yea but i just wanna be a little lighter!! any advice on what i can do to prepare myself for the motor??

 

well here is a very small update because im waiting for some parts to come in so i can continue! so i have been doing small stuff to get stuff ready well first i fixed the door handle on the driver door!! and i fixed the rear hatches because they wouldnt open.

took a better picture of interior with steering wheel hub (debating on rhd idk)

previous owner put mustang wheels on my car

and i cant believe after 20 years my sunroof still works

 

don't listen to the haters on the sound deadening removal.... from my experience most of the guys that are talkin' the **** can't even change their own oil....do what you want, it's your car.... i can't tell you how many people talked trash to me when i did it.... it isn't that much more loud.... like driving with your windows down (i left all my interior out as well... just dash and seats) it was about a 45 lb. loss in weight.... good rule of thumb is every 100 lbs lost is a 10th of a second gained..... if you are some place cold just pull the car outside and grab hammer and chisle.... i live in NY so it is cold enough to just chip it out lol....

GOOD LUCK!!!!!!!



good luck on the build

 

oh yeah..... rhd is great, but if you wanna be faster than ur buddies talon spend the rhd money on go fast goodies

 

Nobody's "hating," - just providing feedback. And yes, a 10th of a second, good for on the track, practical when it's a daily driver? No.

 

well i might take it to the track every once in awhile. thanks bobbo!! well yea beating my buddies talon is my goal right now and he is sitting at like 375hp and it also awd so its a bit of a challenge!! but im up for it! do you guys happen to kno any thing about and ostrich for tuning...im not sure if that how you spell it but thats what he uses to tune his car and its seems pretty good. i think he told me something about it like look up speed density??? but if you guys kno anything about this please let me kno

 

well i havent updated in nearly a month tryin to get my stuff together for the build so here is an update!

i took bobbo's advice and stayed with lhd for many reasons one being insurance for me was going to sky rocket!

i finally got my turbo II and i havent taken pics of the motor yet he gave me the differential axles motor drive shaft trans seats a whole bunch of parts for a good price so i took it but here are some pics i started workin on the interior i got the dash back in and most of the carpet down and as you can tell by the pic i already fixed all the freakin splice wires he did and bought a new harness

here is before i cleaned the diff

here is after

before cleaned trans

after cleaned trans up a bit still need to scrub down a bit


^can any one tell me why the hell there is a spark plug in my trans?

ok well when i took off my lim i found this gunk crap in it does any one kno why or what this is? still usable?

 

how do insurance rates change if you change your car to rhd?

 

because im only seventeen! and i pay like 250 for my insurance now i asked quote of how much it would be if i changed my car to rhd they told me 400!!! i dont kno why exactly. i think there is a loop hole like if you keep you vin in the same place and dont change it to the japanese vin from the front clip

 

lol yea that too

but then like bobbo said i will just use that money for performance parts or stuff to make my car faster instead of look better lol

 

PLEASE replace the coolant O-rings asap. Disintegrated o-rings are probably part of the "crap" you see in those holes. Its a real pain in the *** to take off the LIM just to replace them down the road.

Also, either
A) replace your front diff mount w/ a mazdaspeed competition mount and replace the trans and motor mounts as well
B) replace the trans/ motor mounts and install a pinion snubber above the diff.

This is much easier when **** is already out of the care and those components WILL fail you.

 

ok thanks im ordering the parts today for that is it also a good idea to replace the fork??? in the trans?

when you said to replace the oring do you mean the one in the rotor right?
can you tell me why the hole to the coolant passage was blocked on the lim?

link to mazdaspeed?

 

how'd you get your trans so clean? I'm going to be in the same boat - any words of wisdom?

 

i went to autozone bought some purple power degreaser sprayed it on the trans and lsd. waited like five min. then scrub it with a copper brush a small one it takes some time maybe like 20 30 min or something like tat not much work thou. then hose it down if you still have some stuff on it then spray more wait a bit and so on!

you should see it now its spotless

 

^I used degreaser on mine at first. Then bought some aluminum brightener and that worked much faster/efficient and leaves a like new finish. But it is potent ****, and will eat away/rust anything thats not aluminum, so masking is necessary.


Anyways nice progress.

 

thanks i will post up more progress tonight got alot done tonight! do you happen to have a finished pic?

 

Don't have any pics of it saved on my camera, but heres a phone one. Before I started on it, it was dirtier than yours, had lots of oil gunk and crap on it.

 

wow that came out really nice i might end up doing that too! props so any word of why there is a sparkplug on my trans??? and whats suppose to go there

 

dunno if you're still debating about the tar removal or not.. but I stripped out all my interior and I noticed a pretty big difference when I removed the carpet.. but once the carpet was out, the removal of the tar had little to no effect on the amount of noise.. I really don't mind the noise, but then again I'm a teen who drives way too fast and plays music way too loud.. girls can only stand riding in my car for short trips.. haha

 

hahahahaha yea i removed it dry ice?

 

I didn't tell my insurance agent that my 7 was rhd until a year ago and when I did my insurance rate stayed the same. Different insurance companys must have different rules i guess.

Never change to a japanese vin. you can always take the one off the rhd dash and keep the usdm vin thats attached to the firewall

 

thats weird thats what my insurance told me

 

Does anybody live near this guy? He lives in Little Elm north of Dallas. He sold me the motor out of that car claiming it "only smoked a little at startup" and yet it smokes out my entire garage in 5 seconds. I let it run for 30 mins and it continues to POUR smoke the entire time. You can't see down my street or anything. It is the worst engine I have ever seen and I have replaced 10+ engines. It is so bad that oil was leaking out of my exhaust halfway down the car!!

He refuses to refund me any money since he is claiming the shipping company must have done something to the motor. Yeh right, I'm sure they took the motor apart while it was on the truck and damaged the oil seals.

He sent that message exactly a month ago! This guy is a SCAMMER!!!

 

how much did he take you for with the n/a out of his car???


people (especially noobs) need to learn not to fu** other people over in our little rotary community, if your engines blown don't try to pawn it off, just be honest and sell it cheap, remember the rotary community is very small

glwb

 

why did you completely dismantle the engine prior to removal? its like a 20 minute job prepping the engine to come out and Im sure it took you an entire day doing it the way you did