Great weekend with the black ValentNine! Shawn was hosing a 'newb mod day' for evomn guys and I joined in in all my newbness and we went to town on this thing. Thanks to TKR Mark for the help!!!
Yanked apart the suspension and cleaned out all the dirt....these struts look pretty beat up but they are sound for now, functional and don't knock or make noise. Fun fact: they are out of
my old evo8! 
Out with the broken/mismatched spring setup and in with Swift SpecR's! No after pics yet, I'll post some once I wash it.
'Shawn, do you have a press at your shop? If so I'll just get the press-in front motor mount'
'yup! I got one'
I arrived, and Shawn had bought a press, just for me for this...'been meaning to get one and this was the perfect excuse!'
Shawn as payback, I have several stock front motor mounts that could be used for bushing swaps in the future if you want! Thanks again!
I cannot do a front motor mount on my car without peril though, wtf. Put it back in with one bolt. Gah, not sure what to do.
Bolted up the brackets for the front brake ducts and bled the brakes with ATE type 200 amber (same as ATE Blue but...just amber
). This car has Stoptech pads, great for the street, we'll see how they do once I hit the track.
Aaaaaaaaand fun surprise of the day? Looks like....in the...yes....5 days I've been driving this car...someone hit it in a parking lot. Passenger rear door and side skirt have damage from some type of low bumper....unreal.
Finally, bolted up the wideband o2 sensor and then today finished wiring up the gauge. I did a temp mount with some safety wire on the defrost vent and actually kinda like it...nice and easy. I ran a wire to the stock rear o2 so I can log it via ecuflash.
LOVE the new setup. Drove through the rain on the way home but been taking more and more fast corners with the new springs in place and I'm SO excited to start tearing it up with this thing. Not trying to make too many plans on 'what to do next' as far as suspension goes because I am just simply out of budget on this project for a while...just pumped to just enjoy it and tear it up!
320 miles and second oil change are behind me after 1 week, on track to be broken-in in time for the DCTC event on May 2.
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