Yesterday I took the SC for an extended drive, about 2.5 hours. I found two issues. There a leak at the steering rack. It may be the variable speed solenoid. Then I had some clipping the last few miles home. The power was cutting out every 2 seconds. When I made it home I restarted the car and it went away. Not sure what that was about. No fuses blew.

Brake shoes are literally the dumbest invention ever. Putting them together is ridiculously hard and fiddly. Zero pictures of the progress but after 1.5 hours the car has new brakes shoes. These were definitely original to the car. Getting them separated from the car took WD40 and a hammer. The old caliper pins look like the were in the ocean. Even the ebc pads I installed are looking rough. Braking and the hydro gotta improve.

I tried to do some carbon overlay of a few parts. I’m not confident it’s going to come out great but we will see in the morning.

Hopefully they clean up when dry and trimmed.

I did stuff.

Trunk trim, hung the ps lines, welded the broken seatbelt nut, seam sealed the qp, installed the radio, seperated the mounts from the sun visors and installed them in the roof to fix the corners of the headliner sagging, painted the bottom of the qp’s, and fixed the broken ps plug.

Up next is cleaning and welding the new diff, tint if the weather warms up, brake shoes, change and bleed brake fluid, interior back in minus seats, and refiberglassing the door cards.

The intakes should be delivered in 2 more weeks. I’m very hype about this upgrade. There is dyno info showing the increase in tq and power but more importantly, the sound is amazing. Not crazy about the color but…

Some of the last few items to finish the car. Picked up a 4.27 diff to swap in place of the 4.08 in order to make the car more tandem friendly. The rest of the line and some holders. Also a new drier for the AC system.

Couldn’t help but put the brakes on. Which is dumb because they have to come back off to fit the shoes when they come. But wouldja look at thayat?? Just look at it…

All the parts came in except the new shoes. I’m headed out for the weekend so I won’t be able to assemble everything for a few. Rounding the last few corners.

I broke my shifter bezel trying to polish it. I also broke my fan shroud. These parts have gotten stupid expensive. So instead of replacing them I’m going to do a carbon overlay.

Started with the shroud.

These staples work amazing. Its just hard to know when you’re at the right depth. This plus the epoxy hopefully makes a strong bond.

Shift bezel was a bit easier.

Carbon overlay tonight.