I just spent $660 on parts I don't need for a car that doesn't run. WTF is wrong with us.

first up, stumbled on RXecret7.com's site. Haven't been there in the longest time. Was looking at a old thread on rx7club about an arc stock mount that was sold there.
Found out that they were going out of business and having a blowout sale. Found a brand new Koyo radiator for S4. And everything has free shipping.

Second up, and reason I was looking for an arc stock mount in the first place is to find anyone thats ever used one. Because I spotted an almost new HKS topmount on ebay and was curious how good they were. I only plan on running the h-trim hybrid that I bought from a friend a while ago, and this will be perfect in the mid 60s year round temp that i live in now.
I know people don't like the stock mounts, but why not. I really am against hacking up my car. Guess its cause I baby my car (erm, in a really weird way) and am a ***** about stuff I can't revert to stock. Its original and matches my hats LOL
So.......I bought it. Seeing how I have a stupid obsession with HKS crap, and I havent seen the hks top mount before, and this thing is mint.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=8026199640


Waste of money? yes.
Do I care? not really....

Worst part is, I could almost afford a jspec w/ what I spent, haha. I don't think I'll be back to PHX to fix my motor till late feb or march maybe.....That means I'll have tons of crap for my car

-Ben Martin

 

Not us, you...

Because they heatsoak like a bastard. No matter what TMIC you use, not matter how made it, no matter how much you paid for it, you cannot solve this problem. At low speed and when stopped the hood scoop becomes a chimney for heat to escape through. If you'd spent and time in an FC equipped with a TMIC and an air temp display, you would not have bought that...

 

sell the HKS and say its maDD jdm, and buy a huge ebay IC core and some tubing and go front mount, props for buying the Koyo though, i need to snag one for my cars

 

oh well, ill learn my lesson. and by the time i switch to a fmic or v-mount or whatever. since this things brand new almost now, itll still look great and i can get most of my money out of it.

i also have water/alky injection to run, pieceing it together over time, sorta thinking of ditching what i have now and just buy a nice pre-made kit
and to decide wether to run 50/50 water and alcohol or straight alcohol. If i do straight alky, im gonna get a big sticker w/ Sake Injection on it

btw, forgot to mention that i blew my motor on that t2 last month. im now living in cali making lots of money, so i can spend more than before thankfully.

 

70/30

 

i dont want a HUGE core. i want something on the mild side. im only running an h-trim hybrid, and for now thats perfectly fine.

either alky injection, or a intercooler sprayer, or maybe some 12v fans on the intercooler, but ill figure something out


i wonder if the MS hoodscoop helps airflow at all......looks kinda mean at least lol

 

I'll be running straight alky on my setup prolly, theres quite a few pre made kits out there heres one j-rat used i think, it the link he posted anyways:
http://www.smcenterprises.com/

 

my friend tom has 50/50, but jrat really got me looking into alky after i rode out to 7stock with him and got to talk about the alky injection

 

Node, you live in Marin County right?

I'm only 30 minutes north of ya...

 

THANK GOD, someone nearby. i know a couple people in the south bay area, but thats pretty far from here, i remember it being a drive when my mom lived in oakland.
now we're in stinson beach
what kinda rx7 do you have?

 

S4 TII...you should come to the NorCal meet on the 15th...

 

no car, trapped in paradise, well kinda.

wheres it at? i might pull some strings..

 

$660?
Aw come on, that's peanuts...

Over the past several months...
$300 Cusco flywheel
$250 RB flywheel
$300 pair 'o Kenne Bell Boost-A-Pump's
$500 used HKS gauges
$150 GReddy Type-S BOV kit (and I already have one)
$500 assortment of front and rear camber plates / pillowball mounts
$2000 two sets of wheel, one set with tires / one set without
$3500 trio of GT2871R turbos, well not planning to be install on my car
$500 Wilwood Superlite calipers to replace my Dynalites

And none of that is install on the car yet!
muhUHAhuhuHAhauHUAHUAhuaHUAHUahu


-Ted

 

I'll take the radiator if you have it.

 

HAH!!!!

Bought the Engine Dyno BIG $$$$$
Mazda MFR Lucas TB

 

Vacaville, check the west section.

 

ted, thats over a few months, bleh.
did you get my message on the package from that flywheel you got from kevin in AZ?

alright karack, ill check it out.

 

Yep, said something about "Node says hi" hehehe


-Ted

 

Node was here i think. kevin and i had to haul around a huge boxed up s5 bumper and your flywheel in the hatch of my t2.


ted, you have a running t2 yet?

 

My car was always running.
It doesn't run real good right now due to crappy wiring that's causing low voltage to the fuel pump, but I'm too lazy to fix it cause an E8 is on it's way soon.


-Ted

 

thought e8 was only fuel, or only ignition or something like that......or im probably stupid. thinking of an older thing, like f4 or whatever.
oh well

 

oops. just noticed i put on a bad ebay link
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...e=STRK:MEWA:IT

 

Wow $460 for a top mount. Id love to have one but for that kinda money. Id rather go front mount anyday.

Its that damn 105 bucks from Japan that kills it.

 

i sniped it to make sure no one else just outbid me by a little, i didnt think the 405+105 swhipping was fair, but 355 wasnt horrible, plus real jdm hks hardtoget parts to ooh and aww over