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Originally Posted by Mike (Post 1139594)

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It was a hot day. I don't know if the wheel got well over 400 degrees, or if this formulation of powdercoat can't take as much heat as the other colors I use, but the powdercoat actually melted at the hub and discolored on the spokes after a couple of hot sessions at Barber. You can see where it spread out and ran onto the rotor.

Hope its not too hard to remove the wheels now.

dang. crazy.

Mike, you're famous!

what was it? Video was removed

It was just a split second of you car on the track.

Ok, thought it was something embarrassing! Wonder why they took it down

Not sure. It looked like a ZCON vid that was being put together.

Its been a long time since I updated.

These were supposed to be winter projects, but my bumper was out of control from scraping and wearing the bottom out and then scraping the undertray at the track, so I decided to do a bit before Z nationals.

1. Replaced my modshack oil cooler with the Z1 34 Row:
http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/3757/dsc01123v.jpg

2. The Z1 kit doesn't require cutting fender liners, and mine, along with several other plastic under pieces were really screwed up from my accident at VIR, and the low scraping, so all new plastic in the front end. Everything damaged was either replaced with new or used parts from Z1.
http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/5161/dsc01131ea.jpg

http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/1166/dsc01132au.jpg

3. While I was at it, repowdercoated the strut brace metallic black and my Gen 3 in my custom orange color
http://img819.imageshack.us/img819/9116/dsc01124pi.jpg

http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/949/dsc01127i.jpg

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/5057/dsc01128ls.jpg

4. Uninstalled aftermarket stereo and laser shifters, so I decided to take most of the rear interior out in preparation for phunk's much awaited fuel system upgrade and am just going to leave it out.
http://img64.imageshack.us/img64/5584/dsc01133r.jpg

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/715/dsc01134yz.jpg

I should have my new Stillen bumper back from paint on Monday or Tuesday, just in time for Znats, but I don't think my seat mounting bases will be here in time.

New set of 295/40-18 Hoosiers arrive on Monday also, hopefully that will raise the car enough to stop scraping since I've been running 275/35 and 285/30s.

Also have seat bases on order from Wedge Engineering so I can finally install the seats I bought a few months ago.
http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/1985/dsc01130b.jpg

btw, I am loving the Stoptech Trophy system I got from Forged Performance! The XP12s are a bit much when I run the AD-08s, but perfect with R compounds.

Looking forward to the hoosiers, I've always gone cheaper on the race rubber since it doesn't last too long.

Do you already have a harness? And if so where will be your mounting points for the shoulders?

Stoptech= sexy.