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 ****! 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.



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.


Some random goodies from Ray Crowe... I have only had my computer sitting on the floor for about ummm, since I owned the car.


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.


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!


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...

 

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!


Then to eliminate those sideskirts I have I got a full Shine all around CF kit! Just need to get the low profile spoiler!


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.


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!

 

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!

 

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

 

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.

 

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!

 

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



An here is it installed on the car with the wastegate!


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..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.



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


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!