A bit more updates,

Finally bought a new starter solenoid as the other one is acting up, and along that I bought some nice 2 gauge extra thick shielded wiring for it ($4 a foot though ) . That should make the car want to start up nice and easily

I had 2 piece of wire in there before as a temperary thing, but now i can do the whole thing properly.

I should be seeing my calipers back tomorrow or friday, and once i do I'll post before and after pictures of things

 

Made a few phone calls around and looks like I might be doing my corner weight scaling next saturday

 

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I had a mkIII supra awhile back and your front end looks a lot like the one you have

also would you happen to know where you got your rims?

 

The rims I bought from a forum member a couple years back, they're ASA rims. Nothing really special.

 

well here's the before and after shots of the calipers let me know what you guys think

 

Damn what a difference!! Almost impossible to believe it's the same caliper! You could sell those as 'brand new from the factory' convincingly Good job!

 

Yeah those guys at Brake And Steering Rebuilders do a great job. I had my stockers rebuilt there and was thoroughly impressed. Unfortunatly I didnt bother painting them so they have a light coating of surface rust.

 

So finally scored some hubs for the front, my order from Re-speed just got shipped out yesterday and will be about 2 weeks, my tax return has been filled and sent and that will be a couple of weeks also till i see that money then its time to buy those rims and rubber

Now I'm tossing the rubber between the R888 and the BFG R1 as talking to a guy who can get them for me for basically the same price as the R888 (still around 800$), but he says that the R1 is consistently 2-3 second faster than the r888 on a one mile track, downfall is if it ever rains i'm screwed 'cause they're as close to slicks as it comes.

 

Just realized that I had loaded up those weight numbers in this thread ... here they are:
With driver and full tank:

 

Few more updates, got the hubs on hand now just gotta clean them up and install some new bearings and seals for them which will be in tomorrow morning. Also got the new front and rear brake rotors in today. Still gotta find out what pads I'm going to run, most likely the hawks again though as I liked those.

 

Well your days just doesn't get any better when you receive a big box of parts from Re-Speed, and then a couple of hours later you get a big tax refund check! What a good week this is starting out to be

 

i gotta say man, gorgeous car. id love to one day completely restore my GSLSE this way, but no money...

 

Finally the weather warms up a bit and get a chance to install the Sturt tower bar.

 

A man after my own heart; you're doing excellent work on this!

 

UUUMM pretty. i thought you raced CSP though. I thought your strut tower bar cannot attach to the firewall in CSP.

 

I really don't care too much about what classing i go in ... I just do it for fun ... but if comes down to it, I can just remove those bars at the autocross. I did more time attacks anyways last year than auto cross and prefer that anyways. More speed more fun.

 

Just tossing this out there for my own reference : 185/60/14 6JR14 ET22

 

well finally had some chance to take some measurements of the rims and stuff. Like I previously mentioned the rims will be from Kodiak racing. This is the style and color:



The rims will be 15x8 the front will have a backspacing of 4.4" (111mm) thats an offset of -3mm (-0.1"), the rears will have a backspacing of 4.9" (124mm) and an offset of 10mm (0.4"). Unless I decide to do 8.5" in the back i'll see its only like 3$ difference to go to 8.5".

 

Have you dyno'ed the car yet?

 

More than one occasion ... Last I made was 159.4 whp. Should be able to squeeze maybe another 10+ once I redo my crush bent exhaust with a full mandrel bent and hopefully add a megaphone and expansion chamber. Also another thing that I'll be doing is a cold air intake as oppose to just sucking air from right ontop of the engine bay. Once I hit that goal I'll be happy with it as NA, then i'll be moving to supercharging with ITB's.

 

Went to do a little wheel shopping today for a second set for daily driving and what not, and i think its rims off a ford ranger. 15x7 5x114.3 with a backspacing of 4.5" perfect for our cars.

 

Post your pic of the strut bar in the Re-speed section of the vendor forum. I'll be posting mine there when I get home.

 

car looks hot! congrats

 

Those rims are hot as hell sam!

 

thanks guys .. just a correction the rims are actually off a 93-95 explorer from what i've been told. This is what they look like:



They're not in the greatest condition, and they're 2 different colors one pair is beige and the other is that graphite color in the above pic. I'm redoing them in a few minutes to painting them all graphite. Also got them super cheap too, I paid 40$ for 4 195-50-15 toyo proxies FZ4 tires, and the rims I got for 35$ a piece, and 40$ to have them installed and balanced. So 220$ ... thats what i call a bargain.