The best place is to drop it off at my house with the signed title in the glove box, then the car will not cost you anymore money, or you can drop off that POS red one that is in your driveway. I'm not pickey.

I think you got your own troubles to deal with on yours man. lol and that red POS is now chilling in the mud next to the driveway. hahaha :lol:

Definately not going to have time to hit the track as often as I want. I hit the drag strip last year one day. So I am going with the make the car look nice and take it to the drag strip that one to two times a year I want to run down the track.

Hope to see you at some meets too, and really trying to make it out to DGRR this year, I have yet to be able to make it.

Time to start my cars transformation. I have a large list of TO-DO's to get done and hoping the need result will meet my expectations. I wanted to get the slave fixed (which I ordered) and take the car out again, but figured why wait, so I cleaned up the new garage to make room to work, and took a final farewell picture of the car in it's current state!

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Hope this does not take me forever to complete! o_0

I got a little jump start today on working on the car. after all that snow that fell here in NY got to work in the garage for a little with a nice space heater I got that made the 41 degree weather a stunning 44 degrees o_0

Aside from having some new rims on the car for test fitment!!! I got the front fenders off and the sideskirts which was a PITA to get off because they used rivets to get the sideskirts on, so I had to drill them all out and will give me some extra body work to get get that fixed up.

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got me a few packages the other day:

A box almost as big as my front door, wonder what that could be....
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Probably the worst Idea I ever had was shipping this thing to my office, had to buy a little handtruck just to get these babys home!
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Doing a quick test view of how the new setup will look like. hope to properly fit everything soon.
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Turned out it the stainless braided line I had was not the first and last one. it was the line that failed! :icon_tdow

So after finally finding time to get the slave fixed! turned out it was not the slave!!!!! Was the stainless clutch line, so again I wait, but I did get in my new one along with a few other goodies.
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My loved ones are also pitching in to the rx7 fund. might be able to get some new headlights soon if I keep saving up:
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awesome! looks great!

Lookin good!

Finally installed the new clutch line and the new slave. now, car wont start. No power to my dash and to the PFC which would mean no power to the ECU.

I change the EGI and MAIN fuses. guess I need to look around all the fuses or if something came loose when I was either installing the clutch line or bleeding the clutch and a wire got out.

Always something though... always!

So I figured out what my electrical problem was after changing fuses and looking over some stuff. I look under the passenger fender!! and BAM some little sucker has eaten through about a inch of wiring on my harness, through like 6 wires~

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AND to top it off a stack of bins fell over in my garage and at first I did not notice anything, looked like it just missed the new front bumper when I look at my headlight and was like oh I don't remember taking off my headlight cover. Just to realize that the bin fell and broke my feed cover.

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It just never ends!!!

After a long and painful testing of electrical wires I finally found the issue. Even though it looked like a mouse had eaten the wires, that was not causing my issue surprisingly. there was a broken junction right past the ignition switch!!!!!

Now I just got to bleed the clutch out, which has been proving to be quite a pain in the butt!

Here are some picks from this years rotor fest. as always a great event. and as last year, I just finished the car up the day before the event. Had the tranny out and had to swap throw out bearing. but got it done and we rolled out and had a blast at the event. Our caravan came in 2nd 3rd and me at 4th/5th in the rotary bracket class.

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Looks great man! Keep it coming~!

Here is the video from rotorfest. I slept on the line, but still was my fastest pass and was able to shave off a lot of time off my ET

haven't updated my build in a while. figured I get back on it for a bit. Shortly after rotorfest and the carlisi meet I went ahead and picked up a second FD roller, plans in my head for it were to build a full track car.

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Car came with some xxr's with some new BFGoodrich drag radials so I figured, hey, I haven't changed the wheels on my FD since I got the car so why not swap them over to mine to see what they look like and utilize the radials.

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So I also figured, hey lets take the car out to the fallnationals in E-town before the season ended and get a few more passes in for some practice and to see if the radials help me out off the line.

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The day at the fall nationals was horrible from the start. Weather was iffy, had major delays and waited around all day to get some time runs in. Pretty much in a 8 hour day I got one pass in which I bogged out horribly. and then... this happened:


Blew the diff and leaked out allover the place
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Had to get a tow truck to come to the track and then tow me to my cousins house since it would have been a fortune to tow from E-town all the way back to long island.
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After sitting at my cousins outside for about two weeks I had to get a rental truck and trailer to tow it back home to start fixing it up.
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All in all it was a bad day that turned out to expensive day. But you have to live to learn and that was a learning experience. Launching that high on large 18" drag radials at 8k with a stock torsen diff with nothing but a little banzai brace was not smart.

Sell it

will you buy it!!! 40K special just for you buddy!

So, what's the update on this build??? Wanna see all parts installed at least this year :) c'mon fiz stop slackin and get ur azz workin

I am working as fast as a busy person can work. lol. Soon enough it will all be done. (this year) :icon_tup:

hey now, been forever since I updated my build thread, been busy with life and stuff and getting the car together with all the goodies I have been holding on to for a while now. Here is the new look, not 100% done, but in a good place!

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was able to get out to a local meet with some of the guys, was nice to cruise out to the beach and see a few FD's in one place along with all the other awesome cars.

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Your car looks great! well done on the build

Thanks man, lots of work and headaches and still not done, but these things never really are done right. lol.

almost 2 years... still no update... :(

Did you just bump your build thread after 2 years without any good reason or updates to it?

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yes... yes i did... but just for you, I got something I can post...

here is a nice shot from the Carlisi meet back in 2014 shot by mister ZoomZoom himself.

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photo bucket is bugging out... all of a sudden they want $400 a year for 3rd party image hosting. Im going to guess a lot of photos on the forum are going disappear now.

I'm in the same boat. My build thread is useless now that the pictures no longer work. two years down the drain, oh well...

I understand that a price might need to be implemented for the service, but why in earth would 3rd party linking only be available on the top plan. If it was like $10 a month for image hosting I'm sure people would do it.

Google photos? Imgur? Flickr? I'm sure there are many other sites out there that are free.

Fuck Photo bucket. I haven't used them in years.

I'll probably start a new build thread using one of those hosting sites. The problem on here is that you cannot edit your old posts and update the image links.

yeah for sure can host it somewhere else. can even host images on my own server. But, what sucks is all the threads on here that probably use photobucket and now will have tons of missing images.

photobucket was annoying to use anyway, the ad's got insane on there.

I just deleted all my album and moved to Flickr.

I have a copy of everything on my PC, I simply just deleted everything from photobucket. I downloaded some pictures that I'm not 100% sure I have them on my PC, you can go to the album and download the whole thing, 50k pictures might take awhile tho :)

sad 6 yrs later and the car is still the same

What's even sadder is that 6 years later your car is going backwards. At least I'm staying the same.

car got an LS Swap in it.. still doesn't run....

yeah man I got that LS Juan swap in it. don't run, but makes a great dorritos taco loco!

Car is still alive with it's 13b unlike moreboner with his LS all the things swaps. and hoping to make its once a year appearance at 7's day.

still doesn't run

car was started on sunday! so whachutakinboutwillis!

go home fiz-e, you are drunk..

Took the FD out the other weekend for some gas, get her freshened up for 7's day in NYC... still love how good these cars look!

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well you know... had a good photographer taking the photo!!!
And yeah just like that photobucket works - for now at least. lol. I still see they have the payment options for the upgraded plans, lets see how long it stays working.