Part 4.5

Unfortunately, amongst all the stuff I did with the SC, I decided to finally put in some work on the tC that were long overdue, so I had to shell out the cash and garage space to get my tC back up to dd condition.

Meanwhile my sc became the dd to get me to/from work.  Solid bushings and 18kg/12kg springs do not work comfortably with LA roads.  Nevertheless, it got me around town until the Falken blew up, so my tC stayed in the garage for close to a month while I got all the isht it needed.  Though the sc was reliable in that it functioned normally, it slowly started deteriorating over this time, with exhaust leaks, more fluids leaking, the tire, etc. 

First up on the list of tC to-do’s was to replace all 4 tires. I had been on my old sumitomo htrz-II's for the past 5 years, with about 60k on them. They were finally starting to look like slicks and I’ve recently been noticing that it had been getting easier and easier to pop super awesome fwd burnouts when I became just a bit sloppy w/ the act clutch. Not a bad lifespan for $80 summer tires, though. So, I borrowed a pair of jack stands from a friend, jacked up all 4 corners, and ordered the updated versions of the htrz-II’s, the htrz-III’s, which apparently have even more grip, less noise, though, apparently wear out quicker.

_ Next up was the battery had never been replaced, so now after 6 years of ownership, acid was seeping out of the negative terminal, treating me to a nice big delicious looking snowcone in my engine bay.  Even the worker at pep boys felt the need to comment on how much acid was gone from the old battery.  So, I replaced the stock panasonic battery with a Bosch battery and also cut off the stock negative terminal connector as it had pretty much been corroded down to sheetmetal and replaced it with some generic looking one.

Then, for the past few years, the paint on my side mirror covers had been fading for some reason, seems to be one of the many common problems that tC's have.  So, I took them off, broke about 3 clips in the process as usual, and realized the passenger side cover was cracked.... Probably due to one of my attempts to park as closely to the pillars on the side of the parking stalls at work...
Eh, w/e.  So I sanded them down, epoxied the back of the cracked portion, filled in any low spots, laid primer over it, and sprayed some 0209 bsp that I got from automotivetouchup.com.  Even came in an aerosol can, pretty cool.

I had a bit more 209 left after both sides were done, so I decided to kill the can off on my lip spoiler that I had been laggin on getting repainted (i banged it up a bit during storage) and installed. Finally got around to it.

Also ended up replacing my axles which had developed a pretty ridiculous amount of play.

During the midst of all this, I started getting bored with real cars, so I started working a bit on the r/c. 
I got a new body, painted it blue and backed it with silver. Came out pretty good, considering it was my first time using semi-transparent paint.

Then, I rebuilt my shocks, added softer springs and sway bars, and cut a bit out of the steering system to allow it to turn a bit more.