yeah it is, car is jaw dropping, they did a phenomenal job!!!

 

sure it, its a local friend of ours here Phil's... car looks and sounds great, and not a surprise he won best 3rd gen in the car show.

Thanks on the compliment, car does look good and ran OK, but could have done a lot better.

Was a shame not to see your car out there, Sure you would have took home a prize.

 

here are the videos from me racing the car at the track. This was my first time taking the car on the track as well as the first time being on the track. My goal was to drive the car there, run a good time, and drive the car home... Two out of three is not bad. lol

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself

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ugh, having trouble embedding that video to show properly!

 

Nice build! Glad to see this car come back to life!

 

Thanks man,

Came a long way but still have a bit of a way to go. so lets see where it goes next.

 

Nice car congrats!!!!

 

getting ready for the carlisi meet this saturday. as always the car is not ready. got the wastegate at home to take it apart and tighten it up, sitting a little loose. Hoping that is part of my exhaust leak problem I am having after rotorfest. but I am sure something else is broke. lets see what else comes up before saturday.

 

Hope to see ya there, D

 

yeah man, can't wait. always love the carlisi meet. was working on getting the car back together today so will be coming down in the FD (unlike jason and his slacking *** )

 

Ah, Jason isn't bringing his whip? That's what he gets for ripping his car apart based on weird noises

 

He would if he could... My car was making a weird noise so I took it apart, but its back together (probably with the noise, lol) his is apart because he broke his rear end at rotorfest so its still getting rebuilt. but yeah thats what he gets.

 

Looks like it was a killer meet

 

damn that blue FD on the LXZ's is insane lol

 

had a great time this past weekend at the chris carlisi meet, always great to see everyone and to support a great cause, thank you to all the people who make it possible, I know it ain't easy.

Was not fun waking up at 5am to go finish the car up since it was still on jack stands to hit the road at 6:30 for a long 3 hour ride to the event.



Also, won A LOT of goodies in the raffle!

 

decided to get the braces I got at the carlisi meet onto the car!


Differential brace went on on, hope this helps out when I get to the track and maybe try to launch the car.


Also put on the transmission brace on. I know this helps, but man does it increase the vibration of the car a lot! and it does not help that I have a transmission issue where it shakes and makes noise, (guessing its the throw out bearing or something since it stops when the clutch is engaged)


Then after not seeing my car since the carlisi meet, figured I give her a nice wash and get her ready for this darn hurricane here. figured if its gonna be bad I can have the car looking good and with reduced wheel hop when I need to gun it. lol

 

Good to see those parts put to good use, D

Be careful with the t/o bearing noise.... I've seen a case where the owner ignored it for too long and the bearing came apart, leading to a much more expensive fix than just replacing the bearing.

 

Thanks man,

yeah glad to be able to use it and hopefully can hit the track in two weeks with the car for some fun.

Well, I am not 100% sure its the bearing... That is my guess... It makes a noise while driving and stops when clutch is pushed down, I though it had something to do with my slave cylinder at first. Had a problem with it at first since it broke and we fixed it. Might just need to be completely replaced. (sometimes the clutch wont engage if I F around to much. then I got to pump it and it starts working) rarely happens, but it does.

Hope this winter I can do a little clean up on the car and fix all those small things.

 

man been a while since I really did anything on the car... main reason for that is that I was moving... Now I am a long Island boy. and the perks of that. is I have my own garage and can do what ever the hell I want and do not need to pay rent for a space anymore.

Car sleeping happily in its new home


Garage is a big mess, just moved everything from the old location to the house but finally starting to build some shelving


and found a place to store all my carbon fiber parts and bumper that should have been on the car over a year ago


Took her out for a little bit got gas scared the neighbors put some premix fuel into the air.


that is all

 

damn, well I Decide to take the car out today to a big meet out in long island. did not get too far. about 2 blocks (if even) before I lost pressure in the clutch pedal and was not able to get the car in gear. =( had to walk back home leave the car in the street and then get some help to push it home.

now time to start pulling it apart to see what happened. I have been having large throwout bearing noises but I think the culprit might be slave cylinder, it poped out when installed and never thing it got back to 100%

here is the nice mess I leaked onto the floor:

 

that blows man, love the build though

 

Same happened to me and It was the clutch line. It blew up and had to call a tow truck. You can get stainless braided line fairly cheap that will be the first and last one you buy lol. I also replace all the clutch hydraulics while I was in there.

 

Yeah man it does, but happy it broke down before I got too far. thanks on the build now.

Yeah, I already have a stainless line, the day I got the car and brought it home it broke and had to change it out on the street. lol. but yeah now I need to take it apart and will change what needs to get done, funny thing is I had the car out the other day and was ripping it up all fine. i take it out to cruise and it breaks. ahhh the life of a rx7 owner.

 

Trying to figure out what to do with the rx7! with the fact that the car is now down for the winter, I need to figure out what I want to do with the car.

I am not sure if I want make the car more of a track car or more of a nice looking street car. Problem is if I make it a nice street car I probably wont track it because I wont want to risk damaging the car. and if I focus more on the motor and performance then I wont have money to make the car look nice.

Would love to have a good looking car that I can track, but if I plan on getting feed fenders, not sure how practical it would be on the drag strip!

I already have a bit of parts to put on the car, but just am in a mental bind with the car because I don't know what is the best place to go with the car and not break the bank!

 

gordon, nice to hear from you man, hope all is well with you.

Thats what I was leaning to aswell, because I have a lot of the body parts already, i just have been having a itch to hit the track, but maybe thats for another time and another car!