Personally, never was a fan of those hatches. Those are obviously very polarizing so you will shortly receive the exact opposite opinion. Do whatever you think looks best!

 

I like the mariah hatch on that widebody. Not sure it actually helps on the areo, I suspect it
distrurbs the air flow over the roof and creates vacuum or swirl behind the glass.

I've always kind of liked em but wished they didn't cover the back side windows and just did
the straight rear window that can be opened. Not sure if anyone has done that.

 

I like it,i think it looks great

 

Great work on his rx7

 

Great looking car man

 

Me an Jim H. At mariah talked about the aerodynamic property of the hatch, and he assured me it had been shaped accordingly to work with it's matching tail, which I by chance acquired

 

I like how it looks with the widebody but would be concerned with how much rear visibility is reduced

 

Bought a cheap borescope on eBay, stuck it down the spark plug hole:



Pretty much how the housings looked before the rebuild. About 13,000 miles since the rebuild, OEM seals, pre-mix, and more than a few track days.

 

Anyone know where I can find like a 94 rx7 that's my dream car!

 

Not trying to be snarky, but maybe not in the section specific to first gen RX-7s and specifically not in the thread for "What did I do to my first gen RX-7 today" thread?

The Third-gen specific forums are over HERE

and the Classifieds are over HERE

 

Drove it home. I haven't driven the car for close to a year. (No 9" in it yet, I bought another Kia pumpkin so I could plug in my two remaining axles, which are heinously twisted, just so I could have a car to drive since my Volvo is in bodyshop "suck credit dry" mode)

Deliberately drove at neutral throttle a lot on the highway for brap action. Also did a lot of accelerating in too high of a gear in city traffic just for the ITB intake bwuuuuuuh. I don't think I went over 2000rpm once after I got off the highway

Definitely more enjoyable sounds than the Volvo's whistle and occasional muted pushhhh as the turbo's internal bypass wastes all the boost that I built up.

The VW, with its Russian Tank grade turbo (KKK K26!) is going to run 20-22lb boost and will have no such effeminete girly-car things like bypass or blowoff valves. It will have manly turbo chattle and compressor surge giggle.

 

i put my FC together with no blowoff valve, turns out i don't own one. it makes really neat noises, and its surprisingly loud, even at like part throttle/low boost.

i wonder how long the turbo (which i threw together) will hang in there?

 

Freed up a stuck relay contact inside the flasher unit.

 

Drove my fb for the first time since February!

 

Looks great, now where is your build thread?

 

Lol, I haven't even started writing a build thread up.

 

MS2 tuning my Bridgy 12A.

 

That sounds so good!

 

Thanks. It's been a long time coming to get it running. Between money, school, work and life, it had been too long since I heard that beautiful brap. Need to get an exhaust system, it's open headers now and the neighborhood is not appreciating the brap as much as I do.

 

Moved my mirrors up a couple of feet. A few months ago my passenger mirror motor crumbled apart so I replaced both sides with mirrors from a junkyard '82. Woke up this morning and figured I'd change things up.

 

How'd you seal where the mirror was on the door?

 

For now I just covered it with red tape. I'm working on cutting out a seal and cover to bolt into the original spot later. Having the power mirrors is kind of annoying for that since there's the quarter sized hole on each side instead of just the screw points.

 

finally got the engine to fire but I need another Carb because the one I have won't feed fuel to the engine.

 

Rebuilt my first engine. About a week away from firing it up!

 

Yeah I deleted my door key lock but I feel like it would be more of a pain to do for the mirror. Did you extend the wiring and kept the electronic motors?

Looks good. Good luck. Post up when it fires up.