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All great updates! Glad to hear you're enjoying it already.

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Cant wait to see more progress!

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Been burning the midnight oil getting this thing done, hoping to take it up to Duluth for the weekend. Few more updates.

Got the fender, door and rear quarter. Had to clean up some light damage on all three pieces.

Fiberglass work.
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/IMG_4049.jpg

Test fitting the fender.
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/IMG_4051.jpg

Out for a drive last Sunday.
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The finished side.
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Bring it to Culver's tonight? :D

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I'd like to, but I've got a mad thrash to get the bodywork done and painted by tomorrow night. I know that's a tall order, especially since I haven't painted a car since my GSX 13 years ago.

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Nice work!

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More progress today. Got all the parts painted and clear coated. Had to stop at two coats of clear because the bugs were coming out. I'll put it all together tomorrow and next week scuff it and clear the whole car for a nice even shine. Taking her up to Brainerd for boy's weekend.

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Cleared and almost ready for color sanding.

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Looking great! Nice updates.

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Nice and shiny!

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Got 'er done Friday morning at 2:30am, reminded me of the inevitable shootout thrashes back in the day. Got up and headed up to Brainerd for the weekend. Definitely happy, it runs and drives fantastic. I just have a couple small things to touch up but it's 95% there. Now onto the mods. :D

http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/IMG_4070.JPG
http://www.mitsustyle.com/photopost/...m/IMG_4072.JPG

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Looks good!

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Nice job! That was a fast turn around!

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Thanks! Still not in love with the silver, but it's growing on me. Wouldn't be terribly hard to do a full color change to anything I want. I kinda miss dark blue. :D

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Silver has actually grown on me a lot. I really like the color I think it looks great!

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Looking great!

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Got a few new pieces this week. Picked up a regular painted targa roof from a local on CL so I'll have both tops, and ordered a new wheel to replace the damaged one up front. It looks like the Alignment guy is moving to a new location at the end of the month or so, so I'll see if I can get in there Monday or Tuesday to get a proper alignment as well.

One thing I'll say, it sure is nice having air conditioning and cruise control in your sports car. Didn't care about those things with the GSX that much, but now that I have them again, I wondered how I did without. I must be getting old. :D

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Nice score on the painted top! Black I assume?

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Correct, faded black, soon to be blade silver since I have plenty of extra paint. Cheaper than the ones on ebay too.

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Get your ride height bolts set exactly where you want them before the alignment. I went from stock with alignment in-spec, to lowered on the stock bolts and it threw specs outside the factory range.

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I'm trying to decide if I want to lower it at all, it already scrapes a bit on my driveway.

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As long as its only the rubber, that's designed to hit and flex.

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How much can you drop on stock bolts?

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I dropped mine about an inch I'd say, but there was room to go further, maybe 1.5-2 max.

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C7's have about an inch of adjustment; .5 up or down from factory height.

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Wow, that's more than I thought. I think I'll do about an inch tomorrow as well.

Thanks.

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Car looked good.

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I do remember it being pretty high to start with though, so who knows if it was at factory height to start with. Regardless, there is a lot of adjustment. You can always shave the pad a bit too for a little more drop.

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Well, I chickened out and didn't lower it. Brought it to Jeff and had it aligned so it drives nice and straight. Bah, I'm old and it's low enough already. :D

Also got around to working on the stereo a bit. It's a non-Bose system with an aftermarket bluetooth deck. The factory 10" door woofers really blew so I replaced them with some nice 6.5" Alpine components. Got some bass back but still needs a sub. I'll get around to that shortly.

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Basslink! simple and compact and sounds decent!

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I second this. It's the only way to go imo.

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I need something that fits with the top in the back and I don't mind doing fiberglass work so I'll end up building a custom box for it.

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Ha, been enjoying the hell out of this thing, I take it every time I don't have to haul family around.

Got to Rock Falls last weekend and got some runs in. Definitely not what I expected running a best of 12.8@113mph, but unlike the old days, didn't have to do a thing to it but hot lap over and over. The temp was 92 degrees so I'm pretty sure it was pulling some timing, but a few mods to the air inlet shroud should add some missing HP. Sure was nice cruising back with the AC on. :D

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More time running/having fun and then add AC, sound perfect to me.

Time to hit up some racing with turns now!

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True, need to find a time up at BIR when it's not a bunch of kids drifting. I need to get in the local Vette scene, I've seen at least five just in my area, including a new ZO6 that got sideways right in front of me the other day.

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^Try some auto-x and events at DCTC. I loved the DCTC stuff, local and usually at a great price.

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Pretty much every event that isn't pg or powercruise then. The average age is about cut in half at those events.

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There really is no Vette scene that I know of haha. Just the dealerships do some vette days, all filled with older people. :)

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Yeah, I looked up a couple local Vette clubs and their pics are all of people WAY older than me. Hmm, no thanks. :D

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I plan to make cars and coffee this saturday, you should come out.