Oh my god! My car has not been running for about a year and a half. I got her running for a little, just long enough to drive to Dallas and get her tuned by Rotary Performance. Unfortunately, my rear differential burnt out on the way back. After that I deployed to the desert to fight in Iraqi Freedom. Since I have been back, I haven't really had much time to mess with it. I have been trying to change out the differential. Has anyone ever tried to change out one of those things? What a pain in the ***!

Today, after almost giving up, the new LSD finally poped in! Everything else fell into place after that. The car started after a little prodding. I backed out of my driveway, reved to about 4k and droped the clutch. What a sweet jerk forward that was! I came back around and did a 7k drop for my friends. This time the tail wagged back and forth and I had to strugle with the wheel to keep her going straight. Turbos are sweet! My car used to be an N/A.

I know I have 260 horses at the rear wheel as tuned by Rotary Performance. The power curve is very flat and responsive thanks to my BNR stage 1 turbo. I am only running 7 PSI! I'm bringing her back to get tuned to about 12 PSI which should be good for around 300 horses at the wheel.

I had to stop my demonstration as the neighbors called the cops after I did a few high-speed passes and let my BOV rip. Too bad I missed the autocross meet today.

I just so happy to finally get my REX running. All the Honda guys at work are alway talking trash about how my car never works. I hope they enjoy my S5 tail lights! Look out Clovis and all local second gen owners, Bo is back!

I know this is long, but I just had to share my joy with you all!

 

One more thing: She seems to be running a little hot. Since I put in Haltech in my temperture guage actually moved in perportion to engine heat. It was very hot today and I coolant overflow tank was empty. I filled her up and I'll se if that fixed her.

Time to go do some more burnouts!

 

Thats cool, bet the N/A-> turbo thing is really rewarding once all done. Get some of those burnouts on vid for us to see

BTW.. you might want to modify your sig to 10 lines or less, that is the limit. Wouldnt want a mod bitching at you or an Admin just deleting it with no warning..

 

Got Water Wetter in your coolant mix?

If not, get some!

 

Man that's totally awesome. I'm yanking my engine/tranny right now to do a S4 T2 conversion on my 86 N/A. Just started it today, ordered the engine and conversion kit from Kevin Landers (Rotary Resurrection) yesterday, so should have that stuff in 2-3 weeks, wahooo!

 

I hope I don't end up killing myself in this thing. I'm used to flooring it when coming out of turns. Now, when I give it just a little gas, my rear comes around. I've been very close to doing a 360 a couple of times. I guess I have to learn to ease up on the throttle. I wasn't running duel belts on the water pump/alternator pully. I installed that yesterday so I'll see if that helped. I'll go to Auto Zone and grab some water wetter too. I painted my fiber glass bumper kit yesterday so no more rice look. Now it is a black car with a big *** intercooler is about to pass you look. I'm trying to decide if I should put my sterio back in or leave it out. Any thoughts? I have a clarion deck and an Alpine sub with a built-in five channel amp. I have the sub taken out right now as I usually take it out when I race.

Rex 23,276 Mike 1 (but what a sweet one it is).

 

I wish I knew there was a "kit". I did mine from scratch with a Haltech, FMIC, and a custom turbo. All of this cost a pretty penny. Will you be putting in the turbo tranny and rear end? What about the hood? I personally like my N/A hood, but I was just wondering what this kit entails.

 

i wanna see some pictures!

 

I don't have a digital camera, but I'll run outside and take some with my regular camera and check the "photos on line " box when I drop them off today.

 

sweet

 

Should have the pics by Friday. It is definately not a show car, but it serves it's purpose.

Where do I get Water Wetter from? They don't have it at Auto Zone or Walmart? So far it hasn't overheated, the temp just goes up when I drive hard i.e. boost. With the Haltech temparture probe it is very sensitive so I might not even have a problem, but I still want to add that Water Wetter to see if it helps.

 

Ask in the South RX-7 section... It includes New Mexico.