I finally started up my car. After 5 months of work...well, maybe 1 month of work, and 4 months of sitting I couldn't boost it at all, I still need another fuel fitting since I broke one of them, but I just had to hear it run again, so I epoxied the fitting to the carb. It held for long enough to tune the idle before it started a small leak and I turned it off. The fuel fitting have to be special ordered, metric thread on 1 side, -AN on the other. Luckily Robert(www.rotaryshack.com) had another one lying around and he shipped it to me, it'll be here early next week. Once that's here my car will be on the road again! I was very suprised at how easily the car started. The engine had not been turned over in 5 months, and it started right up once the fuel started flowing through the lines(3 secs at most). I have some information on my setup at www.cardomain.com/id/coldy13 In a week or two I will update that site with new pictures of the completed car. Just one more week until I can start driving it again

 

Wahoo man!! Good to hear!! Get that fuel fitting in and let us know what happens!! Do you have any new pictures yet? I wanna see this beast "complete" .

~T.J.

EDIT - I just re-read that last couple sentences. I look forward to the pictures .

 

Everyone will probably laugh at the pictures Everything right now is just functional, I havn't taken the time to actualy make it look good yet. I still need to finish the exhaust, right now it's just a downpipe and presilencer, but it will only take a day or two to finish it. It's great having free access to a very well stocked machine shop

 

Sweet setup man! That's the first black 84'-85' interior I've ever seen. That's the best interior color.

 

Great Job, I can't wait to hear about your first ride with boost! I love boost!

 

hey man, i can see the mazda logo on the stereo, but i have not seen a 84-85 7 with a pushbutton stereo like that. and the vent,recirc. controls. It doesn't look like anything i've seen. My 84 -SE's controls are all pushbutton no slider. It just looks way different. what up ?

 

Nice car. Congrats she's running .

 

It's the base model stereo and vent contros... Our 85 base had the same thing, but I put in the stock stereo and amps from my -SE parts car...
The odd thing is that the base stereo doesn't have the eq. just the radio and casette...
That's also a Series 1 steering wheel if I'm not mistaken...

 

I think the wheel is the same for series 1 and 2 because my 83 has the same thing.

~T.J.

 

Ah... Didn't know that... series 3 cars have a 3 spoke...

 

The EQ on the stereo did come stock, the car is an '85 GS, no sunroof. The steering wheel is from a Series 1, the stock one was very torn up and I found this one for cheap, I also like the 4 spoke look better. The dash is black, seats are grey, and the carpet is blue/grey. Just a few more days and it'll be on the street again

 

Do you have any pictures up to this point with all the plumbing hooked up? Minus the fuel fitting. BTW it looks really good. hope mine looks that good in the engine bay when Im done. my exterior and interior are an after thought to the engine bay on mine.

 

still no front mount oil cooler? tisk tisk :P

nice job man, looks good. got any pics of the modded tII manifold?

 

Actually, my dad just brought home the fitting Hopefully I'll be driving it tomorrow. He had one at his work that had the right thread on one side, so he just machined the other side down and put the right threads on it! I'm also getting 2 extra sent to me(thanks a ton Robert)because they are very fragile and hard to get. If I don't feel too lazy, I'll get the pics up tonight. My friend just picked up his '88 TII today, things are looking good around here I won't actually boost in until Saturday probably, I want to make sure everything is right first, I really don't want to waste all the work I've done by getting on it before I know it's all right.

Major thanks go out to my dad and Robert(www.rotaryshack.com) Without them supplying parts for me I probably wouldn't be finished until next year.

 

My cooling system all works perfect. I drove with a broken fan clutch(pulled less air than my interior vents!) for a month before I found out it was bad, but it still rarely went much past 1/3 on the gauge, and NEVER past 1/2, even in stopped traffic.

I'll still on my to-do list though, just not a top priority.

 

Here's some crappy pics of it, I'll take better ones tomorrow when there's light out.

http://coldy13.rottenass.com/engine1.jpg
http://coldy13.rottenass.com/engine2.jpg
http://coldy13.rottenass.com/engine3.jpg
http://coldy13.rottenass.com/car.jpg

I told you the engine bay looks like **** right now, but it will be cleaned up. I know there's no fan clutch there, but I'll be picking up a new one tomorrow or on saturday, I managed to lose my fan durring the turbo installation

 

Go! Go! Go! Go! Go! Go COLDY... its yo BIRTHDAY... we gonna party like its yo Birthday... we gonna sip bocardi like iz yo BIRTHDAY and you know you a bad *** cuz iz yo BIRTHDAY!
You can find Coldy in tha club
Bottle full of juice
Look everybody Coldy has got some mother fucken boost!

Your boost gauge looks fucken sick. Good job Coldy. You got her running. And running is half the battle.

Zachstylez

 

one question: how does that carb hat stay on??

 

Congrats mate, love the car. There's just something about a blow-through turbo on a 1st gen... cheap, simple and effective. Especially with the Nikki carb! Plus the fact that you're doing the work yourself makes it even better.

 

There's a machined lip on the top of the carb that the hat sits on, and I put some sealer on it before I put it on, it's completely airtight. Also, the bolt that runs through the carb normally has another bolt welded to it that sticks out the top center of the hat to bolt it down.

 

Hope mine looks that good when I get to the assembly stage. now im just pulling in the parts. still looking for a carb and the fuel system should be here soon. Found two on the yahoo auction sites just waiting for the time to go down a bit before I bid.

How many more days till you get your part... Killing you isnt it

 

 

actually, things arent looking good. i am the friend that picked up my turboII. last night i ended up racing an integra. sure enough a cop sees us and pull me over and not the other guy. i won, they should have got him. i might get my license suspended until i am 21(i am only 17). i did smoke the guy after i got traction though. i burn out in 1st and half of 2nd...lol. one of my friends was right behind me and said the race was pretty cool. he said i shot a pretty good flame out of both mufflers when i shifted . i am going to court on the 10/9 so we will find out how bad i get punished. i am hoping for a 1 year suspension with some probation or something.

 

That bites man. What did the officer cite you with at the scene?

~T.J.

 

1. drag racing
2. failure to signal turn
3. wreckless operation
4. ran stopsign
5. worst of all, eluding