Garage door rails will need to get raised close to the ceiling, you will want to convert your door to a bar and spring and get a jack shaft style opener.
Expect $1500+\- on that. the lift is about $2700 shipped for the basic set up. If you get the sliding jack it’s another $800 plus any other accessories you want.
I did the garage set up at the same time I had a laundry room done on the second floor so we could move the laundry upstairs (it was in the garage on a slab).
I had concrete work that had to be demo’d As well so my expenses reached somewhere around $10k-12k for the upgrades I did.
You can go as far as you want doing a project like this. Epoxy floor, painted walls, upgraded LED lighting, extra outlets put on ceiling etc. drain tile in floor so you can wash them inside in winter... some of my friends have done some of these types of things.
I never want to work on a car laying on a concrete floor again after getting the lift. Do it, you won’t ever regret it. Everyone I know that had any reservations about it look back and are glad they did it.

Mike

I would do it again without hesitation.

Thanks Ihor. I am looking forward to getting it tuned and back on the road for the summer. May have you make some AC lines for it if you want that type of work. So it can get tuned with the AC running. I will text you because you probably aren’t reading this.

Thanks, it’s the Len Bacon oil pan.

I am using the Addicted exhaust manifold because they told me it would fit with the Xcessive lower intake manifold and the FFE idler.
Well it’s not even close to fitting the lower. I got tthink grind off a few hundred dollars worth of ceramic coating and really enjoyed grinding on my new $1800 turbo as well as the lower... still won’t fit.
Now I get to take my ceramic coated exhaust manifold of and have my local welder cut, grind and modify it to actually work.

So so far every possible thing Addicted could screw up they have screwed up. Not to mention they didn’t send more than half the kit and whined about providing a midpipe as compensation. Oh and what they did send took them 5 months... i had heard positive things about that shop but they couldn’t live up to the hype. I way overpaid for what I got from them.
keep it in mind if you decide to do business with them. They are a hot mess with their customer service.

Now i I get to pay to have everything ceramic coated twice because thier manifold didn’t actually fit.

Oops, contact with lower


Grinding isn’t helping


There goes hundreds in ceramic coating. Thanks Addicted


See flange under turbo. It’s way off. Lots of grinding. Wasn’t enough.


Isn’t going to
Pics of carnage

Between turbo hot side and lower intake manifold


Carved out enough lower to barely fit. Going to re ceramic coat after tuning session. Wish I had time to send it all back out.
After more grinding.... I see daylight.

Elite 2.0 on left


Elite 2.0 oil return from turbo to engine block on front iron.


Elite 2.0 oil return


Elite 2.0. Front cover bolts. Long ones were not quite long enough. Short ones were perfect. Freebie T-short from Sam at Elite
Making oil return line. Highly recommend the Elite 2.0 oil drain fitting for the engine block. Makes threading on the return line much easier. It clears the Oil metering pump.

-10AN Oil Return lone from Turbo to block. DEI Fire Sleeve for Protection. Put the sleeve on BEFORE you add the AN fittings.
Yeah it’s a pain. Made an oil return line. DEI firesleeve to protect it.

Haltech Elite 2500 plug and play for the 93-95 FD.
Meanwhile I decided to do this.. The Tech hooked me up. Haltech Elite 2500

I ran it by some friends and grinding seemed to be the way. Adding extra gaskets invite exhaust leaks. There was some talk of having a spacer flange made and run a gasket on either side. There are a lot of scenarios that take weeks to get made by a machine shop... its summer and it’s time to get the car off the lift. These will end up “forever projects” if you don’t move the ball forward.
There will be a more permanent solution at some point, probably during the winter when I prefer sorting things like this out.

We we also talked about machining down the lower intake where it meets the motor pulling it further away from the turbo. (Probably the best idea from Jehan) so maybe we will end up doing that.
All these things hamstring getting the car running and tuned so for the sake of saving weeks or even months the grinder made it happen.

It just came out for th 93-95 cars so I snatched one up.

GoodfellaFD3S came down with a Midpipe and a coolant sensor I was missing. Unfortunately the Downpipe is about 2 inches short.

Short DP
GoodfellaFD3S came down with a Midpipe and a coolant sensor I was missing. Unfortunately the Downpipe is about 2 inches short.

What the heck?! And why is it at a wrong angle also??

Mazdaspeed shifter. Don’t worry I put the boot on before I finished...


Buttoned up
Fourtyounce will arrive Saturday with his welder and will make a new midpipe to work for the time being.
meanwhile the show must go on.
picked up a Mazdaspeed shifter from Japan and rebuilt it with new bushings and boot.

Isn’t much of a video but it’s my new Mazdaspeed shifter and so far I like it in theory. Once I bleed the clutch and brakes I will play racecar driver and see.

Engine bay
Pic of some slight progress. Added some fluid to the trans. All my oil and coolant lines are made and installed. Ready for more accessories to get installed today after work.