Keef's Car Thread | Wheels on the Bus | 09/08/23
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boiltheocean
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Looks HAWT, why would you want to paint your RPF1's by the way? Silver on white looks pretty damn good.
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I think he wants them bright lime-green or flashie pink because he spends way too much time in the Imports thread 
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Personally I'd have the car in a dark brownish tint and the wheels painted white. Awesome combo.
Fantastic looking wheels Keef! 👍
!Personally I'd have the car in a dark brownish tint and the wheels painted white. Awesome combo.
Fantastic looking wheels Keef! 👍
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Keef
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Or how about after the surface rust. I'll need to go to town on my roof very soon indeed. Sand the brown haze off my roof, scuff the old primer, and sand the edge of the flaking paint. Hopefully by doing that I can seal the edges to it won't pull up any more, and seal the metal and whatnot, then paint it white i guess. My sunroof panels has all sorts of crack lines in it now, but at least it's still smooth and sealed.
Also, word is I pulled my front fenders about an inch wider in preparation for a set of NT05s.
Also, I have some wheel bearings going bad. Fun, fun, fun!
Also, my brakes are still messed up...but only when it's cold out. WTF? Planning to buy a new booster. I'll spend a thousand dollars on replacing every brake part imaginable in order to get it to work.
Also, 4-6 week wait on the Spec 2 exhaust. Should I do it? Should I, should I?
Also my car sucks.
Keef
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Meh. The rotors and pads are in great shape still. I already replaced the front calipers with remanufactured ones, I rebuilt the rear calipers, I replaced the rubber hoses with stainless, and installed a brand new master cylinder. People tell me boosters never go bad...we will see when I replace it too.
Wheel bearings are on the list. I also have sets of poly front control arm bushings, rear semi-trailing arm bushings, and Racing Beat toe-eliminator bushings that need to be installed, the latter of which requires disassembly of the bearing carrier anyway. Epic job, that.
Wheel bearings are on the list. I also have sets of poly front control arm bushings, rear semi-trailing arm bushings, and Racing Beat toe-eliminator bushings that need to be installed, the latter of which requires disassembly of the bearing carrier anyway. Epic job, that.
Keef
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Some of you may have heard about this little incident:
The roads in Cincinnati are so bad that they shook my coat hangars loose and broke the welds on the middle hangar. I was on my way back from my post-coilover alignment, in Price Hill near downtown Cincinnati, when it fell off on just as I got on I75. I kept on driving, fixed some jammed calipers on the side of the highway thanks to a kind-hearted fellow with a 14mm wrench, continued all the way to class in downtown Dayton, and then drove back home with a broken exhaust. I dragged it at highway speed for a total of about 70 miles, and that up there is what I found when I got home. Not bad, really.
Rolled and pulled some front fenders recently. Note the epic chippage. We pulled them out about an inch, which is nearly as far as it'll go without turning it concave:
Got some new rubbers today. But this set will actually get used!
Nitto NT05, 235/40-17. That'll do.
The roads in Cincinnati are so bad that they shook my coat hangars loose and broke the welds on the middle hangar. I was on my way back from my post-coilover alignment, in Price Hill near downtown Cincinnati, when it fell off on just as I got on I75. I kept on driving, fixed some jammed calipers on the side of the highway thanks to a kind-hearted fellow with a 14mm wrench, continued all the way to class in downtown Dayton, and then drove back home with a broken exhaust. I dragged it at highway speed for a total of about 70 miles, and that up there is what I found when I got home. Not bad, really.
Rolled and pulled some front fenders recently. Note the epic chippage. We pulled them out about an inch, which is nearly as far as it'll go without turning it concave:
Got some new rubbers today. But this set will actually get used!
Nitto NT05, 235/40-17. That'll do.
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ouch, did you use a heat gun while rolling the fenders? that could have helped prevent all the chipping.
Keef
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Yeah, we had the heat covered pretty well. The paint on the car is just bad all over. It's chipping off all over the place, the roof is peeling something horrible, and i expected to lose the paint from the fenders. They're removable so I'm not worried about rust.
Keef
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I expect to get a driving season or more out of them...minus track wear. I have an M3-driving friend who has used them for a few track days, but every time I see him he's driving his other car. I asked him earlier what kind of life he's getting from them but I haven't heard back yet.
All I know is that they felt sticky to the touch on this 50 degree morning, like, you can't push your fingers across them they're so abrasive. The Falkens didn't do that even when they were fresh.
All I know is that they felt sticky to the touch on this 50 degree morning, like, you can't push your fingers across them they're so abrasive. The Falkens didn't do that even when they were fresh.
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Yeah, because they might be insulted and sue you for harrassment right?
Of course, this is the United States after all.
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No, because you wouldn't be able to make out anything else in the pic.
(just kidding of course
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You might wanna gain some weight before a strong wind blows you back to Ohio.
