Project Mary-Kate
 

It started on craigs list when I saw a 91 RX-7 for sale 15 miles away from me... Blown engine,

but good body. Email soon revealed that the car belonged to a female - and when I heard that, I

kinda knew the car would be in good condition - as females are much more caring...

After a few emails and phone calls, I got the location of the car and checked it out at a rainy

December night.

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Jan 01, 05, I took the car for $300 and spent 100 on towing back to my house. :rolleyes: Here

is New Years Night, with a picture of my car in the background.

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The following days became trying to get the engine started days - though now I realize what a

waste of time that was :rolleyes: , as all the apex seals were rusted onto the rear rotor -

even to this day. The front wasn't doing too well either.

That is when I decided to tear everything out...

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and pull the motor

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The motor soon found a place in the garage and rest there for a little - as - at that point, i

was still spending all my money on robitussin.

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Now, to the interior of the car. It was pretty flawless, and the car has relateively low miles.

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However, a problem DOES exist and it is...

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That problem was soon followed with a solution as my other rx-7 has...

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And in no time... The red rx-7 has...

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However, a problem still exist as the car has no engine. Yet, fortunately, I have another rx-7

with a good engine - but ugly body and interior...

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That engine soon found its way into the car along with a Kevin Landers designed bracket. The

bracket was welded front and back, and the transmission was aligned center before the hole was

drilled.

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By then, it was also half way thru with my senior year - and we have a project called "Senior

Project". After a quick thought, I decided that it would be a great idea to rebuild the

original engine of mary-kate, and decided that as my "Senior Project"

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But, as I begin to tear the engine apart, I was in for a known suprise...

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The rotor was... well...

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At that point, I decided to buy a different motor, and end up getting a J-Spec S5 Motor with a

NA tranny for $300. The catch? Blown apex seal on front rotor... Here you see the J-Spec on the

left and the NA apart.

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And the ugly front rotor housing... which i subsituted with a NA housing on the front...

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And the damaged rotor groove - which was later repaired and still works to this date...

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The engine was then assembled...

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And installed into my car...

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After a cloud of smoke, the car started and idled at the pre-set 1.6k... It will run like this

for many hours to come...

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Here is a picture of the car - with the tailpipe shooting hot exhaust gas - if you look closely

enough, you can see a blur on the shadow of my mom's car.

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Normally, this is the part where the project would call to an end. It has a fresh rebuild stock

motor, with stock turbo, no leaks, no cats, and stock exhaust. It would have been perfect - but

yet, my former 17 years old self just wanted more power... and electronics were added...

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And soon, that turned into a turbo...

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The JDM craze started in me, and I ended up putting on a JDM intercooler, JDM FTP AND even the

JDM gauge cluster... Though the original intent of the gauge cluster was to get the factory

boost gauge working - just because.

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Finally, at the end, I ended up getting an RE-Amemiya FMIC...

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And returned my car to the stock, NA look. The JDM FTPs are gone now too.

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I neglected to take pictures of a few things, but other things that are in the car are, HKS

EVC, S-ITC, and the new version of the S-AFC was sold in favor of the old one due to money

problems.

I will be picking my car back up this weekend and bringing it back to school. I am very

excited. Yes, excited - first in a VERY long time...

I LOVE your car :eek:

God I wish someone would sell me a rex with a blown engine but otherwise in perfect condition in Miami *hint hint*

Your car's a skinny anorexic coked up bitch? SWEET!

Looks stealthy, I like it.

Wow nice job man, the paint looks so fresh for its age.

Too bad the the translated comic book sucks.

All they did was change the people's names...

Yeah the books aren't that bad. The DVDs on the other hand...

I seem to remember a quote that was something like "You can bust some mad crazy drifts on the downhill" from the one I rented. Plus you can buy the entire series through 3rd stage from ebay for less than the price of like 3 or 4 of the American Dvds.

Don't mean to thread-jack though. Awesomely done project, I too wish I could find a deal like that. What grade did you get on your senior project?

wow..red rex's look like sex.=)

Wow nice. What's up with the Mary-Kate thing though?

What is the Kevin bracket? What does it do?

Mary-Kate? He's a weirdo.

Kevin bracket? It's for helping to mount the tranny when transplanting a manual into an auto chassis car.

I don't understand the turbo manifold... Who makes a stock manifold like that to replace the stock cast iron unit?

Maybe the stock manifold was cracked.

Yea i guess, but if I had to read an english version of it I would read the one from Inane's scanlations.

How much was all this costing you? j/w

ssautochrome does on ebay

you replace the stock manifold when you want to delete the twin scroll system. ( either with the stock setup , or if you have gone wiith a hybrid.

she isnt cook up, i believe in her and i enjoy her movies...
my chevelle is ashley... cause it is... bigger and have a healthy sized engine

i ended up getting a B on it... i forgot what i did but when i was trying to present my project, i kept stuttering and stuttering and lost words and couldnt talk so i kept like saying the words out one at a time...

heh, i can explain more if i didnt explain it enough above...
kevin bracket is the C channel welded on to auto x-member holding the manual tranny up with auto mounts.

way too much money... i think including the car, i spent at least 3 or 4k...

$3-4K and all you got was a B? :(

hot sex

yeah, because my presentation had issues