It seems like the MCD section has been a bit quite lately, so I figured I'd do my part to provide some reading material... 
I've had my MCD XR5-Max for a few years now, but aside from a few pictures here and there, I really haven't shared too much about it. With a bit of free time on my hands, and some upcoming work to do on the car, I figured this seems like a good time to put pen to paper (finger to keyboard?), and document a bit about the car to date, and where it's going in the future.
The car started as a supposed FT-R build, and honestly was a pretty big mess from the factory. Once the initial awe wore off and I started to go through and setup the car, I seemingly ran into issue after issue. Most of the car was assembled "loose", so almost every screw and bold required tightening (and threadlock where applicable). Not a big deal as "don't trust something you didn't build" was always sort of a personal mantra, but it was a bit of a surprise on a car of this level/cost.
On top of this it was also soon made apparent that zero effort had been put into ensuring things like camber, caster, and toe were proper... or even even. I think the car came with something like 5 degrees of POSITIVE camber on the rear (it looked like an old VW bug!), and it has miss-matched anti-dive spacers from left to right. Not a great start...
To make things worse, somewhere in this process I realized that I was looking at a car with a body that somehow didn't seem to fit quite right...
I was told it was "normal" for the tires to contact the body, but somehow it just seemed like my front end was more than a little bit "off".....
I've had my MCD XR5-Max for a few years now, but aside from a few pictures here and there, I really haven't shared too much about it. With a bit of free time on my hands, and some upcoming work to do on the car, I figured this seems like a good time to put pen to paper (finger to keyboard?), and document a bit about the car to date, and where it's going in the future.
The car started as a supposed FT-R build, and honestly was a pretty big mess from the factory. Once the initial awe wore off and I started to go through and setup the car, I seemingly ran into issue after issue. Most of the car was assembled "loose", so almost every screw and bold required tightening (and threadlock where applicable). Not a big deal as "don't trust something you didn't build" was always sort of a personal mantra, but it was a bit of a surprise on a car of this level/cost.
On top of this it was also soon made apparent that zero effort had been put into ensuring things like camber, caster, and toe were proper... or even even. I think the car came with something like 5 degrees of POSITIVE camber on the rear (it looked like an old VW bug!), and it has miss-matched anti-dive spacers from left to right. Not a great start...
To make things worse, somewhere in this process I realized that I was looking at a car with a body that somehow didn't seem to fit quite right...
I was told it was "normal" for the tires to contact the body, but somehow it just seemed like my front end was more than a little bit "off".....
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Good job MCD factory!
