Sunday, December 12, 2010

Wheels & Tires



After finishing the underneath, the next logical step seemed to be to finish it off with a nice set of wheels & tires. Summit Racing had a killer deal on 4 of their wheels, so I snatched it up. 17"x 8"x 5 x 4.75 up front & 17"x 9"x 5 x 4.75 in the rear. A little wider in the rear to give it that nice muscle look. The tires were a Falken Ziex high performance tire. 245/45-17 up front & 275/40-17 in the rear. It looks and drives awesome with these things.

Wheels: $672.75
Tires: $664.33
Grand Total: $6726.59

Brake Pads, Drum Brakes

After doing the front end, the brakes needed some improvement. Same rotors and caliper up front, but new high performance brake pads. Out back I opted the keep the drum brake setup but add everything new instead of switching to disc. Saves a whole bunch of cash and hopefully does the trick with 400hp up front in the future. We'll see...

Drum Brakes & Front Pads: $144.53
Grand Total: $5389.51

Alignment


Apparently after you rip the whole front end of a car apart and try to put it back together on an old car it's impossible to get the alignment right. So that's what we needed next...$224.28 later.

Alignment: $224.28
Grand Total: $5244.98

Mia

One of my favorites of Mia.

Por-15




Por-15 is supposed to be a rust-proof, virtually indestructible paint that sticks to most anything. After ripping apart the entire underneath to put on the new suspension kit, somehow I found myself going farther and farther while I had things tore apart. So after taking every piece of the front end apart, and cleaned them, it was time for a good paint job underneath. The Por-15 is horrible to work with. If you get it on your skin, good luck getting it off for a couple weeks. It's expensive but did the trick great. The underneath looks brand new after spraying all the new parts and the underside with it.

Por-15: $95.96
Grand Total: $5020.70