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Old 10-09-18, 03:20 PM
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Great to see the progress and cutting straight to the guts of it. It will be worth it to have the peace of mind.
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Old 10-09-18, 03:23 PM
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Nice.

Who did the zync plating and where are the fuse box that are normally on the driver side?
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Old 10-09-18, 05:17 PM
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Super clean build so far! I just did the same with my OEM wheels as well. Love the updates!
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Old 10-16-18, 07:47 PM
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Clean, I'm liking that zinc plating
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Old 10-18-18, 07:07 PM
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I had a local plating company here in Indianapolis do it. As for the fuse box/starter harness, I took the bracket out so I could paint it and installed it after I took the pictures.
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Almost ready to fire this thing up!

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Pretty proud of myself, fired up on the first try. Ran into one problem when we found an oil leak, turned out one of the oil cooler lines wasn’t fully seated. This was my first time rebuilding a rotary, so time will tell how good the rebuild really is.
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Old 03-24-19, 12:47 PM
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Awesome job. Loving the stock build.
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Old 03-29-19, 04:32 PM
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Congrats on the build, very impressive as its your first build on rotary!
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This is going to make driving much more comfortable!
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Some parts back from paint!
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What radiator did you use, and how did it fit?
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Looking good. Congrats.
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Old 04-27-19, 07:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Narfle
What radiator did you use, and how did it fit?
I used a Koyo and modified the brackets to make it fit.

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Looking good. Congrats.
Thank you!
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Old 05-05-19, 06:30 PM
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So I finally got it running and driving!!! It was 100% stock prior to the rebuild. I removed the OMP and I am now pre-mixing with 1oz of idemitsu per gallon. Is it normal for smoke to come out of the exhaust after turning the car off for a few minutes?
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Old 05-05-19, 07:15 PM
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Not really. Are you running catalytic converters? They don't fare well with premix.
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Old 05-05-19, 08:24 PM
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The first cat (pre-cat) is gone, but I’m still running the stock main cat.
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Old 05-14-19, 07:24 PM
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Still needs a paint job, but she’s running strong and is a solid ten footer!
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New drivers side window switch fixed my passenger window issue.

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Is this car on the Northside? I feel like I recently saw it driving around 146th.
Im just about able to drive mine and its also red so I thought I was dreaming for a second when I saw it haha
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Finally did something new!




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Originally Posted by lowlow4g64t
Is this car on the Northside? I feel like I recently saw it driving around 146th.
Im just about able to drive mine and its also red so I thought I was dreaming for a second when I saw it haha
Sorry, I don’t get on here much. I live in the south side, I know of another red one and I’m pretty sure he’s from the north side.
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So much nicer than the 26 year old one that it replaced!!!


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Dropped the subframe to fix a oil leak and replace the bushings while I have it all apart. Also threw in the twin power mount I bought from code red performance on Facebook.





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