Nothing major today.  I just got tired of seeing the faded, mostly missing logo on the rear filler panel.  So I made up and cut a replacement decal to put in it’s place.  It wasn’t quite the right size but close enough so that no one will really notice.

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It’s been a while since I’ve updated the site.  The bird started developing charging issues again in late spring/early summer.  So figuring it was the PS pump killing another alternator I parked her up until I had some time to work on it.  Well, those couple weeks turned into a couple months and ended up being about 6-8 months the poor thing has just sat in the driveway.  Not even in the comfort of her garage, I am such a neglectful owner.

The original plan was to rip out the PS pump and loop the rack until I could afford to get my hands on a properly geared manual rack.  After some going back and forth on it and talking to some of the guys on the boards, I decided to keep the PS for now and instead relocate the alternator to another part of the motor.  This means I will need to move my catch can to somewhere else, but that shouldn’t be an issue at all.

While I was at it, I decided to throw even more money at the car since it’s been a good while since she’s had a treat.  Enter part two of the suspension upgrades.  Back near the end of ’13 I upgraded the LCA, TA and PHB.  This time around I picked up a set of Strano springs and Koni STR.T shocks to replace the tired and worn out stock crap.  I’m probably not going to notice the car once these are installed as 152K on the stock DeCarbons is insane.  Most folks claim to not have even gotten 30-40K out of theirs.  So I bet I’m pretty much riding on just springs with no absorption or rebound at all.

Without further adieu, the pile ‘o parts…