It's slowly getting closer. After making aluminum fuel lines with steel Parker fittings I decided that was a bad idea... So I switch to stainless lines with stainless fittings. I found a place in town that stocks stainless fittings for a great price. Check out Titan Fittings if you ever decide to build a fuel system.
At this point, all the major components have been fitted. I still have some welding to do on the intercooler piping and I've decided to powder coat the pipping to match the manifolds. Parts to build a new wiring harness should be here this week and I get the joy of trying to wrestle a stock harness through the firewall. The first time I did this.. I managed to throw away my wiper harness as its combined with the engine harness. This time I plan on keeping functional windshield wipers! If this thing is ever derivable, I'll take it to the car wash to give the engine bay a good scrub.
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Finally got the tires off the old wheels and they need some work! I think I'll need some smaller spacers this time around. The fronts are 8in wide and the rears are 9 so I'm looking at 235/40 or 45's in the front and 255/40 in the rear. The plan here was to powder coat them Spanish gold however I'm looking at some options to paint them instead. I worry about the powder coating temps starting to cause precipitation hardening of the wheels. The anecdotal evidence on the interwebs seem to show that forged wheels don't seem to be bothered by powder coat temps however semi-forged and gravity cast wheels are more susceptible to fatigue cracking after powder coat.
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When I originally drove the car home.. it drove like crap on the coilovers. It was too stiff and bouncy and occasionally you would get a clunk from the suspension. Well below is a good example of how not to set your suspension up. One coilover had all three lock rings tightened against the lower spring seat. It looks like the last owner had tried to raise the ride height by adding spring preload. None of the lower lock rings were tight against the body of the coilover so it could move back in forth from the play in the thread.
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