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I'm guessing some dust covers were left off?

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For this pic, yes. I mean literally this pic was taken after the trans was bolted back up to the block. Once we got everything back together, yes, the dust covers and every little other thing we took off during the tear-down was put back in place :)

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Check out this sweet plate that Rosey machined for me! I'm going to get it powdercoated over at primo sometime in the near future.

http://www.scheides.com/albums/evoX/IMG_1337.sized.jpg

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Any before picture? I don't wanna scroll through 14 pages. :D

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Looks great that guy's got some skills.

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IDK if I have any. It was just a black piece of plastic with 3x holes like the center one. When I got the seat heater controls in there they obviously didn't fit, and a few attempts I made with bondo were nothing short of amazingly aweful. Rosey made this piece and then shaved down the entire top 1/4" of the black plastic, this fits right on top. Once its PC'd It'll get affixed to the plastic piece below with a little bit of our favorite bonding agent :D

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Like this:
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evoX/IMG_2539.sized.jpg

But with round pegs in the two outside square holes :D

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The button on the left is crooked. :)

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Looks good man! Rosey's got some skillz

Cause scheides does the gangsta lean!

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The 2008 GSR came stock with a coin tray in that location. The 2008/10 MR and 2010 GSR came with the single AWC button as pictured above.

Example of coin tray:
http://www.evoxforums.com/forums/att...8&d=1236706089

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Thanks guys! Glad it fits good scheides! Can't wait to see it powder coated to match!

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Lookin good Scheides!
Nice work Rosey!

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It's just set in there until I get it PC'd. Buttons aren't even hooked up, it's 85°*out; my ass is warm enough! :P

Fukin right!

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No pics, but I put on the whiteline rear sway bar inbetween helping my neighbor with his rattly Forrester exhaust. I put it on the medium setting, and the car now feels insanely flat around cloverleafs and tight corners. I still have the coilovers, which have kept the car way flat already, so this is a pretty awesome setup.

Coilovers will be coming off soon.

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Suspension, suspension, everywhere! I was trying to get some sort of stock-ish suspension setup together for this thing, and a few fridays ago I ordered a set of eibach springs for it. I had no shocks and no hats, so there was a lot of little suspension components to either buy seperately or find whole assemblies. I had been hunting and hunting for a decent deal on a set of Bilsteins out of an X MR, but I got sick of people wanting a fortune for them or them being potentially damaged, or whatever.

Ordered up a nice clean set of full GSR suspension, 8k miles on it. As (my) luck would have it, two days later, a set of MR Bilsteins popped up for a great deal, and the came complete with a set of Cobb springs!

http://www.scheides.com/albums/evoX/IMG_2913.sized.jpg

I swapped the Eibach springs onto the Bilsteins and started ripping out teh coilovers.

http://www.scheides.com/albums/evoX/IMG_2915.sized.jpg

Bolting down the last few bits. You can see the big whiteline swaybar up there, bolted in a few days ago.

http://www.scheides.com/albums/evoX/IMG_2917.sized.jpg

The Tein MonoFlex coilovers, already sold. Awesome coilovers, but not for me. Hopefully I don't miss them :)
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evoX/IMG_2918.sized.jpg

And, the leftovers (for sale):
http://www.scheides.com/albums/evoX/IMG_2919.sized.jpg

After buttoning everything up and putting some miles on these this weekend, I am SO HAPPY with the results! The new suspension sits about 1/2" higher than the coilovers were set at, the drop looks nice, the ride is absolutely fantastic, and the car still corners like its on rails. I have an alignment scheduled for Tuesday @TheAlignmentGuy, and I'll be doing some more testing and an autoX in a few weeks :D

Whenever the extra bits sell, I think it'll be BBX time!

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BBX time, hahaha.

Congrats ride quality is a biggie.

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Woohoo, nice work Scheides!

BBX time ftw!

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All those pics and you don't have "after" pics! That's the most important pic!

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Car drives great and handles great! I'm still going to whoop ya at the test in tune!!! :)

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I know, I know....the car was dirty as fuk afterwards. I did wash it today, but it was dark by the time I was ready for pics. I was too busy driving it and enjoying the new ride! I'll snap some soon enough, don't worry :D I'm going to try and take them in the same spot as the previous ones in my alley.

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It's ok to take a picture of a dirty car. I don't think anyone will mind.

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Ya I know, I just figured, I take enough pics, I'll just get one when it's a little cleaner :D Shouldn't be long before I have some other project to do and the camera will be out!

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And people called me a shopaholic. haha. You've even given me a 'bad' idea or two lately.

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The car is now amazingly comfortable to cruise in but is still nimble. Get that thing to put down 300-400whp at DB and it would be perfect.

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Okfine, after pics. It's not super clean, but seeing as its raining out while I took this, it's not gonna get much cleaner than this for a while :P

http://www.scheides.com/albums/evoX/IMG_2923.sized.jpg

http://www.scheides.com/albums/evoX/IMG_2924.sized.jpg

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Wowza, lowered X's look crazy sexy imo.

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I need a ride, i might have to get some eibach's and trying to figure out what rear sway to get eventually.

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Looks super nice!

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I dunno, I think Shawn's Rotas would look good on there.

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You're welcome to take it for a spin anytime :)

Thanks man!

This car will never see black/gunmetal rims, my eyes would be stabbed out and my heart would break... :D

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Scheides, The silved P45's look just right. Black car and dark wheels dont mix well, looks like steelies everytime. ;)

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The offset annoys me more than color, I'm afraid.

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LOL ... I love black on black/dark wheel look... but to each his own....

Car def looks sexy as is (even if the wheels arent black), that drop is a nice amount, Can't wait to get a ride in it!

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I think you should sell those p45f's and move on to some p45r's. 18x9.5" ftw!

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Remember these rims are basically free at this point, I yanked them off of my crashed evo8 before it was hauled away. The tires had literally like 400 miles on them. I'll consider upgrading sometime after I get the body work done, undertray back on, and the whp issue addressed :)

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I like the way you think...still have a little dsm'er in ya hahaha

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Thanks guys! Got an alignment today @TheAlignmentGuy.com and the car feels freaking AWESOME! Jeff does all the top cars around here, fantastic guy! Ended up with zero toe and about -2° camber in the front and -1.5° in the back.

http://i.imgur.com/7skii.jpg

Jeff has been known to have a bit of a temper, but he is an awesome guy! I brought him starbucks :)

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scheides: 'hey man, it's scheides. I'm ready.'
chad: 'ok, you want the little one, or the big one?'
scheides: 'big one, duh.'
chad: ' a'ight den, it'll be in the mail on Tuesday.'

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Geez, that didn't last long ! I knew you could'nt be without your previous evo power for long, lol. Grats man. Tune date?

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Why on earth would I setup a tuning date when my setup isn't together yet :) It'll be a self-modified version of my stock turbo tune for now, gonna keep things nice and simple.