Haha. Yeah maybe if I had a huge garage with lifts and a BBQ. Lol. Good progress today!!!

stechs? i had eibachs and stechs on stock shocks... loveee the stechs!

if you need a hand im game:icon_tup: (if im free and my car is done lol):lol:

^^^^^
dude you lost me the stechs... lol

And thanks for being ready and able to jump in and help. thanks to everyone, love the help the rotary community provides each other.

So the other weekend I go ahead and start putting the set up in and ran into a major problem, The HKS manifold sits so low that the turbo would not fit... not even close... it was hitting the LIM and the frame... and sat too low for my liking in the engine bay.
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After a a stress filled night of wondering what I will do I started a WTB thread to look for a manifold that might fit... only one I knew fit was a T88 manifold thanks to SpeedNYC since he ran this turbo a while back. but no luck with anything local and affordable. luckily mobeoner has a collection of crap laying around so I picked one off the floor that we had and the fitment is a 100% better...
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Still need to shave the compressor housing a little bit so there is more than a mm of space from the frame, but it fits in!

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those sides with the oem front lip just doesn't flow thought about changing one or the other?

yeah, that's how the car came, they don't bother me tooo much but yeah they will be going.... I have some big changes with the body and style of the car... those updates will come eventually, just want to make sure the car runs ok before dumping money on the body too much.

haha dude we are on the same page. i keep wanting to fix my cracked front end but i end up having to put money into things that are more important.

tell me about it... I have some body parts at home, just haven't put them on... I wanna do a whole kit and rims and all... but I would shoot my self if I do all that and my motor blows or wont run right with the new set up... car needs to survive at least 4 passes at the track before I consider any more body, I don't even care about the scratches and stuff on there. need it to run right!

Question about the stechs/eibachs. My junkyard dog is still stock ride height. I would like to move away from the AWD look :wink2:, but I am a road racer at heart.

Sure a lower car looks better, and a lower c.g. would help handling. But overall, will lowering the car have a negative effect on handling? Would it be slower on a road course or autocross. I don't want a bouncy 'slammed' ride like some low riders. I still want the best handling I can muster.

Thanks.


JyRO

This is why moreboner stacks piles of parts :) I am trying to make an FD junk yard son.... LOL
I was gonna tell ya that i got my mig welder back so we can chop up that down pipe and blow out the fuses in the garage welding your wastegate :D

you said teins springs... were u talking about the s-techs or h-techs... excuse my poor typing lol

+1. all the money ive dumped into this car is engine bay, motor, and performance. ill sneakily but body parts but they rarely make it on the car before they get sold :(

im no guru but love the s-techs. def improved handling and feel more confident going into harder turns...

+1 ahaha its a pain when u work on your car and something so minute is cockblocking you and you frantically search the forum in hopes to find one local that you can snag that night for the meet tomorrow morning hahaha im on the boat with stocking parts since theyre fairly cheap... 4 lim... 2 uim, 3 alt, etc etc!:icon_tup:

HAHA ya man the more boner pile stacks high... I didn't think we were going to wait to chop it up... lol. just thought we were going to chop it and then figure out how it would get back together later. lol

I realized that after I posted what you meant... lol... without the dash i was like what the hall is stechs. haha. Truthfully, I don't even know, I got them a while ago like may other parts and they just sit there, so I forgot. but I think they are s-techs. lol I think.

go read Howard Coleman's suspension tech thread, he goes into great detail. Essentially a slight drop is good, slammed without proper design can negatively affect suspension geometry and screw up the handling.

While being frustrated with all the issues on putting in the turbo I figured I would do something that has to go smoothly... So I decided to put on my custom plates that came in... Even had issues with that with the screws going on lol. but it got on.

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So after finally getting the turbo on the problems as always continue. small issue is the downpipe is not 100% aligning up with exhaust... then again, right now my exhaust is just laying on the braces under the car... and only i think one bracket is holding it up. so small issue... but easily fixed if I need to cut and extend.
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Larger issue is the fact that the waste gate does not fit now! which sucks balls... The downpipe is so close to flange there is no way it is fitting on there now. Trying to think of my options...
1- is to try to raise the turbo using a T4 Flange so the DP sits higher. but I don't think it will still clear.
2- make a v-band bend for the wastegate. like a 45degree bend extension to get it to clear the pipe. (will be pricey to make with v-bands and clamps)
3- chop the DP at the top and extend it like 2 inches. so the pipe goes closer to the wall then the manifold/flange! (thinking this might be the cheapest route)

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Damn dude! That sucks. At least the license plate fits up right! :D

I'm down. Long as its a day I don't have to work.

yeah the one thing that actually worked on the car. lol. I still had to tape the plate to the tinted shield I put on it and the plate holder.

I guess I need to figure out where to put the bung for the wideband... I can make a extension pipe to match up to the midpipe with that on it so I can kill two birds with one stone!

It's all good gee, we can fab all that stuff, we gotta keep muibubbles on stand by I heard he can fabricate his ass off :)
Give him a welder and he can build the empire state building. LoL

^^^ LMFAO from who? my welds are UGLY. thats why i usually grind them off ahahah im pretty good at brackets but thats all ahaha but i mostly work with 20gauge so its super easy to burn though and a PITA... when i weld thicker metals im okay... ;)

been on vacation for a week in Florida! can't wait to get back at the car! too bad it won't be till the weekend most likely! just need to hope that when I chop up the down pipe it will clear the wastegate!

Went by the garage to pick up some stuff, getting my mind set back on the car... Car is just waiting to get wrapped up. but I do love the turbo sitting in there once I open the hood! lol

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Looking good bro, I got to find some time to swing by, been busy at work and renovating some part of the house lol I can't wait to see that in action :)

thanks man, still got a lot of work. your always welcome to come by man. always cool to hang out with you... I can't wait either, been too long waiting already!

Ya man that turbo looks massive in person. I got a sneak peek of your car when I stopped by to pick up the 550/1300 injector setup from Jason. Keep up the great work!

thanks a lot man... it does look pretty F'n big in there. lol. hope fully it has as big of a bite matches the bark...

whats the ETA? will it be ready for carlisi?

Most definitely not going to be ready for carlisi... I will be there in my daily though...

Things are taking longer than expected and I can only work on it on the weekends, and that's if my weekends are free (and they haven't been)

Let alone the time it will take to get a appointment to tune!

what NEEDS to be done? ive skipped a lot of stuff i wanted to do in order to actually get to drive the car.. its gonna be more work down the road but ill have seat time to satisfy my thirst for sometime.......

just cant pop my engine bay! lol.....

Well first I need to fabricate the downpipe to clear the Wastegate!(and connect to the midpipe) then I need to make a waste gate dump tube...

Then I need to get all the fittings and lines to hook up the turbo!
Then I need to install the whole fuel system, from the injectors to the new lines to the tank as well as rewiring and installing the new fuel pump!

Then I need to install the Wideband and the new boost controller!

Oh and I also forgot, since I have everything off I need to properly place my radiator in there and not have it just sitting there on the old brackets because the blades are hitting my oil lines so I tied those back to clear for now... and I need to weld on the new wastegate...

I think after that I can put the UIM back on and get it started. lol. so yeah I got a little bit to go, and I bet I am forgetting something here.

one day I will be done. haha

haha u dont NEED to wire the boost controller or wideband just run off wastegate spring for now lol that saves u like a full day. yeah well thats all i got lol thats a hefty list lol

yeah I don't need to but i might as well while I have the DP out and stuff apart so I can get wires in easier... but aside from that, yeah the rest of the list is what is holding me back. lol. hopefully I Can make some moves this weekend.

Not much progress again this weekend! picked up a new cosmetic goodie for the car! but while trying to see if I can extend the DP out to clear the WG I realized that its a bit too much... I went and ordered some 44mm flanges and a band and will be making a 90degree adapter for the waste-gate! hope it works out as planned.

Also tried to see if I would be able to align the DP with the mid-pipe without cutting but I might have to. was not lucky enough to just bolt up... BUT... I think a part of it is because the exhaust is just hanging there. and might be a little twisted.

I had to zip-tie the exhaust back up, the old zip-tie must have fallen off :-/

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:lol: @ zipties
why not just get a new hangers from mazda?

^ Because it looks like the hanger broke off of the muffler. You can see the rubber mount is still there with the hanger in it.



John

You mean its not normal to have zipties hold up your exhaust system.:scratch: lol. just kidding. I had like 5 together and when it gets hot it melts into one big one!

So I had some plans on working on the car this weekend and that was a bust! Thursday I head to court to handle my speeding ticket from the rx7 which puts a damper in the weekend. then I get home from work on friday early and get ready to go to my garage and this is what I see on my DD, some ass hole broke in to my car! =(
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So most of my free weekend was spent worrying about this crap! back the car next week I guess =(

^ That sucks... Did they get anything valuable?


John

yeah man, they stole my chucky cheese tokens! was so pissed!

but no, they took that. the took all my change in the ashtray and the spare $20 I had hidden in my glove box. and other than that nothing that was important to me! I mean they made a mess and broke the center counsel but left everything else! maybe they were looking for a gps or something.

still, sucks though:icon_tdow

:(

That sucks, I hate people that bust a $300 window to steal $30 worth of stuff :scratch:

Dude, tell me about it! I don't even think he got $30 worth of stuff! It's just sad that people have to go to that level still. I mean I know times are tough, but is it worth going to jail if you get caught.. I Lucked out because there were no cameras on the block.

And I was pissed cuz I had to worry about fixing that and couldn't go work on the rx7.

anymore I just keep my car clean and pull my face plate and leave the doors unlocked.

yeah well I keep the inside clean of stuff and the car don't have a faceplate its all build in behind the dash so they cant even take any of that. I used to do that with my old car because its not worth a broken window, but I am not leaving my bmw unlocked in ny. lol. ill wake up and there will be bums sleeping in the car.

GREATEST QUOTE EVER!!!!!
Nice man Im subscribed..

can i play along?
What my rx8 looked like before it became an rx7....
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^^^ haha. yeah man its nice to realize we once actually had money! haha.

this is what my new CF hood and random non essential parts look like before they get bought.

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:lol: they'll do what they gotta do I guess.

I love benjamin, especially when there's many of him.

hahhahahahhaha monies, i wish i had some...

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buying a new daily tonight, thank you insurance company!

HAHA yes! gotta love when the insurance company actually pays back for all the money we give them. lol. what you getting!