Lookin' good chris. I have heard that Hans really knows his shiz, so I'm sure you'll be very happy with your Pectel. Oh, and Mr. Ihor "The Ukrainian Love Bandit" Huk also received that exact battery for his Crustank, I believe it weighs 23 pounds.

 

OMG I would hate to be your neighbor!! LOL

 

Cmonkey, you should post all your pics that you have for this project so everyone can follow along with your progress.... Looks like its really turned the corner, I know you cant wait to street tune this thing on the highway.

 

I took the motor to Mandeville's place yesterday to have him replace the 20b front pulley hub with an FD unit that aligns the timing wheel more precisely using cotter pins.


They are in the process of setting up a new engine dyno room.

That level of isolation would probably make me way too confident in pushing the envelope. It certainly would be a lot safer than doing 4th gear WOT pulls on the highway though:p .

 

Paint Pics

 

Here are some pictures of the work in progress. The entire chassis was stripped down to the bare metal.





The front bumper that had a $500 paint job by the pervious owner and was never installed being stripped :p

 

Firewall primed. They added seam sealer to the welds to make it look more OEM-like. Note, it was not necessary to keep the elements out since the entire firewall was seam welded


Starting to take shape.




I had the stone guard removed. I am very happy with how it looks. Hopefully it doesn't get beat to hell without it.

Here is a shot of the trunk lid which was subsequently redone due to a blemish.

I'm happy to report that my car has less orange peel than the factory finish on this car


They have to do another level of polishing, clean and wax it and then they want me to give it a final inspection. Hopefully it will be out of there by next weekend.

 

[QUOTE=I think it would go a long way like this if you use the car for street use and don't drag it like most of you guys in the US. Mostly gearboxes break first and second gear and they hold quite well from 3rd on[/QUOTE]

Actually 3rd and 4th gear are the weakest. You can break those just rolling into gear with a lot of torque especially below 5k rpm. Happens a lot with high powered 13b's not to mention a 3 rotor.
I have broken a couple of transmissions just doing pulls on the dyno. The minute boost hits tranny goes.

 

NIce to see you went with Roger, he's a great guy. If i could i would send my engine to him to get built. Who know;s maybe he will have my engine if everything works out

 

what orange peel! looks clean how many coats of clear is that?

nice distributer cover.

 

Thanks and thanks again for that distributor cover . I'm not sure how many coats of clear they used, but I know a lot of wet sanding was done at different points. It is not a flat rate paint job. I am paying them by the hour unit they are happy with it or I run out of money. They have done an excellent job so far -almost too good because I'm worried about damaging it and don't want to ruin the smooth finish of the 1/4s by hacking up the fenders and riveting on the Pettit flares. You should have seen the look of disdain they had when I showed up with the fiberglass flares in a box.

While the car was at one of the many fabrication shops someone damaged 2 of the 3 oil metering pump lines. Fortunately I had an extra pump with lines. Unfortunately I broke one of the three lines on the extra pump at the very last step of the installation .
Fortunately (for a second time) Racer X-8 wrote up a great line replacement procedure

https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...8&page=4&pp=15
I ordered the parts a little while ago using the part numbers listed in the thread from Jegs. Hopefully I will get them in time to replace everything this weekend.

 

Chris, do you have any solution to this?? other than to change to different tranny

CMonakar, Awesome project

 

^build the tranny with treated parts?

 

Cryo treated parts??

 

If you wanted to build it with cryo'ed parts, best to start with brand new internals. The owner at www.cryoscience.com told me the metal will take to the cryoing much better if it is brand new and not used/heat cycled.

 

Automotive International called today-the paint job is done at last! I got a quick look at it after work, but it wasn't enough light to really inspect it, so I am going back tomorrow to check it over before signing off. What I did see looked really damn impressive. The depth and uniformity of the surface is almost supernatural :p. They showed me the work file for it. It took over 200hrs of labor to complete. Bear in mind the car was delivered to them as a stripped shell. I'll post some pictures tomorrow.

Meanwhile back at the garage, my modified lower intake manifold is coming along. I have removed everything related to the emissions equipment, and had the EGR holes sealed up. I also removed the vacuum line assembly on the other side of it. Every gram counts. The only thing left to do is clean up the rough edges and polish it. It is proving to be a royal PITA because most of the surface area cannot be sanded with a power tool.

 

your manifold looks alot like mine sorry about the shitty picture I took it with my cell

 

Did you modify it, or did it come like that?? I had 3 of them (1 D-series, 1 from Mazdacomp around 2001 and 1 unknown) and they all looked like the stock one in the picture above.

 

Looking good there Chris!!

 

Different tranny period. Even if you replace the gears, the case itself twists.

 

 

WOW! Neat project, can't wait to see the finished product!

 

wow. beautiful paint! they did a sweet job on it.

 

No I sent it to Garfinkle in TN and he removed the emissions stuff

 

car looks amazing i'd be afraid to touch it