Been lurking on this site long enough, so here's my intro.
Bought the car a little over a year ago with some major problems. Overheated, wouldn't hold a charge, and the rear suspension had an undiagnosed issue. Quick and dirty story is that most of the issues were easy fixes: a new fan cured the overheating issue, a new alternator battery solved the charging issue and a new subframe solved the rear end isssue.
Enough talk, onto the pics:
First track day:
Here's the alignment at "0" on the camber plates. The front tire will actually be closer to flush/under the fender with a bit o' camber added in:
Tire fitment in the rear. Rubs a bit under full compression and/or with a passenger in the back seat, but not too bad for stuffing a 225 r-comp under there. A light rolling should help.
Paint's not too bad for an 18-year-old car. As you can see I'm missing a duct in the front valence. At some point I'll get around to addressing the looks department stuff.
As it sits now, I've basically completed the restoration/reliability stuff:
Full rear suspension rebuild including:
Bilstein shocks/HR Sport springs
GC rear strut mounts
New subframe, blasted and powdercoated
Powerflex TA bushings, IE subframe bushings
IE weld-in alignment kit
New rotors/pads
SS lines
Front suspension rebuild including:
New front control arms/balljoints
Offset M3 control arm bushings
New tierod ends
GC SpecE30 Camber/Caster plates
New rotors/pads
SS lines
Other than that, a set of 15x8 slipstreams wearing 225 Yoko AO32 r-tires and some misc. parts here and there. Street wheels are Ronal LS with BF Goodrich G-force Sports.
Future plans are:
Alignment (just got the car back on the ground over the weekend)
Roll the fenders
Strip it bare
Power mods (? not sure what's effective, probably just an intake and a chip)
Install Corbeau seats/rollbar/harness. It'll get a full cage at some point, but for now a rollbar/harness bar will do fine. I'm open to recommendations on that point, as I haven't really researched it thus far.
Bought the car a little over a year ago with some major problems. Overheated, wouldn't hold a charge, and the rear suspension had an undiagnosed issue. Quick and dirty story is that most of the issues were easy fixes: a new fan cured the overheating issue, a new alternator battery solved the charging issue and a new subframe solved the rear end isssue.
Enough talk, onto the pics:
First track day:
Here's the alignment at "0" on the camber plates. The front tire will actually be closer to flush/under the fender with a bit o' camber added in:
Tire fitment in the rear. Rubs a bit under full compression and/or with a passenger in the back seat, but not too bad for stuffing a 225 r-comp under there. A light rolling should help.
Paint's not too bad for an 18-year-old car. As you can see I'm missing a duct in the front valence. At some point I'll get around to addressing the looks department stuff.
As it sits now, I've basically completed the restoration/reliability stuff:
Full rear suspension rebuild including:
Bilstein shocks/HR Sport springs
GC rear strut mounts
New subframe, blasted and powdercoated
Powerflex TA bushings, IE subframe bushings
IE weld-in alignment kit
New rotors/pads
SS lines
Front suspension rebuild including:
New front control arms/balljoints
Offset M3 control arm bushings
New tierod ends
GC SpecE30 Camber/Caster plates
New rotors/pads
SS lines
Other than that, a set of 15x8 slipstreams wearing 225 Yoko AO32 r-tires and some misc. parts here and there. Street wheels are Ronal LS with BF Goodrich G-force Sports.
Future plans are:
Alignment (just got the car back on the ground over the weekend)
Roll the fenders
Strip it bare
Power mods (? not sure what's effective, probably just an intake and a chip)
Install Corbeau seats/rollbar/harness. It'll get a full cage at some point, but for now a rollbar/harness bar will do fine. I'm open to recommendations on that point, as I haven't really researched it thus far.
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