someone wanted you to check these out mike

http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showto...p;#entry1090099

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Ahh, I forgot you can't tag people on this forum.

Yeah I saw them, Ive thought about doing that type of mod for a while but havent found a way for it to look good and still be functional.


Had a pain with the rear knuckles this past weekend.
Those 12" bolts are no joke. Ended up taking it to a machine shop to sort out.

Hopefully it all works out so that I can install this weekend.

Also still looking for a set of wheels to replace the RPF1's. There is no way the front will fit well methinks

on the eve of what will hopefully be a successful work day, here is a dump of pics from what I got up to yesterday evening

here are some pics of the machined out knuckle bolts and the pushed out trailing arm knuckle bushing, following that are a few pics of what they looked like after I spent a few minutes hitting them with the glass media blaster
















towards the end of the night, i found out that the T3 kit is a bit incomplete. On each heim joint are a couple spacers. They come with 2 sizes, one large one used for the big knuckle and subframe bolts and a smaller sixe that is used for the trailing arm knuckle bolts. I guess for whatever reason T3 has 2 of the control arms using the smaller bolts. Which they dont on our car. So I contacted them to see if they could send me the larger diameter spacers. For the time being I am going to see if I can drill the smaller ones out to the size then need to be




I had enough of the large spacers to bolt everything to the subframe but not enough to bolt them to the knuckle


Energy Suspensions Lubricant is AWESOME, id say it is a must have for anyone doing polyurethane bits. So much better then what came with the front LCA bushing from poland.


the DBA rear STI rotors next to the ST205 rears



how I left it for the night


This post has been edited by Tigawoods: May 13, 2017 - 8:54 AM

Will be interesting to see how it performs once all back together, shame about them sending the wrong size spacers.

isn't this what you made or were looking at making??

http://www.farpost.ru/novosibirsk/auto/gt/...d-42540873.html

welp the STI rotors didnt fit...of course. Didnt take very long to figure that out.
They mounted on the hub fine but the issue came when I went to mount the caliper. The disc is 2mm too thick. They are 20mm thick not 18mm as I had read. SO either I may shave them down so its not $$$ down the drain and useless discs OR. Try and redrill the ST205 rotors when after a bit of consideration, looks to be feasible

Also. E-Brake assembly is a pain do. No matter how many times I do it, its always the WORST


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So far everything has no give haha

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Yeah, that was before I found other things to do to keep me busy haha

This post has been edited by Tigawoods: May 15, 2017 - 1:05 PM

got the right spacers in for the arms and re-installed them and re-greased the knuckle bolts to make sure that they never stick again


took time to clean and grease the components in the calipers. took a shot of everything while it is clean



and finally took the time to install the front lip. For a first time putting any sort of exterior mod on the car it went fairly smoothly. The fit inst 100% but It doesnt really bother me.
Next is the skirts, which will be a bit more difficult




also, have to sell the RPF1's since they dont fit. Have my eyes on a set of WEDS that are even lighter.
Found out that Gridlife requires a cage. So I am starting to look into half cages. That means the 3 point rear, harness bar and floor bar may be for sale at somepoint

This post has been edited by Tigawoods: May 30, 2017 - 11:21 AM

Front lip looks great! Looking forward to seeing it all installed.

yea lip looks awesome. I would switch to a pre face bumper along with preface fogs if i had that lip in my garage.

I still love that lip.

yeah the lip doenst stick out on the sides as much as I had expected it to. It doesnt even look back with just the lip and no skirts

Isn't that lip for the post-face only? Actually looks like it fits pretty well. I've been looking into lips so I was just wondering. Might retrofit a sc300/supra lip but I would for sure like the Postert Lip.

no its just for the preface. Funked has this listed as the postert lip but I think its actually the Aeromagic lip

The PS pump for whatever reason finally started idling down. It gets pretty quiet when its at low idle. It seems to have a High, Med, Low speed. It hit low around 12 or so seconds after not input is detected.
Changed out the ground AN fitting in the sensor block for the PS temp sensor and now its reading again, I drove the car fairly hard throughout the weekend and I didnt see temps more than 110 degrees. Not too bad but I will have to see if it gets any hotter during a race

Got a sponsorship deal with Wedsport and I am looking into grabbing their TC105N's, as far as I can tell they are the lightest wheels I can find that will fit over the ST205 calipers (I couldn't find a good way to get the RPF1's to fit), unfortunately they wont get in until Late August. Which means no racing for me until then

pic from a meet this past weekend. The front lip fits pretty good. It still needs some tweaking.
Also still looking for some clips I can use to mount the skirts


This post has been edited by Tigawoods: Jun 6, 2017 - 11:57 AM

you parked wayyy too close to that mustang.

It's going to do a burnout in reverse and smash into you.

since im not trying to navigate through your 7 kajillion billion pages of your build.

how many miles on the chassis???

ya your car looks ugly without rear valence pieces and sideskirts. hurry up!

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I was already parked. HE parked behind ME! Get outtaa heere

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Maybe somewhere around 180k I think

started the little mirror project.

Messed with some body filler for the first time. Other than the short useable time before it begins to harden, it is pretty fun to work with.
The mirrors had a few gaps that I wanted to fill up so that water wouldnt get in and sit.




Put down some primer and primer sealant before going to basecoat (using an aresol can of really well matching basecoat from Automotive Touchup) it was getting fairly hot and humid out as I began to lay down the basecoat. One of the mirrors ended up getting a couple dog hairs in it and I had to let the base dry and wet sand them out. The clear coat went on well as well despite the high temps and humidity. Despite that setbacks that one mirror came out flawless.




the other mirror, was about 30 minutes behind in steps than the first mirror. That unfortunately made a difference. There might have been a bump in humidity, and I may not have waited long enough after spraying the base but as I sprayed, it developed a bunch of craters in the clear. SO I gave up, let it dry then later that evening wetsanded the clear down to the base and, resprayed the base and then re-cleared. The room I was doing it in was a bit less humid but as I was going through the basecoat spraying I think all the aresol on the air bumped the humidity up. I said screw it and did the clear anyway. It came out nice and even but was heavy on the orange peel so I just added a layer or two more so that I would be able to wet sand it down.

top is the good one bottom is the bad one


left bad right good

Those look pretty cool, can't wait to see how they look on the car.

but that coefficient drag though!!

do you have your heart set on these http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-ORIGINAL-RECARO-...kc7&vxp=mtr

cant let Photobucket get me down I suppose

Got my custom Beatrush panel in

much better than having an empty hole



the mirrors are about 99.9% done. I wetsanded both to get the imperfections and orange peel out. It worked pretty well. After compounding and correcting them I found light sanding marks still in the clear so I will have to make another pass with a more aggressive polishing pad.




the glass that came with the mirrors was blindspot central. Attempted to cut some convex glass. That failed (twice), so I got another pair and took them to a glass shop and had them cut and sand it down in a jiffy. We copied the shape of the glass that came with the mirrors but it could be shaped better so at some point I will make another pair




some defects popped up on one of the skirts so I took it back to get repainted. These skirts have been a pain.

mirrors looks great.
as for the skirts. at this point, I feel like you're gonna need to start a discussion on facepage with 128+ posts to get it finished.

Only if I get to tag you in the first comment!

Winding down a bit on everything and recouping some $ for some projects later.
This winter will be just tidying up things and messing around with my diffuser a bit.
Still waiting on the TC105Ns to get in, I had hoped to get a couple track days in this fall but if that doesnt happen, not a big deal. I just want to live life sans car nonsense for a bit. This will probably be the last update for a little while.





This post has been edited by Tigawoods: Sep 6, 2017 - 8:47 AM

And if it was left as-is, it's still a great piece. As much as I like stock cars, the way you modified yours is very desirable.

just gonna leave a "meh" here.

meh...

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^Indeed. As much as I also like stock cars I think ones tastefully modified are just as nice, or can even be better.

This post has been edited by Box: Sep 6, 2017 - 4:42 PM

Im trying to stay within the boundaries of retaining a clean looking car and not get TOO race car. I think a cage, front splitter and a wing would still keep me within those boundaries. Maybe someday I will be able to afford a respray and a re-do of the hood