Yeah, the seat belt warning buzzer is disconnected. That beep only happens when the key is in the ignition and the door is open. My old Civic did that...really annoying. What that Civic really needed was a headlights-on warning...I'd drained the battery once a year and nearly did so several more times a year. So I retrofitted one from an Integra and never left he lights on again.

This evening, I started putting my interior back together, since I left it looking like a theft recovery last night. Got the carpets and rear storage bins back in. Attempted to get the power antenna to work, but it wouldn't go down. Since it won't go down, it won't go IN the car either. :p It's probably the relay as the antenna is supposed to be on the same fuse as the stereo, and that works. I wasn't motivated to troubleshoot the antenna and it wasn't in great shape anyway, so I put my aftermarket manual antenna back on.

After that, I cut up a DIN plug in an effort to make an AUX IN jack for the stereo. It's going to plug into the back of the EQ where the tape player normally plugs in. Didn't work. Re-reading the manual, I figured out I had read the wiring wrong and wired the OUTs instead of the INs. It's late, so I'll pick this up again tomorrow. I may have to find a cassette tape somewhere just so I can trick it into tape mode so I won't hear a mix of radio and iPhone. I know there's a way to wire it so that you can trick it, but I'm not sure how and don't feel like blowing anything after all that work getting it installed and working.

fm

 

 

put gas in it, two track days + lots of idling around = 11.2 gallons used, which isn't bad. the gas gauge still reads full

 

Looks like a lotta fun! What kinda tires?

 

Finally finished cleaning and polishing my wheels last night. Took forever to find motivation, polishing wheels sucks. Throughout the summer I installed a new Nardi wheel, which I've wanted for about 5 years or so and yanked a bunch of the interior bits out as well as the stereo and put in the brand new wiper linkage since the used replacement I had seized up. Working wipers FTW! Also installed adjustable lower control arms with heim joints, so my car will be much more annoying to drive now Just need to install the Kirkey bucket and harness and I can go back to enjoying her again.

 

Worn out ancient Michelin rally tires on the rear, not worn out yet still ancient Falken rally tires on the front.

Be nice to get actual new tires, but they've gone silly-expensive in the last couple years.

 

Listed the Turbo FB up for sale locally and the 7Club ad will be up as soon as a mod approves it.

Sad day.

 

Today... I did achieved a lot with the FB. I started by getting a passing grade on the test!



As you can see, not only did I pass, I did it with great results! 195k and going strong!

So with the test out of the way I was finally able to trade in this:



For one of these!




So to summarize.. I paid $100 for the car from a guy living in Santa Cruz. Towed it home with AAA for free. Got the car running after installing a new eccentric shaft pulley, and prepping the motor to run after sitting for 12 years!

Got her running with little effort, and a few parts from the junk yard as well as some new stuff to tune her and freshen her up. I was able to pay the last three years of registration and get on the path to getting it legal again. After getting insurance and tuning it up a bit I was able to do the smog today and passed first try!!

Now I'm %100 legit and rolling. Now I can justify doing the fun stuff!

 

congrats on gettin it going, thats what I call a "come up".. 100 bux for a 5 letter?? Lets see more pics?

 

Austin - selling to get that FD?

Today:

Finally got around to grinding off rust and spraying the radiator cover and windshield wiper arms.

Got all the wiring for the Haltech figured out and tried to fire her up again. Im finally getting fuel! She ALMOST started! Tomorrow I'll try loading in some milder maps (the current maps are from a bridgeport with insanely large injectors) and see if we can't get her to start and stay running.

I'm still waiting on the Throttle Position Sensor, which just so happens to be the single most important part of the entire setup, as the Haltech F9 computer uses throttle position to base the entire rest of the map off of! but until that comes, i can at least get her to idle nice

 

No, wouldn't that be nice though! Just came to the realization that I would be much better off financially and mentally with the sale of the car. Starting school again in one week from right now at the University of Minnesota for Engineering again. I'll be holding pretty tight to the asking price and if I don't get it in a reasonable amount of time I'll take it back off of the market.

 

Austin, after all that hard work you're selling her?! Hope you had fun with her while it lasted. If you weren't so damn far away I'd drop off my GSL for you to do a turbo conversion!
Best of luck with the sale!

 

Hah dood if you sell it, you would have done a complete TII swap in less than the time it took me to install an intake manifold.

Just sayin

You should keep her man, just dont spend any more money on upgrades after this. I mean, you'll still need a car at school right?

 

^ what he said... why sell? Money comes and money goes, but that turbo fb may go and never return...

 

I've listed the car up for sale, doesn't mean it's gone!

But yeah, I have many hours of work and mountains of money into the car and I know I'd be better off financially with it gone.

And don't worry...if it goes I'm going to get a 5 letter in my future and REW the thing

I remember that, scary huh?!

I do need a car at school, but they salt the roads here until you're driving on nothing but crushed salt when it's dry and salt water when it's wet. Would destroy the bottom of the car unless I got super motivated and bed liner-ed the bottom of the car before winter. Don't worry, if it doesn't sell it'll probably be my only car and I'll post videos of myself having fun with it in the winter

True man, I hear ya. Only time will tell. I'll miss it for sure, but there's always another one waiting in need of some love.

We will see guys, don't worry too much - I'm a stickler and my asking price is high (what the fiance doesn't understand can't hurt her)

 

Ahhhh i think i'm starting to see whats going on here.

"Honestly babe - i listed it for sale and nobody wants it! sorry!"

 

So, I've been battling a non-working GSL-SE stereo issue. Maybe one of you who has this setup may have a clue what's going on. In short, the unit won't power on. It did 2 days ago. I pulled it out to plug in a self-made DIN8 connector to the TAPE->EQ jack on the EQ. Nothing was connected to it. Put everything back together and nothing powers on. I put my old radio back in, just as it was before, even with the original 5w amp. No power. It used to power on too.

I did all the checking on fuses and wiring issues I could (main stereo and cig lighter fuse, fuse inside head), but couldn't find anything wrong. Today I took it to a stereo shop. They did all the same testing I did and they couldn't get the head to power on either. Like me, they were getting power on the 3P plug with ACC turned on. But when they plug it into the head, it doesn't power on. They think it's a dead unit.

It's hard for me to believe it as it was just working 2 days ago AND my other unit won't work either. But I can't think of any other reasonable explanations either. Ugh...I'm coming to terms with the fact that I probably won't have a stereo in the car.

fm

 

today I gassed her up.

 

I've spent the last 2 nights hiding in the garage with a gallon of simple green and rags..engine bay cleanup has begun

Oh yeah and I got some cleaner for the dash and stuff so that's been slowly getting a rub down too

 

FM there is a fuse internal on the head unit. it pops easily, especially if you're monkeying around with stuff. I popped mine at least twice.

PM me and give me full details of whats going on, i feel like after my haxoring i have a fairly good sense of how it all works together.

 

Haha, this is sort of what I'm going through now...

 

I was laughing to tears reading this by Mike Ancas, from his book, Mazda RX-7 Performance Handbook. It's a little long... but it seems timely

TIME:

Besides budgeting finances, you need to budget your time. In a perfect world, you could wake up in the morning, go out to the garage, and work on your car all day. But, unfortunately, most people have to go to work. Then there are friends and family responsibilities, and all of the other time constraints that come with life in the twenty-first century. Don’t underestimate the importance of setting a time budget. Your relationship with your partner can often be put into some degree of jeopardy due to an automotive project. Your significant other may think the car has become the most important thing in your life. But there are ways to avoid this potential problem.

First, limit the time you work on your car when your spouse is home. If you have children, try to involve them in your project so that there is a family element to what you are doing. And most important, empower your significant other. Give her (or, for the women competitors—more power to you!—give him) the power to decide, for instance, how long you will work on your car for a given day.

Let your significant other know that she is more important to you than your car. Tell her what aspect of the project you will be working on today, and give her an estimate of the time you think this will take. And tell her that if she begins to feel neglected, all she needs to do is to come to the garage and tell you.

Usually you will be able to come to an appropriate stopping point and get cleaned up in about 30 minutes from the time she asks you to come back into the house. If this seems “unmanly,” then you may want to reexamine your priorities in life. Machines should never be given more importance than people. If you compromise your relationships for the sake of building your car, in the end there will be no one around to help you enjoy it.

 

Or buy her her own and wrench together lol

Sunday spent time going through the carb .... oh her car lol

 

Yup.... that makes sense. I've seen a WHOLE lot of cool stuff for absolutly REDICULUS prices, and when I inquirer I get the same answer "wife told me to sell it; she didn't specify price"

 

Welp figured out I had the injectors plugged in wrong. The Haltech injector harness is NOT built to reach all 4 injectors the way they're supposed to be plugged in. I went for the most aesthetic way, the way that made most sense for the harness length and routing.

So, I pulled off the intake manifolds to pull the injector plugs, and noticed that the oil injector was leaking like crazy, right where they repaired the botched bung.

That's no good, as I havent even started the engine yet! So i guess I'm going to put a **** tonne of gas rated thread tape on the oil injector and see if that holds