Today was a bit of a milestone: my S2K at 12k!!
My 12-year-old, 2003 Honda S2000 turned 12,000 miles old today. Three years ago, I purchased the car from an estate sale with only 4,700 miles on the clock. The lawyers liquidating the estate had no clue what they and I scored one hell of nice deal.
My aging daily driver – a 1995 Z28 Camaro – got treated to a set of new tires this week. During a span of 20 years and over 96,000 miles, this is the fourth set of tires I’ve bought. Factory tires were GoodYear GSC’s; an advanced high performance tire for the time, they were fair, with good dry adhesion but not so great in the wet. I replaced the factory fitted tires with 2 more sets of GSC’s which I purchased from the company that converted Z28 Camaros to SS’s back in the day. These were brand new “take offs” sold at a significant discount and I ordered two sets at different times. When the last set of the GSC’s wore out, I bought BFG Comps and what a difference! The BFG’s were much nicer in the dry and wet as well.
In the last couple of posts I’ve described the reason for taking apart the rear suspension on bowtie6. I had to send the coilovers back to the manufacturer for servicing and sure enough, after a few days they arrived back in as-new condition. This morning, I started cleaning all the hardware and springs followed by a dry-run: installing the coilovers on the rear suspension (without springs) and going through the entire range of motion of the axle using my jack. I just wanted to make sure nothing was binding or out of alignment. All checked out, so time to quit farting around and get down to business…
Meet DiDi: my little Welsh Pembroke Corgi.
DiDi hails from horse country in AIken, South Carolina. DiDi is seven years old and we adopted her about 3 years ago from a breeder. She is our retired supermodel wearing her permanent “little black dress”. I say supermodel because at one time she took part in the show-dog circuit and even won a competition or two. And of course, she knows how to “work it”: she is very successful at getting treats as well as cute pictures like the one above.
The Mrs took this picture today on her iPhone and I thought it was quite remarkable. Amazing thing the iPhone. And of course DiDi knows how to get the most out of the moment!
The Man in the brown truck delivered a box containing bowtie6‘s rear rebuilt coilovers. This stuff is like jewelry – too bad they are not in plain sight!
Needless to say I unpacked them and they are perfect. Sure, there are a few scratches from wear and tear but overall they are mechanically back to as-new condition. The rebuild price was not too bad: $99.00 + shipping.
I can’t wait to get the springs assembled back on them and then mounting them back to the rear axle. I’ll have a new post with pictures this weekend. Stay tuned! 