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Old Oct 9, 2018 | 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 Oct 9, 2018 | 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 Oct 9, 2018 | 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 Oct 16, 2018 | 07:47 PM
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Clean, I'm liking that zinc plating
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Old Oct 18, 2018 | 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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Old Nov 28, 2018 | 07:06 PM
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Almost ready to fire this thing up!

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Old Mar 24, 2019 | 09:47 AM
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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 Mar 24, 2019 | 12:47 PM
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Awesome job. Loving the stock build.
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Old Mar 29, 2019 | 04:32 PM
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Congrats on the build, very impressive as its your first build on rotary!
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Old Apr 9, 2019 | 08:36 AM
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This is going to make driving much more comfortable!
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Old Apr 26, 2019 | 04:16 PM
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Some parts back from paint!
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Old Apr 26, 2019 | 09:20 PM
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What radiator did you use, and how did it fit?
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Old Apr 26, 2019 | 09:27 PM
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Looking good. Congrats.
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Old Apr 27, 2019 | 07:58 AM
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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 May 5, 2019 | 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 May 5, 2019 | 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 May 5, 2019 | 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 May 14, 2019 | 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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Old Jun 7, 2019 | 07:59 PM
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New drivers side window switch fixed my passenger window issue.

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Old Jun 28, 2019 | 01:05 PM
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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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Old Jun 28, 2019 | 01:24 PM
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Old Sep 25, 2019 | 04:18 PM
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Finally did something new!




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Old Sep 25, 2019 | 04:19 PM
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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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Old Feb 21, 2020 | 12:07 PM
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So much nicer than the 26 year old one that it replaced!!!


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Old Mar 8, 2020 | 05:22 PM
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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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