mmmmmm.... those pictures made my day!

 

rich this is a bit excessive i must say. i think your family needs to do an intervention.

 

WOW... looking at these pictures makes me embarrassed.... I have been slapping and hacking together my car to get it running for the carlisis BBQ. When i get there I will not open up my hood and i might just park it behind a tree or something. lol

 

Oh come on guys, my car isn't anything special.....Uncle Hungry has created a clone of mine, and there are some things about it I like better.....I might switch my efini emblems to the newer Mazda ones

Thanks to Theorie/Tom for taking such vibrant pics with his gazillion $ camera

 

Excuse me!!! You cheating ***-*****......

-J

 

Clone may be a bit much, aside from them both being vr r1's with 99 front's the simularities end, but thanks for the compliment. I'm flattered to be mistaken for you by the neighbors none the less.

 

ill be watching this. took some ideas from your new build though!

 

There's room enough for everyone, as long as you come rotary powered this year

 

Nice pics Theorie - I think you've just convinced me to spray my rex silver!

Good luck with the build Rich

Ceylon

 

Also, I just got my Tweak-it/Chadwick single turbo airpump delete idler pulley in the mail

All my ceramic coated parts (exhaust mani, dp, brackets etc) are in the mail and arriving thursday. This should prove to be a productive weekend

 

 

Awesome. You ever try capping off and protecting sensitive items and then pressure washing the bay? I sprayed mine down with oil eater and went to town on it with a washer when I had mine out. Worked really well and didn't take long.

 

Nice paint, is that the PPG VR?

Rich, are you planning a complete re-paint as well?

 

Spoken like a true, veteran FD owner

 

Easy for you to say mang.... I have 9 FDs, 1 FB, 1 s2000 race car, 1 crx race car, 1 13B rew powered tube fram yugo race car (gangstah) and 3 open wheel race cars currently at my shop You might say I'm busy mr. Richard!

Not driving my own car is getting quite old I can assure you


-J

 

hope you didnt max out your credit cards lol

 

Nope, my paint is still in pretty good shape from the last paint job in 2003

I considered it but didn't want to chance water getting into the electrical connections. Also my car is in the back corner of the shop away from the water.

Well, as long as you make it there bud

Negative, charging car parts on my credit cards is a thing of the past thankfully

Update:

Modified my engine harness for the single turbo setup by deleting all unneeded connectors. I also installed the connector for the fast-acting intake temp sensor I recently picked up. I heat sleeved the entire harness with a combination of electrical tape, wire loom, DEI fire tape, and DEI fire shroud.

I installed some of the new oem parts I ordered for the engine bay, like the water pipe and brake booster line that run across the back of the engine bay.

Also took care of a bunch of odds and ends, like deleting the PCV valve and screwing on my FEED brake reservoir cap

Pics to come this weekend, hopefully of a built-up engine

 

I wish someone would be willing to modify new wiring harnesses (single turbo) for re-sale

 

^ Somebody is, search it.

 

I love this picture, the kind of muted background colors really make the bright colors of the cars pop.


Great build by the way. I wasn't aware it was so common to buy an all new engine. I'm so used to being an FC owner who looks under couch cushions trying to scrape together enough to buy used parts .

 

Link, please. I've been following this topic but never heard of anyone who was actually doing it

 

sweet build!!!!!!!!!!!

 

maybe you need to retitle to "hip-deep"

 

just as long as it's not "***** deep"

 

Too late.

And it's a good thing he's ***** deep into his build.... because his FD is the only loving he's going to get when the female counterpart discovers she can't get the new bedroom set with an empty checking account.


Or is that just me?