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"Be not led astray, bretheren beloved..." -James 1:16.


Thanks, Danyel, for the graphic.

bmwguru and ALLTRBO,
Keep us updated, I for one like the lengthy posts. As mentioned before alot of times details are left out, I might not understand everything (I.E. compressor mapping) but I do like how you sum everything up at the end for us who don't understand. to go along with your lengthy posts, don't forget pictures. WE LOVE PICTURES

keep up the great work!

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"Be not led astray, bretheren beloved..." -James 1:16.


Thanks, Danyel, for the graphic.

I have time to post another segment of progress but then I need to head off to work to make up more time.

Okay, Dave now had the car, Joey and Shawn made it back without it rolling down the highway and killing someone. A big plus.
He pulled all of my loose parts out of the car and labeled them (probably more individually than I did I guess) and set them near the car. Now it was all ready and set up in it's new temporary pseudo-German home.

First up, brakes and front suspension.

One of the Powerslot Corvette rotors, freshly re-drilled to 5x100. I had included one stock '88 rotor for the template...




The cradle assembly pulled back down to get ready for more work...




The front suspension is completely put back together in these next pics. I hadn't touched the front since I bought it, but now it's better than new. I had Dave ditch the poly sway bar links altogether and install Rodney Dickman's zero-lash end links (for the rear too). Apparently the sway-bar inner mounts were stock-rubber still so I ordered some poly mounts for him to install, but the company had them incorrectly listed as 84-88 mounts when they were really 84-87 mounts so they wouldn't fit. Dave took care of getting the right ones and installed them. He installed the Koni struts, swapped out the cut springs for the stock 88 springs, and tightened up everything else to factory specs. The steering was gone over as well. The car will get a full 4-wheel performance alignment to my specs once it's able to drive onto the alignment rack.






The new brake rotors sat behind the new wheels while the calipers were sent off to be powdercoated...



The calipers had been returned from the powdercoaters. I chose silver because it goes with everything and looks good. I'd like them to be the same color the top of my car will be, but there is no powdercoat that will match that Candy so they'll have to be painted over if I ever decide on that. For now silver is great, and is a massive improvement over the nasty old used condition they were in...




The brakes are now complete (less parking brake) with the re-drilled rotors, centering rings, caliper spacer brackets, rebuilt calipers, braided lines, and filled with the Motul fluid.

More prior updates later.

Have a happy Thanksgiving everybody!

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quote Originally posted by PhantomMs1: bmwguru and ALLTRBO, Keep us updated, I for one like the lengthy posts. As mentioned before alot of times details are left out, I might not understand everything (I.E. compressor mapping) but I do like how you sum everything up at the end for us who don't understand. to go along with your lengthy posts, don't forget pictures. WE LOVE PICTURES keep up the great work!

Sure thing. Everyone here loves pics of this stuff, very true. Unfortunately I didn't get as many pics as I would have liked to when I still had it, but there will be many more to come, I promise.

They say a picture is worth a thousand words... In that case I really should have taken more, that would have saved me a lot of typing!

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