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Potomus Pete said:

I stayed at the Franconia Inn quite a few years ago. One huge benefit of living in New England is the endless day trips. So many things to do up there. Just costs money.

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And tolerating looooots of time behind the wheel. I think I drove 4+ hours on Mon. Tiring.

But the drive is awesome. Very scenic. I wish I wasn’t behind the wheel or I’d have a ton of nice mountain road pics I’d be posting.

Impulse buy. Had the bottom cushion, and saw the one seat back come up for sale cheap. Into this for under $100 so far.

what will I do with it? Dunno yet

And no, it doesn’t really match the recaros. I have yet to find a suitable material short of seeking out 4 centers from existing Recaros and using that as donor material, which I might do.

Did some work today. Ran into issues.

finished running the brake line to the rear of the car. Wasn’t bad, but just awkward getting to the line over the axle. But got it done, and started bleeding the brakes.

Did I mention I hate bleeding brakes. Too much work.

I had some leaks. Guess I went too easy tightening the lines. One leak at the rear, one line on the PV leaking and one front line leak. Got it all set and appears to be leak free.

however, I have what appears to be a dead zone in the pedal. Baer supplies a spacer to go between pushrod and MC and seems like mine isn’t large enough. I’ll need to take to Baer on Monday.

Reinstalled the driveshaft. No problems there.

decided to try and reinstall the exhaust. Started with my Bassani catted x-pipe. Did a test fit of the flow tubes and found I’m just a little short. Doesn’t fully reach the collectors.



The issue is the exhaust hangers. They bottom out on the rubber hanger preventing the tubes from moving forward ebough.


I think what I am going to do is pull the exhaust hanger out, and slot the mounting holes. Then I can scoot the hanger foreard about 3/4” or so and that should give me the clearance.

once exhaust is done, my work under the car is all set. Everything else is engine bay.

Specracer said:

You probably know this, but get a Motive power bleeder. Makes things way easier.

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i have one. I don’t have a way to connect to the Baer MC