Wrapping up the moton coil over installation. New holes drilled for the reservoir hoses in the rear, and slotted upper bolt holes to gain some rear camber with the AST upper mounts. Over 3 degrees of camber now without having to use GT3 lower arms. This only worked because of the shortened strut, and 'flat' upper mount instead of the OEM 'tower' style mount.
The AST front camber plates are nice peices, with some useful camber/caster adjustment range when combined with the alternate bolt holes for reverse mounting. Holes for the front hose were trickier, ended up going through a double walled section in the trunk floor, in hindsight I may have tried to route them up high into the battery compartment. There are existing holes there that just need enlarging.
Front reservoir mounting on the tool cover.
Lessons learned from this week long trial fitting and installation
- Bleed the reservoir gas pressure before disconnecting the quick disconnects. They work very well, but take tremendous force to reconnect if there is much pressure in the reservoirs.
- There is a crazy amount of sound insulation in the rear engine area of the car, including some memory foam material in the carpet pieces. Easily 20-40lbs. Will have to see if the Cayman R uses less that I can update to.
- Since this car had the PASM electrically controlled shocks, it threw an error code once they were disconnected, and would not allow 'sport' mode to be enabled. RAC performance was able to delete the PASM function from the cars programming using AWE's instructions: http://awe-tuning.com/media/pdf/AWE_Tuning_PASM_Delete.pdf
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