Clunks are still going! They're only annoying, thankfully, and nothing else.
I'm going to try a couple different solutions to see if I get anywhere:
1. Purchase Energy Suspension brackets and bend them to fit the AWR relocation brackets
https://www.amazon.com/dp/ (commissions earned)
2. If #1 fails, investigate custom fabrication bushing brackets.
3. If #2 is more expensive than this option, investigate the rear subframe swap (for an MSP).
I've been introduced to the concept before, and to my knowledge, this allows for OEM-style (?) beefier endlinks and bushings without a bunch of clunk-fix hoops to jump through. If I go this route, it would be a good time to upgrade the lateral links as well.
I'm currently awaiting a paypal invoice for the VTCS-less IM. Guy was friendly and told me I only had to worry about paying shipping.
Weather has been too cold and crappy to work on the car, so I've yet to screw with the fuel evap system yet.
The open "street scene" (not my school's car club) around here took a turn for the crazy and dangerous, so I'm never going to go out to those ever again. Some wackjob gangbangers showed up with the intent to incite a fight a couple meets back, and guns got pulled and fired. Thankfully, I wasn't there and no one got hurt, but man does that deeply upset me. I wish people could just leave each other alone and find commonality in the car scene instead of using it to fuel feuds.
With that behind me, I'm still enjoying the heck out of my car, even if I misconstrue it's mechanical health! Always such a pleasure to send it around corners. It's not a particularly powerful car, so the only thing that matters is how it handles.
Everyone in this town has a one-track mind: fast going forward, and that's it. A little while ago, some idiot in a Golf R wouldn't quit tailgating me on the way to school, so I decided to put him through his paces to see if he knew how to handle the thing. There's a nice upward-sloping lightly-contoured turn onto the road where the school's located, and it would be where I'd lose him. It's a little narrow, but with good spacial awareness and accuracy to drive your FL wheel barely over the shoulder, you can fly up that thing.
Sure enough, as we approach the turn, I see him hit the brakes and finally give me some space. I downshifted into third, putting me at about 4kRPMs or so, and floored it and flew up the hill as mightily as the FS-DE let me. By the time the turn straightened out, there was about a 5-6 car gap between us, and I had strong-armed my breathing room back from him. Of course, as I got onto the main road, he sped past me at WOT and got in front of me, not wanting to be outdone.
And
that's the kind of type of joy that made me truly fall in love with this thing. Damn can you hang in with the "big boys" in the corners, if not flat-out wallop them with a P5! If I get some more power (and tighten the nut holding the wheel some more, ha ha), this thing will be an absolute monster!