installed the last of the pierce motorsports braces, the rear torsion bar. simple install, though was a pain to torque in such a tight space --even with the car on a 2-post lift. Oh and the other day when I was getting the car re-aligned to fix a horrible steering feel and stability control freakout, I had the shop reinstall the cp-e resonator I had deleted a month or so ago. I'm in love with how the car sounds again. If you want the car to sound raspy and be impossible to drive at normal cruising RPMs without a ton of noise, delete the resonator. I have a lightly used (2k miles) delete pipe for sale if anyone is interested
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also installed the GFB DV+ (wow what a pain to access those little bolts. I found dropping the little plastic splash guard over the accessory belt helped. Front passenger wheel coming off is a must. Since I had that wheel off I rotated the tires. The Z2 star specs have wear bars on the center tread band. The front was only showing 2 of the 3 bands, and the rears were showing all 3. Re-adjusted the tire pressure all around, back to the factory recommended 39 psi front 36 psi rear. Somehow they were all at 33.5psi which makes me suspect the alignment shop might have played with that in figuring out what i was complaining about regarding steering feel. Apparently they hadn't compensated for how much the toe changes when the car's weight is on the suspension, so the car was a bit toe in when it was supposed to be toe out, and in corners it would switch from toe in to toe our or something, causing what i felt. It kinda sounds like maybe I have the front too low and it's compromising things, so I raised the front one thread on the bilsteins which is probably only 1mm haha.
The car looks sounds feels and drives just so well right now, I'm so happy with it! Here's a few shots of the installs from today, and a shot from a hike yesterday after my alignment test drive 3 hours in stop and go traffic out of the city.