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Picked up a Zender kit from a nice gentleman in Hesperia last weekend. Took forever to sand, some weird House of Kolor type paint with a couple layers of gold base and a couple layers of red candy. It was in very good shape, just an odd bend in the front and a few spots to fill in on the rear. This is how it turned out.

MRP from 190rev made a set of strut bars for ten members, I was lucky enough to snag a set.

Cleaned the car up a bit and buffed it out, finished installing a lot of trim bits here and there.

Bought a ton of new stuff for the front suspension:

500e springs (2 coils cut)
Sportline Steering gear box
Tie rods
Drag links
idler arm bushing
Steering stabilizer
Control arms
Ball Joints
Control Arm bushings

Painted everything with zero-rust.

A friend spotted some euro seats in a junkyard while I was on vacation in New York and he graciously pulled them out for me. Check them out:

Finally installed the cladding and painted the grille frame body color, grille insert is gloss black.

Finally got around to painting my cladding black. I'll have to go to the dealer and get some clips later this week.

Got a set of 400E brakes from the junkyard for $80, front and rear PBR Ceramic pads for around $100, and a set of rotors from the MB dealer for 230. Painted the calipers silver, they look great. Stops very nicely now too.

Lots of color sanding, not fun.

Finally got my 190 some new tires for the new wheels. Picked up the correct lug bolts and installed.

Wheels are 16x7.5 TSW Hockenheims. Tires are BFGoodrich G-Force Sports in 205/50/16. Now that I have them installed, I probably would have gone 225/45/16 for the rear, but oh well. Since I'll need to be replacing the fronts (some Kumhos are something) within a few months, I'll just go for 225 then.

In the meantime, I need to lower the rear end a few millimetres. Rake is cool on muscle cars, but just doesn't work here.

Pictures!

I sanded the previous week's basecoat down with 500 grit, came out nice and smooth. My car looked like a cow.

Got the rest of the FATMAT installed today, as well as some wiring. Came out nicely.