Washed her after a fun 2 hour drive getting lost.

 

Well since I do not sleep anymore-- I changed what looked like my original windshield wiper blades out. Went with the bosch micro edge. Aggravating to say the least but their in there. I hope. Just in time for me to get a little wet in the rain. while all y'all slept

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I fixed one of my tabs that had gotten broken off before I bought the car, & I think is was the permatex kit I used.

I made a new tab by combining a .250 male QD crimp with two similar-size spade lugs, used the permatex glue to attach it, then overpainted the whole assembly with the conductive paint.

That was in 1993. Still attached, still works.

 

Yesterday, I picked up an Autopower cage for my FB today. j9fd3s provided me with a 5-point harness to use with it.

And I met Peepers as well!

fm

 

I installed new ball joints, brake rotors, pads,wheel bearings, and rear shocks. The car is really starting to tighten up! Coming soon for the chasis will be tie rods, camber plates, and stainless brake lines.

 

NCROSS, where are you getting your SS lines?
Atkins has a set but they aren't DOT approved.

 

Yesterday I put the charger on the GSL-SE and then started her up. Been a couple of months since the last drive. She deserves better than that! A little blue smoke right at the start. Drove to the gas station that actually has gas, not gasohol. Dumped in a bottle of injector cleaner and 13.5 gallons of "The Good Stuff". Finished charging her. Today I took her for a drive and she behaved almost perfectly. Idle is a little low and she will sometimes stall when the AC kicks on at idle.

On the GSL-EV I have started repairing the leaking oil cooler I took off the GSL-SE last year. It leaked because I broke it during the upgrade to stainless lines. I am going to use it to cool the motor controller on the EV. My repair will not make it usable for cooling oil on an RX-7. That would require more welding talent than I have. These oil coolers have a bypass so the oil heats up quickly and when up to temp the bypass is closed off and all oil goes through the radiator portion. I added a brass spacer so that the bypass is always closed off. I need the controller to stay as cool as possible. I will take some photos of the repair when I get a little further along.

 

New fuel filters, cap and rotor. Took my mom for a drive also, pulled to redline and she grinned ear to ear, I think she likes it.

 

Well it stuck and it works. Luv it when that happens. No excuses for this boys. Too damn easy

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I successfully used a propane torch to resolder mine. Yes, a torch on glass, and no it didn't burn through any of the heater element traces or Shatner the glass. This was in 2013. They haven't fallen off yet.

 

Ebay. Rb has some too, but more $$.

 

I just spent the entire day putting on my new sway bar... upside down. Not even gonna bother taking it back out till tomorrow cause im so frustrated and tired.

 

Don't worry man, you're not the only one who's done that sort of thing

 

The correct way is with the ends facing up, right? Because the way I have it now is with it angled towards the ground.

 

I've actually never done a swaybar install, will be able to let you know within the next few months tho!

Look it up in Haynes manual and FSM, they should have any indicators or install instructions outlined.

~Geoff

 

Funny that the onky thing I remember is the pain of installing a TMC front sway bar. It is so thick that i had to enlarge the sway bar mounts lol

 

Well I opened the hatch, but worked on setting up my dad's 68' Camino with an electric fuel pump, regulator and, new 3/8" soft line and dual inline filters (one under hood one, one before the pump). Not really RX-7 but, was car related and based off the setup on my 7. Here's a couple pics
Under car




Under hood

Next is the wiring, and then it's done.

 

Ahhhhh!!!!!! Its hideous!!!




Jk. Nice looking intake there. Always loved camaros.

 

Haha not a Cam, el Camino and thanks, we've put it back together from a pile of parts, and that 327 small block is a hot runner.

 

I finally found the time to button up the last bits of the interior. Installed plastic retainers for the bottom edge of the carpet below the rear bins (yes, my '80 has bins). So, the interior is at last complete. At least until I find new carpet for the front half.

Still want to mess around with those Blaster coils I bought, & I need to go through the front steering geometry one more time & get an alignment.

Contemplating new rear control arm / Watts bushings but I hear conflicting reports on whether urethane is appropriate or not.

 

the stock arms are a multi axis pivot, to varying degrees. urethane is really only good in a single axis.

for example, the stock upper links are shorter than the stock upper links, this means when you hit a bump, the pinion actually rotates downwards. so since the watts links are perpendicular, they actually need to twist.

so you actually want something really soft. rod ends work in the Watts, and the lower links, but since the uppers are not parallel to each other, rod ends will rip the body

 

Guess I'll have to plunk down the change for new stock links, then. It's about time, I guess; mine are showing some cracking on the outer rubber faces. Original to the car, so 35 years and upwards of 200k miles on 'em. Some of the very few original-to-the-car parts of the running gear left, in fact.

 

Delivered some pizzas in the gslse today needless to say none were late lol

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I did that. I also took a day off to fix it because I was so pissed. Then i realized I put the front bushings on backwards. They were such a pita to get on I left them. A week later of clunking I did it again.

fm

 

After washing her and cleaning the interior, I took Rexy out for a drive. Decided to see how she'd handle being driven to my new job while the weather is still good enough for her to be on the road. 88km round trip and she used 1/4 tank of gas. Not too shabby for a half bridge 13b and an average speed of 95km/hr with a lot of hill climbing. PITA without a/c when it's 34 C outside though! LOL