The Transformation has begun!! Bwa ha ha!
 

The Transformation: Friday & Saturday

I'm trying to get all this done before Deal's Gap. Wish me luck! For those of you that don't know what my plans are -

My Goals before Deal's Gap

• "fix" the rust
• install wide-body
• paint car
• install turbo kit from fb II
• install new suspension

Friday:



That evening, my buddy Minda (rotarycrazy on this site) went with me to my house to pick up the RX-7 and the wide-body-kit and suspension. I had to drive my Dad's F150 pickup to take the parts to his place. We live about 60 miles apart. His place is more suitable for us to do this work at since he has a "car-port" and I don't. He drove the RX-7 down. When we got to my place, the RX-7 would not start. The battery was dead. So we jumped it and went on our way. We stopped to get gas, and well, the battery was still dead. So we had to jump it again in the crowded gas station.

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Saturday:

We ran errands, and got the rest of the various parts we needed. Got the car up on jackstands and started to work. First we evaluated exactly how bad the rust is. As you can see in the pics, it is quite extensive. Yeah, this is gonna be fun. Then we started pulling the rear suspension out and dropped the axle. That's about as far as we got. Will continue this week and update as available. Now for some pics.

Just so you get a good idea of what I'm about to jump headfirst into, here are pics of the rust that has to be fixed on BOTH the rear fenders/fender-wells.

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A pic of Minda. No, he didn't "have a little Captain in him". lol

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My old, ratty, nast, yucky, sucky, dirty, tasteless wheels.

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Minda's cat is inspecting, ummm, the cat ;)

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We couldn't push or pry the old rubber bushings out, so we decided to burn them out. Yeah, that was fun, and it smelled great too!

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That's all for now folks!

Much thanks to Minda for all the help so far and in the future! kudos!

i always like to see progress bein made, almost motivates me to fix my leakin OMP.. Keep us posted and don't forget the many pics! :D

great stuff keep it up what kinda widebody you got?

well so far the progress today is slow but I did find more of that rust thing we all love. We will have to buy quite a bit of sheat metal to cover all that up. Hope fully thats all for the rusted part in the back becouse if there is more I will shoot the damn thing and just make him get a decent shell.

Here is the thread from where it was posted on here He said it is a "GTU" Wide body kit.

Sorry 'bout that.:) I know there is a lot of rust we gotta take care of.

That is some more bad rust. good Luck

Man. I applaud your efforts. I guess I was lucky when I got my 7. I have been all over the car, and have only found a few places in the paint. It truely shows me how much these cars mean to people. I have always loved my 7, but I would really have to think hard and long about taking on a major task like that. Hope to see that 7 at Deal's Gap. Good luck with resto, and definantly keep us posted on the progress.

you have no idea about rust...

Ok, time for an update.
 

The Transformation:

Minda here. updating for Adam.

Monday:

Basically just did more rust analysis. Discovered more rust and started removing the affected areas.

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Tuesday:

Turbo kit came in!!!! WOOOOO HOOOO!! YEEE haw!!! ahem. anyway. this was Zac's (fb II on this site) turbo kit. Here are some pics of Adam with turbo and intercooler.

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Wednesday:

Great weather and some tunes from Rammstein make me work work work. Took apart the front end and as you can see in the pics, there is almost no rust up front! The rust that was on the old fenders was apparently just surface rust. But it doesn't matter since the widebody fenders will replace them.

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Well that's all for now. We'll keep you updated as often as possible!

Amazing!

outright Fantastic I'd say :)

looks like good progress, but like Lee Lyons said, rust SUCKS BAD!!! It ends up taking alot of time to fix, im sure you could do it, but it SUCKS BAD and costs big $. I gave up on my last car because of rust in the rear fender wells...

Yeah it sucks, but fortunately, it is mostly confined to the rear. As you can see in the pics, there is NONE upfront. weird.

The Transformation:

Ok time for another update. Not much happening today, just finished up cutting the rust off the body. While I was cutting rust away in the rear fender well, I found a mouse nest! lol. Those little buggers crawled up inside there and built a nest! ha ha.

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Good picture of where the mouse nest was.

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Now for just some various pics of the rust that has been cut away.

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Thats it for now. We'll be going out to the RX-7 meet in columbia SC here a couple of hours.

looks good :t_up:

The Transformation: Monday

Just removed everything possible on the driver's side of the Engine bay, cleaned it, and prepped engine bay for paint. We started painting, but it was apparently too cold, so it kept "running".

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See my for sale thread, and see if I have anything you need! Thanks, we'll update as soon as we can!

Again, I apologize about the lack of updatedness this thread has been suffering from. We have been working on the car, but mostly on some of the small stuff and the rust. Obviously, I didn't meet my goal of making Deal's Gap, but cest la vie. Oh well, maybe next year.

Well, the rust is rapidly disappearing! No more holes in the car! woot!

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Burning out more bushings! FUN!

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Take it easy, everybody!

Until next time,
- Adam "Skylance"

put pics on when your wideboadys on it looks mint:)

Okay, time for another update!

The engine bay has been completely repainted! Lookin' gorgeous!

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Painted some of the brackets.

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Went shopping today, picked up some of the stuff I need . . .

Boost guage.

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Blow off valve.

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Big fricken' muffler! lol

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Later dayz, y'all!

looks like progress is moving right along.

not to bad man...i was thinking about sending you a pm to find out about you car see how it was coming...i have almost got mine runing right...thanks to the holley tec book i got wooot yay for books

Werd patrick! I'm gonna send you a pm here in a second. I got a new phone number and a REAL phon3!! Wewt and woot for teh books!

Well, today we finally made some SUBSTANTIAL progress! I'll be the first to tell you that it sure feels good for a change.

The first thing we did this morning was make the lousiest attempt ever at trying to get a tow dolly. I should have called to reserve one earlier this week, but it completely skipped my mind. Anyway, we finally found one and picked up the GSL-SE parts car that I need for the LSD, disc brakes, correct bolt pattern for my wheels, and hopefully some headlight motors that ACTUALLY work! As you can see in the pix, it was in really bad shape, hence it's "parts car" status. lol It felt kinda weird to get parts and actually use them the SAME DAY - not store them for months on end. lol :)

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Here we are putting in some of the polyurethane suspension bushings. Minda (rotarycrazy) and Masin (dregg100) decided that the grease we smeered on the bushings prior to installation was consistent in look, color, texture, and feel to that of "whale sperm". I'm still trying to figure out exactly how they became experts in whale sperm, but it sounds like an interesting story that we didn't exactly have time for . . .

Thats me (Adam aka. "Skylance") on the left , Masin (dregg100) in the middle, and Minda (rotarycrazy) on the right.

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We got the new rear end ready to go!!!! Cleaned, painted and beautiful!

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We had some trouble with the mosquitos trying to carry us away to their vampire lairs, so we got one of those repellent candles out. Unfortunately, for reasons unknown to us, the wicks would not stay lit. So, we ummmm, "fixed" it! woot!! Eh, whatever works, right?

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Well, we got that problem taken care of and finished putting in the rear axle.

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Here's a sneek peek at what the car will look like once I get the wide body and wheels on it! I can't wait!

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Well, everybody, take it easy. Hopefully, we'll get a lot more done over the next few days!

Until next time,
- Adam

Whale sperm is sold at GM...it is used in there LSD's as a lube :D