Got a bit of work done on the car over the last week. Needed to do front brakes really badly, so I did some blank rotors, Hawk HPS 5.0 pads up front to match the rears and decided to tackle the dirty/rusty calipers and went all 17 year old again and painted the calipers:
Only did the front ones so far, rear ones will be done in a couple weeks.
I also bought a new-to-me used CS style front lip for cheap a few weeks back so got it mounted up at the same time. It's a bit too glossy for my liking, but I haven't seen how the contrast works with clean front bumper yet. May have to paint it a satin black to match the OEM bumper inserts/fog covers or may colour match
My wheels FINALLY came in and got mounted up. Car was disgustingly dirty from the wife driving it for the last couple weeks while I worked on her Forester (long story). But I wanted to see how they looked.
I ended up going with the same wheels, so Enkei NT03+M's in the same 18x9.5 +40 fitment, but this time in Satin Black. Originally, I wanted to do gold, but as I mentioned, they were unavailable for a few months.
Even though they are the same specs as the SBC's, they look much bigger/deeper for some reason.
Only small issue is the shop who mounted them up for me didn't realize there were bolt-in valve stems, so they build them up with pull through rubber stems. So I'll need to bring the car back probably in late June or early July for them to break them down and install the bolt-in stems.
Still haven't got the Bilstein/Swift combo installed yet. That'll go on the car in about 2-3 weeks time and other than that, only other mods planned for the year will be installing the Tomei secondary cat delete pipe, whiteline front endlinks (don't know if I want to throw on the larger front swaybar or not) and maybe upgrading to some stainless brake lines.
Might add some more stuff on later as well as we just picked up a new brand that has lots of goodies for the car, but gotta wait and see what the budget says.
