My name is Earl, and I have a Stainless Steel bolt fetish =)

[jc43089]

No spacers. there is a bunch of Bondo on the top of the arch.  The arches look terrible, it is pulled out but they didn't remove the seam sealer and flatten the edge.  

I don't stance much, not sure if I can take it much longer.  Do people take the bumper off and move the mounts wider so it holds the bumper wider?  It doesn't rub the metal arch, just the inside of the bumper.  It is creating it's own clearance lol.

I will see what the wheel specs are this weekend.

[Earl]

I don't think people usually run a meaty tire that touches the bumper when lowered. Mine are nowhere near the bumper on either of my cars lol. On my coupe, the seam sealer was removed and then the quarters were just rolled .I don't really have a pull or anything. I wouldn't even really say that car is "stanced". I see no tire stretch and it isn't even all that low (I don't see much of any tire tuck). I also see next to no camber. It just looks like someone put too large of tires on wheels with too low of offset. Being cut stock springs they have to be pretty soft and not help much either.

[Daggerty]

Yeah you must have some low offset, I'm rocking 255 in the back and moving up to 265.

[Earl]

I found a set of latches in decent shape and cleaned them up as best as I could. 

Now I can finish assembling the drivers side door. The passenger side needs to be resprayed so it will probably stay apart this far.

[B C]

A++++ restoration job would click thread again!

[YoungCR]

God damn I never thought I'd get excited over a door latch. Great work Earl!

[Earl]

Recleaned the door one last time

Played with some butyl tape

and voila

[jc43089]

Wow, that looks so nice.  My cars are all so old that everything like that has disappeared.

[Earl]

The ones originally in the car were pretty worse for wear from someone changing the window regulators. I got super lucky having one of the few compacts without self tapping screws being drove through the door panel to hold it on haha

[Jdesign]

Earl said:

" one last time "
 

[Earl]

I removed the clips from my old inner window seal and installed them on the new one as they are NLA

Installed the door card next. Really happy with how it came together. I just need to find my mirror switch and order new mirror covers.

I also got a blower motor cover and removed the insulation. I will be smoothing it out and modifying it a bit as well.

[Earl]

Finally had my new bumper trim so I threw it on to get an idea of how the rear will look when "finished"

[B C]

Yuss!

[jc43089]

That looks good.  It changes the whole look to have the exhaust cutout eliminated.

[Jdesign]

Earl said:

"finished"

LOL.......

Butt man, that looks great!!!

[Earl]

Test fit my new carpets. I should be able to start on the false floor frame shortly 

[B C]

What goes in that cubby space, a wheelbarrow tire?

[Earl]

That is where the compact tool kit usually goes. The donut spare is usually mounted to the underside of the car.

[Jdesign]

Like a pickup. Weird.

[Earl]

I've been meaning to update this but photobucket is blocked at work. 

I had a blockoff plate cut at work to fill the hole in the trunk from the spare tire (don't mind the missing nut. The car usually has a push pin there. I have since ordered a third nut and siliconed the plate in place)

I recleaned the floor boards and removed the handbrake. The car lays frame when aired out and the whole system ( besides the handle itself) was missing from the car ever since I bought it. I will make a blockoff plate for the console until I can make a locking hydraulic handbrake that appears original 

Next up I ended up deciding what radiator I would run. I opted for the e36 radiator made by CSF. It will require some measuring to see what hoses work and such. The radiator is gorgeous and the quality is amazing.
 

I picked up some super rad Reboot Engineering radiator stays to rid of the flimsy, tricky, and ugly OE stays.

I also picked up new rubber isolators and 6 cylinder radiator brackets from the dealer.

Today I threw it in the car to mock it up and have it in place to extend the aux fan temp switch wiring perfectly.

I also finally found the part number for the rear splash guard nuts and threw them on temporarily. 

The last thing I have been working on is finding horns that sound good and aren't obnoxious. Everyone seems to use Hella Supertones and I just hate the sound of them. I opted for Hella Sharptones. Unfortunately they're ugly as sin when you buy them but I fixed that quickly.

I was told that the hardware is garbage and corrodes quickly so the obvious choice was to replace them with stainless socket head hardware.

That brings us up to speed. I have a package enroute from Germany and some other little things here and there, so updates should be coming more frequently=)