Finally! After about 6 months of wanting to swap out the suspension, it’s finally done. Okay, so about four of those months were spent just waiting on back-ordered parts and two months of it were just waiting for a free weekend. Back while it was still in the shop to be painted, I a met […]
Yay! My new wheels and tires arrived today (new to me, at least). I was trying to go for this look. I searched and searched for what’s actually in that picture, but they’d been discontinued. I got these used ones from a nice guy in Sunnyvale, CA for a pretty good price considering that it […]
Friday I used some high-temperature flat black spray paint (bought at Home Depot) to spray all the stuff in the air scoop back to black again. Over time it had “gray-ed” and chipped which you can see in some of the previous pictures. At Amazon one reviewer says that a small spill of brake fluid […]
So there’s a lull in activity. I’ve done some more cleanup (pictures to come) and minor repairs (battery replacement, bulb replacements, wired up the fog lights, etc). I’m waiting on some back-ordered parts to come in. When they do, I’ll be changing out most of the replaceable suspension parts (some of the bushings, struts, insulators, […]
This past Monday (4 1/2 months later) I got the car home for good. It’s shiny again. I’ve still got some work to do (waxing, interior, new tires/wheels, new suspension, etc), but here are some pictures. The bad: Okay… These pictures are at flattering angles. Up close, things aren’t perfect. At the beginning I […]
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to let me veritable pot’o’water sit on the stove a bit longer before I watched it again. Well, today I went by to check on things and low and behold… Huzzah! It’s painted–clearcoat and all. 3 color coats plus 1 extra color coat on hood and roof. As […]
It has been a while since I’ve posted, but here’s a quick update. I got the car back to the votech, and things are rolling again. The OEM side skirts have been fitted. So, that’s progress. There shouldn’t be anything after that except to mask it off (again) and move it into the paint booth. […]
This past Thursday I received my car back from my mechanic. The coil in the distributor had gone out on it. I don’t think this could have been caused by the guys at the votec. It was most likely due just to age, or it could have been helped along to destruction because of an […]
Well, there’s officially a hiccup in the whole process now… As I previously wrote: the body shop votec said that the engine would turn over but would not fire when they went to move it into the paint booth. They were going to take it next door to the votec department that teaches engine repair […]
Well, I went by to check up on things last Friday, and nope, still not in the paint booth. They said it wouldn’t start–just turns over, but won’t fire. Fortunately, they have a mechanics division of the votec. So it was supposed to go over there yesterday to fix that problem. I also delivered some […]