duffman692002

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While driving to my grandparents for Thanksgiving dinner I noticed of black FB sitting in a field out behind a house, as I went by I spotted that it had a spoiler and aftermarket wheels of some sort on it so I decided to turn around and see if I could snag a closer look. As I drove by the house the owner was sitting outside so I stopped in to inquire. Turns out he bought the car from a rotary shop and the story he told me was that it was brought in for diagnosis and the orginal owner never paid the bill so the shop dumped it on the curb hoping the city would come by and take it. He bought it from the shop for what was owed. Said he thought he would do a V8 swap on it but lost interest when he got a 240.

Anyway, I asked if I could go take a look and with his permission I trudged out in the mud to see what I could find. The car is an -SE and has had a hard life, only straight panel on the entire car were the rear quarters. The interior was weather rotted from having the driver side window busted out but it did have a nice set of 15 inch Enkei 92’s, a glass roof in pretty good condition as well as the one piece fiberglass rear spoiler. After talking with him for a little while he sold me all of the above plus the -SE suspension/rear end for $150 bucks.






I’m pretty happy with the deal and gonna do some searching to see if I can ID the spoiler The glass roof will go up for sale soon after I have a chance to give it and it’s case a good cleaning as will the set of 92’s currently on my GSL after everything is swapped over.

Yellow '79

im hessing since the wheels came off an SE they are the larger lug pattern?

codytheoutlaw

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lucky

duffman692002

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Yes, the ones off the parts car are the -SE patern. The ones on my car are the standard FB patern.

haha, thanks.

codytheoutlaw

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i want one of those spoilers pretty bad. how does it attach to the car? it looks like it has 2 screw holes on the points, but what about the back?

bad 83

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Dang good score. You never know what somebody may have sitting around. That's how I found my GSL. Luckily mine was sitting in a garage for 8 years before I picked it up.

duffman692002

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It attaches on the ends and at two points in the center. The rest is held on by double sided tape by the looks of things. The car it was on had wood screws fastening it down, lol. I'm gonna use button head bolts.

Found my GSL on a county road sitting under an oak tree, registration sticker said 05 so I assumed it had been sitting there since. Cleaned up pretty good all things considered.

egr2fly

Great find! Will we see this already installed at the next meet?

duffman692002

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Doubtfull. I wanted to get the spoiler on but with the poor weather, and todays snow , I haven't even had a chance to start prepping it.

The suspension stuff will have to be done rather quickly since I don't have a place to keep the car while it's being swapped. What I'm hoping to do is get one car up on the neigbors rack, the other up on stands nest to it and just swap it all at once. I won't get to clean, prep, and paint everything that way but I also can't keep the shop tied up for however long it would take me to do all that on my own. As long as mine is rolling I can do all the mechanicals in my driveway.

duffman692002

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So the weather was finally cooperative for a day last week and I got the rear end out of the car. Didn't have a truck to get the rear home but the sway bar fit in the 7, lol. Any guess as to the make? Has no ID marks that I can see.





Got a Norther coming in this week soooo no work will get done this week. Supposed to be 17* later this week. :/

Kentetsu

The center section of the spoiler (if it is a stock unit) has two studs which go down through two holes in the sheet metal. Inside the car, behind the hatch latch and slightly offset to each side, the studs extend down and are secured with a couple of nuts.

Reattachment could probably be done with doublesided 3M tape, but I figured getting the spoiler off of the parts car could be kinda tough if you didn't know about those two studs.


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duffman692002

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If this one had studs they're long gone. This one was attached with wood screws and double sided tape, lol. Had one screw on each end and two in the middle like you described. I'm gonna use button head bolts to secure it rather than wood screws.

mazdaverx713b

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the spoiler is not a stock unit. the stock IMSA unit was a three piece, not a single piece. my question is, why didn't you buy the whole car?

duffman692002

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Yea, it's not a stock unit. I don't know who made this particular model. Ive been looking for a single piece one for awhile and this one fit the bill.

The car itself, while repairable, was pretty rough. The interior was rotted because the driver window was busted out and the guy stuck a couple of yard signs in there to try to keep it dry. Didn't work, lol. It's really not good for anything other than stripping down and racing it.Secondly, if I drug that car home I'd have to look for a new place to live.

The guy wants to get rid of the whole thing so if you wanna come down and get it I'd be more than happy to help you load it up. Bring you AE, I love AE's. The only 2nd gen car I'll ever own

Hyper4mance2k

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same spoiler I have on my car. I'm pretty sure it's the old Wings West spoiler.
mazdatrix still sells it.
http://www.mazdatrix.com/k79-85a.htm

OnlyOnThurs

lucky bastard! hey i am selling a clean FB that you could buy from me .....

duffman692002

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Cool, thanks.

Haha, I know Cello and if I had the money I'd have already driven down there and picked it up. I hope it goes to someone who will take care and appreciate it.

duffman692002

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Moved some things around and broke some links, here:

Still no luck IDing this thing.

duffman692002

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Weather finally cooperated long enough to get the rear end home too.

Fresh outta the car.




And after a bit of scraping and cleaning.







Any suggestions on paint? Gonna paint it black of course but want something that's gonna take the abuse of bein' under the car..

duffman692002

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And finally the rear set of wheels.

Before:




After:

duffman692002

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That's all for now. Still need to finish cleaning then painting the rear end, and if the weather allows, I'll go grab the front suspenion either Sunda or sometime next week.

I'm considering having the brake calipers powdercoated gold since I like the gold/black/red combo and would look good behind the mesh. Anyone ever had theirs done, what did you think?

vj226966

looks nice good find

rxtasy3

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looking good. i have a set of those same wheels but they're still gold.

duffman692002

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I'd have prefered them to be gold as well, there is one lil chip on the face of one of them and if it weren't for that you'd not be able to tell they were gold. The lil spots around the center are covered by the centercaps.

duffman692002

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Thanks, 15s will look much nicer on there as opposed to the 13in wheels and 43in sidewalls.