looks good, what did you use for paint on the water pump? chrome ceramic coating? would look nice with the rest of my polished parts but i hate the fact that it is cast iron.

the water pump is actually just polished.... dave (guitarjunkie28) had it laying at his shop and just let me have it:) that would have been one part i never polished due to it being a maintenance part... much like an alternator (although ive heard of people swapping the polished casing from one alt to the next).....


liv... thanx! heres what i think your looking for....

ahh, i never bother polishing iron/steel components since they are likely to rust again no matter how well you treat them even with clear coat.

grrr its a s5

thanks anyways

the cluster is s4.... unless you meant yours is s5....

karack... i know what you mean, its already started to rust a little bit.... but i definently will not complain since it was free! i was just gonna paint mine...

ok.... alot of progress was made today....

1. got engine bay all painted
2. re-wire loomed whole chassis harness
3. reinstalled all firewall components (master cylinder, clutch cyl, coils, etc..)
4. got all parts prepped, cleaned, and painted
5. installed engine and tranny



tomarrow i install the raidiator, hoses, and a bunch of other goodies.. we didnt get the motor in till after the sun dissapeared.. so no shots of the motor installed yet, but ill post some tomarrow...

ok.. well heres some updated pics from today....

3" ebay intercooler piping kit worked perfectly w/ the godspeed intercooler...

still have a long way to go before she runs, but time is of the essence, and sevenstock is right around the corner.. so its been crunch time

Wow, that is looking so sweet. Question about your remoted oil filter; did you piece together the parts yourself or did you buy a complete kit? If so, where and about how much?

the relocation kit is from greddy, and i got it from www.stillen.com ... i think i paid like $150.. its probubly one of my favorite aftermarket parts ive put on, mainly because ive never seen another fc w/ it:)

That looks really nice man. Props.

update ?? :D

giving me lots of ideas keep up the work :D

update......

i pick up the car tonight....... drive it for a few days, then give it back to finalize everything.... then its off to ss9:) she is driving under her own power right now (guitarjunkie28 drove it around the parking lot last night to work out some bugs)... so ill update after i driver her tonight:) I CANT WAIT!

looks real good vipers. Hey on the water pump, clear coat it.

yeah, ill have to clear coat it... thats a smart idea..

I bet that rebuilt tranny drives like butter. I want a rebuilt tranny.

well, heres the almighty video:)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLTnXN9e1iQ

I resurrect this, because your car is badass. Congrats on a successful SS9!

lol... thank you! for those that dont know.. my car got the "best second gen rx7" trophy at sevenstock9 on saturday:) plus it was displayed in the courtyard with all the cool specialty cars.. like the lemans cars, and drag cars:) so it was quite an honor:)

well here is the trophy:)

and her at 7am at ss9.. just detailed, waiting for the show to start:)

Geez, look at all the :)'s hehe

Congrats man, your car was sexy as hell. Did you leave it once the whole day to look at any of the other cars??

A well deserved award. You've put alot of effort into this car, since the very beginning.

so how much longer till its broken in? Thats when the real fun starts.

Funny, I was looking at some ss9 pics, and noticed your car a mile away! Looks great!

yeah, i saw the whole show a few times.... but there were so many people who had questions, so i just stayed by the car most of the day.... i really enjoyed meeting everyone, so staying by my car was great..

i have around 600 miles on my car now.. but since its the slow season at work, and christmas is rolling around... no dyno tuning till after the 1st of the year:( but she is still a blast to drive, even having to shift @ 5k....

and again..thank you so much for the compliments!

your car sucks......



no really that turbo really sucks a lot of air.


subscribed... :)

and again, congrats Jesse. I know what it's like to build a car... to bad I dont know what it's like to drive it as fast as it was meant to drive. :( . this is why I look forward to driving your car for you. :) he he he. she sure does look great! and good job cleaning her up. what a difference huh? I cant wait till you get her running at 100%

Im very impressed :)

Turned out very nice!!!

And now you've got hardcore triangular glass proof of the car's awesome-inity lol


My favourite mod on that car (all of them are great but my persoanl fav. for uniqueness) is the oil filter relocation. Its just so damn fine lookin'.

Great job Vipers!! Keepin' rotor-heads proud!!