Build Or DIE Trying! a 1993 FD story.
 

So last Tuesday I sold My 99 Mazda Miata .. was a great faithful , fun car .. we had many crazy roadtrips , and auto-x days . in the 1.2 years i owned it.. I loved it somuch.. I gotta admit it was a little hard to let go .


But I always had it in for the FD... Thanks to some encouragement from A few good friends I decided .. well you only live once .. right?

Sold my miata bought this shell the same day .. and I'm dedicated on getting it running asaP!

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e...1011173708.jpg a picture from the Chase car! first bit of fresh air she's gotten in a while!

See no picture, congrats and welcome to the area.

Thanks and well there are just somany LOL

here is one of it saying goodbye to its new buddy which I paid to give it a piggy back to its new home.. http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e...1011174319.jpg

A walkaround of the Car

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I started By Replacing My current broken Ignition / steering column , with the spare that came. with the car . the Spare happened to be an Eifini steering column With the OEM eifini steering wheel .. looks better then the OEM american wheel but itsn ot in the greatest shape .. to bad .. otherwise I'd throw it at the JDM wolves . ..


I cleaned off the rust from the shaft and gave it a galvanized coat . *didn't have rust paint *

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but when I tried to put it I realized I had 2 sets of pedals , brand new RHD pedals , and old rusty LHD pedals ... So I had to clean and repair and transfer all the parts from the RHD pedals onto the LHD .. Pictures when I get some sunlight ..

while I did that I got some JB weld to fix some cracks on the pedals , and some new rust paint . while hte paint dried .. I decided to work on changing my rear suspension from the stock , to Tokiko illuminas + eibach springs .

http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e...7/DSC01816.jpg rusty pedals after a little wirebrush to the brake pedal .. compare! LOL

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I am dropping the twin turbo setup if you need parts just let me know. I have my engine taken apart except the LIM and turbos which should be off this week on my next day off. The LIM and UIM I am keeping everything else except the keg is pretty much going.

good luck on your build man.
once u get the fd running right and drive it once all ur pain and suffering you've went thru during the build will melt away. :D

Cleaned the pedals welded them with JB weld to reinforce and Painted them ..

since i was already dooing it I ddid the drive shaft as well no more rust for it!

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ROFL its like you're feeling my pain just from a couple pictures .

Whose grass did you spray jerk!?

I did it on WEEDS! look closely!! I was helping!!

The rain has really put a damper on my build.. but I decided to do some small stuff that I could do inside..

today I Did some weight reduction!

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I found this blown speaker..I wont get angry at yet another thing to add to the Tobuy list instead! extra weight I dont need right?? :icon_tup:

it stopped raining for about an hour .. cleaned and repainted the new oil cooler bracket , and finished installing the rear shocks . looks like everything went ok ... I think .. hope havent had a chance to put the wheels on and take it down from the stands as it started to rain again .. :wallbash:

Its been a long time since I updated .. But well I've been busy http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e...7/DSC01858.jpg

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This week a huge order of parts came in including hte replacement for all that ..

I'll take pictures of the new arrivals when I get home from work ..

But I picked up the engine as well this morning ..


I put some oil in the spark plug holes .. since well there was no spark plugs in there anyways ..


and turned it .. it turned extremely easy .. should I be worried ? lol

I've been taking things apart and looking for anything broken in order to replace them .. now the replacements finally arrived so I can work on updating this thing .

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I could turn my engine over by hand if i grabbed the front pulley. It should be even easier with the spark plugs out.

Ohh IC I guess the spark plug holes are big enough to lose all the compression , I thought i'd feel a little resistance even with the plugs gone

You should..

If you can spin it around and hear/feel nothing there is an issue..

there are shallow whoofs , But I turned it using a large ratchet and not at all fast. tomorrow when plugs get here I'm going to go for a full compression test . any advice as to what I should do to get somewhat accurate readings? and make sure the seals stay lubed?

Also here is a small update http://i233.photobucket.com/albums/e...7/DSC01919.jpg well not really small money wise , and essentially this is a big part of the car.. LoL ..

I have spent the better part of 5 hours reading up on power FC tuning thanks to arghx and his many power FC related threads!

https://www.rx7club.com/3rd-generation-specific-1993-2002-16/electronic-boost-controller-comparison-chart-952767/ < -- just one of them

You need to hear 3 healthy puffs per housing

the Beginningo f hte death of another RED FD ..
 

yeah .. I'm not a fan of red.. so. here is the first coat of primer for my car .my painting export friend , did my fenders / hlood / bumper as those were the easier to access parts . next week we may finish the whole car.


yeahh I went with the trend , flat black primer =P

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YESS I know that its crooked.. remember its only being held on by abrasion , no bolts or anything just a trial fitting to see how the color looked.

So is the final color of the car going to be flat black?

Was this car hit in front?

Also, whats with the hating on red FD's? (check sig:lol:)

Do you think there is any chance you will be going to deals gap next year?

John

Is it just me, or is the fitment on that bumper awful?

no thats primer , the final color is a secrete .. but it will be primer / flat black for a couple months . as I dont have the money for the paint job .



the fitment is really good .. if you notice the driver side fender isnt on the car . and the bumper is not being held on by any bolts like I said before its just hanging there ..

the car has never been hit the frame is the ONE good thing on it .

But as the project has taken a turn for hte worse seems like everything is back tracked .. the engine is blown ..


125 PSI front rotor , 30 psi back rotor .. yeah today was a shitty day .

rough muff, just get an engine from somebody here already built and call it the day. There is a few engines for sale right now

I rather not.. I bought the engine a week ago .. from a shitty ebay seller. granted but well buying an overhaul kit for 500 and rebuilding it will be cheaper

Glad to see you saved it from its prior misery...

Haha , no hate man I think they are beautiful , but 90% of RX-7's are red! . and I've never been a fan of red on my cars to flashy haha , or well as the main color, and since I had to repaint anyways .. I wanted to do something exotic I should say. , but the dark primer is a hint . lol

and deals gap .. maybe .. the car is almost ready to run . just missing the engine itself .. which when I get a refund ( dont ask me how I got one ) for the last engine , I will be shopping for a new one.. going to try locally , and if not get it from japan2la and be done with it! . after that is taken care of cosmetics are the only things left , oh and new wheels / tires need those before deals gap for sure..

oh and by Run I mean take a walk around the block using engine power hah

Oh my naive self I got lazy and didnt finish this . Car is still getting restored per say . But it is running I'll try and update from here till now

ok so after that did the rest of the prepwork to primer the car down . Attachment 686878

even though the paint didnt look bad and was insfact new it was stained in certain areas and those stains wouldnt come off so I just said hell with it .. I'm building hte car from scratch i might as well paint it a color I truly love....

Welll when I can that is ..

and here it is after primer Attachment 686876 everything is held together with nothing really not even a bolt hahI just wanted to dream about what my car would look like

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Emptying out the fuel tank

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the gauge said it was at empty but I wanted to clean it anyways . So I emptied it , put some fresh gas in ,

Replaced the Fuel filter.. Something i am dreading ... from the bottom of my heart doing again .

and put some new Fuel in , took it out again , and a bit of new gas in again just to keep something in there keep water from collecting .

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OEM wheels in the front , 19's in the back .. damn I hated this LOL , But my friend painted them so they atleast looked the same color

Also replaced all the boots for the steering rack and other rubbery misc stuff

i hope the secret color is a red.......... those jams will look funny! looking good otherwise!

Thread needs more updates!

Post some of your autox pics, and new mods man.

hah yeah I do need to update it . hah its taken me longer to make this build thread then it did to
get the car on the road . I'll update it tonight when I get home.

Still undecided got alot of bridges to cross before paint .

But the jams would be painted when I do decide hah

This gonna be at DGRR?

yes frank will be there .

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engine number 2

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Removing THe turbos For waste gate porting ,

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I took alot of pictures to make sure i knew where to put everything back .

Dad giving me a hand literally

Off they go!

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PB blaster attack .

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the Y pipe cleaning it a bit

First peek of the rats nest ..

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Engine fitting snug in its new home

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And first night with the engine in its home .

I couple videos LOL I dont remember what I was saying as my speakers are broken

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