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    Better break open the piggy bank
    Factory Five Racing, so build it to your budget. And still cheaper than a new Mustang!
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    Quote Originally Posted by nikatkimber View Post
    Factory Five Racing, so build it to your budget. And still cheaper than a new Mustang!
    But still not as cheap as adding a VF, suspension, M5 steering box, 6-speed, Evolve, custom exhaust, and Apex wheels to your already-paid-for touring. LOL
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    Quote Originally Posted by nikatkimber View Post
    I've showed her pictures of RVAE34's Touring and she still says "but it's a wagon" and "I like yours better".

    However, she does want one of these:



    So I can't complain too much!
    Just think of all the fun it would be to build this.
    Factory Five is about 25 miles from me and less than 2 miles from where I lived when I was a kid.
    I want their '33 Ford with running boards.

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    Show us the weeeels B. Did you go for hyper silver or something else?



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    The great thing about a garage full of new LED lights is the crazy amount of white light everywhere.
    The bad thing is you can see EVERY Frickin flaw in the touring's paint. Heavy sigh,,


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    JP, what LED lights did you go with. One can never have enough light in the garage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Redshift View Post
    But still not as cheap as adding a VF, suspension, M5 steering box, 6-speed, Evolve, custom exhaust, and Apex wheels to your already-paid-for touring. LOL
    If one already had a paid for touring!

    Quote Originally Posted by JimLev View Post
    Just think of all the fun it would be to build this.
    Factory Five is about 25 miles from me and less than 2 miles from where I lived when I was a kid.
    I want their '33 Ford with running boards.
    I know it! I've been wanting to do one of the FFR Cobras since '97.

    We're in the process of selling our house and buying another. That's one thing I *really* want to get with it, is a shop, or at least a 3 car garage.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JimLev View Post
    JP, what LED lights did you go with. One can never have enough light in the garage.
    I bought six lights at Costco. Feit brand @ $35.99 each. http://www.costco.com/Feit-Electric-...100155638.html
    I bought a couple and really liked them so ended up going back and getting like six more. Put one in our laundy room and another in basement.

    I had two 60w bulbs,that was it was horrible. I redid the wiring in garage adding eight outlets six LED lights and a 10 plug outlet strip.
    Will have to get a pics up. Throws a ton of light. I live in Michigan so fluorscent was a poor option.
    Nice low profile light. A lot of light for these old eyes.


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    If it's in the spirit of the FR-S then it would be an awesome car. As long as the handling and dynamics are in line with the power.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JimLev View Post
    JP, what LED lights did you go with. One can never have enough light in the garage.
    Well I'm not JP , but I did buy one of these from Home Depot recently. Very happy with it, plan to get more. Great thing is I can hang it from the hood of both my E36 and E39. Talk about good light to work under. It did fall down once, didn't hurt it a bit. Would def not do this with florescent tubes.

    http://www.homedepot.com/p/Commercia...3161/205331022



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    Quote Originally Posted by nikatkimber View Post
    If it's in the spirit of the FR-S then it would be an awesome car. As long as the handling and dynamics are in line with the power.
    But what do you think about having a BMW engine in a Supra?



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    Quote Originally Posted by nikatkimber View Post
    If one already had a paid for touring!
    Details...

    Quote Originally Posted by jp5Touring View Post
    I bought six lights at Costco. Feit brand @ $35.99 each.
    NICE! I have twenty (yes 20) fixtures in my big shop. Fluorescent. They suck a lot of power when they are all on and one of them, when cold, kills the circuit in the winter when I flip the switch the first time. Second time is not a big deal. I would love to have LED instead but I don't think that's an option at $35ea. As it was at the time those fixtures and lights weren't cheap and it took me forever to install them. Maybe one day...

    Quote Originally Posted by sienayr View Post
    This is awesome.
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    Redshift, Twenty lights Ouch. If you have tall ceilings bet you could get away with 10 to 12 lights. They throw that much light.
    I have really low ceilings so went with six instead of four. Five bucks a year to run and forty plus years life span.
    Easy upgrade for me.


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    Thanks for the lighting info guys. They are pricey, think I'll wait until we move which may be next year before I buy them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jp5Touring View Post
    Redshift, Twenty lights Ouch. If you have tall ceilings bet you could get away with 10 to 12 lights. They throw that much light.
    I have really low ceilings so went with six instead of four. Five bucks a year to run and forty plus years life span.
    Easy upgrade for me.
    Yeah, the ones on the angled parts of my ceiling are probably about 11 feet high and the main once above the car and lift are 13 feet high so they have to be bright and plentiful. I'd have gone way smaller but the lift requires 13 feet for maximum height.
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    Took the wife's V70R to dinner last night. Noticed the steering wheel was loose. Popped the airbag cover off and sure enough, the 18mm bolt was super loose. Scary! Guess the alignment guy moved the steering wheel a few months ago and didn't tighten it back up. Glad I drove it and fixed it!

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    She woulda been pissed! Lucky find.
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    Quote Originally Posted by RVAE34 View Post
    Took the wife's V70R to dinner last night. Noticed the steering wheel was loose. Popped the airbag cover off and sure enough, the 18mm bolt was super loose. Scary! Guess the alignment guy moved the steering wheel a few months ago and didn't tighten it back up. Glad I drove it and fixed it!
    Why was it removed in the first place?



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    No clue. It was just an assumption anyway. It was never loose at all before the alignment (which was actually done only a month ago).

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    Okay, because during an alignment or any steering components R&R you do not try to mess around with the steering wheel being removed unless if it was something to do with the other accessories on the steering column such as the ignition lock (maybe), airbag, or some sort of repair on the steering column. Just giving an example. Depending on the type of vehicle, even for an a/c evaporator repair, usually you just drop down the entire steering column down while the wheel still attached. Not that I'm so interested in it but kind of curious to know why was it removed. Any repair(s) done previously before or not related to alignment?



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    They might not have. But it's odd that it wasn't loose until after the most recent alignment. Either way, it's fixed now. I had a heck of a time trying to figure out how to release the airbag cover. You rotate the wheel 90 degrees and then put a flat head in this tiny hole in the back, press it outwards to release the one side clip and then rotate 180 and do the same on the other side.

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    I hope they did not remove the wheel and put it on at another angle to get it to sit straight when the car is going straight. Not supposed to do it that way.
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