{"id":1653,"date":"2012-07-01T19:26:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T02:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specialtyz.com\/blog\/?p=1653"},"modified":"2013-09-15T13:48:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-15T20:48:13","slug":"saved-from-misha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/?p=1653","title":{"rendered":"Saved from Mishap"},"content":{"rendered":"

A very good customer of ours had a small mishap at a local track not long ago. \u00a0Amazing to see what losing control and hitting nothing can do (other than going over a ditch). \u00a0What was a shame was seeing the Z getting towed hurt and somewhat destroyed from what was supposed to be a fun day at the circuit.<\/p>\n

A majority of the front and rear suspension were destroyed along with some body damage. \u00a0I didn’t take as many photos as I would have liked but here are some from the rebuild process.<\/p>\n

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The subframe suffered catastrophic \u00a0failure along with the upper control arms and HICAS tie rod.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This rear coilover located on the driver side wasn’t so lucky either.<\/p>\n

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Damage caused by this ditch. \u00a0Due to poor drainage planning at the track. \u00a0tisk tisk<\/p>\n

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To the rescue KW! \u00a0We opted to go with KW’s newly released V3s for the suspenion rebuild.<\/p>\n

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Nice case for the manual and wrench.<\/p>\n

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The V3s reuse the factory top mounts (fronts shown here) to keep things more comfortable and quiet for the street. \u00a0The Clubsports use pillowball mounts.<\/p>\n

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The top mounts need to be modified for them to be used on the V3s. \u00a0A simple drill was all that was required to separate the bottom flange from the top hat.<\/p>\n

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Ready to go on the Z.<\/p>\n

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The brand new subframe, SPL rear upper arms, lower arms and other misc. suspension bits.<\/p>\n

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Not shown in the picture is the damaged rear driver fender. \u00a0Damage to the Z was highlighted. \u00a0The entire car ended up getting repainted and 3 out of 4 wheels needed repairing.<\/p>\n

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The Z done in not so glamorous lighting. \u00a0Impressions of the KW V3s were very good. \u00a0My biggest pet peeve is comfort for everyday driving and these are amazingly comfortable (the most comfortable I’ve ever ridden) for an ultimate coilover. \u00a0KW V3s are available from us here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A very good customer of ours had a small mishap at a local track not long ago. \u00a0Amazing to see what losing control and hitting nothing can do (other than going over a ditch). \u00a0What was a shame was seeing the Z getting towed hurt and somewhat destroyed from what was supposed to be a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-300zx-z32","category-builds","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.specialtyz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}