Cute lil daughter helping her dad do the work. Wish I still had mine so my daughter can get her hand dirty with my tools too. Nice build

 

Happy New Year, and happy new rear brakes! Since I haven't touched the car in months aside from always having to charge the battery to get it out of the garage I gave it a little attention today. Installed a drivers harness with a current FIA rating to replace my expired Sparco, and then gave the brakes a little upgrade.

I hadn't removed the rear rotors in years, and it took me about five minutes to remember that they require a little help with some extraction screws to get them off. If you try getting them off without that trick you may go insane, or use a hammer way to big!



The good stuff mounted.



Here's a subtle detail to remember. Two piece rotors require brake pads that are clearanced for the mounting hardware on the hub side. In the picture below you will see a new Raybestos ST43 pad for the inside on the left, in the center is the clearanced ST43 for the outside (hub side), and on the right is the Ferodo DS2500 that coming out. Notice the Ferodo is not clearanced at all, and totally interferes if you try and install them.



Also notice that Ferodo uses Alpha Romeo pads for the EVO apparently...



Here you can see the area that needs the clearance.

 

^ Very good thing to know!! Thank you very much.

Full pad replacement is on the list as soon as my tranny comes in (no, not the surgery, purchasing a whole new unit)

 

Wow... 2 Piece rear rotors! Didnt know anyone made them for the stock setup..

 

^there are actually a couple who make 2 piece rotors for the oem brembos like giro disc, racing brake, dba, works. there may be a few others that i missed.

 

Roll bar for this year. Bought it from a friend who had it custom built - not enough time to build my own....

 

Nice thread man.

 

nice, cant wait to try out my new ducts on apr 9th.

 

Hi i am having a little oil leak on the HG after just 6 months of rebuilt...
Im using OEM metal gasket and is it serious for little oil leak thru the HG?
The leak is just 1 spot below the intake manifold...

 

^^^ Yeah sometimes it's tricky to get them to seal. I had to redo mine after the rebuild last year.

 

very nice

 

I think I want to paint my wheels blue now........

 

I think it would look good, I presume the same color as the cage? Crew chief looked like she had the splitter on lock

 

YES on blue Jared!

 

Yeah - gonna go blue when these tires come off, same stuff as the roll bar. Should look pretty killer. The olive drab was a neat idea, but in practice they just end up dirty and turn into a boring flat colored dark shade of blah.

Got all the oilz freshened up for the year. Made the switch from Mobile 1 15W-50 racing to Brad Penn 20W-50. The transmission got new Redline MT90, the rear diff Redline 75W-90 gear oil, and Redline Heavy Weight Shockproof for the transfer case. Man shockproof is such gnarly stuff - bright pink and thick as bugger snot. I got a large helping of it on the garage floor pumping it into the transfer case, it made a wicked pink mess and was tough to wipe up.

Gonna drive the car to Portland tomorrow to empty the tank of gas and put in some e85, might check the tune on the drive home. Should be ready for a track day next week.

I didn't realize this Brad Penn "the green oil" was actually green in color, I thought it was a hippy statement!



Drink up buddy.