I actually washed it!

I did Road Atlanta again, I did a bad job planning. It came up a week quicker than I thought. So I was gonna have to do the BBK there. Which I was nervous about for this reason. So my wife and I left early, spent a night in NOLA in the french quarter. Got to Atlanta early Friday to do the BBK.

Idk what other monkey worked on this car, but brakelines are like a sacred thing to not fuck up for me. When I initially tried to change these, I could not get them loose. Luckily with jayjaya29 help they loosened right up.

He also trimmed the heat shields for this, and donated some stuff from his parts car and bent the hardlines into their homes so that is all correct now.
We were left with this a Stoptech ST40 BBK. I also installed some NOS softlines from Stoptech and NOS PFC 01s.



Track driving is not a stopping contest, but the confidence this setup gives me now has been amazing. I am no longer scared of brake zones in this car, so I can be more brave experimenting.

Car is still getting hot. This issue is really pissing me off. I will do a separate post about that or maybe even thread. It is only replicatable on the track at full pace driving, 85 degrees+. The other issue is the LR shock I rebuilt, despite not leaking did fail. I believe I go the dividing piston in wrong spot and it adjusted itself, as well as overfilled it. So when it moved down there no air near the top/most of its stroke. So my LR damper was struggling, I was able to get the shock settings good enough to drive it. I wanted to perservere and drive through the issue and I did to break a sub 1:40. Also not really a fan of the ECFs.

After that I did try the Bilsteins, and it makes the car much easier to drive as well as not beating me and the car up.
However, I really like the ability to just have turn in sharp enough to hurt myself. I don't like trail braking and dealing with understeer. I really enjoy just putting the car in a slide and holding it, so while the Bilsteins will work in the long run I hope I am not stuck with them.

I spent about 3-4 hours assembling the AST upon returning home from my 13 hour drive. I believe I have it right now. So that issue I'm not too terribly worried about, it's back in car. Time will tell. However the cooling system getting that sorted for 20 minute sessions of driving how I like to will need to be figured out. We did try a stock undertray this weekend.
Overall an absolutely amazing trip.

Here is video of the best lap:
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