project reach-around

[craig]

carb needs a lot of work before test and compare but we shall soon enough. miles will start to be put on it soon here I heard snow soon though.

[craig]

It was fun driving it last night but that rear caliper pisses me off, so I bout 2 new rotors set of ok pads and 2 new caliper and have them on the car. These are for the front of a late 80's grand am though so I lost the e-brake but I will add a line lock to act as such. the major difference is that the rotors are thicker and are vented unlike the stock rotors.

[TkrPerformance]

pic's of the new set up compared to the old ones craig

[craig]

I have them on the camera but that's down in the garage I'll post em later. Need someone to help with bleeding brakes seeming I'm too cheap to buy the vacuum system to do it by myself.

[lucasoil4u]

just buy the speed bleeders with the check valve in them to do it by yourself it makes it pretty easy.

[craig]

I work at an auto store still too cheap to buy them when I just need another person to help

[craig]

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

Nice. What does that thing have for front brakes? And will those rears screw up the bias much?

[craig]

has the same front brakes as a chevette which suck something horrible, as for bias this is a popular swap and have heard nothing of it hurting the braking. I have stomped on the brakes(car will not lock them up to save a life) with nothing but a quick stop and the engine shutting off.

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

Hahahaha a Chevette... I can only imagine how much they suck. Isn't there anything better you can put on the front?

[craig]

yeah but its over a grand to do and a new set of rims no matter what on top of that to fit them.

[Kevin 1G Drummer]

well that sucks

[craig]

Well long time no reply but mark killed it using it to drive back and forth to work the last few weeks. Ended up the clutch wasn't enough for the engine so a new one is being ordered. Him and my dad will be doing some other tweaking to it as needed as long as the engine is out. I never drive the thing seeming I need to transport my daughter around and this wont do it at all, So seeming I drove it maybe five times in the last few years it's sad taht its broken already.

Hopefully one day it can be painted and competed to what I wanted it to be but for now new clutch and hopefully back on the road as the loaner vehicle.

[TkrPerformance]

After 1500 miles it is all back apart


The broken clutch disk. A new center force clutch is on it way thanks to Shane.

How it is sitting in the drive way right now