So close I can taste it!

Interior finished. Going to be aligned tomorrow. My state inspection is Aug. 6. Then I have to wait for a VIN plate from Columbus.







Check out the other pics.

Jerome

Jerome,

Looks fantastic! Bet you can't wait to get it on the street! Bruce

J.

Congrats. I typically prefer the traditional style Speedsters, but your flarred version look tough! Hopefully the GL Speedsters will have an event soon so a lot of us can see the new ride....

Dave ('83 IM For Sale).

Jerome, I love the color on your interior, it is exactly what I want for my new car....you will be driving soon!!

love the rims!

Man, that is sweeeet! I love the traditional Speedster, but on those rare occasions when it is done right, the flare-side is a beautiful machine!

Thanks Guys!

It's at the alignment shop right now. I had it up to 50 MPH last weekend. Got a little scary, with very little movement of the wheel the car darted back and forth.

If it doesn't rain tonight I'll see if the alignment helped.

Jerome

Jerome,
Awesome! I think I said that before but it bears repeating. Great looking ride. I can imagine how excited you must be. Take your time sorting it out. I'm sure it will be great.
John H.

Came back from the alignment shop. They said everything was in good shape. The frame and suspension lined up real nice the frame seemed nice and square.

Took it for a test drive, much better. 60MPH on a curvy back road without my ass puckering as much this time. What a blast!!

Jerome

A very nice job ! Congrats.........suggestion try ading 40 lbs of weight to the front end of the car you'll be amazed at how much the handeling changes in a positive way ....this may sound a bit off the wall but take 2 Hefty trash bages /doubled, and put some sand of small rocks in them set ( 20 lbs each side)them on either side of the battery

Alan Merklin

If you do decide to add weight, may I suggest good old fasioned lead....the weight is higher without taking up so much room... and your probably thinking "Where would I get lead?" The best place is a sporting goods store that sells shotgun shell reload supplies, they usually sell it in very durable 25lb bags.... you will be amazed how small they are

I was thinking off adding weight. We have some scrap steel here at work I was going to "borrow".


The lead is a good idea.

Thanks,

Jerome

You can try a tire shop for old wheel weights. I don't know of any shops that reuse the wheel weights when rebalancing. Just ask them to start throwing them in a box if they aren't already. Lead, being a contaminant is not supposed to be thrown in the garbage.

Hey Jerome!

That looks awesome!~ What color is that? And what tpe of wheels are they?? Did you use wheel adapters?? if so what type and where did you get them??

Michael

I run 50 lbs. of lead shot under my spare tire. You would be amazed at how much different the car responds with the weight. Huge difference. Try it! Thats with 20 lbs of air in the front tires.

I mounted a 50lb chunk of steel to the steel frame section just behind the front torsion tubes.

The color is Chrysler Atlantic Blue (paint code: PBJ) Around here you see it on alot of 2003 Neons and Ram's.

The wheels were tricky. They are TSW 17x8 alum alloy. I had a hard time finding something with a 4 bolt pattern that I liked. I purchased brake drums and disks from CIP1.com that were drilled at the 5X130 Porsche hole pattern. Then I custom made adapters/spacers to adapt the 5x130 to a 5x112.5 and with the +35mm offset the thickness for the front and back was 2.25" and 1.5" respectivly. The adpaters are nice because I installed studs into them and it makes taking the wheels on and off much easier than the bolts.

Jerome
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Beautiful car. What size tires are you running? How did you lower the suspension and how much? Thanks

Thanks,

Tires: Goodyear Eagle GS-D3 245/35/R17

The suspesion is adjustable via torsion bar adjusters in front and sway-a-way adjustable swing plates in the back.

Jerome