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and adding the meth injection kit

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First start up MOV02114.mp4 Video by Tem120 | Photobucket

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progress kind of



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ok so a few things are missing I forget ot take pictures , Hah ..

If you noticed on some of the earlier videos / pictures

I had 1 JDM fender , and 1 USDM fender

So we measured and well cut the USDM fender to fit the JDM side marker lights .

Look at hte picture above . and Now

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Also ... OH WINDSHIELD when did you get there..

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after breaking my radiator .. thankfully a friend of a friend of a friend had a used koyo , which he sold me

subtle things... 1 doing a foamectomy on my seat and washing the seat covers .

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from the start I had a friend who works at a muffler shop . and he had wanted to do my exhaust since I started the car . I figured hey . what the hell if I dont like it I can always change it later.

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But honestly It came out great.. sounds great I have no regrets doing a custom exhaust .

ok well maybe they didnt have a big selection of 3 inch mufflers ...

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Thanks alot to nick @ American mufflers in Hollywood Florida

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The big day.. So this is the day I'd been waiting for .. the day The car goes in to get its inspection for hte road.

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As the car was pretty crispy it was totaled , and now it was its day to be legal again .

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I actually failed the inspection ...... BECAUSE..... I needed more chicken wire .....

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and I passed ..

P.S. different bumpers I know Haha

I had to replace the old fiberglass one after it cracked.. alot .

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Yeah it was getting tiring having mis matched wheels .. and I was Dailying it by then so . i got some cheapo rotas , with Hankook R-S3 's in 17x9 , 17x9.5

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on the way to get an alignment the next day.. I couldnt resist.

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there's frank getting aligned last alignment was poop ..

Apex Alignment in Homestead . Best alignments in south FL .

after This I had some fuel issues .. My walbro 255 wasnt doing enough ..

I redid my fuel pump wiring .. it worked fine for one day , But the next it was doing hte same thing ...

I replaced the injectors with 1300's ...

replaced my fuel pump with a sard 290

Nothing added an aftermarket fuel pressure regulator .. Nothing .. still going lean


One day out of random curiosity I decide to check the wiring again maybe something's loose . and I found a melted fuse... it was a 20 amp fuse . the fuse holder had melted as well but it hadn't blown .. so Idecided to redo the whole wiring . this time I put hte fuse in a more accesible location.. 20 amp fuse I took the car for a quick drive .. and stranded...

replaced it with a 25 amp .. as thats all I had at the time.. drove it back home. and I start to think .. MAYBE Just maybe the fuse... Was what was restricting the power. . so I went to radio shack bought a 40 amp fuse and holder put it in .. and

IT WORKED . after months of not being able to go into boost because the car would go lean .. the car finally had fuel.. and lots .... of it ... Retuned the car all over.

And frank was alive again ...

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frank's enginebay sure it wasnt exactly pretty but it worked...

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Frank Finally Gets a SHINY

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so after a few auto-x events I realized my intake temps get pretty high after a couple runs . and being stopped in grid .

and a friend of mine gave me an intercooler as a present .. so.. I decided to go for it ...

the reason I got hte vented hood was for extra cooling for the FMIC

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A couple of pictures of the last auto-x event putting hte new interfooler to good use

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love your build. looking like it all came together in the end. I'm on Miami Beach, let me know if you're ever in the area.

So , I missed alot of stuff it wasnt as easy as I made it seem haha

but I wanted to make a thankyou post to everyonewho helped out

My Dad for helping me build the thing , and lending me his tools & driveway for the 6months
it took to get it on the road

Chibi for encouraging me to make the plunge onto something better and convincing me it would be worth the wait.

Kiba for all the advice and encouragement and making me jealous of your car ofcourse ...

Deliverence on the forums for all the help i've gotten from you in the past , present , and probably the future to hah . Thanks man

Fritz Flynn Half my car came from your parts garage man , great customer service and one of the most knowledgable people on these forums plus one hell of a driver that well lets face it . every time I see your videos man It makes me want to get the car on track.

ARGHX if it wasnt for this guy car would not be running i'd of probably blown it up by now no doubt Thanks for all the tunning advice .

And ofcourse everyone else who lent a hand , specially in no small part to this forum When I jumped into this project I had no knowledge of the rotary well no real knowledge of it.
nor the FD thanks alot to this forum The car is running

Ofcourse ... This isn't the end I still got a lot to do to it.

But just decided I needed to say some thanks

So this weekend , getting hte car ready for the rotary Rally did some minor bodywork . ground down some bondo that was on a fender and re sprayed it..

Primer is awesome..


hah , and fixed my wipers and adding my wiper fluid system onto the car so I have some defence agaisnt the bugs on the 800 mile trip .

Every time I look at your intercooler setup it makes me want to go FMIC. I think I'll give you a few more months of road time before I ask your opinion on it again.

Ok a little update ! I blew my motor on the way back from the roto rally .. Ironic it happened just cruising on the highway .. seems like a spun bearing as the motor still starts and has 17 inches of vacume . But its making a very nasty noise .

Same thing happened to my motor in January. Brought it to Pettit now all is good.

glad they got that fixed , i'm currently saving up for the new motor . I'm going to go with a reman vs rebuild this one . incase it has some internal damage . and that way I can start to build this one slowly get it ported and have a monster motor for next time.

Hey my friend! I know we've chatted back in forth between PMs but I never saw your build thread! Great work! Way to stick with it and bring her back!

Did you take the blown motor out yet and look inside?

Thanks gringo LOL , Yeahh.. the car is alot of fun when it works .

Deliverance not yet started the tear down today finally had room to work on it

But unfortunately I think My ecu may be fried...

when I put the ignition in no lights or anything came on figured battery was dead , let it charge for about 4 hours then tried the ignition again , car cranks , lights turn on , but none of hte instruments or the Power FC commander turn on ..

I just went to get the battery replaced since it was under warranty and I'm gonna try it tomorrow . But damn I'm starting to believe this FD is cursed... Wangan midnight anyone?

Like you say, the flat black FD is trending but you have to admit - they look like jet fighters when they're done! I love the way a flat black FD looks in person, I've seen a 500whp dyno'd beast of an FD in that color and it looked amazing.

Good luck on the build man, cool to see! :bigthumb:

A little update . I think I'll have some updates thsi weekend . But well motor is out of the car ,and taken apart . it wasnt pretty in there. I should have pictures later today .

looks like It will get rebuilt . started ordering parts from all over . I've got all of 97 cents to my name currently HAH!

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engine Pulled, started taking things apart .


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stationary gear. gone both look like this front and rear done .

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Rotor Gear Gone as well .. Both like this

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Quite a bit of carbon on the rotors as well I only had the engine for a year..

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and a spark plug crack

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the oil pump was completely Gone forgot ot take pictures of it , and the Eshaft was bad to from where the bearing originally spun

P.S. I never ran this car low on oil .. it had low Oil pressure form the first day I put it in the car. I figured it was a bad oil pressure sensor. but I guess someone did run the car low on oil beforehand , and that messed up the oilpump which in turn caused this ...

catastrophic damage could of been avoided had I rebuilt the engine back then ..

But now We start the build up.

I got this Lightweight flywheel for a great deal .. it needs ot have the friction plate replaced . but for the price it was hard to pass on


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I have a thing against sidegrading , when ever I can I try to upgrade . since hte flywheel is out why not!! ,

sick car

So what did you determine was the cause? Bad oil pump? Clogged pickup?

Bad oil pump 99% chance . I never ran the car low on oil ,and the car wasn't low on oil when it blew in fact I had just filled it up with some oil

Slow week couldnt work on the car at all . rain and other errands but hopefully tomorrow , or wed I'll have a small updates on new parts!

OK so scratch that flywheel .. Got a racing beat one ..

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I hear that brother....It rains every single day!!! My tires are bald as fuh! and the rain doesnt help :(

Bull crap. It hasn't rained all week :P

Its raining right now...rained last night and possibly will continue later lol.

Atleast you hopped right back in the saddle. Glad to see your still doing your thing.

damn I dont even remember how long its been ,

WELL updates I finally Completed my rotating assembly and sent it off to get balanced .

exedy HP pressure plate , ACT unsprung 4 puck cltuch , Racing beat light weight flywheel , stock rotors , and E shaft .

everything is ready

Also ordered some Housings from a forum member they come with racing beat exhaust ports .

Just waiting for them to arrive haha . after that all thats left is the... apex seals / gasket set.

Thanks , and no reason not to .. I never found the engine to be lacking in anything .

and it blew not because it was a rotary . But because of combined negligence between the previous owner for running it low on oil , and myself for not rebuilding before it turned into this mess

This is 110% correct, a lot of heads love to blame the rotary. Weather it's a piston or rotary a half ass engine,will fail it's just a matter of time!

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hah its been raining on and off down here .

But I don't have much time to work on the car during weekdays

BUT asoon as I get the parts I'll start doing alot more work on it .

^oooh special visit from engine builder.

but like you said . People like to blame everything just because its a rotary but low oil pressure would destroy any engine weather it be V8 or not LOL . specially getting rev'd to 8k and raced every chance it got .

and my goal when all said and done is to take down a V8 or two..