{"id":845,"date":"2009-03-18T22:30:17","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T22:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.specr53.com\/blog\/?p=845"},"modified":"2009-03-18T22:30:17","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T22:30:17","slug":"stealth-ready-for-shakedown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/bmw\/stealth-ready-for-shakedown\/","title":{"rendered":"Stealth Ready for Shakedown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/georgeco\/3367119434\/sizes\/l\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3632\/3367119434_c2b5496b28.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"Suspension Done\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With more than 24 hours to spare, I finally finished the F-22 for the first track outing of the year.  Since I was running out of time, I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danmartinsautoservice.com\/\">Dan Martin&#8217;s shop<\/a> finish the front suspension and fix the cam gear seal.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3460\/3367120726_db08e52af4.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"New Ride Height\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really impressed with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bavauto.com\">Bavauto<\/a> springs.  The ride height is aggressive but not slammed.  The ride is firmer but not harsh.  I&#8217;m looking forward to getting it on the track and seeing if I still need to upgrade the sway bars.  Compare the ride height to the 20 year-old stock set-up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/georgeco\/3366295885\/sizes\/l\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3448\/3367136078_fac4a78001.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"front before\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I also had them install the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmw2002.com\">IE<\/a> front strut bar as well.  The bar looks really slick in basic black.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3613\/3366295885_3af564cfd6.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"Strut Bar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now all I need are some go-fast stickers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With more than 24 hours to spare, I finally finished the F-22 for the first track outing of the year. Since I was running out of time, I had Dan Martin&#8217;s shop finish the front suspension and fix the cam gear seal. I&#8217;m really impressed with the Bavauto springs. The ride height is aggressive but &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/bmw\/stealth-ready-for-shakedown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Stealth Ready for Shakedown&#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":[47,94,268,275],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bmw","category-diy","tag-bmw","tag-diy","tag-suspension","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\/845","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=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcomotorsports.com\/specr53\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}