240Z: Front struts out, custom bake lines, Spindle lock set arrived

So lately, i’ve been working a lot on the underbody parts.. But i’m still not sure about a few things which seem to be tricky to find out. I’m sure i will get my results 🙂 Anyhow, measuring is always better then reading, i thought so i bought myself a huge-ass 51mm spanner to open up the strut housing of my second car..

The reason was of course to see what was inside.. so far my two cars came with:
Car one: Tokico shocks front, Monroe (Belgium) rear
Car two: unknown front, KYB rear

Inside i found this. First a bit of head scratching.. The design and pattern looked familiar but there was no name stamped on it…

A bit of googling revealed that these were Monroe (USA) replacement shocks. The design is similar to the monroe rear’s from Car one, but these were stamped with “Monroe” and “made in Belgium” while the ones here are stamped with “Made in USA”. Here is a Comparison Pic of a Monroe MC-952 (probably from a different car).

Well and then i got a delivery of a spindle lock set which i ordered a while ago from zcardepot.   

And today i had another package in the mailboc: A set of custom made braided steel brake lines with Rubber insulation to look a bit more OEM. From Left to right:
OEM Front brake line, 2x custom made steel front brake lines, Fastener kit, 2x custom made rear brake lines, OEM-replica rear brake line (i sent them for reference) and then the most important part: Homologation documents for my car. Which means i can run these brake lines totally legal on my car. Yikes!