New shifter cable bushings arrived. I've done them on a friend's car and they made a real nice difference on how the shifter feels, no real performance gain, but it feels so nice and solid.
Has anyone done a write up? I can't seem to find one using the search function. The install is pretty easy, but if one hasn't been done yet I'll probably do one.

I don't know that there is a writeup for these. I put the same set in my Celica a while back and actually have a little more play in my cables now than I did before. Not putting these down, but it's probably that my rubber bushings weren't as bad as I thought.

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My stock bushings are pretty thrashed; they're orange, dry rotted, and have shrunk enough for me to spin the washers that are under the cotter-pins.
If anything it can't hurt, I saw a big difference when I changed the stock rubber ones off my friend's Tiburon GT and if there is a chance the improvement is anywhere close to what that was it's worth a shot.

This post has been edited by fribox: Mar 26, 2014 - 2:39 PM

Yours are definitely a lot worse than mine were then. For the price, these bushings aren't bad at all. I don't believe there's a writeup yet so go ahead.

Both the shifter bushings were rusted to the mounts they were on, I didn't want to tear them since I couldn't get the metal to come up so I left them be. I'll get to it sometime, going to let them sit with some WD-40/Liquid Wrench for a few nights and if that doesn't help I'll have a shop cut off the metal pieces. I took my airbox resonators off though and it sounds pretty good; had a lid to a tube just the right size for the smaller resonator. Doesn't pull much better, in fact I think it pulls even worse than before down low, but damn it sounds sweet. It was pretty REALLY slow to begin with, might have a little more up high now though. Still wont rev past 4500, probably limp mode, no engine codes, no idea what it is.

Just ordered a set of these since I couldn't find replacement rims for a reasonable price. I had my current ones looked at and they're all beat up/bent so I figured its best to just replace all of them. I'm just going to scrap the current BBS ones since they're not suitable for anyone else to use.
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This post has been edited by fribox: Apr 21, 2014 - 1:52 PM

Hey, wow, it took forever for these to get here + put on. They look great in my opinion. The ride is much smoother too, plus the car probably dropped 15-20lb (unsprung weight is bad weight, I've heard) with the new wheels which are really light. Still needs a front end alignment to get rid of the rest of the shaking at high speed. Right now I've deemed my weird bucking to be a TPS, which I'm going to test before replacing, I have a much better idea of what that might be now. Currently looking to replace the interior trim and to clean out that headlight. The windshield wiper arms need painted too. After that's all done it'll be looking good.

Replaced the preconverter. It was reading ~10psi where it should read <3psi. Whole inside was melted. Toasted the rear cat and EGR.
Runs much better, revs faster, revs higher (got around 1200-1500 more RPM now), surging mostly gone now. Going to replace the rear cat and EGR then move on to the clutch.
Still need to fix the cosmetics, but it's much better now. Keeping running to a minimum for now until I've got cash for parts.