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David Ward
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« on: April 17, 2006, 10:13:06 pm »

Well, its all down hill from here!   Grin   I just placed my first parts order for the Ghia. 

It started innocent enough.  Last Thursday I took a simple drive through the country.  I was just putting along, enjoying my new ride (all 40 blistering horsepower!) when I began to smell a strong asbestos-type odor coming from the front.  I quickly concluded when the pedal felt weird that I had a front brake problem.  Over the weekend I got a better look at the situation and basically I needed a complete brake job.  No big deal, right? 

Well, my plans are to race the car at Indy in August, so I figured if I was going to tear into a complete brake job, I might as well as begin the car's conversion towards speed.  So the parts list got a little bigger than it probably should have, but hey, I had fun.

New beam with adjusters
Hurst Roll Control
Stainless Steel brake lines
New drums, brakes, bearings, seals, wheel cylinders, etc...
28mm SAW bars
and more....

Can't wait for the brown truck to arrive!   Cheesy

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