duck91

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Forgot to attach the last photo.

duck91

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Made some more progress on the rewire. Got almost all of the engine harness wrapped in dr-25.


I will be using a Blue Sea Systems fuse box and negative bus located in the old cruise control location.

4g63rotary

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I second this! I've found myself doing more on this car than I ever figured I would. I guess being able to do it yourself or at least learning to is half the battle.

Great work!

duck91

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For me thats most of the fun. I don't even see how you can enjoy the full potential of a built RX7. I understand tracking it, but I prefer to go drive a race kart over a tin top on a track. Primarily the joy is the sense of accomplishment of doing something yourself. I am having way more fun building the car this time around. I am taking my time to learn something new, pulling things apart if I think they can be re-done better.

Anyways here is the latest skill to be learned from Instagram... Service loops on the wiring harness.

duck91

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And Engine Harness finished and secured. Only thing left to do is add a few labels since I ran out of ribbon tape with 2 wires to go.

04G35S

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Wow that is a CLEAN harness! I need someone to do this to my engine and body harness too!

duck91

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Thanks. It just took months of procrastinating and starring at the thing to come up with an efficient route. I'm glad it turned out the way it did though.

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Mini update,
Christmas vacation, a flood and a wedding got squeezed in front of the RX7. All part of being married I guess. Got a pretty good stash of gift cards and cash for Christmas that was to be applied to the project, will likely end up going towards a crib and diapers instead. With a baby on the way I need to have the rx7 done before time is spent changing diapers, I should be on track.

Yesterday my friend Gabe and I made a plan to do the body harness from scratch. I had the wire tuck close to complete, but he figured a new configuration with minimal weight and a few goodies from his work is the way to go.
I also got the downpipe cut down a bi. The shop that originally made it stepped it down to match the factory cat. I had it on there while I was waiting for the resonator pipe so the could match it up. My friends at Fikse Wheels helped me out with a little bit of TIG action. I cut the proper angle on the SS straight pipe so it's back to get a flange. Lastly I cleaned up around the shop. We had a lot of old show home furniture stacked up that we have been slowly stealing or giving away. The remaining pieces is now in the trailer and really for a new home.


So much room for activities!

duck91

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Hey everyone,
I thought it may be a good time to be back posting my build. It was glacially slow with my car being no where near where I live. I am now in a house with a garage and back in business when I put the kid and wife to bed.
In the last month I have sorted out a lot of the wiring in the car getting the body harness cleaned up and the relays and fuse panels moved over. I need to either make a aluminum panel box for the relays or more likely get a micro relay box from Hela, for now it is mounted to a very fashionable yellow modded karting number panel.


I did a bit of stereo work installed a new boost gauge and the AEM AFR gauge.
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My friend Gabe came over this weekend to install a Compustar system he robbed from his shop for my birthday. The Compustar comes complete with turbo timer and auto start as well to kill 2 birds with 1 stone.

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