fd3s7007

Finally rebuilding. Problem started when i was on a long trip back home over the holidays. Radiator fan hits fuse box holder and dies on me. I was crusing pretty much 110-120kmh so my aftermarket gauge did not reveal much but as i slow down i steadily see the needle rise to approximately 90c which is where i've set it to warn. Everything is fine and dandy till i hit a strecth which jammed with holiday makers. Upon coming to a complete stop, needle goes up to 115c and i shut her down. AFter waiting for ages for the traffic to clear i managed to drive home slowly. Next morning i've got the add coolant buzzer on. Did the infamous champagne test and yup we've got bubbles.

To cut the story short i'm rebuilding with RA 2pc seal kit. converting to single gt35/40. here are some pics of the teardown. I'll be running RE Upper Intake and Lower manifolds.

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more pics to follow

papsmagu

iTrader: (19)

good luck with the re-build. love the color of your FD. what its that?

willjs7

iTrader: (1)

thats one nasty looking throwout bearing...

looks like fun though, good luck

dubulup

copy the [IMG]PHOTOBUCKET PICTURE[/IMG]

fd3s7007

Thanks dubulup for the tip. here goes nothing...

fd3s7007

thank you for the word of encouragement. Couple of good firends specialize in rebuilds and i'll pretty much be the beer supplier for those long nights spent cleaning parts etc.

i've sent out the following parts for polishing

1.RE Upper and lower intakes
2.alternator
3.water pump housing
4.greddy elbow
5.turbo housing

and a couple of other things which i cant seem to remember. tomorrow hopefully i'll post up pic of intakes and turbo housing.

papsmagu- thanks mate. the colour is metallic copper

fd3s7007

SOme parts have arrived. I plan to run RE cosmo UIM and LIM. Will be building a custom plate to mate FD throttle body to UIM. At the same time i will also be posting more pictures of the porting process involved to mate Cosmo LIM to FD iron housings. Should anybody need specific pictures please pm me and i'll do my best to help.

Cosmo TB

Cosmo UIM

Cosmo UIM Underside

Cosmo LIM

R-magic

I've done this...but i used a 20B throttle body

Mr rx-7 tt

iTrader: (5)

I would suggest STOCK MAZDA apex seals. Do a search.

charlies7

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I have RA seals there working fine for me

efini_fd3s

Nice color, good luck with the rebuild, I plan on tearing down and rebuilding my spare long block too.

Turbo II-FB

waht about the tear down mwan ,so use the damage

fd3s7007

we've used RA seals with great success here. i was slightly paranoid after the whole radiator fan incident and decided to rebuild. coincidentelly the the idea of going single turbine was already in the pipeline.

teardown pics coming soon. good news is,

1: housings are in excellent shape
2: rotors are good albeit carbon build up

Mods to go with the rebuild are:

GT3540 from Garrett
Spearco Custom IC
Tial WG
Greddy Type R B/O valve
Bosch 1600 Sec. Inj
Apexi Turbo Manifold
High Flow Fuel Pump
Street Port

fd3s7007

Had some time today to get started with cleaning. Was hoping to get everything pieced back together before chinese new year but parts sent out for polishing will only make their way back here late feb so here are some updates thus far.

Very Very Dirty Rotors. Once cleaned will be "spec'ed" and reuse if good


Street Port


Me trying to get rotor housing cleaned

13Joe

woah... lookee the handsome dude...

R-magic : i understand that the 13b TB flows the same as the 20b TB. Why did you go with the 20b TB?