GT-Spec Bars
#16
08-31-2006, 07:41 AM
Originally Posted by richboy
Hey glex25 for the chasis brace was the screw already there for you when installing? Or did you have to drill some holes by urself to install that? Because i read somewhere they said that the G35 only had 2 screws for that brace so we had to drill the other ones our selfs.
the rear holes were already threaded and the front hole had another beside it where the mechanic was able to stick the bolt in and work in like that.
I guess I got lucky.
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08-31-2006, 10:53 AM
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#20
08-31-2006, 03:08 PM
Originally Posted by Glex25
Last night I took a trip in the rain to MRC to pick up my new set of GTspec bars.
Today afterwork i took a trip to Kel's Shop to get them installed.
Installation took about a hour at most after spending 20 minutes trying to get on the lift.
The bars instalation went smooth.
Plug and Play is the key word with these bars.
Anyway after all was done Kel and I decide to test out the car on some twisties.
Going down the route there is too much traffic not enough open space to test it.
We make a U-turn to test the car on the other side of the route.
I push the car thru the U-Turn the car gripped and the tires screamed in pain.
The tires did not lose grip not once.
After we come out of the U-Turn What do I see in front me but a brand new Murcielago in Orange.
Needless to say I wanted to have some fun and there was hardly any trafic on the road.
So we going at it a little bit just to let each other know that it's all good to get it on.
At the next light a RSX decides to join the race.
He jumps the red light.
The Murcielago and I go on green.
RSX is no where to be seen real quick.
Its just me and the Murci when I slow down on tight turn.
We doing about 100+.
He finally passes me as I slow down and I guess he didn't realise how fast he was going.
He tried turning into my lane and almost lost it and over corrected.
I drop it to 4th and gun it thru out the whole turn.
Not once did the car lose grip.
You just hear the tires squealing in pain but gripping.
At the next light he made a right with his tail between his legs
I tell you my car felt planted before but at the limit the rear use to break out.
I had no issues with that but now I can't seem to find the limit.
The car seems to have unlimited amount of grip.
I can't wait to put it on Race Track or AutoX event and really push it.
If you done sways, Coilovers and feel you can still improve your suspension.
You can and these bars are it.
Most people that know me know that I don't street race.
I was just testing out the limit with the new bars and I hardly push my car past 6700RPM until I saw that Murci.
I like to thank Julian at MRC for ordering the bars for me.
I also like to thank Kel for installation and taking the test ride with me.
GTspec for making these beautiful bars for the G35.
Here are some pics.
Don't mind how dirty my car looks its been raining here for days.
Today afterwork i took a trip to Kel's Shop to get them installed.
Installation took about a hour at most after spending 20 minutes trying to get on the lift.
The bars instalation went smooth.
Plug and Play is the key word with these bars.
Anyway after all was done Kel and I decide to test out the car on some twisties.
Going down the route there is too much traffic not enough open space to test it.
We make a U-turn to test the car on the other side of the route.
I push the car thru the U-Turn the car gripped and the tires screamed in pain.
The tires did not lose grip not once.
After we come out of the U-Turn What do I see in front me but a brand new Murcielago in Orange.
Needless to say I wanted to have some fun and there was hardly any trafic on the road.
So we going at it a little bit just to let each other know that it's all good to get it on.
At the next light a RSX decides to join the race.
He jumps the red light.
The Murcielago and I go on green.
RSX is no where to be seen real quick.
Its just me and the Murci when I slow down on tight turn.
We doing about 100+.
He finally passes me as I slow down and I guess he didn't realise how fast he was going.
He tried turning into my lane and almost lost it and over corrected.
I drop it to 4th and gun it thru out the whole turn.
Not once did the car lose grip.
You just hear the tires squealing in pain but gripping.
At the next light he made a right with his tail between his legs
I tell you my car felt planted before but at the limit the rear use to break out.
I had no issues with that but now I can't seem to find the limit.
The car seems to have unlimited amount of grip.
I can't wait to put it on Race Track or AutoX event and really push it.
If you done sways, Coilovers and feel you can still improve your suspension.
You can and these bars are it.
Most people that know me know that I don't street race.
I was just testing out the limit with the new bars and I hardly push my car past 6700RPM until I saw that Murci.
I like to thank Julian at MRC for ordering the bars for me.
I also like to thank Kel for installation and taking the test ride with me.
GTspec for making these beautiful bars for the G35.
Here are some pics.
Don't mind how dirty my car looks its been raining here for days.
You Street Race??????!?!???
Nahhhh not U man....never ever....LMAO
see you Friday hopefully...LOL
#21
08-31-2006, 03:21 PM
Originally Posted by Glex25
Last night I took a trip in the rain to MRC to pick up my new set of GTspec bars.
Today afterwork i took a trip to Kel's Shop to get them installed.
Installation took about a hour at most after spending 20 minutes trying to get on the lift.
The bars instalation went smooth.
Plug and Play is the key word with these bars.
Anyway after all was done Kel and I decide to test out the car on some twisties.
Going down the route there is too much traffic not enough open space to test it.
We make a U-turn to test the car on the other side of the route.
I push the car thru the U-Turn the car gripped and the tires screamed in pain.
The tires did not lose grip not once.
After we come out of the U-Turn What do I see in front me but a brand new Murcielago in Orange.
Needless to say I wanted to have some fun and there was hardly any trafic on the road.
So we going at it a little bit just to let each other know that it's all good to get it on.
At the next light a RSX decides to join the race.
He jumps the red light.
The Murcielago and I go on green.
RSX is no where to be seen real quick.
Its just me and the Murci when I slow down on tight turn.
We doing about 100+.
He finally passes me as I slow down and I guess he didn't realise how fast he was going.
He tried turning into my lane and almost lost it and over corrected.
I drop it to 4th and gun it thru out the whole turn.
Not once did the car lose grip.
You just hear the tires squealing in pain but gripping.
At the next light he made a right with his tail between his legs
I tell you my car felt planted before but at the limit the rear use to break out.
I had no issues with that but now I can't seem to find the limit.
The car seems to have unlimited amount of grip.
I can't wait to put it on Race Track or AutoX event and really push it.
If you done sways, Coilovers and feel you can still improve your suspension.
You can and these bars are it.
Most people that know me know that I don't street race.
I was just testing out the limit with the new bars and I hardly push my car past 6700RPM until I saw that Murci.
I like to thank Julian at MRC for ordering the bars for me.
I also like to thank Kel for installation and taking the test ride with me.
GTspec for making these beautiful bars for the G35.
Here are some pics.
Don't mind how dirty my car looks its been raining here for days.
Today afterwork i took a trip to Kel's Shop to get them installed.
Installation took about a hour at most after spending 20 minutes trying to get on the lift.
The bars instalation went smooth.
Plug and Play is the key word with these bars.
Anyway after all was done Kel and I decide to test out the car on some twisties.
Going down the route there is too much traffic not enough open space to test it.
We make a U-turn to test the car on the other side of the route.
I push the car thru the U-Turn the car gripped and the tires screamed in pain.
The tires did not lose grip not once.
After we come out of the U-Turn What do I see in front me but a brand new Murcielago in Orange.
Needless to say I wanted to have some fun and there was hardly any trafic on the road.
So we going at it a little bit just to let each other know that it's all good to get it on.
At the next light a RSX decides to join the race.
He jumps the red light.
The Murcielago and I go on green.
RSX is no where to be seen real quick.
Its just me and the Murci when I slow down on tight turn.
We doing about 100+.
He finally passes me as I slow down and I guess he didn't realise how fast he was going.
He tried turning into my lane and almost lost it and over corrected.
I drop it to 4th and gun it thru out the whole turn.
Not once did the car lose grip.
You just hear the tires squealing in pain but gripping.
At the next light he made a right with his tail between his legs
I tell you my car felt planted before but at the limit the rear use to break out.
I had no issues with that but now I can't seem to find the limit.
The car seems to have unlimited amount of grip.
I can't wait to put it on Race Track or AutoX event and really push it.
If you done sways, Coilovers and feel you can still improve your suspension.
You can and these bars are it.
Most people that know me know that I don't street race.
I was just testing out the limit with the new bars and I hardly push my car past 6700RPM until I saw that Murci.
I like to thank Julian at MRC for ordering the bars for me.
I also like to thank Kel for installation and taking the test ride with me.
GTspec for making these beautiful bars for the G35.
Here are some pics.
Don't mind how dirty my car looks its been raining here for days.
See you Friday
#22
08-31-2006, 03:46 PM
I noticed the same after I had mine installed a few months ago. A great must have suspension mod! I only put on the front and rear lower tie braces. The 4 point chassis brace doesn't fit my sedan and the lower tie brace doesn't fit my coupe midpipe. 
Dang man! you put em all on. Jealous
I only put on the front and rear lower tie braces. The 4 point chassis brace doesn't fit my sedan and the lower tie brace doesn't fit my coupe midpipe. Dang man! you put em all on. Jealous
Last edited by cato; 08-31-2006 at 03:49 PM.
#24
08-31-2006, 04:10 PM
Originally Posted by cato
I noticed the same after I had mine installed a few months ago. A great must have suspension mod! I only put on the front and rear lower tie braces. The 4 point chassis brace doesn't fit my sedan and the lower tie brace doesn't fit my coupe midpipe. Dang man! you put em all on. Jealous
I only put on the front and rear lower tie braces. The 4 point chassis brace doesn't fit my sedan and the lower tie brace doesn't fit my coupe midpipe. Dang man! you put em all on. Jealous I'm thinking now that the chassis is tighter I can with a more aggressive setting.
I'm going to try Med/Stiff on both since I notice a little bit of understeer.
I'm going to test it out a little more but I'm definitely thinking of a stiffer setting.
#28
09-10-2006, 07:19 PM
question
from the looks of your cats and rear cross bar your car sits pretty low. my rear cross bar looks a little bit worse then yours does though. do you find yourself scraping the ladder bar on everything?? from the pics it looks like the ladder bar sits lower then the cats and rear cross bar. i have been wanting to get these for a while but i already cant make it over some speed bumps without scraping. how much lower is it? do you know your ground to center of wheel well heights? mine is just under 25" in the front and like 25.5" in the rear.
what sways to you have? stillen or hotckis?? i have the hotckis on mine and they are set to med/med.
do you have coilovers or springs? what brand and rates are they?? i have tein basics
just tryin to get an idea of what you have so i can compare your results to what it would be like on my car
thanks
from the looks of your cats and rear cross bar your car sits pretty low. my rear cross bar looks a little bit worse then yours does though. do you find yourself scraping the ladder bar on everything?? from the pics it looks like the ladder bar sits lower then the cats and rear cross bar. i have been wanting to get these for a while but i already cant make it over some speed bumps without scraping. how much lower is it? do you know your ground to center of wheel well heights? mine is just under 25" in the front and like 25.5" in the rear.
what sways to you have? stillen or hotckis?? i have the hotckis on mine and they are set to med/med.
do you have coilovers or springs? what brand and rates are they?? i have tein basics
just tryin to get an idea of what you have so i can compare your results to what it would be like on my car
thanks
Last edited by SFLG35; 09-10-2006 at 07:31 PM.
#29
09-10-2006, 09:13 PM
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Originally Posted by aleok
does anyone have these, w/out aftermarket sways?
The car is very planted and solid, I can feel where the shortcomings are in the sway bars now, but the suspension does all the work now and really can go to its full potential. They excessive body roll and chassis flexing is mostly gone, so its much sharper through the turns. I did the GT Spec bars before the STB's and they did make an improvement, and the STBs improved upon that. I plan on adding the chassis brace and the Tanabe under body brace in the near future, then I'll get adjustable sway bars.
#30
09-10-2006, 09:42 PM
Originally Posted by helldorado
I have all 3 bars, not the chassis brace, on my '05 with the sport tuned suspension. I also have the VRT front STB and Stillen rear STB.
The car is very planted and solid, I can feel where the shortcomings are in the sway bars now, but the suspension does all the work now and really can go to its full potential. They excessive body roll and chassis flexing is mostly gone, so its much sharper through the turns. I did the GT Spec bars before the STB's and they did make an improvement, and the STBs improved upon that. I plan on adding the chassis brace and the Tanabe under body brace in the near future, then I'll get adjustable sway bars.
The car is very planted and solid, I can feel where the shortcomings are in the sway bars now, but the suspension does all the work now and really can go to its full potential. They excessive body roll and chassis flexing is mostly gone, so its much sharper through the turns. I did the GT Spec bars before the STB's and they did make an improvement, and the STBs improved upon that. I plan on adding the chassis brace and the Tanabe under body brace in the near future, then I'll get adjustable sway bars.