New car on the road!

Beatty, Robert BeattyR at ummhc.org
Mon Sep 24 13:49:01 EDT 2001


Got the new (to me) 86 5ktq on the road over the weekend.  Complete with the
Eibach and Bilstien (rears only so far), SMJ chip and WG spring (1.8 bar
spring).  WOW!  This car is significantly faster than my 87 5ktq for some
reason.  Even stock it would out accelerate my chipped 87 and now chipped it
FLIES!.  On the downside though, since its a pre 86 split car, it has the
old G-54 calipers in it, so braking leaves something to be desired.  A call
to Force5 and that has been remedied.  A pair of G-60's are on their way.
Now just to find the extra cash for some rotors and hi-perf pads!  As soon
as my rebate check gets in, its off to NTB for a set of Kuhmo Excsta
205-50-16's.  

Another neat thing I did with this car is put in the 100 (H4) Euros I had in
my 87.  I also have wired in the city lights and I'm going to get a couple
different color bulbs and see what looks the coolest :).  I'm betting red
will look rather wild and it shouldnt have any effect on my light output as
the color is just going to be from a very low power bulb, not the headlamp
bulb like alot of these idiots with blue headlights have.  (note: I dont
mean the blue xenon ones, I mean the blue tinted bulbs you can buy at
Wallyworld or Autozone, which by the way are ILLEGAL!)  I'm gonna pick up
the colored bulbs tonight and play with it after it gets dark and see how
things look.  I figure I'll try red, green and blue.

Rob

86 5ktq
87 5ktq (sold but not forgotten)
89 200tqa




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