Touring International

[Evil Panda]

Eff that, lol.

[Chigga]

I assume ABS and AC delete?

[Earl]

I assume ABS and AC delete?

I am being very daily driver unfriendly for the sake of a clean bay. No ABS, A/C, power steering, or washer fluid. I have even been thinking about getting a tilton pedal box to eliminate having the brake booster and a master cylinder in the bay.

[Earl]

So the bay got some much needed attention this weekend.

Saturday and Sunday my friend Greaser Kyle started working his fabrication magic on the bay.

I should have gone to him in the first place. Whate neded up happening is the guy I had weld before layed really tall tacks and when I ground them out, it ended up making some thin spots. This lead to Kyle having to fix blow through as well as patch a section that got really thin from his grinding. He is working out out so there won't be any issues after he is done.

I started saturday morning by removing one of the last brackets.




I didn't get many pictures of what Kyle got done.

Here is the hole he cut to patch where it got thin.


You can see it all patched up here.

That mount of weld up top was to add some thickness where a little hole was. He wants to use as much weld as possible so that I really don't need much filler at all later.

He is gone up north this coming weekend and then gone hunting the next, as well as Thanksgiving. I won't see him for about three weeks so that means I will be working on routing the airlines for the front through the inside of the car as well as finally putting my motor together a bit more=)

[244Brick]

Nice work man! For little holes like that. If you put a piece brass under it, you can fill the hole a lot easier

[Earl]

Nice work man! For little holes like that. If you put a piece brass under it, you can fill the hole a lot easier

We are actually doing that with some copper bars that I pounded flat=)

[244Brick]

O well excuse me

[Earl]

No updates with the car due to an accident Wednesday. Long story short, I was scraping nonconforming mirrors at work and the last sheet shattered in the process. I thought it missed me but looked at my hand to see otherwise. A piece of the mirror had sliced through my glove and cut my hand. After a bit the ambulance came and I was taken to tje hospital. After a few doctors and hand specialists had taken a look, they figured out that the tendon for my thumb tip had been cut. I would have went into surgery that day but they wanted a specialist to do it versus a trauma surgeon.

So that brings us to today. My surgery is at 2:45 and should take an hour or a bit more. The surgeon told me it will be about 6-8 weeks to recover. It shouldn't be too bad=) I am staying optimistic and cannot wait to get back to work on the car.

[244Brick]

Sorry bud.. i snapchat you

[Verdigrie]

Sorry to hear that Earl, gotta love those moments when something breaks and you have to check to see if you're okay.
"Everyone okay?...is today over now?...Oh, I'm leaking coolant...ah shit".

Get well soon buddy

[retyper]

Better love stories than twilight.
Ctrl+D this! love it!

[Earl]

Thanks? Lol

Trying to decide if I want to run m3 front brakes. Once I do I will be placing my rotor order with Adams Rotors. I am having a hard time choosing a pattern.

http://www.adamsrotors.com/gallery/gallery_detail.aspx?gallery_cat_id=1&gallery_id=2

[244Brick]

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[Chigga]

What size are those wheels?

I've began to thinking about put my 18" MAE monoblocs on the Ti for next Spring, but always thought 18"s may be too big.

[Earl]

Theyre 17's. 18's always seemed a hair too large to me=)