Oh snap, Carbon fiber rear hatch dampners...

theDreamer

Status update on mine:
We got them on during lunch but took them off. Issues:
~Bulge in the center of the hood
~Touching the Password JDM pieces (so it will touch the stock pieces)

We might need to break in the pieces a bit, but not enough time at work to do much testing.

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Prosport Gauges

Bulge in center. how is that even possible

theDreamer

We are not 100% sure yet, we have no rubber, no battery/fluid covers, nothing is touching the unit itself.
We wonder if since we only opened/close the hood maybe 15-20 times it may not have settled or if the unit is pushing on the hood at the rear and the weakest point is bending (which is the center).

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I wonder if its hitting the fender piece that kenchan bent down a little. We didnt even bend our fender piece down and we have no bulge... :/

theDreamer

We did not mess with the fender piece, bit hot and I still had to grab lunch so we just called it after 15 minutes.
An idea to try out in your shop, is to build a bracket that pushes the ball join that sits in the engine bay over so the whole unit is in more of a straight line, might not change anything but will be better for pressure points on both the hood & unit.

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Modshack

Uh...that's exactly what I will be doing in a day or so

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I know, but if what you do proves it works better and the supplier does it and gets the same results then it goes to show maybe a slight flaw in the design currently.

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There isnt a design flaw

many things can be made better or modified. thats why we buy after market parts

As of right now, both kenchan and our Z shows no bulge.

Prosport Gauges

Let me see what i can come up with....

Prosport Gauges

sent you a PM. Just checked our Z and there is NO flex at all. can you also send pics of this.

not taking it as an attack, you have every right to voice your opinon

rednek01

I responded, I appreciate you handling this maturely (many people here take things personally and it gets nasty)

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This is the only picture that we got today, only had my phone so not very good.

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dreamer can you confirm its hitting the covers also, did you try moving them over a bit towards the fender?

theDreamer

I have Password JDM pieces which replace the covers, but they are just a very bit "skinner" and they touched. I cannot move them over as I do not want to file out the holes unless something major happens, once we saw they were being hit we just removed the pieces and went onto the next step to see what else was hitting or causing any bends.

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Here is a shot of kenchans hood. looks good/level...