Originally Posted by
Jordan Y.
I like that guy's build because he's doing all sorts of crazy fab work but he's not some rocket-scientist mechanical engineer who spends three weeks measuring and calculating angles and bends to the one-millionth degree. You read these build threads where the guy is explaining how he used tensor calculus to find the perfect angle of 13 bends in his subframe that clear everything by 10^-3 millimeters and how his 17-pie-cut downpipe was designed with a full knowledge of fluid dynamics to add 3.32 hp and 27 rpm spool over the usual 30 dollar e-bay pipe.
This guy bolts his suspension in and the car looks like it's taking a nose dive into the ground, so he cuts holes in the rear shock towers, welds some sewer pipe and big honkin' slabs of metal to support it and bolts the suckers in 4 inches higher to lower the rear of the car. I give him props for doing things mere-mortal non-ME-types would do and not making me feel like a dumbass the entire time I'm reading his thread.
You act like brian didn't measure everything out. Yes, it endd up being too long, but he didn't just start cutting and welding.
He's a good friend of mine , and everything on that car had been well thought out and planned.
PS: he also built one of the nicest S13's in the country, before devoting more time back to his Z31. kolar and i have been friends for holy shit, about ten years now.