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Old Sep 30, 2010 | 08:19 AM
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Talk about your first newbie mod

We all start somewhere, right? And most people's first mod is usually not too daring. I'm sure some people are creative and some are just cheap. I'm both.

My first mod was my horn. I went to the local auto recycler and grabbed the horn from a Lincoln. I replaced my beep-beep with a hoooonck. That's when the neighbours first realized I had a new toy in the garage.
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Old Sep 30, 2010 | 09:49 AM
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Old Sep 30, 2010 | 10:57 AM
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Ebay cone filter, with home made pvc intake, it was like super duper throaty and awesome on my ka24e 240sx. Wait, NO, No it wasn't...
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Old Sep 30, 2010 | 11:21 AM
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Old Sep 30, 2010 | 11:38 AM
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does removing the A/c count?
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Old Sep 30, 2010 | 11:41 AM
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Straight pipe SON!
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Old Sep 30, 2010 | 11:46 AM
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swapping in a 13bre in my fc3s... went blind into the project..
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Old Sep 30, 2010 | 01:00 PM
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New injectors. The guy before me had turbo injectors in my 88' n/a vert...said he needed the extra fuel to work with the high flow cone filter...
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Old Sep 30, 2010 | 01:01 PM
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Wow, that is amazing...to be an automotive newbie and start off with replacing an engine.
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Old Sep 30, 2010 | 01:24 PM
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Gutted the pre-cats but kept the main cat.
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Old Sep 30, 2010 | 02:07 PM
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Replacing the cats with a straight pipe from rx7.com. I ended up buying mis-matching nuts and bolts, but me and a friend made it work .
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Old Sep 30, 2010 | 02:11 PM
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Removed the air pump, rat's nest, and sent the injectors out for cleaning. Put on a 3" turboback at the same time. Got the injectors back from injector rehab and found I had 720cc secondaries on a stock TII, so I got an Rtek 1.7 and Walbro to make use of the extra flow.
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Old Sep 30, 2010 | 03:38 PM
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replaced the headlights with hella JDM raybrigs from my old Celica, soooo bright I blind all the ******** with BMW SUVs now
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Old Sep 30, 2010 | 05:46 PM
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eBay sort shifter (still need a **** for it), RacingBeat cooling hoses, and machined the front discs. Oh and just today got an optima battery. Thing starts in no time now.
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Old Sep 30, 2010 | 05:59 PM
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first mod was racing beat road race system, and did a cone filter and air box that same day.
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Old Sep 30, 2010 | 08:26 PM
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I replaced the stock air filter with a k and n... super tough lol
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Old Sep 30, 2010 | 08:57 PM
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lets see. it woulda been the metal bar that went under the tranny to stiffen the front end a bit. kinda like a lower strut bar. cant remember the exact name of it

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https://www.rx7club.com/2nd-generation-specific-1986-1992-17/how-build-lower-arm-bar-under-%2415-448638/

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Old Sep 30, 2010 | 10:07 PM
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Replaced every vacuum hose and coolant hose in the engine bay, along with the radiator and shortly after, the water pump.
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Old Oct 1, 2010 | 01:04 AM
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Had mine since january, full tune up/fluid change, K&N drop in, cut out stock airbox lid, ebay short shift (caused the trans to get stuck in reverse), dropped trans tore it down and reassembled with stock shifter! Stock exhaust manifold flange stud striped... so new Corksport SS header, obx-r SS turbo catback (plans for turbo swap this winter...) and tanabe lowering springs, and 200 watt amp for factory mini subs. In that order lol.

OP mods are drilled brake rotors, mazdatrix clutch/lightweight flywheel (2007), and stainless braided brake lines. yay.
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Old Oct 1, 2010 | 01:09 AM
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Besides repairing the car after its fire, and putting a crappy exhaust one after the factory one rusted, my first real mod was a megasquirt. This was my first car as well.
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Old Oct 1, 2010 | 01:46 AM
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my first mod was FMIC
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Old Oct 1, 2010 | 04:15 PM
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cheap obx exhaust that I still have on... -_-...

that racing beat needs to be on soon.
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Old Oct 1, 2010 | 04:46 PM
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Don't remember the order, but there were a number in short order: K&N drop in (still there), diff and trans oil replaced with synth., and fresh rubber to replace the tired OEM RE71s that were on the car when I got it. Followed a few weeks later by replacing that rubber with then-hot Yoko A520s after my first track day, and deciding I needed serious rubber
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Old Oct 1, 2010 | 05:19 PM
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gxl lsg swap, s5 tranny(guy before me rigged a short shifter that got my car stuck in reverse) bonez race pipe, borla cat back, 1st gen steering wheel, tanage springs and kyb gas adjust shocks.
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Old Oct 1, 2010 | 06:28 PM
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replaced my cat with a straight pipe when it broke right off the manifold, new cheapo napa clutch which kinda sucks, racing beat springs and KYB GR-2 shocks. rides awesome.
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