Pimp my Ride: The Batmobile Edition
10-25-12, 09:07 AM
#126
So, how about a good old fashioned rotary "barn raising" event, or getting a group of knowledgable rotary guys in the NE to go over to Davin's and get that puppy back together?
The guy's been screwed left and right and could really use the help to push the build over the top. Having been there with the screwed part, I know how he feels. There has got to be some of you guys up his way that could contribute a day or two to getting his car back on the road.
The guy's been screwed left and right and could really use the help to push the build over the top. Having been there with the screwed part, I know how he feels. There has got to be some of you guys up his way that could contribute a day or two to getting his car back on the road.
10-26-12, 08:34 AM
#129
If things could not get any worse, it looks like I will be moving in a hurricane that is merging with a winter storm. And my engine is still not bolted to anything, so moving it far away would ruin the car even more. I appreciate all the people willing to help. I really appreciate it.
10-26-12, 09:44 AM
#130
Sorry to hear about all the troubles. I think I remember reading you're in the DC area? I'm up in Rockville, you're more than welcome to store your FD at my house until you get back on your feet. I can't offer a garage, but I have a personal driveway. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. 
10-26-12, 12:45 PM
#132
Sorry to hear about all the troubles. I think I remember reading you're in the DC area? I'm up in Rockville, you're more than welcome to store your FD at my house until you get back on your feet. I can't offer a garage, but I have a personal driveway. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.
10-26-12, 01:00 PM
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I feel you bro, the county keeps showing up at my house trying to tow my car to the scrap yard (obscure county laws says if car doesnt move for 30 days it goes to the crusher). my next door neighbor keeps calling the cops on it, so I know how you feel.
Anyway, where are you located? If you are close by I can swing over and give you a hand in any way you need. I know exactly how nice it is to get extra help as I built my car pretty much completely alone.
Remember we are all here for ya.
Anyway, where are you located? If you are close by I can swing over and give you a hand in any way you need. I know exactly how nice it is to get extra help as I built my car pretty much completely alone.
Remember we are all here for ya.
11-11-12, 06:53 PM
#137
So with the storm: I rented a Ford F150 to get my engine from the garage to bring it to my new place safely and to move everything else. It turned out a lot of my friends needed help to evacuate and the F150 with the new Ecoboost engine was perfect. I went as far as NYC to help them all out and was the craziest workout I've ever done. It was pretty nuts and we had a small window of opportunity to do everything before **** really hit the fan. It felt like I ran a marathon moving all kinds of stuff from the basement from one house to another. The next day, I could not even move.
11-12-12, 08:59 AM
#140
Yep.
12-01-12, 07:20 PM
#143
I've been trying to mate this ******* piece of ******* **** ******* engine with a shitty ******* rebuild to the ******* transmission without ******* up the ******* pilot ******* bearing in the freezing ******* cold in DC. Every time I come back to this ******* car after taking a breather, I get stressed the **** out with the little free ******* time I ******* have to unfuck someone else's **** up that I worked my ******* *** off to pay to ******* fix for the second time.
12-01-12, 07:33 PM
#144
Hey man, I just wanted to come in here and wish you luck, let you know another set of eyes are upon you hoping the best for you. Personal troubles are never easy to pass empathy over to another person... Just makes you want to tell others to "**** off"
I wish I could offer help somehow. I'm stuck down in Texas.
If it makes you feel better, ***** kinda hitting the fan for me in a total shitstorm of the last few weeks, with major bills coming up in a week... AAAaannnd I came home last night WAY too late to find out someone fell though my ceiling. On my bed. **** everywhere. literally. Looks like roach ****.
I said **** it and slept in the dining room..
(GOOD LUCK MAN! keeping prayers for you to get through this and still have your cake.)
I wish I could offer help somehow. I'm stuck down in Texas.
If it makes you feel better, ***** kinda hitting the fan for me in a total shitstorm of the last few weeks, with major bills coming up in a week... AAAaannnd I came home last night WAY too late to find out someone fell though my ceiling. On my bed. **** everywhere. literally. Looks like roach ****.
I said **** it and slept in the dining room..
(GOOD LUCK MAN! keeping prayers for you to get through this and still have your cake.)
12-03-12, 12:00 AM
#146
You have a lot of cool **** going on in this thread, be proud of what work you have done already. I mean, **** I don't know you butd after looking at your what you have in front of you I'm proud of you. This stuff isn't easy to do on your own, not having a nice furnished garage makes it even more difficult.
My advice-
The angle you have the hoist leverer is too much to the side, diagonal is going to make you fight alot more lining it up and also will make the tilt/level feature very hard to use.
Straighten the engine level holding the motor if you can and try to get it more in line with the car, not saying its perfect, I attached the hoist to the hole for the water pump fastener combined with the one your already using on the front iron. Your water pump is not stock so if that location doesn't help think about fabricating a simple little bracket you could bolt to the front cover which would allow you to lift the motor aligned from center.
Use a floor jack and tilt the transmission up fairly high on the firewall, keep gravity on your side when your mating motor/Bhouse
I found that mating the bellhouse and the block before setting it on the mounts is simpler task compared to vice versa.
Were here to help
all of us wanna hear you're out enjoing and driving a bad *** seven
My advice-
The angle you have the hoist leverer is too much to the side, diagonal is going to make you fight alot more lining it up and also will make the tilt/level feature very hard to use.
Straighten the engine level holding the motor if you can and try to get it more in line with the car, not saying its perfect, I attached the hoist to the hole for the water pump fastener combined with the one your already using on the front iron. Your water pump is not stock so if that location doesn't help think about fabricating a simple little bracket you could bolt to the front cover which would allow you to lift the motor aligned from center.
Use a floor jack and tilt the transmission up fairly high on the firewall, keep gravity on your side when your mating motor/Bhouse
I found that mating the bellhouse and the block before setting it on the mounts is simpler task compared to vice versa.
Were here to help
all of us wanna hear you're out enjoing and driving a bad *** seven
12-09-12, 07:18 AM
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^^notveryhappyjack speaks troof! I feel you tho man. It can be very frustrating dealing with builds sometimes, especially when trying to juggle a build and other things in life. Good music on a iPod will help while working on it, instead of thinking in a rage. at least i know it helps me! build is coming along nice tho. don't let it get to you, things look good! Best of luck!
02-22-13, 06:23 PM
#148
Small dowel pin land vs. new large dowel pin land 20B center iron comparison
Billet 4130 hardened improved longer tooth design tip relief 20B stationary gears
SataJet HVLP 3000 digital spray gun w/ PPS and Wankel-powered air compressor I'm building from an Ogura OW135 Wankel compressor pump, Baldor electric motor and Manchester epoxy interior-lined tank for composite stuff. Also Advan RZ 18x10 all around.
Coming soon is titanium rotors w/ spaded apex seals, billet 4130 e-shaft without lobes & reverse nuts to prevent walk-away, inconel 625 turbo manifold & Motec PDM/LTC/DHB.
Billet 4130 hardened improved longer tooth design tip relief 20B stationary gears
SataJet HVLP 3000 digital spray gun w/ PPS and Wankel-powered air compressor I'm building from an Ogura OW135 Wankel compressor pump, Baldor electric motor and Manchester epoxy interior-lined tank for composite stuff. Also Advan RZ 18x10 all around.
Coming soon is titanium rotors w/ spaded apex seals, billet 4130 e-shaft without lobes & reverse nuts to prevent walk-away, inconel 625 turbo manifold & Motec PDM/LTC/DHB.
02-24-13, 11:22 PM
#150
I guess maybe you can throw in there that I'm a dishwasher on minimum wage with a two inch ***** and enjoys enemas every weekend 
But keep in mind I pulled my engine in an open and unstable parking structure with a 20 degree incline at 2am to be undetected by my landlord. I also had to tie a rope around the engine hoist and secured it to a post as well. One time of which, if I was under the car 10 seconds longer popping the thrust bearing from the clutch, I would have been crushed to death since it slide off the jack stands when a car went by and punching a hole through the car. Mind you, I have very little free time on my hands and do not have the space to do what needed to be done, hence why I took my car to get a rebuild.
As chronicled earlier in my posts, there was no positive crankcase ventilation installed in the engine after the rebuild I had on earlier which resulted in my rear main seal blowing out the stationary gear. So that was fixed along with the oil pan not properly sealed and some other stuff. And reinstalling the engine was a bitch because you cannot just shove it in like you normally would, have it potentially come off the jackstands yet again, roll down the parking structure and fall three stories into the busy street. Ideally I was hoping to have a running car so I can take it to military bases to work on. The car does run and drive fine, but there are a lot of kinks that need to be worked out and I do not trust the car anymore to take it to a place to work on it myself. And I'm not taking it anywhere where people can happily make more money off of me. So yes, I'm going to eventually build this 20B so I will have a car I will eventually get to enjoy sometime in this lifetime. But in the meantime, it looks like I have a car that is going to sit yet again for a number of years
But keep in mind I pulled my engine in an open and unstable parking structure with a 20 degree incline at 2am to be undetected by my landlord. I also had to tie a rope around the engine hoist and secured it to a post as well. One time of which, if I was under the car 10 seconds longer popping the thrust bearing from the clutch, I would have been crushed to death since it slide off the jack stands when a car went by and punching a hole through the car. Mind you, I have very little free time on my hands and do not have the space to do what needed to be done, hence why I took my car to get a rebuild.As chronicled earlier in my posts, there was no positive crankcase ventilation installed in the engine after the rebuild I had on earlier which resulted in my rear main seal blowing out the stationary gear. So that was fixed along with the oil pan not properly sealed and some other stuff. And reinstalling the engine was a bitch because you cannot just shove it in like you normally would, have it potentially come off the jackstands yet again, roll down the parking structure and fall three stories into the busy street. Ideally I was hoping to have a running car so I can take it to military bases to work on. The car does run and drive fine, but there are a lot of kinks that need to be worked out and I do not trust the car anymore to take it to a place to work on it myself. And I'm not taking it anywhere where people can happily make more money off of me. So yes, I'm going to eventually build this 20B so I will have a car I will eventually get to enjoy sometime in this lifetime. But in the meantime, it looks like I have a car that is going to sit yet again for a number of years