tina.

Tina in the lovely Lotus Colors

Tina in red and gold, nice, but i hate red cars.

well, the pickup is now officially sold and the tina is in the driveway. I was checking out prices on the alternator conversions for the tina, and one place has em for $389. I suppose that ain't a bad price considering you get all the brackets, wires and new alternator, but somehow that seems a touch expensive to me. I'll have to pop the bonnet on the tina this weekend and see if there's a way i can fab up my own alternator mounts.

Oh, and wheels. motherf'ing english cars! seriously you can't come up with a bolt pattern that a bunch of other cars have do you? i mean 4x108? WTF gives me like 3 choices on wheels. how f'ed up is that?!?!?! I guess i've settled on Panasports, either in the bronze or gold, to go with the White/Green Lotus colors i have planned for the tina. although, knowing me, i may change my mind on paint before the month is over. speaking of paint, class starts next weekend, so hopefully they'll show me the ways of working out dents in metal.

Interior: gonna have to go black seats/black door cards/maybe flat black dash, and deep red carpet.

Sorted out what i want to run suspension wise, which is pretty simple for the time being, konis all around, if i can find GT springs, then those, if not, i'm gonna chop a coil off the standard ones, and get lowering blocks for the rear leafs. hopefully i get about a 2" drop all around and have the panasports tuck nicely.

O wells, i told dave i'll have this shit running by superbowl, so i'll have my weekends cut out for me.

great way to start the new year.