Nice man! I have off the end of this week and am planning on installing my rack and pinion on the turbo. We'll see how this goes. Billy has decided to make revised knuckle arms, but I haven't recieved them yet, so I won't be able to fully install it....

 

Ya talked to him over the phone today and told me the same thing and told me he'd be shipping them out shortly.

 

i saw your cross member in person...nice. you have an original liitle color scheme going there. would you scan those mariah instructons and email them to me?

 

Hey,

how do you get to see them before me ... yup love that color though ... should make me stand out a when I go to meets

 

well got my rack and pinion today after all ... same post office, doing 2 runs to the same place ... now my garage is full of boxes lol.

 

No run yesterday night ... I was kinda affraid to get the cops over here with just the headers hooked up. Anyhow ... more updated pictures with all the glass in, and suspension all in.

 

Forgot to add, I have added my vaccum line off the ITB's for the Map sensor. As you can tell I did "t" both connections together to hopefully get a better signal. Also My EGT wires are all extended to the inside of the car. The orange stuff is that flame retardant stuff that Pineapple racing sells. The wires sit a little too close in that area. Note how I the vacumm hose, and the EGT cable fit perfectly in those slots. I plan on taking out the one floor rubber piece, and puttnig another one in there like the Fuel pump wire one, but in the passenger side area for the wideband to exit from instead of looping it through the engine bay.

 

Looking really good.

 

Hey man, I stopped by on saturday and saw the car. I figured you were at work since you weren't working on it. Looking good so far, although I didn't get to see under the hood. Just remember, I want to test out the R&P steering when your done

 

Hey Chris ...

If you're still intown tomorrow morning ... you should come and by and help me finish my front suspension putting in that shiny new rack and pinion .

 

I love that shot.

Its lookin' great Sam!! You're going at that thing like a rabid monkey, lol....certainly aren't wasting any time. Good stuff!!

If you need any help with anything just let me know.....

 

Hey Joe,

Thanks .. ya why would I waste time lol ... the only time I don't work on it is when it raining because it just plain sucks to work on cars in the rain.

I went a bought an E-fan from a fiero to mount that to my car see how it goes. Now sure how it will be mounted exactly, but should be easy enough. thinking about directly boltnig it to the stock fan shroud, not sure how others have done it.

Also went to the yards in hope to get a door handle, but no luck there. Looks like I might just stick that windows in without door handle for the time being. Unless i can find one soon.

Besides that didn't really get anything installed on the car as it was a crappy day, wet snow, and rain for most of the day.

 

its really coming together i like the color, Scott did a wonderful job as always on his powder coating!

 

Looking good man. Do you just not have a door handle at all? Cause you can flip them around and use them on the other side with no problems... Thats what i did on mine back when one of the handles broke.
I got most of my rack and pinion installed yesterday, have you started on yours at all yet?

 

finish it already! haha

 

I don't have a single door handle. I knew about the interchangeablity part. As for the rack and pinion I haven't had a chance, and might just wait till Billy ships out those new arms. He sent me the PDF installation and I was actually amazed how much measuring you have to do. I might just put in the cross member in for now and leave it at that for the time being. Today i filled up the transmission oild with AMSOIL 75W90, and also changed the oil for the car as its been sitting there for a while. I'll be premixing till I sort out how to place the OMP in there ... should be that hard. Also whent out today and bought some bicycle cable taking Aaron's suggestion for making my throttle cable. Still need to fabricate a mount somehow. I think I've got the idea all figured out but we'll have to wait and see.

Let me know how your rack and pinion install goes though, I read the whoe installation yesterday and unsure about a couple of things, so might ask you or Joe from RPM

Kevin ... sheesh ... i'm working on it ... lol

 

I was wondering how much you could boost this setup and some HP guestimates of this.

 

At first I wasn't sure on a few of the details as well, but once you start working on it most of the details become clearer. I'm basically about as far as I can go without those steering arms, so most of the way there, and so far not too many problems. So fire away with those questions

 

Sorry unsure what you mean about how much I can boost this setup.

As for HP figures, taking in my old setup which was a holley running pretty rich, and stock ignition put out 147.3 rwhp and 124.2 ft-lb of torque (more info can be found here: https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...highlight=dyno ) But would like to be at around 170whp. That would be me chaning out my transmission and rear end oil to AMSOIL, for the least amount of power loss, and also better oil in the engine, freeing a couple of ponies from removing the Clutch Fan, the better fuel atomization of fuel injection along with a whole lot better tunning that that it will be done with a wideband and an EGT guage, and lastly port matching everything. I know it will probably take a while till I can fully tune in the standalone to get the max HP out of it but still. Also hopefully sometime next year I can get my supercharger setup (rotrex) and would like to be around 250-300 whp, depending on how boost level get. I don't want to run anything higher than about 10psi.

 

your cars lookin really neat sam gets better every week

 

would be sweeter if my damn carpet came in :@ ... I hope this is the last time that I have to order carpet from 1aAuto.

 

Wisdom tooth out - check
Front suspension mostly in - check
Carpet coming in - CHECK

Finally carpet is in, Time to slap on that interior as soon as I get all the suspension done up in a few minutes here. Pictures coming soon. Hopefully with the car back on its 4 wheels.

 

So what did you decide to do about the steering? Mine is all together except for the steering arms which Billy said he would ship today. It looks great, and feels even better (even without being connected to the wheels you can tell the difference)

 

might wait out till i get those arms first before putting it all in. Not sure how long shipping would be

 

those Rotex supercharger are nice! what model are you going to get?