andrew lohaus

-swaping on aluminum hood and painting it and my sunroof (entirely by myself)

-full intake and tb port job.

these tie for biggest, but i was up to a lot of other good stuff in '04

Wankel7

Geez, maybe 200 for the energy ones including the DTSS Elim.

The pricey part was the pressing. But that can be done your self.

If she creaks in parking lots that is most likely your sublinks. Small little dog bone links that connect your trailing arms to the subframe.

James

Wankel7

I second that ! Did I miss the thread on this!


We are going to need pictures !

James

therotaryrocket

changing the clutch on my turbo II, but i'm still doing that. Got the transmission completely disconnected from the engine and moved back about 2 inches and won't seem to go any further. the hardest manual labor would be push starting the turbo 2 because of my leaking fuel injectors (fuel pump switch now). hardest part emotionally...either reckless driving ticket or hit-and-run on the turbo 2 (not too bad, but im still sad). hardest part sexually....wait i haven't even had sex yet. oh well

scathcart

Can do... car is no where near completion yet, we just finished mocking up the jig to flip the car with.
I'll likely document the entire project; its going to be the best build-up I've done on any car, ever, including my own vehicles.
You should see the shop right now... there's car parts on an entire wall of shelves solely for her car.

RETed

Fixing the broken plastic "divot" in the passenger door that prevented me from unlocking the damn door.
I thought I had a broken door handle, but it turned out to be just the plastic piece.

Aside from that, keeping the car clean and filling gas...

The car was pretty much ignored in 2004.

On other people's FC...
6 rebuilds
3 Haltech installs


-Ted

casio

ouch on the bank account. every part? any wear? does this mean parts are for sale...?!

Wankel7

scathcart, for the love of everything holy i hope your signed up with MazdaMotorSports!

If you and that girlfriend end up as a lounge thread...what happens to the car!!!

Casio, lat/long in your profile...nice

2Lucky2tha7

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Traded my 1983 Mariah widebody first gen for a Red 1991 RX7 N/A back in October.
Already installed new black carpet, head-unit, SAFC-II, wheels and tires.
FULL engine rebuild with a large street-port, ported exhaust ports, header,etc. Hoping I'll be able to get it assembled and back in the car within the next 2 weeks!!! I think I've already spent $2500.

ErikTheDead

repaired damage done by engine fire (FPD failed)



then found out the rear rotor had no compression and pulled out the motor



replaced sunroof

Prepared new engine



cleaning engine bay up



Still....



Need to finish porting wastegate and finish twinscroll removal before the new one goes in....


december is NOT the time to work on cars out in the bitter cold...

RotaryPower27

I took on the challenge of swapping a S4 TII into a S5 N/A. The hard part was rewiring the car so it would work properly that turned out to be a daughnting task that took me almost a year of working on it here and there. Im glad to say that everything works great and I only spent about $700 dollars on the whole project including purchase of both cars.

scathcart

Every part, yes. For sale? what exactly are you looking for?

New FD rotor housings (which I already had), lapped irons which have been re-nitrided, tranny rebuild, rear end rebuild with LSD clutch pack rebuild, all rebuilt (though they are still working fine) brake calipers, new brake rotors, new bent brake lines mating to a custom-mounted 1 1/16" brake master cylinder, new clutch, tires, rims, Tein coilovers, stabilizer bars, all new cooling system with alum rad, stand-alone, all exhaust, all intake, all suspension bushings replaced with polyurethane... then you get into the little-wear parts... the door latches, key-hole plastic, engine prop rod holder, and all the interior plastic...

Then there's the parts that I need to make... sway bar endlinks, triangulated front strut brace, rear strut brace, a couple of under-vehicle braces... vehicle will be seam welded and some of the stock cross-members replaced with some more rigid and lighter chromoly units.

I figure it will be done next fall/winter with us working on it every weekend, and me putting in a two nights or so a week.

Mazdacomp?... nope. Not available to canadians. I get any Mazda manufactured part below mazdacomp pricing anyway, so it would be pointless for me.

Breaking up... why make plans for bad news? If it happens, I'll deal with it then. Obviously I wouldn't have made such elaborate plans if I had not been with the girl for such a long time or thought it would be ending anytime soon.

Finances? Well, I have a LOT of these parts already just laying around the shop, unused for other customers cars, and she's an engineer... so she does alright for money.

I'll grab a bunch of the pictrues I've got already over the next two weeks and load them up here as an introduction to the project.

Wankel7

Thats great you have a hook up on parts! Very nice sounding project man!

Is this build up gonna rival CYMFC3s?

James

scathcart

I don't know of the CYMFC3s buildup, though I have seen a few pictures of Seth's car: it looks mighty nice.

Regardless, I wasn't involved in building Seth's car, so I can't fairly comment on how it would compare. I simply know this is the most involved build-up of any FC I have worked on. It will be as close to perfect as I can build when finished.

uRizen

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I really need to learn more about suspension. I know just the basics and haven't really done much more then replace worn ball joints on my Accord. Where's a good place to read up on suspension workings and stuff like that?

spitfire7

s4 t2 into na s5. painted engin bay. did wire swap. and auto 2 5speed. still on tranny. hope 2 finish soon.

Bukwild

hands down Haltech e6x and LM1 wideband. They are kicking my ***

YearsOfDecay

Take your pick:

a)Rebuilt and streeported motor
b)installed BNR Stage III (had to clock the compressore cover to 10 Oclock and weld a new wastgate acutor arm together to get it to work with the repositioned diapraghm)
c)designed and installed a custom FMIC, fabricated and welded all the pipes
d)installed a Braided S/S fuel system with custom fuyel rails, 1600's and Aeromotive FPR
e) Polished the aluminum parts on the motor
f) Installed AND tuned the haltech while looking at the wideband and avoiding cops
g) relocated the battery (the correct way)

This was all done during the last two weeks of May.

I had sex in it in June.... don't know if that coun'ts, but it was more difficult than fabricating the custom wastegate acuator linkage i'll tell you that...

Froggmann

Stick her new heart into the engine bay, along with a new clutch and oil lines.

owen is fat

most intense FC-work of 2004?

besides dropping in the "LS1T56" v8 and sixspeed...?
--->probably figuring out the fuel system upgrades or the custom dual 2.5" exhausts that I helped my buddy fab up for my car.... the exhaust took us an entire day to do because he is such a perfectionist but in the end its everything I had hoped.

-solid diff mount and swapping in S4T2 diff was difficult by myself but I learned a lot about the FC rear end... and its heavy as hell!
-new radiator and brackets and hoses was pretty simple.
-wiring was easy but daunting at first.
-suspension upgrade was super easy except one stuck lower strut bolt.
-race seat install was quick but took 2 tries to get it right and I still want it lower.

Kaneto

Most intense? Would have to be sanding the whole thing down, filling in dents, and then shooting the whole car with a couple coats of primer 2 days before I was to drive it up to JGTC, and the car wasn't even running quite yet (timing and TPS adjustment fixed that).

Jonny-87-rx7

well there was a little drifting "accident" my front left brake kinda didnt work and my front right locked up throwing me into a curb at about 37mph and i ramped and broke a bunch of supsension crap and stayed up till 530 that morning fixing everything and straightening out bent suspension components and bent tie-rods and all that jazz

jreynish

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Diagnose Haltech problems with E6X, that were Haltechs fault.
Spent 9 months trouble shooting.

Skiles2070

the biggest project in 04 for me was getting it, but other than that I got reverse glow gauges and neon shitfer, more noen, and CD player... in 05 I plan on paying for UTI courses and supercharging my little 7, unless something else goes wrong with it then I gotta drop out of UTI

patman

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paint+bodykit. hardest mechanic work ive ever done. painting sucks. also installed LT8. and built custom motor, with all porting/machine work done by me.

pat