Show of hands: Who else has a non-running FD?
04-29-05, 03:25 PM
#26
It started as replacing the pillowball bushings and now.....
It sure made it easy to replace the fuel filter....
In the next few weeks, I should be finished cleaning, repainting the subframe & diff and putting it back together.
It sure made it easy to replace the fuel filter....
In the next few weeks, I should be finished cleaning, repainting the subframe & diff and putting it back together.
Last edited by flunkysama; 04-29-05 at 03:31 PM.
04-29-05, 10:17 PM
#27
Full Member
Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: snohomish,Wa
Posts: 238
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
mines down. keep buying more parts instead of finishing what I have. Also fixing up my shop.Hey I have a 1966 Chevelle that isnt done and I started on it in 1982 or so. It was supposed to be a two year project.
eric
eric
04-29-05, 11:28 PM
#30
Aint no broke nigga
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Seymour, TN
Posts: 776
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
[QUOTE=bajaman]Okay, so my car has been non-running for something like....one year three months 23 days 9 hours....or so. 
EVERY ******* day I walk by it sitting in the garage....up on jack stands....the engine sitting out on the work bench, forlorn. There have been so many times I had the bucks to send it off and get it rebuilt, only to have the funds vanish for one reason or another.
Now....one part of me says, "Chill out....the main thing is you have the car, there really is no hurry to get it running...be cool.", while the other side is like, "DAMMIT! I am TIRED of not being able to drive you!!!"
I try to rationalize things like, "Well...look at it this way: I'm not putting miles on it...." or "just THINK of the number of tickets I have probably avoided...." and so on so forth.
Couple all this with the fact that I am basically an impatient person. This....is teaching me humility and patience and a host of other things I don't normally deal with real well.
I am reminded by two of my friends that say I have experienced nothing yet, one guy had a '69 'Vette that he did a complete frame-off restoration, it was out of commission for over 4 years, another friend had a '64 XKE that cracked a head in 1972 and he didn't get it fixed until 2000. EIGHTEEN YEARS! I guess my lot isn't so rough compared to that....sigh.[QUOTE=bajaman]
I'm no mathmatician but '72-'00 is 28 years, and thats a little rediculious for a head. Anyway, mine is non-running, I unplugged the ecu.......
04-30-05, 12:55 AM
#31
Full Member
iTrader: (1)
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: VA
Posts: 159
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I Feel Better Now
3 WEEKS. GOT IT GOING THIS EVENING, BUT STILL WON'T START WITHOUT ETHER. I AM THINK ABOUT PUTTING IN AN ETHER BOTTLE INSTEAD OF A NOS TO HELP START THE CAR. HEY THERE IS AN IDEA. ALL THE TROUBLE FOR A CAR. WHAT WERE WE THINKING.
Most likely will be down 2-3 more. Small potatoes in this thread.
04-30-05, 07:43 AM
#37
Constant threat
Thread Starter
Originally Posted by jimlab
I'm pretty sure I have the all-time record: May 15th, 1998.
That's 2,542 days, 7 hours, 51 minutes and 2 seconds... 3 seconds... 4 seconds...
That's 2,542 days, 7 hours, 51 minutes and 2 seconds... 3 seconds... 4 seconds...
**** man....I'd kill for the bucks you've spent on that thing!
04-30-05, 11:10 AM
#38
wants some ube
Originally Posted by travisorus rex
Sign me up 
Heh, me too!
baja: all of the things you said are so very true. These torn feelings are making my head spin... and its only been a month and a half.
04-30-05, 11:26 AM
#39
Super Snuggles
Originally Posted by bajaman
Yeah, and you do wild and crazy and VERY expensive stuff to yours (like painting the car with CHROMALLUSION paint!)
04-30-05, 08:08 PM
#48
Rotary Enthusiast
RX-7 s are a CULT vehicle , not to practicle but a lot of conversation and fun , probably more FDs not running than FBs, turbo cars dont like sustained high speed on interstates for long periodes, I mean hi-speeds. like 15 lbs for 1/2 hr. OH yes I do own one, yes I do call it some fancy names .
04-30-05, 08:22 PM
#49
Full Member
Join Date: May 2004
Location: MN
Posts: 220
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
I could get it running if i finished the battery relocation. But that won't happen now that I'm going to do a 20b swap. I am aiming for having it road worthy by next summer.
That's pretty good considering my Roadrunner took 8 years, still needs rims/tires the headliner installed and the tail lights rewired.
That's pretty good considering my Roadrunner took 8 years, still needs rims/tires the headliner installed and the tail lights rewired.
04-30-05, 09:51 PM
#50
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Columbus, Ohio
Posts: 454
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
at least everyone has gotten to drive there car. i bought mine in may of last year. got it home and started tearing it apart to paint it. and since i don't have heat in the garage, the dust got kinda deep on it. i heard it run before i bought it tho. but not for long since it had a hole in the radiator.