@SacCyclone Small world indeed! Steve is a really great guy, I've talked with him a ton about the car and also bought and sold lots of parts with him!
I bought the car in 2015 from the guy who Steve's brother sold it to initially. I was going to go look at a 1st gen Celica and my boss at the time said I needed to find something quicker and he knew a very special Z that he might be able to convince the owner to sell. The car was originally built by Scott Performance in Santa Clara (Greg Scott owns the 3.4L Les-Collins-powered Green Hornet) where my boss used to work.
I went to go look at the car and it had seen some better days, the air dam on the molded front had multiple splits and cracks (And was hit hard enough to crack around the molded headlight buckets), the orange spectrum Recaros were all torn up, rear tires were down to the cords, and rust was bubbling up on the driver's dog leg. I later found out the cam spray bar was clogged with sludge and there was a big ole rust hole on the driver's floor. The worst part was that Magnesium 3-piece Ronals had been
SCRAPPED after one of the faces cracked. That part killed me, although I found my Panasports a couple years later and that eased the pain
Anyways I reached out to Steve since he had a bunch of info about the car on his ZlalomZ website and we've been friends since. He's shared loads of pictures with me from back in the day.
I repaired the original molded front end but I knew I wanted a removeable air-dam (And wanted to save some weight as well) so I made the carbon-kevlar front end using it to make the molds. I had a hard time parting with the original front-end but I couldn't reasonably ship it and store it in the UK so I reached out to Steve to still "keep it in the family." He bought my TIG welder as well, and I bought an uber-rare R200 Gleason-Torsen Helical LSD from him!
Long post! Hopefully soon it can look as good as it used to
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