For the past 6 months I've been going Rx7-nuts... Buying turbo's, engines, wrecked cars and picking up random deals left and right. Basically all for the sake of making a buck and creating a hobby and a form of transportation that I can enjoy. The problem is; I work full time and have been devoting every minute of spare-time to working on these vehicles... Today I made an important decision though, that I think will help alleviate some of the stress I've felt lately because of all this "cramming".

I decided to STOP building my Turbo II and simply eliminate the most unnecessary project from my list... This revelation just happened to take place the minute after I just installed my new BNR Stage 4 turbo. As I sat there surveying my extremely sick looking Turbo II, it dawned on me that I was ignoring the big picture and basically putting "lipstick on a pig"--as the rednecks say. I needed new exhaust and turbo gaskets, electrical tape was peeling off the wiring harness, the turbo needed to be clocked differently, I needed a new couplers, my oil-pan gasket was leaking badly, my spark-plugs were costantly fouling, I needed bigger injectors and a new tune, I just broke two vaccum-splitters, I sold all my gauges, my coolant seals are going out--as are my oil-control rings. Not only that, but one of my Apexi canisters split after hitting a speed-bump, I'm tired of the "flat" look and my new wheels need their lip refinished...

My point is, after just spending the past two weeks painting my new Enkei Evolution RS's, installing new drilled/slotted rotors, wheel-spacers, brake-calipers, brake-pads and S/S lines, rolling the fenders, modifiying and painting my "euro" s5 tails on my TII and now the BNR turbo--I've been ignoring the big picture... My TII needs a complete overhaul, rebuild and repaint... That being said, instead of wideband tuning my Turbo this Saturday, it'll be sitting on the side of my house collecting pollen and dust. And yes, it'll be there for either one month, or four months. Depending upon how quick I finish up my *other* and new turbo-project.

Either way, here's some pics I took of it yesterday before I decided on my new route.

 

our sevens are almost identical. except the rims, front bumper, and mines dark gray. and mine a converted s5.

haha. ya. same black FTP's, wing, and my front lip looks like your front bumper.



ps i like your exhaust. sell me your turbo for 100 bucks

 

Do it Erik. It is such a good feeling when you fix and complete everything to make the car prestine. Granted it might and most likely will be a headache along the way, there is no better feeling then knowing your FC is in tip top shape and is mean as a mother f*cker.

Good luck!!

Oh, what color?

 

Dude, your car is beautiful. Why not dump your other project and put some time into cleaning up this one. A lot of you problems are just time consuming, but not really money consuming. Other than the obvious need for a rebuild and the tune most of that is cheap stuff. The oil pan gasket gets fixed witht he rebuild. The tune comes AFTER the rebuild, so its a down the line expense.

Just my thought. I guess this all depends on what your other project is

BC

 

i'm with him ^^^^^

sharp and clean car man..... stick with it

 

Where can i find performance parts for my 87 fc?

 

Not here. use the search button, it will be easier.

Forgot to say what I was going to say lol, NICE FC. Do you race with it or anything? If it's a daily driver drilled rotors will wear faster I think.

 

since it's not a money or space issue keep the car and put it on the back burner. If I had a place to keep my FB I would've kept it, but I didn't, so it got parted.

 

Dude, Its to time consuming. I think you should just stop working on the car.. Get concentrated on your "other turbo project".


And then sell me this one for dirt cheap

Haha.. Just messin. Thats a bad *** car man. Keep up the good work with it. Seems like your doin everything right so far. Lord knows I get fed up with my car and troubleshooting all the problems along the way with my build. But I know when im all finished with it and I drive it down the street and whoop some old guys corvette that he just bought for 50k itll all be worth it.

 

i got stuck in the trap of FC collecting too, buying cars and parts just because they were good deals, etc. but i realized i was spending half my time on each car, wasting a lot of effort. i ended up selling everything but my TII, and still trying to get rid of all my extra parts, and it si like a load off my back. all my car-time is now devoted to the TII, and it is almost done. i say stick with the car pictured above, and get rid of all your other projects

 

is those pix at the edmonds ferry.

 

I'm with BC too, your car beautiful man, I actually have a pic with the bronze wheels as my xbox 360 background.

 

Hey Erik, where did you get the front lip? It is a lip to the stock S5 bumper, right?
I did similar recently, except i completetly abandoned my 1st gen. Brought tears to me eyes, but life goes on. More money to dump into this project. And more time to start jaming agian! I bought a new Bass....

Looks good bro@!
Chris

 

Haha, thanks for the responses guys.

I'm going to be painting this TII white like my old Turbo II. Stock paint-code WY.



My whole issue is that I just need to keep my "FC priorities" straight. I've got one perfect N/A that I've been daily-driving, so my transportation is covered... In reality, that's all that should truly matter. But aside from that, and more important than my "race-car" is this heinous, wrecked s5 Turbo II that's been sitting in my garage for the past two months. So yeah, my garage is getting really messy and cluttered with that hunk of garbage sitting there. Now, the reason I don't just pull *that* car out and pull my "good" Turbo II in, is because I just picked up a nearly complete TII-swap (engine, flywheel, clutch, tranny, manifolds, TB, fuel-system, AFM, turbo manifold, RB DP etc.) for $500 about two weeks ago. Not only that, but I'm buying a low-mileage GXL that's been sitting for several years, for $200 this Saturday, to do the TII-swap into... It's just the timing isn't so hot right now for my "good" TII, because I had to really jump on these sweet deals.

Whatever, the coolest part about this situation is that it's basically planned out and "no lose"... I've got quick, good looking and reliable daily transportation in my N/A:



And I've got a profitable turbo-project that will be started in about three weeks. And as soon as I've sold that, I'll either immediately start tearing down my TII for a THOROUGH reworking, or wait until after my road-construction season has ended (mid-June through early September). Either way, I should have a ton of money to budget towards fixing every little thing imaginable in my TII, so life is still good.

If anyone's curious about that N/A, it was purchased by me and a buddy for $1200 and it looked like this:



It had a bad U-joint, so it had basically been garaged for the past couple years because the previous owner didn't know what was wrong with it. The vert-wheels were purchased for $100 with all their caps (plus an extra), the sport-spoiler was $100, the tails were free (by me ) and the FULL Racing Beat true-dual exhaust was $200 plus a set of my modified tails...

Oh yeah, if anyone ELSE is curious, my full list of mods on my flat-black Turbo II is thus:

High-compression (9.4:1), street-ported s4 TII engine
s4 BNR Stage IV turbo with removed T/S system
Greddy FMIC
Turbo XS dual-horn RFL BOV
3" TID with cone-filter
80mm Thunderfab DP/MP combo mated to dual Apexi N1 cat-back
Greddy Profec B boost-controller
R-Tek 1.7 chip
Apexi SAFC
Walbro 255 LPH fuel-pump
GSL-SE 680cc primary fuel-injectors
Marren 890cc secondary fuel-injectors
PD-elimination mod
TB-mod
2571 BOP's and all clutter removed
FD alternator
RB light-steel flywheel
ACT street-strip H/D clutch and P/P
Koyo RAD
S/S oil-cooler lines.

Looks something like this currently. I think a little more "clutter reduction" and an E-fan would really help the look. If you're curious, that blue vac. hose is going to my BOV, which is located behind my front-bumper, under my drivers-side headlight.

 

Haha, a ton of people have mentioned using that pic for various backgrounds and such. It helps when a professional photographer who does freelance for Super Street, Euro Tuner etc. takes the pic.

 

Dam straight

Now It will be friggin forever till i get my wheel time

 

Nice car

 

So, your the guy who bought the turbo from Tyler, I called the day after he sold it to you. Thats ok I am the guy who bought your stage 1 turbo about a year ago. Hit 244 at 8psi last month at Carb Connection in Kirkland, great little turbo.
Well when you sell this one, give me a holla. Have fun with it.