{"id":840,"date":"2009-03-02T22:25:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T22:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=840"},"modified":"2009-03-02T22:25:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T22:25:59","slug":"stealth-enters-the-home-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/bmw\/stealth-enters-the-home-stretch\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealth Enters the Home Stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3594\/3323159031_f1a130828d.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"new suspension\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had some time on my hands the other night, went out to the garage, and much to my surprise, there&#8217;s nothing left on my punch-list to do on the BMW. Sure there&#8217;s plenty left to do &#8212; just not much I can do myself.  The new suspension components have started to arrive.  Once the new brake calipers get here, I&#8217;ll throw on the rear springs and shocks and take it down to Dan Martin to install the front struts\/springs; fix the leaky cam gear seal, and flush the brakes.  The first CCA track weekend is in less than 3 weeks.  I should be in a good position to base-line the car.  I won&#8217;t do the full Spec E30 suspension right away.  I&#8217;d rather get some seat-time and understand how the car handles with only minor changes before going with a full race set-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had some time on my hands the other night, went out to the garage, and much to my surprise, there&#8217;s nothing left on my punch-list to do on the BMW. Sure there&#8217;s plenty left to do &#8212; just not much I can do myself. The new suspension components have started to arrive. Once the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/bmw\/stealth-enters-the-home-stretch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stealth Enters the Home Stretch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[48,94,275],"class_list":["post-840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmw","category-diy","tag-bmw-cca","tag-diy","tag-trackcar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}