20140603 | Project µ brake lines:





Decided to finally switch to stainless brake lines. New bottle of fluid for the change over. These are going on the car tonight.

 

Not sure about the lines but the brake fluid I've had good experience with. Very consistent pedal feel on track with it

 

I have been using Project µ fluid for quite awhile now. I have had no reason to try anything else.

Brake lines installed!





These are the smoked version that Project µ offers with stainless fittings. I bought these specifically because I really like all of the Project µ products I have used and am happy to support them even though I could have gotten other stainless lines for cheaper. Extremely well made lines though and labeled ready to install.

 

Finally grabbed a few quick photos of the right front fender liner and how it was trimmed and rolled. The biggest thing here is to just get the fender liner tabs up out of the way. Most people will be totally fine just heating up the tabs and bending them up, or trimming them off. But really there aren't any downsides to fully trimming the liners once you have taken care of the tabs.

 

Very nice, much appreciated!

 

Recaro #2 arrived and installed! Definitely nice to have this all taken care of now.

As usual pull the OEM part out and weigh it.



Quite a bit heavier than the driver side with the additional SRS sensors on this one. Now time to weigh the new passenger seat assembly.



Almost 10lbs of weight savings here! I am actually not using the slider handle since I don't care about the passenger seat sliding on the rail at all so take the .6 lb or so away I think. Definitely glad to see this. The Ballade 06+ passenger rail actually uses separate left and right mounting brackets since it just isn't quite possible to design a good one piece bracket for the passenger side. Like most rails for the 06+ this one can't really slide properly because the slider handle is forced up against the big hump in the floor. It actually can slide just fine and I can even reach under the seat to trigger the sliders if I want to, but you just can't really use the slider handle properly. I mentioned this to Ballade and recommended they consider designing a slider handle specifically for the 06+ cars. But really not a concern for me as I was easily able to get the passenger seat in the position I wanted to and it never really needs to move. Also with the 06+ models the passenger seat belt actually bolts to the right hand side of the passenger seat as well and their rail is setup to support this since you can install seatbelt anchors on both side of the rail with no issues. Definitely a fan of the Ballade rails overall. I think it would be smarter for them to sell specific gets for bucket or reclining seats though to bring the price down.

Here are some photos showing how the car looks now with the completed seat setup.













I should mention as well. I ended up contacting the company I got the seat belt extenders from and had them send me some slightly shorter extenders. I felt the ones I got initially were a bit too long and changed the position of the shoulder harness more than necessary. Shorter extenders are working perfectly on the driver and passenger side for me now though.

Thanks again to Mike at Evasive for getting me the seats quickly.

 

The Amuse bumper will go on soon and I think coming up I will be doing a round of maintenance items on the car. My clutch has started to slip a little bit when I am driving the car hard and I have been thinking about trying out Mugen engine/tranny/diff mounts. For the clutch I think I will try out a Mugen pressure plate, OEM disk, and AP1 flywheel, and Ballade stainless clutch line. I might try out something a bit more special that is still very street able depending on the wait time. I will also have another valve adjustment done and make sure everything else under the hood is in tip top shape as well as doing wheel bearings all around. And one last thing, I have started to get the gauge cluster backlight flickering that a lot of people seem to get so I am going to try to replace the rectifier in the alternator as recommended by Billman and other S2000 mechanics

 

How is the seating position feel with the new recaro's. Is it a significant difference from the stock or is the lower position just right. How well do they support your legs, really that's my main complaint with the stocks, too much sliding around with hard cornering. Get that amuse bumper on there already.

 

Those seats.....
Reminds me of dc2 jdm type R's. Contrast looks good w Sebring.

 

It is a perfect street car setup for me. The Pole Positions aren't annoying to get in and out of like some seats are. The height is just low enough that it gets rid of the problem of my knees hitting the bottom of the steering column so now I can finally have the proper leg positioning while braking and heel/toeing so it is a huge improvement. They hold me very well. I do the seatbelt locking trick to really hold me in place but the car is much easier to drive now without having to lock the belt. No near to use my legs to hold myself in place and I can just rely on the seat to do it's job and focus on steering and pedal inputs.

I agree. I love the look on Sebring Silver with the bronze wheels.