Haha nice, I never feel safe about carrying that much cash, so all my purchases are done in bank checks.

Same here, my first two cars I saved up and bought, the rest where always paid for by a bank check using insurance money from the totaled last car. (when i was younger i was like a magnet for idiots to crash into me)

90 celica(free) > 96 veilside celica(my hard earned cash) > 2000 veilside integra (insurance money) > 1993 mazda rx7 r1 (insurance money, and i refuse to let anyone crash into my baby, although i totaled a ford focus when backing out of a parking spot, only left a few scuffs on my rear bumper, lol)

92 miata, white, 67k miles, lost a 93 bmw 525 with 230k miles

I was definitely nervous, but the guy said he would only accept cash so its whatever.

95 celica repaired, 95 celica repaired, 95 celica repaired, 93 rx7 repaired, 93 rx7 totaled (fire), 93 camaro took the insurance money and didn't repair it, 93 bmw 525 totaled (took the money, kept the car), 93 bmw 525 totaled (scrap yard)
only the first incident with the celica was my fault, and all but that one and the fire happened while the car was parked in front of my house. I think I've got a curse.

tell me about carying the cash. I had to carry it all day and then had to give it to my friend to go pick up the car for me. lol. but sometimes you gotta carry the cash on you.

sweet on the miata btw!

again being real slow with the build... but on Friday I took off my bumper (was a pain clipping all those zipties that held it up) and cleaned out my intercooler the best I could from that oil that got in there from the blown turbo. that's about all I got done on friday as I am having trouble finding a steel pipe that I can make my wastegate adapter from. I mean how hard is it to find a 1 7/8th 45degree short bend pipe! damn. lol

So yesterday with the magical help of MOBEONER the old fuel system and stuff came off. block looks pretty clean. (I mean it was just put in a few months ago)
http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...819_174629.jpg

BUT with my luck its another freaking problem. I have no IDea how this happened and never knew it looked off. the secondary rail is not a FD rail!?!?!?! Might be a FC rail, I have no Idea, I contacted the guy I bought the kit off of and lets see what he says. I hope it was mix up, but I got this so long ago i don't know.

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...819_171529.jpg

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...819_171521.jpg

I dont know how that happened since it came off an FD lol

pm me your address and i will send you a new one

Thats crazy, maybe the set up was different or who knows. I got your email and all, thank you for your help man. you are really a stand up great dude!

New rail on way from kg parts

you are the man! thank you! Will sent the other one back ASAP as well.

That's what happens when u leave mobeoner alone in the garage- shit gets stripped Down to the bone :-) But don't ask me where all the bolts go cuz I have no idea, I was just tossing stuff around as you can see from my profile pic..

Got the rail in today:icon_tup:. damn that was fast.:icon_tup: thank you again for all your help... I will be sending you back the other one on saturday once I get to my garage!

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...824_211614.jpg

No problem...still don't know what happened :)

i no what happened....this little guy playing games...Attachment 440188

I know fiz-e was waiting on it but i will put him on blast. The reason his turbo doesnt fit quite well is because Its a T70 not a T66 buhahahahahah... blew u up sucka...

RX7King, we gonna need some of your welding skills for a few things on this car.. :)

:nod::icon_tup:
hear to serve.....:gwink:

Gordon, as soon as I can get it done, its one problem after the other with the build... but I hope within the month to have it done! rx7 gods willing...

Thanks Jay, yes unfortunately the turbo turned out to be a t70 and not a t66. guess thats what happens when you buy a turbo off a supra guy!

Rx71king... yeah man, going to hit you up to do some welding... I saw what you did on Jasons BOV, looks good. Will be hitting you up in like 2 weeks!

cool...it will be nice to work on a rx for a change....:)

yeah man, I need to do my BOV flange! and then possibly my downpipe after I cut it and my Wastegate adapter thing I am making. lol

so yeah, I got a few things.

fuel system almost in... almost. lol. got to buy a few fittings, some were in not the best shape so deciding to replace so I don't damage the new rails.

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...828_130828.jpg

i don't trust teflon tape on fuel lines....http://www.permatex.com/products/Aut...t_Compound.htm

Any particular reason? I know we usually use the Teflon tape and never had a problem!

aside from the motor build I have a large plan for the exterior of the car... I have been up in the air about what color to paint my car! I have been tossing 3 options around for a LONG time now and I think I found my answer...

I was going either do:
-Black with a little red flake in it
-Porsche GT3R signal green
-Matte black

And after a long debate I am going to be going with the Matte Black look for now! I will be doing a Vinyl wrap on the car so the body work will be done and if I don't like it I can take it off and the car will be ready to paint!

After Speaking to BEN at the Carlisi meet, where he said he was going to attempt it himself, I figured I would do the same after getting insane quotes from shops. SO I said, let me try to do my interior first! and here is my first stab at my center counsel! I got it about 98% perfect! but I am really happy with the results. Thinking I am going to attempt to do the whole car myself!

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...828_223328.jpg

Also, this color will go well with the CF items I have waiting to go on the car!

i had a leak on one of my fittings and i replaced the teflon tape . two months later the leak came back.... i used the permatex compound it never leak again..

titsssss, im actually looking to buy some vinyl for the interior plastics now b/c theyre so hideous and its driving me nuts! are you using 3m?

im so siked because sticker city now has matte white 60"x50ft for 650 now.. use to be like 800+ so i dont think ill feel as guilty if i botch it up haha

yeah i'm using 3M I only bought a small piece so I can test with the interior shit! but I think ima give it a shot on the car man... I got my 99 spec bumper sitting there, not even on the car, I Can do that and not even have down time on the car (aside from the downtime of the single conversion. lol)

I first wrapped a marker before I did the piece... lol... but after a while you get the hand of it... and with my GF's blowdryer, it made stretching it a snap!

good point man, well lets see what happens, if I Get a leak I will know what to do. lol. but for now I will stick with the Teflon just cuz its already done. lol

So aside from working on the motor and stuff, I have been collection some goodies that will hopefully go on the car real soon. big plans for the outside and inside. but need to get the motor done right... but I figured I would share what WILL be going on the car eventually.

Got some springs to lower the car a little bit, don't need monster truck for ever. Will just go onto m R1 shocks for now. down the line I can always upgrade.
http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...226_171040.jpg


Also picked up a extra set of clean tail lights... soon to be 99spec converted when I find time to hang out with Theorie and do them. one day this year.
http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...518_175406.jpg

Some random goodies from Ray Crowe... I have only had my computer sitting on the floor for about ummm, since I owned the car.
http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...602_212841.jpg

With the big turbo will come some bigger boost. so I needed a boost controller. went the AEM tru boost route for now. should do the trick for what I need it to do.
http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...518_204410.jpg

Went out and got me a PLX M-300 tuner edition Wideband... looks great and need to figure where on the car I will be mounting this bad boy!
http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...628_182018.jpg

Also, was not really planning on getting this, but this was my LATEST purchase... I sold my Yamaha r6 to get some funding for stuff and this is what I got... a brand new HKS twin power ignition system...
http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...823_221416.jpg

And for the body! well, I cannot wait to get started on this, but unfortunately this will be more of a winter project... car is still down and I want to enjoy it a little before the winter hits hard... BUT, as I said earlier I will be attempting to Matte black vinyl wrap this bad boy. but before that happens I am going SHINE SPEC GT front and rear fenders... Going to Mold the rear fenders on, lets see how that goes, seems like a big project.

But I am not going with the front bumper, I seen way to many messed up bumpers here in NYC. going with this 99spec plateless bumper!
http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...219_113706.jpg

Then to eliminate those sideskirts I have I got a full Shine all around CF kit! Just need to get the low profile spoiler!
http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...427_020342.jpg

And I traded in my big box of coins for some cash and swapped my old hood with this nice CF scoot hood. oh yeah... getting some air for that turbo.
http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...731_185202.jpg

Hopefully with all these goodies I Will have one clean sick looking FD. I HOPE. time will tell.

Today I got another Order from Ray Crowe... Won a $50 gift certificate at the Carlisi meet (as I did last year) but decided to use it this year... so I figured IW as redoing some of my interior, and ordered a replacement shift boot since mine was beat up! Looking at it looks like a different construction that the original I had on there. leather is not wrinkly yet since its new, but the stitching is different! no outside seams!

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...903_004325.jpg

wow someeeeeebody just dropped a puts load of money...

ps if you order vinyl from stickercity there is a 10% off coupon going around til sept 30 i believe oh and free shipping

Fiz-E gets biz-E!!!

So over the weekend instead of going to E-town, decided to work on the car a little bit! I am waiting on fittings and stuff, so I relocated my radiator. I dropped it about a inch... inch and a half. and moved it over to the driver side wall so my intercooler pipe can clear on the passenger side... pipes fitted in and all looks goooooood....

And I hid that annoying fuse box in the front!

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...903_185009.jpg

damn my oil coolers look busted! but no money to upgrade for now! :( maybe next year. hope this wont pull back performance too bad!

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...903_190129.jpg

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...903_190118.jpg

LESSON LEARNED! any plastic tab that can break will break on the rx7. lol. I kinda made a mess here. taking out the center was NOT as easy as the shifter counsel.

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...903_200213.jpg

Got a package in the mail yesterday... and I think I have about everything I need, got me some fitting and line... time to run the turbo lines and fix the missing one I have on the fuel rail... and will be good to go...

Blacking them out!
http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...906_222910.jpg

nice work keep it up

big ups to rx71king... did some SWEEEET welding on my wastegate adapter and my BOV flange. after my magic eyeball measuring and praying it would fit after getting cut and welded! it did. looking sweet

http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...909_183159.jpg

An here is it installed on the car with the wastegate!
http://i980.photobucket.com/albums/a...909_184044.jpg

As I thought my car was getting closer to getting done!!!! WHAPPP some wrong fitting sizes and clearance issues set me back a little further AGAIN! :(

You'll be ok with dual r1 coolers. It's suckers like me with just 1 that have to sweat. :)

cool..:icon_tup:i am happy it all fit......you have a good eye..:)

yeah man it all fit great... yeah I was confident in my eye! but it has lead me astray before! soon i will mock up the DP and that will be on its way to you too man.

Nice work, wish I had the time (and $$)!

Interior paint job turned out nice!

Just out of curiosity... Why did you move your wastegate further away from your manifold?

^ looks like for clearance of the down pipe

Thanks man, its more about no time! money you can always scrap up! I bought my scoot hood and radio and some other stuff just from pocket change I collected in a jar.



Gordon, yeah its coming together now, hopefully soon it will be all done and started! Well, the reason I am going to keep the CF is because I will do the whole outside MATTE and the CF will break it up and ground the from the bottom. (And the matte will get messed up being so low, so the CF underparts will be the protector.:nod:



Thanks man, its actually not paint! its Vinyl... I am practicing on the interior parts before I do the whole exterior for my stealth look:egrin:


Yeah as Battle Cat said. its for clearance. The Wastegate hits the downpipe with the location on the manifold. so I only had a little bit of room to play with so I made a adapter! I did not want to chop up the manifold.

yeah Rx7King is the man. I am going to throw him a curve ball over the winter and give him a little challenge, Hes going to make my old school thrust greddy front mount into a Vmount.. Alot of fabrication to do there buddy ;)

I am sure he can handle it! he does good work man. I will have some more stuff ready for him to do this weekend hopefully!