Project Nemesis

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Installed Steeda's billet aluminum IRS Bushings last night. Took me closer to 3 hours than the 1 it claims. However, now that I know a few tricks I could probably do it in far less time. Also I was on jack and jack stands with a regular torque wrench which added a good bit of time.


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I will be mainly talking about the rear lower bushings as they were the hardest to install.
The small c shaped piece needs to be installed first and there is not very much room to work with. Also the piece gets hung up on the rubber bushing that is already installed.
I first started by getting it as far as I could and then threading one of the cap screws in and using a long Alex wrench to "bend" and slide the bushing in place.

Once I got the first c piece slid into place I started the u shaped piece from the outside.

Then I used a small c clamp to slide the u shaped piece into place. Followed by starting the cap screws and tightening them down.

For the second set of lower rear pieces I switched up my tactics a bit. Instead of slowly wiggling the c piece into place which took me about half an hour the first time. I used a flat head screw driver that had some machined grip lines and twisted the screw driver to force the bushing into place.

Followed by installation of the longer u shaped bushing piece and tightening down the screws.

The upper rear bushings were very easily installed as well as the lower fronts.

I had a little issue with clearance on the upper fronts so I had to loosen the 2 adjacent 21mm blue bolts.
So if I was doing the driver front I would loosen the driver rear and the passenger front. And for the passenger front I loosened the driver front and the passenger rear.
This allowed me enough clearance to slide the top front bushings into place.

Torqued everything down in the dark as I had taken quite a bit longer than I had planned on.

Side note: I also installed the Steeda alignment bushings at this time.


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I sheared my extension head into my socket so I had to finish torquing everything by hand. I will be swinging by the hardware store for a 21mm impact wrench to finish tightening everything up tonight. After that I will go do a few harder pulls and let you know how it effected wheel hop.
I also have the Steeda rear differential bushings to install. I wanted to install them separately to see how each affects the wheel hop. I will most likely be installing the red streets depending on how much wheel hop is left from the IRS support bushings.


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Installed Corsa Sport Catback Exhaust today.
Sounds great.
Adding videos soon

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Clutch assist spring info

2.2in 56mm

0.2in 5mm

1.2in 31mm

1.6in 42mm

1.2in 30mm

0.95in 24mm

0.52in 13mm

1.2in 30mm

1in 25mm


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Just ordered my Steeda ultimate induction power pack with the restrictor and tuner. Going to run it without a tune for a bit and see how it runs. Then tune progressively higher in octane and note the differences.

Gotta say thanks to David at Steeda for hooking me up.


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2015 Mustang GT Corsa Sport Catback Exhaust Videos
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Installed switchbacks

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2015 Ford Mustang Switchback Turn Signal Sound
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Re-installed clutch assist with a 20ish pound spring. Light enough that I am still able to feel clutch engagement point but it has smoothed it out a little and the pedal returns all the way. I may experiment with some other spring options as well and will provide updates.

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