like put Sharpie marks on it but chances are you're not going to be able to get it right so you're gonna have to real anyway I'm sorry to be so pessimistic but I've crushed my dream so many times that I just unreal you know I'm real so now we're uh were able to actually spin this one out by our hand which is just way easier than sitting there with a wrench so sick all right once we get out we can move the wheel out of the way look at that the pliers on this little clamp we shall squeeze her down slide her out and then we can get this boot right here down off the tie rod out of the way so we can be exposed to the underbelly of the rack now this friends is what is the most important thing that you don't want to not do right or wrong and stuff so right in here you want to make sure you hold the rack with an adjustable wrench so when you're undoing it ya ain't gonna be pulling any unnecessary stress on the rack now here although we have this fan dance the thing that we're gonna have to move out of the waist we can get access in there like we should it's kind of a pain I don't know if there's any real trick to getting it but I had to show you guys the difference real quick here is the p2m tie rod here is the stock tie rod first off look how loose this is this one's so tight that's besides the point if you compare you can see how the aftermarket one has a bit more threads which is very very important because this rack spacer is going to go over it and what essentially allows it to do is rather than this bottoming out on the rack the spacer allows itself to go inside the rack so we can get more movement from the wheel and thus more angle of course don't forget to put the boot on before you put this in the car that makes life a little bit easier this part can actually be a bit difficult getting the tie rod to join in the tie rod end usually I'll have a friend help kind of put pressure on the wheel but I feel like if you are fuel to be patient what I can kind of do sometimes is like put a little bit of pressure with one arm on the actual wheel while I try to turn it it usually takes a little while but you can usually get lucky and get it started obviously be careful not to strip it but you're gonna be putting so little pressure on it it's pretty hard to strip it there we go you guys aren't ready for this now check out how much angle we get look at that literally until the wheel hits check out how crazy that is in case you're wondering the secret offset or whatever these wheels are 18 by 9 and a half plus 10 and then I have this spacer which I believe is 2 millimeters it's thin enough where it still gives us enough of the hub to Center the wheel and it allows us just enough clearance to where we can go to full lock and if you can see there's still a room where the wheel actually isn't hitting and like I compress really hard and it still doesn't hit so I think we'll be fine worst case scenario I guess we could go to a 3 mil spacer and we'd have even more room but that is sick I assure you guys did before and after comparison now insane now I'm still waiting on the true coil overs before I can align the rear so what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna lower the car a little bit so I can get better access to the suspension I'm going to lower the coil overs maybe about say about an inch because the car was sitting pretty high and then once I know that it's at a good ride height I'll then align the front end we'll get all that extra angle whenever you're adjusting BC coil overs it's very very important that you adjust the height properly never adjust it by the preload or the spring up top what you essentially do is loosen the lock ring at the bottom and then the shock will just thread in this is easy because you can actually just use the bracket just to rotate it around with your hand and sits in there with the wrench I did a quick to a plate alignment with about an eighth inch of toe out that's about what I run on my drift car so I figured I'd give it a shot for the Z well I'm in substrate because everyone has a different opinion on what works better feels better so I figure I'll start with what I know when I align the rear of the car I'll go a little bit more into detail about how to use toe plate cuz being able to do an alignment a really convenient so in case you're curious this is basically what we're able to get for that cheap in terms of stock angle there's clearly a decent bit of acraman the difference between the wheels they're not parallel I like how that feels but this is sick this is literally as much angle as we have on our s thirteens and it cost us the cost of those tie rods which obviously you guys could do it way cheaper if you guys are in this modded car world chances are you already know that when you lower a car it sets all the suspension and arms out of whack so usually you get a bunch of funky tow you get camber and you have to go and get an alignment see the problem is though with the height that we want to have the rear of this car we will essentially be forced to have camber we can get rid of that with a camber arm but we won't really be able to fully get rid of the toe because there's only so much adjustment on these stocks spring bucket toe arms whatever you want to call them so this gets kind of tricky since this is supposed to be a budget build wooden adjustable arms kind of be considered going a little bit above and beyond yes however because this is a budget building because whoever's using this I want to make sure they get the full life of the tires that will be buying to go and drift on it's really important that we have in proper alignment I actually like to use a tad bit of positive camber so in the car squats as a perfect tire-contact patch and just a little bit of toe in so the car grips and pushes forward waltz and drift here I have the is our Pro Series arms same arms that I have on my car and Nichole's car insanely great quality for actually fairly cheap but obviously the issue is if we delete that spring bucket we don't have a spring so how is our suspension going to work conveniently enough Marco is able to stop by and bring me some parts so BC does sell a kit that's a true coil over for the rear if you do want to do the adjustable arms like I plan on doing but I was stupid and ordered the wrong kit so Marco if someone else is stupid like me this is a great spring and so you can buy this stuff separately from BC what is it would I just call them up or call like a vendor or whatever and then they can order them yes you can either after your vendor or asking us director we do have a technical department and they can send this stuff to you we stock everything so conveniently enough if you guys aren't already familiar with it whenever you order BC coilovers you can fully customize your setup even better if you ever get into an accident god forbid or any kind of stuff you can replace your shot cartridge or your spring or your lower mount alone because we have each individual piece at a really cheap price so it's actually cheaper than even if vs toxic and if you're in Orlando it's like probably only 15 20 minutes away from you interestingly enough BC is kind of I met Taylor and Marco I think I met you guys there like a long time ago and then you helped me fix my sorrow when I broke my rocker arm good old days now now we've got these vq things you like it it looks a little bit better in person it's not as thanks man Marcos got a silver G so we're like 20 mil it's similar but there was the actual wheel base on these a lot shorter really yeah mine is a 104 this is like Madison was yours a four-door yes oh the two doors are the same wheelbase right the two doors are the same wheels gotcha but not as the Z oh okay interesting everybody's in long I always thought they were the same wheelbase just different bodies I know all right so to take this apart and add in the spring Marco said all you have to do take two inches up here very simple so I mean this comes off this slides off spring goes on like so and then preloads the only thing that I might have you just guide me with to make sure I don't mess it up much preload we I don't preload is kind of crazy to explain because these brains are linear and if they're linear preload shouldn't really matter because exactly that's however you got these suspension conspiracy people that still think it matters because they think that even though it's a linear shock as it compresses it changes exactly right so most of us we think oh you're just losing stroke because you compressing this ring to take you know you're gonna get close by and closer then someone else I mean it was evident on Nicole's car because her car had a bunch of preload and even though they were linear Springs the car rode way stiffer than it did when we took out the preload yeah I mean it makes sense that a certain rate once you start compressing the spring it probably loses its linearity is that a word it is now okay don't make fun of the clutter okay it's normally not this messy yeah Taylor was telling me this is like dumb simple and I was like oh there's probably something like a mess or something but this actually does seem like dumb simple well some people just don't know like everything right now like trying to fit that yeah yeah I'm like what am I gonna do you gotta take it all off oh it's not hard just give that a little tap upside down deke okay everything just comes right off you can leave that this will just come on that's really cool that all the stuff is highly modular that's the word yeah I love I love at tamarkan suspension and I love the fact that our stuff is like all the same numbers and all this stuff so you can like get cartridges from like technically if you know another car that is a better measurement for your application for whatever you're doing and it would work because all of our stuff is the same 53 Miller shock body and you know same everything yeah you're pretty surprised how much I don't know if you call it stroke but compared to my a thirteen how much the suspension actually compresses on the Z oh yeah why is that with the five is gonna compress a good amount too because it's a lot softer you're gonna get some good squat yes in my opinion yes the car should have a little bit more grip this is this is where that matters when I say in my opinion because everybody's butt is different yes suspension is one of those things like people argue all day and then Chelsea Jennifer will come in with some backwards logic that makes sense and somehow it works everyone's puzzle that's true right it is true that's true Chelsea's got the craziest theories they work for him we're gonna think I'm like talking back no suspended visitor I think like the difference between chelseann a lot of people's Chelsea just like tries it where a lot of people are like theoretical you know I mean I agreed he does put it on there test it and then he does something else and changes it feels it out other way there's like a little here you see it there's like a little C it's a little lip you don't have to hammer it yeah well the cat the car puts it in place oh I'm sat down is it yeah you know this one is that that goes to the top that's the collar for the BC custom coilovers okay and then see this this side is smaller than that side and that side supposed to sit perfectly inside the inner diameter of the spring right there and the other thing goes on top yes there you go yes your hands in the way it just chills like that yep see now that's it's perfectly inside the spring so the spring doesn't like what I'll probably do impact this on first there is no washer for this right no Washington okay so in fact that is the washer they told me the impact force on this yes 17 mil there you go for compression to keep the spring from moving around yeah laid down so what you want to do is you want to tighten the top ring that works to the top ring to the point where the spring doesn't move like with your hand like so the spring doesn't spin with your hand correct you don't want any rattling noises or anything like that so just so you guys know I say this all the time but a lot of people think that's how you just height don't adjust height by this part your coilovers will come already with the set free load the actual shock threads into the body is their suspension Marco that actually you adjusted based on like this point yes there's like old style it's cool so I swear like TN I had some raistlin's about you 46 yes correct it's it's a cheaper it's just better cost for production so it comes as cheaper so it works so a certain degree if you compress it too much you're actually applying too much pressure on the shoulder it changes everything even if it's linear as you're making it lower it's getting a little bit stiffer correct so it's tight I feel I feel like the rule of thumb should if you can't if you can't do any more with your hand you're solid okay see that Taylor is gonna complicate a little numbers up use been like get as tight as you came to your hand that works and then put the but I think that that's about basis so because you got people like Alberto that's that that's not preload that's not preload this is a beginning of preload now you're gonna put them no now you're gonna put the other collar down your head your hands in the way lay it down and now grab your spanner wrench alright so so now compressing more no yeah you're gonna you're gonna actually preload it now so this you put that - like right hand tight right there I understand then we're gonna turn this and then we have sort of measurement with your left hand you're gonna hold the shock body and this this lower ring so I can so it doesn't spin and stays in place and then with the right hand you're gonna move the upper ring Oh make sure your lower one doesn't move - that's a little bit that's your measurement you know how much are we looking for here so the easiest way to do it is 2.5 is that like the signators and it is literally the thickness of this wrench okay so you just do it until the wrench fits in between the both of them but if you want to like get technical then you got to bring out a caliber like I actually actually bought a caliper it came in really handy for like when we're doing so that engine stuff so I bought one just to have it look at that BC Racing custom coil overs we even give you a premium tool look at that alright now we're good just lock them down yeah and then face thank you Mike I appreciate your assistance you're welcome Marco plug your channel yeah we're good you know I get no Jeff happy TV no III need the post more I need to improve well this this is your now you got a post oh my god Marco say hi at my computer well my computer kind of messed up on me and yesterday about one so we'll see what happens if things coming I don't know no pressure be just because I know there's gonna be someone in the comment section that says something about this yes it is technically upside down no it doesn't matter it's the same as just now the numbers are upside down can you verify you guys got a laugh at me like you did when I stripped that nut yesterday and didn't even realize it's because I was tightening and instead of loosening it and everyone in the comment section noticed yeah I do some dumb stuff a lot so it makes me me unfortunately I haven't really been able to put the time into this part that I wanted to and it's kind of turning into more of an ongoing project which I didn't really want how does it to run so many errands we just said goodbye to Nicole's close friend Brittany that is moving over to Guam with her husband who's gonna be stationed out there but I don't know I'm just glad that I kind of went gung-ho with doing everything in the first place with this car cuz it kind of let me stash up on video and clips so we're probably gonna be back to real time by the next video so we'll actually be removing this entire assembly out the problem with these spring buckets is mainly that this little adjuster the way that it works you turn this nut and this washer will basically let you move it very slightly but not enough when you lower the car to properly get the right tow especially once you adjust and get the correct camber so by removing it we're gonna be adding adjustable arms that will give us a better range of movement it is very simple two bolts there and then the camber arm will be replacing this guy right here it is kind of tricky to get this bolt out right here because it hits the sway bar but I can verify for you that you can get it out without removing the sway bar so don't bother doing that what I did on the other side I just kind of twisted this arm to allow the bolt to kind of go up and I was able to get it right just barely over the sway bar and get it out of there I believe this is the ProSeries timber arm so this giant ugly thing is getting replaced by this pretty is our spring bucket delete tow arm whatever it's called and then this camber arm will basically go up like this I already have this side done if you're curious to see what it looks like did my good old trick where I do the other side first before I film so I'm not stumbling around with the camera and I can actually like focus what is on that side that seemed to work quite well as basically adjust both arms to similar lengths that the factory stuff is so it will install easier and then make my adjustments from there seems weird looking at myself like my face is actually pretty clean right now since I washed it since we just went and visited Nicole's friend and only it's covered in grease you know I think these gloves just have a lot of grease in them so every time I like touch my face and I get dirt on it remember though that because of the way that these are design that if you have them set up in different spaces on each side you're obviously going to have different lengths on your adjustable arms to compensate for the difference I imagine that some company makes delete washers that just perfectly Center it so you don't have to worry about it moving around but for now I just basically locked it in super tight and then I guess you could in theory use this as an extra alignment tool if you wanted to not mess with the adjustable arms at all you remember what it looked like before you see we now do not have this big external spring with that giant spring bucket we've got this adjustable arm we've got this adjustable arm down there and we have the nice BC true coil over set up if you are curious I think I mentioned it before but BC does sell these true coil over setups right out of the box they'll also sell you the parts if you have the other set up and want to do a true coil over conversion as much as I don't like ending videos without some sort of climactic drifting cool clip ending or being special happening it's pretty late it's like 1:30 I think I'm gonna call it a night lining the rear under the car with the tow plates it's gonna take a little bit of fiddling around and probably will be helpful to have someone else here so well I'm gonna cover the tow plates in the rear is gonna take a little bit of fiddling around I gotta replace a few of the studs back there so I think I'm gonna end it out here just as a reminder you guys haven't seen any of the other videos this car is a car that is being raffled off given away sweepstakes whatever you want to call it for every ten dollars that you spend on my website lzm FG com it gets you one entry so we spend $50 that's five entries to win this creme Z plus a set of Cosmos wheels drift spares plus $1,500 cash to increase your odds we also have two other prizes a full set of Cosmos wheels in your specs and a set of B Series and coil overs in your specs for whatever car you want real quick stuff that would be pertaining to this video got to give a massive shoutout to BC for helping me get those parts Marco for help and come over and teach me how to do that quick conversion and to in juku for helping me get the parts that I needed for the tie rods the angle setup and of course the is our arms so the car is looking good it's getting pretty ready I want to give away the plans too much but I will let you know that I did test the stock handbrake i justed it just with a 10 millimeter right by the ashtray and it locks up phenomenally the original plan was to not do a hydro in the car and to show that you can make a stock handbrake work well enough to have fun and go drifting still might do a hydro I don't know definitely do the bumper tuck in the next video and then probably start focusing more on just like dialing it in rather than the bigger stuff but anyway I hope you guys are enjoying these videos I'm not really a fan of working on cars but it was important to me to do this myself that way I could show you guys that might not have much experience with cars if Adam can do it I can do it too you guys know that I like normally mess things up and do things the hard way but it's fun it's just getting a little old actually fixed my car up today too I don't think I mentioned that in the video I played with my angles set up a little bit I'm excited to show you guys how much more angle my car has fixed all that bent stuff from last weekend and hopefully we can get some testing on these cars done soon so thank you guys for watching and I will see you tomorrowI'm sorry guys if that whole point to build the car super fast kind of got thrown out the window because I haven't been able to work on the car at all today until now which is 9:30 p.m. physically I messed up timing and I went to go do a Entrepreneurship speech at UCF today and say it after four questions and between that and the mega long upload it kind of set me back a little bit so now I'm just gonna do a little bit here and there but I think to you guys still since I'm ahead of the game with videos I'll still be able to put a lot of stuff in each video now what we're about to do is probably one of the coolest mods on this car because it's practically free with drifting it isn't necessary these cars of a decent amount of angle stock but it is nice to have a little bit of extra angle to kind of catch you in case you're about to spin out if you want to enter a little bit harder or just be a baller before we can add angle we need to identify our limiting factor in this case there's a little bump stop on the lower control arm that we can actually just take right out and then there's also a stop that's on the knuckle itself so if you look when the wheel is turned all the way it hits that bump stop now before I go do these little angle mods I want to get a point of comparison so I'm gonna put the camera directly underneath the wheel try to put it in the same spot again after we do the mod and then hopefully if I put the frames side-by-side you guys will be able to tell the difference this right here is what you will have stock right from the factory still not terrible now to be able to remove the bump stop completely we're actually going to have to pull the wheels off in this little stopper just comes out with two 14s I actually misspoke when I said that this was on the lower control arm I actually don't even know if I said that at all but anyway I'm not too familiar with the names of the different components and this type of front suspension setup but anyway this stop will come out just with an adjustable wrench if it gives you a hard time you can also use a 19 millimeter impact on it but as you can see we now have no bump stop there no bump stop here we already just a tad bit more angle we've got quite a bit more angle now and believe it or not we're still not actually hitting anything in relation to those bumps tops nothing's really touching we still got some room to play around in here so what is the limiting factor not the best shot of it but it's actually the rack bottoming out in theory yes I could just do a rack spacer which I conveniently have laying around however since these tie rods are old I figure why not replace them with some nice upgraded aftermarket tie rods they come with a bit longer threads and the spacer that just kind of slips on in regards to the budget build miss of this build I guess you could say this is a part that is unnecessary you might be able to get away with rack space errs on stock tie rods or there might be a company that makes a single rack spacer like this this one was pretty expensive though because this one's build aluminum but I'm sure that there's a budget option out there feel free to comment below and help out some people in the description I feel like that's something I should touch on real quick too I saw a few comments of people saying like oh like your cheeping out on the build why are you doing that when you don't do that with your car and like that's I wouldn't do it as cheeping out the whole purpose of this like I explained you guys in the beginning I'm not trying to do a crazy build to compete with other people doing giveaway cars i legit want to show you guys that you can create a very capable very fun drift car on a budget if I go and install y5 in a turbo on this thing it's not gonna be relatable and it's not gonna help those people out there they really want to get into drifting but might need a little bit of encouragement showing them that yes it's like stupid easy and yes you don't need a very high budget taking off tire rods is pretty self-explanatory we just slide the boot off you might have a zip tie you might have like a weird twisty clamp thing depends on who played with your car before so we shall remove the boot actually I lied we do this the front we do the front first very important and often overlooked make sure you use two wrenches yes you can in theory and get away with using one but it puts a lot of unnecessary stress on the rack and your tie rod ends so we're gonna hold it on each side if you don't use two regice I'm not gonna tell on you but when someone breaks I warned you we didn't hit herself in the face with an adjustable wrench it's a good day if you want to be fancy you can try to leave the nut where you had it or like put Sharpie marks on it but chances are you're not going to be able to get it right so you're gonna have to real anyway I'm sorry to be so pessimistic but I've crushed my dream so many times that I just unreal you know I'm real so now we're uh were able to actually spin this one out by our hand which is just way easier than sitting there with a wrench so sick all right once we get out we can move the wheel out of the way look at that the pliers on this little clamp we shall squeeze her down slide her out and then we can get this boot right here down off the tie rod out of the way so we can be exposed to the underbelly of the rack now this friends is what is the most important thing that you don't want to not do right or wrong and stuff so right in here you want to make sure you hold the rack with an adjustable wrench so when you're undoing it ya ain't gonna be pulling any unnecessary stress on the rack now here although we have this fan dance the thing that we're gonna have to move out of the waist we can get access in there like we should it's kind of a pain I don't know if there's any real trick to getting it but I had to show you guys the difference real quick here is the p2m tie rod here is the stock tie rod first off look how loose this is this one's so tight that's besides the point if you compare you can see how the aftermarket one has a bit more threads which is very very important because this rack spacer is going to go over it and what essentially allows it to do is rather than this bottoming out on the rack the spacer allows itself to go inside the rack so we can get more movement from the wheel and thus more angle of course don't forget to put the boot on before you put this in the car that makes life a little bit easier this part can actually be a bit difficult getting the tie rod to join in the tie rod end usually I'll have a friend help kind of put pressure on the wheel but I feel like if you are fuel to be patient what I can kind of do sometimes is like put a little bit of pressure with one arm on the actual wheel while I try to turn it it usually takes a little while but you can usually get lucky and get it started obviously be careful not to strip it but you're gonna be putting so little pressure on it it's pretty hard to strip it there we go you guys aren't ready for this now check out how much angle we get look at that literally until the wheel hits check out how crazy that is in case you're wondering the secret offset or whatever these wheels are 18 by 9 and a half plus 10 and then I have this spacer which I believe is 2 millimeters it's thin enough where it still gives us enough of the hub to Center the wheel and it allows us just enough clearance to where we can go to full lock and if you can see there's still a room where the wheel actually isn't hitting and like I compress really hard and it still doesn't hit so I think we'll be fine worst case scenario I guess we could go to a 3 mil spacer and we'd have even more room but that is sick I assure you guys did before and after comparison now insane now I'm still waiting on the true coil overs before I can align the rear so what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna lower the car a little bit so I can get better access to the suspension I'm going to lower the coil overs maybe about say about an inch because the car was sitting pretty high and then once I know that it's at a good ride height I'll then align the front end we'll get all that extra angle whenever you're adjusting BC coil overs it's very very important that you adjust the height properly never adjust it by the preload or the spring up top what you essentially do is loosen the lock ring at the bottom and then the shock will just thread in this is easy because you can actually just use the bracket just to rotate it around with your hand and sits in there with the wrench I did a quick to a plate alignment with about an eighth inch of toe out that's about what I run on my drift car so I figured I'd give it a shot for the Z well I'm in substrate because everyone has a different opinion on what works better feels better so I figure I'll start with what I know when I align the rear of the car I'll go a little bit more into detail about how to use toe plate cuz being able to do an alignment a really convenient so in case you're curious this is basically what we're able to get for that cheap in terms of stock angle there's clearly a decent bit of acraman the difference between the wheels they're not parallel I like how that feels but this is sick this is literally as much angle as we have on our s thirteens and it cost us the cost of those tie rods which obviously you guys could do it way cheaper if you guys are in this modded car world chances are you already know that when you lower a car it sets all the suspension and arms out of whack so usually you get a bunch of funky tow you get camber and you have to go and get an alignment see the problem is though with the height that we want to have the rear of this car we will essentially be forced to have camber we can get rid of that with a camber arm but we won't really be able to fully get rid of the toe because there's only so much adjustment on these stocks spring bucket toe arms whatever you want to call them so this gets kind of tricky since this is supposed to be a budget build wooden adjustable arms kind of be considered going a little bit above and beyond yes however because this is a budget building because whoever's using this I want to make sure they get the full life of the tires that will be buying to go and drift on it's really important that we have in proper alignment I actually like to use a tad bit of positive camber so in the car squats as a perfect tire-contact patch and just a little bit of toe in so the car grips and pushes forward waltz and drift here I have the is our Pro Series arms same arms that I have on my car and Nichole's car insanely great quality for actually fairly cheap but obviously the issue is if we delete that spring bucket we don't have a spring so how is our suspension going to work conveniently enough Marco is able to stop by and bring me some parts so BC does sell a kit that's a true coil over for the rear if you do want to do the adjustable arms like I plan on doing but I was stupid and ordered the wrong kit so Marco if someone else is stupid like me this is a great spring and so you can buy this stuff separately from BC what is it would I just call them up or call like a vendor or whatever and then they can order them yes you can either after your vendor or asking us director we do have a technical department and they can send this stuff to you we stock everything so conveniently enough if you guys aren't already familiar with it whenever you order BC coilovers you can fully customize your setup even better if you ever get into an accident god forbid or any kind of stuff you can replace your shot cartridge or your spring or your lower mount alone because we have each individual piece at a really cheap price so it's actually cheaper than even if vs toxic and if you're in Orlando it's like probably only 15 20 minutes away from you interestingly enough BC is kind of I met Taylor and Marco I think I met you guys there like a long time ago and then you helped me fix my sorrow when I broke my rocker arm good old days now now we've got these vq things you like it it looks a little bit better in person it's not as thanks man Marcos got a silver G so we're like 20 mil it's similar but there was the actual wheel base on these a lot shorter really yeah mine is a 104 this is like Madison was yours a four-door yes oh the two doors are the same wheelbase right the two doors are the same wheels gotcha but not as the Z oh okay interesting everybody's in long I always thought they were the same wheelbase just different bodies I know all right so to take this apart and add in the spring Marco said all you have to do take two inches up here very simple so I mean this comes off this slides off spring goes on like so and then preloads the only thing that I might have you just guide me with to make sure I don't mess it up much preload we I don't preload is kind of crazy to explain because these brains are linear and if they're linear preload shouldn't really matter because exactly that's however you got these suspension conspiracy people that still think it matters because they think that even though it's a linear shock as it compresses it changes exactly right so most of us we think oh you're just losing stroke because you compressing this ring to take you know you're gonna get close by and closer then someone else I mean it was evident on Nicole's car because her car had a bunch of preload and even though they were linear Springs the car rode way stiffer than it did when we took out the preload yeah I mean it makes sense that a certain rate once you start compressing the spring it probably loses its linearity is that a word it is now okay don't make fun of the clutter okay it's normally not this messy yeah Taylor was telling me this is like dumb simple and I was like oh there's probably something like a mess or something but this actually does seem like dumb simple well some people just don't know like everything right now like trying to fit that yeah yeah I'm like what am I gonna do you gotta take it all off oh it's not hard just give that a little tap upside down deke okay everything just comes right off you can leave that this will just come on that's really cool that all the stuff is highly modular that's the word yeah I love I love at tamarkan suspension and I love the fact that our stuff is like all the same numbers and all this stuff so you can like get cartridges from like technically if you know another car that is a better measurement for your application for whatever you're doing and it would work because all of our stuff is the same 53 Miller shock body and you know same everything yeah you're pretty surprised how much I don't know if you call it stroke but compared to my a thirteen how much the suspension actually compresses on the Z oh yeah why is that with the five is gonna compress a good amount too because it's a lot softer you're gonna get some good squat yes in my opinion yes the car should have a little bit more grip this is this is where that matters when I say in my opinion because everybody's butt is different yes suspension is one of those things like people argue all day and then Chelsea Jennifer will come in with some backwards logic that makes sense and somehow it works everyone's puzzle that's true right it is true that's true Chelsea's got the craziest theories they work for him we're gonna think I'm like talking back no suspended visitor I think like the difference between chelseann a lot of people's Chelsea just like tries it where a lot of people are like theoretical you know I mean I agreed he does put it on there test it and then he does something else and changes it feels it out other way there's like a little here you see it there's like a little C it's a little lip you don't have to hammer it yeah well the cat the car puts it in place oh I'm sat down is it yeah you know this one is that that goes to the top that's the collar for the BC custom coilovers okay and then see this this side is smaller than that side and that side supposed to sit perfectly inside the inner diameter of the spring right there and the other thing goes on top yes there you go yes your hands in the way it just chills like that yep see now that's it's perfectly inside the spring so the spring doesn't like what I'll probably do impact this on first there is no washer for this right no Washington okay so in fact that is the washer they told me the impact force on this yes 17 mil there you go for compression to keep the spring from moving around yeah laid down so what you want to do is you want to tighten the top ring that works to the top ring to the point where the spring doesn't move like with your hand like so the spring doesn't spin with your hand correct you don't want any rattling noises or anything like that so just so you guys know I say this all the time but a lot of people think that's how you just height don't adjust height by this part your coilovers will come already with the set free load the actual shock threads into the body is their suspension Marco that actually you adjusted based on like this point yes there's like old style it's cool so I swear like TN I had some raistlin's about you 46 yes correct it's it's a cheaper it's just better cost for production so it comes as cheaper so it works so a certain degree if you compress it too much you're actually applying too much pressure on the shoulder it changes everything even if it's linear as you're making it lower it's getting a little bit stiffer correct so it's tight I feel I feel like the rule of thumb should if you can't if you can't do any more with your hand you're solid okay see that Taylor is gonna complicate a little numbers up use been like get as tight as you came to your hand that works and then put the but I think that that's about basis so because you got people like Alberto that's that that's not preload that's not preload this is a beginning of preload now you're gonna put them no now you're gonna put the other collar down your head your hands in the way lay it down and now grab your spanner wrench alright so so now compressing more no yeah you're gonna you're gonna actually preload it now so this you put that - like right hand tight right there I understand then we're gonna turn this and then we have sort of measurement with your left hand you're gonna hold the shock body and this this lower ring so I can so it doesn't spin and stays in place and then with the right hand you're gonna move the upper ring Oh make sure your lower one doesn't move - that's a little bit that's your measurement you know how much are we looking for here so the easiest way to do it is 2.5 is that like the signators and it is literally the thickness of this wrench okay so you just do it until the wrench fits in between the both of them but if you want to like get technical then you got to bring out a caliber like I actually actually bought a caliper it came in really handy for like when we're doing so that engine stuff so I bought one just to have it look at that BC Racing custom coil overs we even give you a premium tool look at that alright now we're good just lock them down yeah and then face thank you Mike I appreciate your assistance you're welcome Marco plug your channel yeah we're good you know I get no Jeff happy TV no III need the post more I need to improve well this this is your now you got a post oh my god Marco say hi at my computer well my computer kind of messed up on me and yesterday about one so we'll see what happens if things coming I don't know no pressure be just because I know there's gonna be someone in the comment section that says something about this yes it is technically upside down no it doesn't matter it's the same as just now the numbers are upside down can you verify you guys got a laugh at me like you did when I stripped that nut yesterday and didn't even realize it's because I was tightening and instead of loosening it and everyone in the comment section noticed yeah I do some dumb stuff a lot so it makes me me unfortunately I haven't really been able to put the time into this part that I wanted to and it's kind of turning into more of an ongoing project which I didn't really want how does it to run so many errands we just said goodbye to Nicole's close friend Brittany that is moving over to Guam with her husband who's gonna be stationed out there but I don't know I'm just glad that I kind of went gung-ho with doing everything in the first place with this car cuz it kind of let me stash up on video and clips so we're probably gonna be back to real time by the next video so we'll actually be removing this entire assembly out the problem with these spring buckets is mainly that this little adjuster the way that it works you turn this nut and this washer will basically let you move it very slightly but not enough when you lower the car to properly get the right tow especially once you adjust and get the correct camber so by removing it we're gonna be adding adjustable arms that will give us a better range of movement it is very simple two bolts there and then the camber arm will be replacing this guy right here it is kind of tricky to get this bolt out right here because it hits the sway bar but I can verify for you that you can get it out without removing the sway bar so don't bother doing that what I did on the other side I just kind of twisted this arm to allow the bolt to kind of go up and I was able to get it right just barely over the sway bar and get it out of there I believe this is the ProSeries timber arm so this giant ugly thing is getting replaced by this pretty is our spring bucket delete tow arm whatever it's called and then this camber arm will basically go up like this I already have this side done if you're curious to see what it looks like did my good old trick where I do the other side first before I film so I'm not stumbling around with the camera and I can actually like focus what is on that side that seemed to work quite well as basically adjust both arms to similar lengths that the factory stuff is so it will install easier and then make my adjustments from there seems weird looking at myself like my face is actually pretty clean right now since I washed it since we just went and visited Nicole's friend and only it's covered in grease you know I think these gloves just have a lot of grease in them so every time I like touch my face and I get dirt on it remember though that because of the way that these are design that if you have them set up in different spaces on each side you're obviously going to have different lengths on your adjustable arms to compensate for the difference I imagine that some company makes delete washers that just perfectly Center it so you don't have to worry about it moving around but for now I just basically locked it in super tight and then I guess you could in theory use this as an extra alignment tool if you wanted to not mess with the adjustable arms at all you remember what it looked like before you see we now do not have this big external spring with that giant spring bucket we've got this adjustable arm we've got this adjustable arm down there and we have the nice BC true coil over set up if you are curious I think I mentioned it before but BC does sell these true coil over setups right out of the box they'll also sell you the parts if you have the other set up and want to do a true coil over conversion as much as I don't like ending videos without some sort of climactic drifting cool clip ending or being special happening it's pretty late it's like 1:30 I think I'm gonna call it a night lining the rear under the car with the tow plates it's gonna take a little bit of fiddling around and probably will be helpful to have someone else here so well I'm gonna cover the tow plates in the rear is gonna take a little bit of fiddling around I gotta replace a few of the studs back there so I think I'm gonna end it out here just as a reminder you guys haven't seen any of the other videos this car is a car that is being raffled off given away sweepstakes whatever you want to call it for every ten dollars that you spend on my website lzm FG com it gets you one entry so we spend $50 that's five entries to win this creme Z plus a set of Cosmos wheels drift spares plus $1,500 cash to increase your odds we also have two other prizes a full set of Cosmos wheels in your specs and a set of B Series and coil overs in your specs for whatever car you want real quick stuff that would be pertaining to this video got to give a massive shoutout to BC for helping me get those parts Marco for help and come over and teach me how to do that quick conversion and to in juku for helping me get the parts that I needed for the tie rods the angle setup and of course the is our arms so the car is looking good it's getting pretty ready I want to give away the plans too much but I will let you know that I did test the stock handbrake i justed it just with a 10 millimeter right by the ashtray and it locks up phenomenally the original plan was to not do a hydro in the car and to show that you can make a stock handbrake work well enough to have fun and go drifting still might do a hydro I don't know definitely do the bumper tuck in the next video and then probably start focusing more on just like dialing it in rather than the bigger stuff but anyway I hope you guys are enjoying these videos I'm not really a fan of working on cars but it was important to me to do this myself that way I could show you guys that might not have much experience with cars if Adam can do it I can do it too you guys know that I like normally mess things up and do things the hard way but it's fun it's just getting a little old actually fixed my car up today too I don't think I mentioned that in the video I played with my angles set up a little bit I'm excited to show you guys how much more angle my car has fixed all that bent stuff from last weekend and hopefully we can get some testing on these cars done soon so thank you guys for watching and I will see you tomorrow\n"