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Today I put my Vossens and summer tires back on the car. Dragging the wheels up from the basement, bringing the duckfeet & snows back down... removing the 15mm spacers I use in the winter, jacking up one corner at a time, ugh. Really, really feeling my age this year.
However (!) driving around afterwards for as long as it took to turn off the winter-long TPMS warning light , I got to barnstorm a few on- and off-ramps. Oh man, does it feel right having wider, high-performance summer tires keeping you planted flat and fast in the turns. So freaking nice.
Today I put my Vossens and summer tires back on the car. Dragging the wheels up from the basement, bringing the duckfeet & snows back down... removing the 15mm spacers I use in the winter, jacking up one corner at a time, ugh. Really, really feeling my age this year.
However (!) driving around afterwards for as long as it took to turn off the winter-long TPMS warning light , I got to barnstorm a few on- and off-ramps. Oh man, does it feel right having wider, high-performance summer tires keeping you planted flat and fast in the turns. So freaking nice.
And now it's back in the garage. Pandemic.
Did the same thing today but instead of the basement the attic over the garage. Waiting till the sun goes down to go drive and get some night pictures. Can’t wait for no tmps and fun tires.
Did the same thing today but instead of the basement the attic over the garage. Waiting till the sun goes down to go drive and get some night pictures. Can’t wait for no tmps and fun tires.
The one nice aspect of suffering through Winter is that the car becomes new again every spring.
Today I put my Vossens and summer tires back on the car. Dragging the wheels up from the basement, bringing the duckfeet & snows back down... removing the 15mm spacers I use in the winter, jacking up one corner at a time, ugh. Really, really feeling my age this year.
However (!) driving around afterwards for as long as it took to turn off the winter-long TPMS warning light , I got to barnstorm a few on- and off-ramps. Oh man, does it feel right having wider, high-performance summer tires keeping you planted flat and fast in the turns. So freaking nice.
And now it's back in the garage. Pandemic.
I'm jealous. It was -12C/10F with an inch of snow yesterday. Another couple weeks with the winters on probably for me.
Painted calipers. Ported/polish my manifold and lower plenum. Also cleaned some gunk out of the cylinder head. This was over the course of a few days. Also did some interior work.
Painted calipers. Ported/polish my manifold and lower plenum. Also cleaned some gunk out of the cylinder head. This was over the course of a few days. Also did some interior work.
Like the interior!
Reminds me of what Mazda did in the Mazda6 Grand Touring.
My first reaction, my gut reaction, is I don't care for any of them. Not out of any sense of purism, it just doesn't look right... and I'm sorry I can't come up with the words to say why.
BUT (!), if you're head set on doing this, and those are the three choices, then I choose top right. The reasoning is the sight-lines. The flat edge of the top of the badge had it's nearest straight line at the top of the grille. And the "line" from the right tip of the "T" to the bottom aligns with the angle of the side of the grille. Sort of.
Agreed, none are knockin my socks off either.
Trying to find a small piece of black plastic that I can put btwn the mesh and emblem, might make it look more finished. Only one way to find out...
I think you and I came on board right around the same time, still digging our cars all these long years later.
Wait... found this in the first page of my build thread, the day after I started it back in 2011. Wow.
Sure do. Sorta helped that I don’t drive it too often, so as lame as it might sound, getting behind the wheel and going on a spirit drive still feels special.
Ah, I can almost remember writing that post! Right around that time, I got very focused on car shopping. Wasn’t til April 2013 when I bought one...ended up buying new, because at the time, used/CPO ones were selling for only about $5k less than a new one (paid $36.7k, a pretty big pill to swallow for me at the time). Although I still haven’t done much to it, I look back fondly at a lot of moments with this car (mostly fun road trips ). And as the MT is quickly fading away, I’m getting more certain that the G will remain in the stable for quite a long time...
Thanks for the kind words, Rochester. Glad you’re hangin in there too.
04-04-2020, 02:39 PM
, I got to barnstorm a few on- and off-ramps. Oh man, does it feel right having wider, high-performance summer tires keeping you planted flat and fast in the turns. So freaking nice.
Wow.
). And as the MT is quickly fading away, I’m getting more certain that the G will remain in the stable for quite a long time...