How’s your winter project list shaping up? It’s time to make plans for next season, right?
I grew up in New York, where winters were very much a Real Thing: shoveling show, freezing at the bus stop, bundling up in thick sweaters hand-crocheted by my grandma.
For us, winters represented the pause between everything else: bikes away, sleds out.
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I didn’t have a car.
Let’s fast-forward to today. I have cars. I live in Florida.
The good news: We don’t really have an off-season here in Florida.
And the bad news: We don’t really have an off-season here in Florida.
So that means it’s now very late in November that I’m realizing January starts about a month from now. See also: Our autocross season is still chugging along.
With January’s arrival comes a new season–for me, that largely means autocross, regular gatherings and a few car shows.
I guess now is as a good time as any to work on that to-do list for next year.
On the plus side, everything here in the garage is in fairly good condition.
And the little dose of reality: Everything here can also use some attention before next year.
The Garage Rescue Miata should probably get new tires before next season–Andy and our tire chart have been consulted there. And is it time to move up to 7.5-inch-wide wheels as allowed by the Street Touring rules?
The BMW M3 needs a few little things–see the parts that just arrived from BimmerWorld–so the car is currently visiting Jesse Spiker at Spiker Motorsports.
The Porsche 911 doesn’t necessarily need a lot of work, but it’s getting some–specifically, it’s time to tackle a few things that have been ignored/put off for a while. (We all know that drill, right?)
The front shocks are leaking, while the rears are dated from 1995. A box from KW automotive just landed–I went with the setup featuring the repositioned spindles since I’m running a lowered ride height. More on these to come on the Classic Motorsports site, but color me very excite.
Time to go through the brakes, too: fresh rotors, new Hawk pads and Goodridge braided lines ordered via Tire Rack.
The Porsche’s aftermarket clutch chatters, so it’s getting replaced with a fresh OE one. The engine is stock, and I’d like a little more comfort there. The current Stage 1 clutch that we installed when going through the engine a dozen years ago is…
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