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    Speedybenz On Board

    Take a look @ what arrived yesterday....
    Thank you Jeff! It was a long wait but I'm sure it will be worth it.

    For those who don't know what you are looking @, do a search on speedybenz on this board. You can also read THIS HERE .

    On to the good stuff...


    CLICK HERE for the entire library of pics. You can get to the full rez originals from here too.






    I especially like the close-ups I took on with the Macro setting.





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    yummy tastic...mind documenting the whole install/test process?
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    WOW!!! need step by step install photos
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    Well, I see part of the package includes the BEST springs money can buy.
    Yes, I have a few mods, but they\'re so discrete, my wife hasn\'t noticed them.

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    Unfortunately, I don't trust myself to do the install alone, so I don't know if I can provide that. (don't shoot me; I'm a programmer, not a mechanic. )

    I wanted to use a local racing shop to do it. Though the guy that did the motor swap for me expressed interest in doing the install.

    ...good news with that too is if I go with the latter, I'll be able to be there and be able to document the whole thing. (waiting for some instructions from Jeff first too).

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    Originally posted by manny
    Well, I see part of the package includes the BEST springs money can buy.
    ...and did you notice ... @ 600 & 800 lbs.

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    Wow......

    yummy....
    good quality components...


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    why are there so many sets ofcamber arms??? Can you tell us which partsd are which, there is some crazy stuff I've never seen in there before
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    Originally posted by c55m8o
    ...and did you notice ... @ 600 & 800 lbs.
    Planning on carrying some obese passengers ?
    Yes, I have a few mods, but they\'re so discrete, my wife hasn\'t noticed them.

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    steve that shit looks crraazzzzyyyyy. how much did it cost you???

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    absolutely fantastic... please take pictures for the installation. i am a programmer as well and if i have the money for a new setup i would take pictures.

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    Originally posted by jstrat85
    steve that shit looks crraazzzzyyyyy. how much did it cost you???
    I guessing 5k+, forgot who i talked to but those shocks are close to a thousand each.
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    no fuckin way. steve if this is true you are crazy crazy like me hahaha

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    I thought the same thing; that I had an xtra set of camber arms. Shows you how much I know too, because I'm not sure if it is, or is to be used in another area of the suspension. I wasn't going to add them to the pix, but figured I'd just shoot everything I had; else Jeff might be ask'n "what happened to ..."

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    Originally posted by jstrat85
    no fuckin way. steve if this is true you are crazy crazy like me hahaha
    err, welp ... I wouldn't normally re-quote prices, but as Jeff had already stated the cost himself about a year ago on this board, I'll say that's about right ... only add another %10 more to that. Jeff's Penske contact wasn't available for this build, so Jeff's costs ended up higher then he expected.

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    Those 3 Arms for the rear, they allow for full adjustability. I saw it on Jeff's car at Autofest.
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    Yep, I was about to correct myself ... I think the other set of camber arm look alikes are to replace the rear suspension lower link arm. The other "baby camber arms" are rear swaybar link arms.

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    Originally posted by J Irwan
    Wow......
    yummy....
    good quality components...
    Regardz,
    I'm sure we'd all agree, the best actually...

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    so the babies ones are the rear end links?
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    and what about be the rear suspension lower link arm?
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    what I posted reads "the other set of camber arm look alikes are to replace the rear suspension lower link arm. The other "baby camber arms" are rear swaybar link arms."

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    sorry let me rephrase what are rear suspension lower link arm? what do the stockies look like? and any chance you could get him to make a set of sways or struts? that would be everything he has....
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    ...I guess I'll find out once the rear tires come off ... [in other words "you're ask'n the wrong guy..." ]. Crawl under your car like I just did so I could correct my previous post. You'll get a better picture looking @ it then me -- a neophite -- trying to describe it.

    We talked about sway bars. He thinks my stockies will be adequate. Going to Delrin bushings on the sway bars goes a long long way to beefing up thier effectiveness.

    Dunno what you mean about struts. But if you're going down the road of coil-overs, I've been told by my Jeff M. (the other Jeff, who swapped my motor) the suspension geometry/layout doesn't allows for it.

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    Originally posted by c55m8o
    LOL ... take a chill pill man - I'm sure it was meant tongue in cheek.

    I thought the same thing; that I had an xtra set of camber arms. Shows you how much I know too, because I'm not sure if it is, or is to be used in another area of the suspension. I wasn't going to add them to the pix, but figured I'd just shoot everything I had; else Jeff might be ask'n "what happened to ..."

    Jeff replaces all 3 arm on each side...

    But seeing you have 2, now you should be able to have more flexibility in adjusting camber and toe....

    That's what those extra arm for.... you pretty much could order 2 set of camber arm for this purpose and the end off course would have to use different diamter of bolts, and there are some different diameter bolt for each year.


    Thats why Jeff, have his camber arms with different end spacer .....for different year of W202 (I don't remember the detail of which is he cutoff year) as I remember giving the measurement of my OEM one..


    And regarding the rear swaybar link, the OEM one is puny pastic and could flex under heaving cornering.

    With this adjustable swaybar link, it could at least adjust the tension for the rear sway bar, so that they sway bar would be more efficient during cornering.


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    Thanx much for that J.

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