Then I mounted up the pass side Feed skirt, it's carbon fiber. Didn't fool with the drivers side since I'd have to pull it off anyway to get the fender painted up these week anyway.

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Last thing I fooled with was mounting the SBG HID's in.

Thats all for tonight, Happy Monday tomorrow..

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fantastic turn around. Car is looking amazing now.

 

very nice update.

do you know the part # for that elbow rest/storage piece?

 

Oh my God. I have been reading this thread for over an hour now. Very beautiful build. Excited for when you get this beauty on the road.

 

Got to say, I absolutely love this interior, Austin's work looks amazing .

You'll love the Sakebomb lights, the output is excellent.

 

Hey Jacob, No idea on that part #, I grabbed the piece off yahoo auctions japan.



Thanks for the continued interest in the thread guys. it's been a lot of fun as you all know.

 

+18 is not going to fit a stock fender.

 

With every update, I hate you a little more.

It's mostly jealous rage, but your car is turning out FAPTASTIC.

Vince

 

Loving those SBG HIDs

 

Thanks Brent, hit me up tomorrow if you want to get involved in painting the fender.


Well, a few things to mention. Selling off all my parts to help raise a little funds. I'm going to swallow a big pill and buy the Greddy V mount for stock twins. Looking right at $3000 for this. Exactly what I paid for the entire car if you can believe that!


So I have a Greddy 2 row front mount with a koyo rad for sale, also selling a full PFS IC and I take set up...



Lastly, I bought a pair of knightsports mirrors a few days ago. I thought thy match the rims and street diffuser pretty well. This car is starting to look like the bat mobile.

 

Well I got sick of looking at this fender so I went ahead and started on it tonight. I rolled the lip on the fender and then I got the most of the fill work done. I sprayed a few coats of primer on it before walking away from it. I'll finish that and seal it out tomorrow. Might not get the clear on it until this weekend.
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Just in case anyone needs one, You can still get new OEM hood cables from Malloy for around $25.
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And I went ahead and installed the two gauges I am going to have. These are Autometer GS gauges. They are a dead match on the JDM OEM green interior lights. I have these in my Jeep and they are awesome.


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Couldn't agree with this more!

I picked up a hood latch cable the other day too. Heck of a deal. I'm thinking of picking up a new throttle cable as well. Both of mine were pretty chewed up.

BTW, how did you attach your CF sides under the car?

 

They bolt on to the bottom.

 

Have a pic by chance? I was interested on installation as well.

Thanks,
Nick

 

Did you get them from shine auto? The last set I bought from them I had to use self tapping screws and I was just wondering how you did it cuz I don't really like drilling my car.

 

No these are actual Feed skirts. I got them off Fritz last year.
They have holes for stock locations.

 

I got the base color laid on the fender this past Friday. My catalyst for the clear coat is old though since i bought it last summer and I don't trust it. That being the case I had to order some on Friday since I can't find this stuff locally. The fender looks great but I am waiting on supplies to get the clear on it.

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So then I switched gears and jumped on the long block. I went ahead and stripped it down. I sold the 93 turbos off of it and shipped them out Friday. I am replacing every coolant line on the block, the engine harness, vacuum hose tie-wrap and maybe remove a few items such as the OMP, AWS, Double throttle etc... The oil pan needs to come off and be resealed also. It's leaking.

I'm not exactly sure on my plans for this yet to be completely honest. It's been over 11 years since I have had a twin turbo set up on an RX7 so I have forgot some of the bits on the manifold and I need to read up on and re-fresh my memory. My old car was bare bones. I removed everything non-essential off the manifolds. This time I want the car to run and idle as close to stock as possible.

Anyway, doing the tie-wrap job brought back some old school memories.

Behold this mess...
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The vacuum lines were pretty much petrified.

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The engine hardness, Oh excuse me I mean harness is going out the window as well. A brand new one is $800 at Malloy. I'll be calling in that order on Monday. I have two older ones for sale if anyone needs a spare.



Okay so 30 min or so and one Red Bull later...

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Then I broke open a can of old school 2002 and did a tie wrap job on the rats nest. I had a spare from my old car which made this go really fast when I had a reference. Cleaned off all the grime on the solenoids and the rack. Resprayed the rack too.

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Bolted up the ACT HD/Street too.
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ok you're gonna have to use a little less color saturation on those pics

 

tell me your getting the irons and housings color matched black and blue.

 

Looks good on the close up of the fender no? That's the only pic I used a filter on. It was saved from Instagram. The other pics are all standard iPhone.

 

Maybe some black on the irons but I wouldn't paint the housings. I painted an engine once and it didn't hold up, might have not used the right paint.