Hello Meneer.

Yip I have posted in the For sale section!

 

Lol

I see you know some south african lingo hey

Yeah put proper clutch one time dont wanna be dropping gearboxes in a month time when the clutch is slipping so bought a boykie of a clutch now!

Yeah but the guy said he can save the housing atleast

 

Haha ja. Not a wide range, just the essentials I imagine.

Pending finances I may have to actually think about that PFC you're selling. Are the post office workers still striking/ burning the mail?

 

Post office is not on strike anymore , I received my last outstanding parcels on Thursday . Post is flowing normal again

 

I purchased a BEE*R power building beginning of November and still no update on it since it left the Miami USPS branch or whatever.

A mate of mine got post on this weekend from July last year so there is still a massive backlog.

@7speed will reply to your PM now bud

 

Done a bit of work this morning in preparation to spray the engine bay.

Took off the radiator, intercooler and oil coolers to give them a good clean and get them out the way dont want any overspray on my shiney bits

Bumper and headlights off



Oil coolers, intercooler and radiator removed



Koyo Radiator, Greddy intercooler and dual oil coolers pic before cleaning



Gonna strip one of the wheels tomorrow to see if I can get the dish anodized as Im changing the colour of the wheels
Bolts will get sent in to get plated in gold
Next week must go buy paint for faces of the wheels, paint for engine bay, and paint for some body parts im making gloss black

The part im dreading most is scrubbing the bay give it a good clean then all the masking off must commence for the stuff I dont want paint on like the brake booster, brake lines, power steering goodies etc

 

Gonna give the bay a wash and sand and then will be ready for paint!

Got some engine bolts and nuts sandblasted and plated as well as the pulleys on the front of the engine

 

Gave the engine bay a good clean yesterday



In this pic below you can see the bay was only sort of half painted there are two different shades of yellow



Another pic you can see the red paint showing and the two different yellows



I Also split one of my wheels to take the lips in to get anodized :hurray: :hurray:

 

Today spent the morning sanding and spraying a few things

Sprayed a few parts silver this morning



Sprayed the bellhousing silver too



Sending the bottom piece of the engine bay by the chassis legs





My toppie Masking off places as we are spraying the lower portion of the bay black where you cant see much









And after spraying the black on the bottom half

 

Looking good dude!!!

 

Thanks James

Only update for now:

Test rim is back from Anodizing looks

 

So update time again

Engine bay got taped up in preperation for some paint



All sprayed



Masking tape and newspaper taken off



Yellow came out nicely.. The colour match is good and shines so nicely

Next were the wheels.

As you can see I got one of the wheels anodized to see how it would come out. If you look closely you can see where the anodising didnt stick to the welding where the wheel got repaired.
Only way of fixing this was to get a paint colour matched to the anodized colour.

Got the paint matched and collected the paint yesterday.
I will just be painting the outer edge of the lips with the paint and a gloss clear over it!

Here you can see where the anodising didnt stick to the wheel



I was going to go with this colour on my wheels



However Neeresh said it wouldnt work so leka with the anodizing so I am going with this colour now



Will start spraying the wheels and send them all in for anodizing next week hope they come out lekker
Picked up a fong kong original Nardi wheel till I can get an Original one.



Also ordered a Speedhunters Takata tow strap for my car as well as some Speedhunters stickers and an Air freshener



Went to check up on the engine this week. It is ready for assembly and should collect it next week

Some pics

Ported leka as well as a half bridge port was done.





Also found a Microtech Engine Management system for a steal so will be collecting that this weekend.

Thats all for now guys

 

Looks good, did you spray can the engine bay?

 

No man we used a spray gun and compressor at home

 

Looks nice , glad you went with yellow in the engine bay instead of black can't wait to hear your car

 

Hi Markus,


Believe me i cant wait either!! Got engine front cover alternator and few other things back from sandblasting and all other nuts and bolts that got plated so assembly will commence this week Gonna pick up a Microtech ECU today as well

 

Hi guys long time

Rims got finished





Sprayed manifold

 

Engine and transmission mated ready to go back in the car



Engine back in



Intake on



Cooler pipes and odds and ends



Car back on the ground

 

All together



Before engine bay pic

 

Rear shot



Side view



Odds and ends sprayed black on bumper

 

Went on a 300km roundtrip for breakfast on Sunday with a few other rotaries



Rx8 has a 13b cosmo motor with gt42 turbo



Will upload more pics

 

Car has come together nicely bud, are you still going to do the rear diffuser?

 

Yeah man I'm gonna. First jus want to tune it in 500km. Might take out the microtech and put in Adaptronic plug and play.

 

I for one think that's a fantastic idea.

-M

 

Is this Warren by chance?