The Cart Before the Horse: Spec 3 Build

[Senor_Taylor]

Spent some time in the garage yesterday and today.

Front suspension is strilled down to the subframe. Waiting on parts to come in to replace everything. New (to me) bilstein struts with Vogtland Springs assembled. Rear suspension taken out and trailing arm ready to have the bushing pressed out. Borrowed the RTAB tool from Christina.

Jake popped by and peer pressured me into letting him strip more interior out, so him and Tyler ripped some more stuff out, leaving me with nothing behind the front seats and a missing front passenger door card. Not sure I want to strip it further than that just yet. I'll see how miserable it is to drive on the street in its current state, but I can imagine the 4 hours to VIR won't be fun.

When pulling the control arms, I saw absolutely nothing wrong with the ball joints that it apparently failed inspection for. They weren't new, but visual inspection showed nothing wrong and they had no vertical slop. No idea how anyone could fail them. I did get the passenger seat back in.

Plan of attack for tomorrow is press RTABS out and press new ones in, shove a resistor in the drive seat buckle plug. Pray to the various gods that my FCPEuro Package comes in. See if I can track down my new found coolant leak on the cooling system that was just refreshed 3 days before me picking up the car.


This week - My Limiters come on Monday, install those Tuesday after work and get the Rtabs finished. Pray again that my FCPEuro Package comes.

Left to do:
Install front control arms
Front Tie Rods
Front Sway bar links
Front struts with reinforcements
Front brakes
Bleed brakes
Rear shocks with reinforcements
Front SubFrame Xbrace
Get the car titled and registered
Clear air bag code when my scanner comes in
Get the car aligned and registered
Swap passenger seat back to race seat
Fix passenger window

Then hopefully I'll have all of this done by the last refrigerator bowl so I can shake the car down in preparation for March VIR.

Last thing I need to do before then is get tires mounted on my Style 32s. I think I've decided to not go R-Comps yet, so I'll look for some RE71s or similar.

Hopefully after that, I can do every other event with NASA and maybe some autocrosses. Then get my subframe and diff bushings done, while at the same time have my subframe reinforcements welded. Beyond that, I don't think I have anything planned for this car, unless someone can suggest something I'm missing.