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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 10:41 PM
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I just bought a 81 gs imperial gold needs paint and a little work nothing big no rust interior is in great shape she needed a fuel filter and the heater fan dosn't work but its nice it also came with another compleate project car plus a spair 12a and trany so now can change my 85 back to a rotory from a v-8 ( got it that way ) after paying 2k I came home to find out my neice wants to sell me her 85 gsl for $300 I couldn't pass that up so now we have 7's coming out ourS I still need to go to an auction to get T his parts car so that means from two 7's to six I think I've caught the rx bug pics to follow when I get my camara working ( find batteries)
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 10:46 PM
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Nice collection additions. You must have room to park them all?
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 11:18 PM
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hahaha way to go. I hope to MAYBE add a parts car to my yard but I may just get the parts instead LOL
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Old Mar 3, 2008 | 11:52 PM
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Are you going to keep the v8 stuff or are you going to sell it?

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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 12:01 AM
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there aint no room here but he has room at his girl friends LOL...
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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 12:01 AM
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Yea if it has a V8 don't put it back (if it's a good build). Just saying if it's already done keep it. There are not that many and you have other rides.
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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 12:19 AM
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I need a chevy t-5 trany for it and will then have to modify it to go behind a 1966 pontiac 326 but then what to do with the exta 12a and trany need to build a couple of 7's to recoup my $$$ but hell if I can find anther rolling chassy whats one more at my girlfriends right but even if I remove the v-8 I'll keep it for build of some type thinking T's parts car and wide body it how about that an sa v-8 widebody sounds like that might be fun
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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 12:25 AM
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now to what I was really going to post the 81 I replaced the fuel filter and it pluged up really fast so looks like its drop the gas tank time and clean it out tomorrow night it looks like alot of rust the car must have been sitting with an empty tank for a while before it was cleaned up for sale
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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 04:48 AM
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the bug has bit you my firend. in my lifetime thus far, i have owned 23 RX-7's. i'm down to 8 and am striking a deal with a guy on another as we speak. we'll be looking forward to the pics. make sure you keep us updated on your progress. sounds like you've already got a nice start!
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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 08:15 PM
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this is strange the car runs grate but if I get stuck in trafic (IE) behind an idiot who won't do the speed limit she bogs down and acts like she wants to die I'll pull over shut her off wait 30 seconds and it starts right back up and drives fine untill someone else has me shifting from 3rd to 2nd and back again
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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 08:21 PM
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When in doubt, fuel filter? lol
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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 09:04 PM
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already did twice
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Old Mar 4, 2008 | 09:40 PM
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picys of Cristal thats what the girlfriend calls it
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Old Mar 5, 2008 | 11:59 PM
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fixed the problem the gas tank was rusting and was pluging up the fuel line before the fuel filter so was not geting gas to plug the filter so Iput in another tank works fine now
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Old Mar 6, 2008 | 01:38 AM
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yeah but the new tank had 3 year old gas in it
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Old Mar 7, 2008 | 07:42 PM
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now he has a new 81
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Old Mar 8, 2008 | 11:30 PM
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sunday will be picking up the 85 gsl I am geting from my neice its siver needs a carb rebuild at least and some body work I have the air sanders and all I need to do it have to pic up some other stuff too like the project car I got when I bought my 81 so might have more pics
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Old Mar 9, 2008 | 09:32 PM
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the project car is an 82 looks to be a gs has been taken apart already on the inside has the bucket seets T needs for his SA so I'll give him those has some rust problems so may just part it out still trying to figure out how much work I'm willing to put into this car got my 85 gsl as well need to get pics though It was to dark after moving all of them so no pics yet
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Old Mar 13, 2008 | 01:31 AM
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pic of the new 7's

heres some pics
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Old Mar 13, 2008 | 01:39 AM
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more pics

the black, blue and, RUST it the 82
and the silver one has the 140mph spedo, and large console stereo
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Old Mar 13, 2008 | 01:45 AM
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the rest of the pics

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Old Mar 13, 2008 | 01:50 AM
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the 85(the silver one) starts but the timing is off and when the choke shuts off so does the engine. dont know about the 82 but will probly know soon
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Old Mar 15, 2008 | 10:00 PM
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well I have been working on the 85 GSL she runs really ruff after looking what my neice had done to the car she monkeyed around with the rats nest some of it has been disconected and pluged off some of it is still conected and the cat has been cut out so I'm going to have to do some research to figure out if I want to disconect the rats nest or hook it back up
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Old Mar 16, 2008 | 05:32 AM
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keep us updated on your progress!! ray green has a nice writeup on the rats nest removal.
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Old Mar 16, 2008 | 11:08 AM
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going to pull and save this morning to look for parts went to pick and pull in airway heights yesterday they have more 7s there but they are closed due to the ground being to soft and some of their cars are sinking into the mud it sucks because I know they have all the parts I need
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