I got the car started finally. The exhaust isn't finished and the brakes still need to be bled but she runs and idles.

 

that thing starts up so beautifully

 

Nice man, hard work is paying off

 

Thanks guys. This week I should be done reassembling the car and it should be road worthy by Sunday. Maybe then I can finally register it and start breaking in the motor.

 

I finished my battery relocation. The positive lead goes to the starter and the negative is grounded to a stud in the trunk. It wont start now but it turns over. I'm too tired to troubkeshoot tho.

 

Clean job. The issue you are having is in the ground system. Meaning you need to loop the grounds together, alternator, body, starter & so on.

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I've been super busy lately but here's a clip of the car with everything bolted up

 

Who's the angry man in the background?

 

Ha. That's my buddy Rick

 

Getting closer bro!

 

to bad we didn't get any videos of it driving around . LOL its got a very nice soundtrack

 

I need to see this car one day! wow

 

Great thread, tons of great info. Thanks!

 

that fuel kit though =D

anyway... congratulations on the build man. glad to see your car is running and the hard part is over. whats the deal with your ps and ac? deleting both right? how come you still have the tension pulley and where did you get that radiator "hose". looks really handy. accordion style rubber hose?

i was planning on hacking up a bunch of different radiator hoses and connecting them with a metal pipe. your solution looks so much better. you mind showing a close up of it? can it be squeezed like a normal hose? the thing i dont like about using hard lines for your radiator hoses is that you cant squeeze them when bleeding the system. it makes it a pain.

 

Thanks guys. CR, the ac will be going back in but not the PS. The hose is Gates vulcoflex hose I believe. Works like a charm. yes they do squeeze a bit.

Right now the car is currently running and running well. At the moment I can only take it around the block since it's not registered but it will be soon.

 

How you going mount the ac? Top or bottom side.

 

top side of the radiator. I would have done it already but my condenser was jacked up.

 

Nice, I'm thinking about getting a rx8 condenser and mounting underneath when time comes. Got all most all my stuff lined up to start dropping the motor in and really putting work in to catch up to you guys.

 

Tomorrow I'll be registering the car woohoo!

 

I ordered a my Rywire harness today along with some aluminum door handles so I don't have to crawl in from the passenger side anymore. This thing is finally starting to look like a car again.

 

HAH! Finally! those door handles ! lol when is the harness getting there???

christmas -> new years break in drive anyone>???

 

Not until late January

 

aww .. damn long wait time for the harness.. well guess we'll just have to make due without it . sfar all the essentials are working fine so . we should be ok

 

hopefully nothing major happens in that time. I still need to wire in the fuel pump

 

Finally, I can breathe a sigh of relief. Saturday I got the car registered and spent the afternoon cruising around going to all of my favorite local spots. Sunday me and Tem120 did some more minor tuning to get the afr's decent for the drives to and from work and then I spent Sunday afternoon breaking in the engine.

My wrx will be down until early January due to timing belt tensioner failure so while that's down I'm going to daily the fd. If all goes well I should have her on a dyno at the end of January.

I do have to say, all of the work and effort was worth the while. Once I fix the clunking diff bushings this will be a great comfortable street car.