The great news is that my custom GTS Classic GranTurismo seats in brown leather and plaid Thompson camel centers arrived and are now installed in the car. The roll bar limits rear travel a bit so you can't slide all the way back which is fine since my seating position is actually perfect for where the seats are now and I really don't care if taller people can't fit in my car. That's not my problem. Go buy your own car.
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| GTS Classic GranTurismo Seats - 6-11-2020 |
The headrests didn't install as smoothly as you'd hoped. They had to take off a few inches from the metal stem and smooth out the adjustment notches to make it move properly but other than that, no real issues. Really love how it looks inside the car. For reference here's how the interior used to look. Needless to say the new look is more up to par with the standards I place on my cars. It's a nice snug fit and the bolstering is perfect. It definitely completes the interior.
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| Old look with torn stock seats - 6-6-2020 |
Valve adjustment is done. They didn't need to be adjusted much which is a good sign that the engine is wearing well. Leakdown and compression test was done earlier and the engine is nice and strong. As part of the oil change after break-in, they tear open the oil filter to inspect for anything inside and it wasn't as clean as we'd like especially considering this I just changed the oil 500 miles ago and put in a new filter.
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| Some black particles in the oil filter |
The conclusion is that this is debris coming from the oil tank. We suspect the previous owner let the car sit for long periods of time with the oil just sitting in there allowing moisture to accumulate and rust to build up top. Now that I'm actually driving the car and changing the oil, the agitation is loosening those particles. The oil filter will take care of this but this is not acceptable to me so the car is staying at the shop a bit longer and a brand new oil tank is going in. After all this work, allowing sludgy/rusty oil to contaminate the engine from the oil tank would be a stupid thing to do.
