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Went to Anaheim C&C. Met some nice people and saw some cool rides.
Finished the RC car. It was cool to try and paint it. Had all the normal rookie painter issues. I still like it though; it's got character. Overall cool experience. Kyosho makes a high quality kit. I don't think it's quite as fast as our traxxas bigfoot. Might try a hotter battery, but it would be a shame to tear it up. These old kits are more fragile than modern stuff. Would like to build more for the family, so we can squad. Totally get how people get immersed in this hobby.
Wow so cool. I hope I get a chance to see this RX7 Wagon in person sometime. I wonder how it would look with a GT wing. Would it even work. Someone photoshopped that. Lol.
Wow so cool. I hope I get a chance to see this RX7 Wagon in person sometime. I wonder how it would look with a GT wing. Would it even work. Someone photoshopped that. Lol.
Thanks! I've seen someone try it with the GT Wing. It would have to be really tall to sit above the hatch. I can't wrap my mind around it. Then again, the hatch is already pretty strange.
I was looking backwards through wagon content and realized I never shared that I found the original ads after ordering a few old GReddy/Trust catalogues.
I picked up another bumper. Going to pull some molds and do some fiberglass repair some time this century. I've got a nice pair of lenses between, and all the other fiddly bits.
I see you got the one from YAJ that was up a month or so ago. I was wondering where that would pop up. I was watching that auction closely to see current values on the bumpers. Still toying with the idea of selling my genuine one. It's in about the same type of shape that one was in.
Busy restoring these things. Recreating bracket, resourcing hardware and lost parts. Pretty much all the way there except for paint and fiber work.
And, it's rebuild o'clock over here. Pretty positive I've broken a coolant seal.
Trying to figure out what to do. A big single or a short crank pport 20b.
The turbo would make more power, but the weird car deserves a weird motor and it seems like a cool challenge.
But, the 20b route would probably shut me down for a whole year for budget and fab work. And, maybe bankrupt me.
What you guys think?
Regarding approach on rebuild, you have a really cool car to just put back together and drive. I like what I'm tinkering around with but sometimes doing a unionize project takes a lot longer than planned if any other life situations pop up (kids, house remodel, etc) and take you from being a year down without a car to 5. It all comes down to priorities though, so it is something you can control most of.
If it was me, I'd do a simple rebuild, and if you are hooked on a 20b, get everything build and ready to go, then take your car down and install it. That really minimizes downtime.
Thanks, guys. Just taking a break to think it through and work on other stuff. Need to sell a couple of these A-Spec bumpers to clear out some budget, and I'd like to restore them before selling. I tried calling some body shops, but I'm leaning towards doing the fiberglass myself. Also, A good chance to do all the suspension bushings (and probably brakes and coilovers) and get my cluster (flakey tach) fixed, while the car is shut down.
Had the under tray brackets reproduced in stainless steel, and waiting on some CAD of the other brackets before getting them fabbed up. A couple shots of the GReddy strut bar while I was messing around. Need some more titanium hardware for the front struts (they look ugly now) and some m4 screws to mount the parcel tray clips to the rear bar.
Get the GReddy rear bar on. I like the it because it keeps the stock parcel tray clips.
If I ever find the perfect MS rear bar, I might swap to those. But, whoever stamped those things with the part numbers on the MS tag was drunk.
No real updates for now. I had ordered some shifter parts a long time ago, but Nengun eventually had to refund credit since Ikeya won't make a new run. So I spent the credits on the FEED luggage box, which I always thought was super cool. I cut a replacement trunk carpet to fit around it. It's pretty OK for now. Need some clips or to cut holes in the carpet for the luggage strap. It's clipped into the plastic underneath for now.
06-14-23, 09:13 PM
