for you newbs, here is the car as it sits today


The engine bay, drivers side

 

The TII oil cooler and fuel cool (which I stepped on and fucked up a bunch of the fins)




New sheetmetel interior panels for the new autometer guages

 

I totally redid the fuel cell setup with new brackets. It sits considerably higher and the fuel pump is now easily accessible.

 

Nice work. Can I ask questions and make suggestions?

 

That fuel cell set-up looks nice. How many gal. is it. And where did you get it?

 

fuel cell looks nice, but I am pretty sure if you plan to pass tech anywhere you will need to wrap it in metal.

Later
Randy

 

could you shrink the pics a bit? a am having a difficult time looking at the overall pic of what you are showing b/c of their size.

 

I like the V fmic chillin behind the sweet looking radiator. Car looks like it was done correctly, props man.

 

looksing good. I take it you have a stainless braided hose fetish

 

Your nuts dude. Your going to have to give me a ride when your done with it.

 

hey... you stole almost ALL my ideas

ladies and gentlemen, this is what my car is going to turn into

excellent work man, i cant wait to do it to my car.

 

Glad you raised the fuel cell. Do you still have the feed
from the stock fuel filler tube? I've gotta do something
like that to mine.

 

thanks for the comments,

to answer some questions

the cell is a summit brand Pro-street fuel cell, its 16 gal, with aviation foam and a GM fuel level sender.

I dont race this car regularly or in SCCA
its mainly a street car, but I plan to race in the Targa Newfoundland next year.

 

I actually would have preffered to have those cool anodized black fittins with the black teflon braided hoses. those are cool ****.

 

I have the exact same fuel cell.

 

How much work to install the fuel cell?

 

looks pretty damn good

 

installing the cell took about a day.

bending the metal for the mounts was pretty easy.

it was removing the floorpan that was a huge bitch.

allthough, all I had to work with was a drill, a jigsaw (I went through 5 blades) a cold chissle and a hammer.

drilling and splitting a dozen spot welds is a big pain in the ***.

Plus there was fitment, fine tuning the height, and then taking it all apart and painting.

about a day, much shorter if I had proper tools

 

Its cars like these that make me feel so sad. If only I have the money, time, and knowledge to do that.
Also does no one but me have to deal with the DEQ or does everyone just do an engine swap with another crappier one that will pass?

 

By the looks of the Pics I take it you went with 13b Housings and 12a Plates? If that's the case, where did you put your fuel injectors?

 

Thats some nice work you have done there .

 

in the intake manifold where they always are... am i wrong?

is there anything special you have to do to use 12a plates w/ 13b rotor housings, cause i really dont want a 6 port 13b, i'd much rather have a 4 port to do my streetport/turbo project on.

 

Questions. What will you be using for an ignition system? Whats the fitting in the front side housing near the CAS for? Whats the duct hanging from the back of the car for?

Suggestions. I see the top fitting on the FC cooler you have. You should have used a pre bent 150* fitting rather than the bent hose. Thats too small a radius bend for that hose and may cause you big problems. Email me if you want pics of what the correct fittings for this are. See how you did the turbo return oil line? Thats the correct way to make a hydraulic line. No stress on the hose. And I highly suggest you fabricate some sort of protective sheild for those fuel cell hoses. Anyone rearends you and its over, all that hard work gone up in flames.

 

its not as hard as you think.
Im only 19, I bought this car about 2 years ago while I was going to Dunwoody. Dunwoody gave me the general automotive knolledge, I learned about 75% of what I know about 7s from this board and other rotary websites.

the motor is a untouched JDM 91 13bt.


Carl, im using s4 TII coils, there mounted down on the subframe by the mount, + a haltech E6k

On the fittings, the only ones that I though were too far bent were the ones on the fuel cooler, they are really tight and I need to redo them.

the ones on the oil cooler dont seam to be really stressed to the point of not flowing enough or anything like that. But I see what your saying.

these fittings are so damn expensive, and I was trying to use what I had already ordered

 

snapped a few more pix for yah, ill leave them in links because of their size

Here are my modified oil filler pieces, I welded the the corner and the block piece together, and then the filler part, which I have to weld a bracket to. I couldnt think of how to setup the filler, and then I saw a remote oil filler in a old BMW at my shop, and I got the idea.

http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/creare/images...ject%20013.jpg

http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/creare/images...ject%20014.jpg

http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/creare/images...ject%20015.jpg

Heres the Haltech and the new Optima Battery

http://mavweb.mnsu.edu/creare/images...ject%20016.jpg