I made my transmission mount finally, went to install it and realized I don't have any bolts long enough to go through it, time to go to autozone.
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Here is the mount, just a simple square tube 3/4 inch thick, and i drilled holes in the crossmember to match the holes in the transmission, i just have to get 2 longer bolts to go through everything, then i can bolt up the driveshaft


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I also put the headlights and the front nose panel back on so i can start mounting the vmount


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Here is a picture of the vmount setup

After i get this done, I can start figuring out where I'm going to mount the coils and everything else, and start on the wiring:icon_tup:

To hell with auto zone. Lowes or home depot have a MUCH larger selection and the price is less.

I know they are a lot cheaper, but there is a autozone right around the corner from my house.
Today on my lunch break, i got longer bolts for the transmission mount and installed it.
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Here it is installed, it was really easy to make


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This shows the difference in where the bolt holesare situated, just had to ream both holes outward a little bit

Nice and simple. I like it!

I haven't had much time to work on the car because of the holidays. I had a little bit of time over the weekend. I was able to finish bolting up the tranny, and got the driveshaft mounted
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Heres a picture of the driveshaft mounted


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I also started figuring out the vmount setup. I figured out how it gets mounted .all i have to do is make a few brackets, and it should bolt right up

The intercooler should sit right under the nose panel, and sit about 2 inches from the water pump pulley, after I get the brackets made, I'm going to see if I can get a little more room away from the water pump pulley

Got a little more work done tonight. I mounted the alternator, hooked up all of the turbo lines, installed the downpipe, welded on another o2 sensor bung after i cut the previous owner's messed up one off.also messed around with the wiring.

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Also this came today, mtxl wideband

Do you have the logger/meter? I love my LM-2. I get a 30second bar graph of my run. Makes me wonder how I tuned anything before I got it.


Looking good so far. :icon_tup:

The last time I worked on the car, i noticed that the clutch master cylinder was leaking, so I ordered a new one, it came today. So after work I put that in , man that top nut is a pain in the ass!.also put the new slave cylinder and braided hose on.I also finished up the turbo, I put the wastegate actuator on, I should have done that before I put the engine in.I also put the s4 turbo2 throttle cable in, I'm not sure if I have it routed right?

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If you look closely you can see how i have the cable routed, it goes behind the alternator


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And out on top of the turbo, and up and around the intake manifold and then bolted to the bracket, and then the throttle body. Can someone please tell me if this is how it is supposed to be routed.


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Heres a picture of how bad the clutch master cylinder was leaking, anybody know what I can use to clean the inside of the firewall where it was leaking


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Here's a pic of the whole new clutch hydraulic system installed

I have a long weekend coming up so hopefully I can get a lot more work done to it:nod:

Nice work! I can't comment on the routing of your cables, but for cleaning up the fluid from the clutch master trust your instincts. Any kind of brake cleaner will prolly affect the paint, so maybe simple green or purple power?

BTW, my brake master looked a lot like that as I'm sure most do. I tore it completely apart and wire wheeled it back when I was first starting out. Not sure if I'll rebuild or replace (prolly replace).

Keep going! You must have a warm garage!

Water can clean off brake fluid and won't take off paint, unless it was softened by brake fluid already. Might be safer than brake cleaner?

Keep going! You must have a warm garage![/QUOTE]

Thanks, I work in a body shop, and I keep it in there, thats why it is covered in body dust. wouldn't say it's very warm, but it definitely is warmer than outside, thanks for the tips for cleaning up the brake fluid wood mv and Jeff20B.I have off today and the rest of the weekend so I'm gonna try to get a good amount of work done to the car

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This just came today, the correct battery harness, now I can concentrate on the wiring

Today I cleaned up the new battery harness I got, I also cleaned up the nasty fuel pump hanger
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This thing had about a half inch of crud on it when i first got it out of a car at the local u-pull-it, which was a few months ago, i cleaned all of the crap off of it when i got it, today when i got it out of my shed, it still stunk like bad gas, i wanted to gag.


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Here it is all cleaned up with a walbro fuel pump installed, and the fuel level sending unit removed. Im going to use the fb sending unit, since the car came with a brand new one in the storage bins

Does anyone know what size fuel lines I need to run, or will I be alright with the stock lines for now

Stock EFI is 8mm (5/16") send and return.

A mallory 4309 for a blow through Nikki wants 5/16" send and 3/8" return.

If you keep the stock 1/4" return, your car will run rich. Might want to flood easier etc.

I don't mean to bring this too far back from the dead, but what all did you do for your gauge cluster to transmission speedo gearing? Did they fit directly? Swap a different cable? Have you driven the car yet to see if it's somewhat accurate?

It is the factory 85 gsl cable, it fit directly in, I'm not done yet to see how accurate it is, I'm hoping to have it running soon, I really don't have too much more to go to get it running

Got some more work done on the car, I hooked the heater hoses back up, I had to plug up the one end of the metal tube that runs down the passenger side frame rail due to the s4 engine not having a beehive oil cooler. Also started switching over the fuel lines
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Does anyone know what this is, it is leaking. It is about 4-6 inches above the fuel filter. Will i be alright just bypassing it.the send line goes from the tank, through the filter, then pump, and through this piece, and then to the line that runs to the front of the car, i was just going to remove it since I will be running a lot more pressure, and its already leaking. I just want to make sure what is is and does before I do that

That is the "fuel cut valve" and it's purpose (as you might surmise from the title) is to cut off the fuel flow in the event the car rolls over. Has a ball in there that seats when the valve is upside down.

DivinDriver has a good pic of his sawed in half.

Thank you so much, I'll have to find another one

Hopefully it won't be a restriction in your fuel line when you're in boost.

That's what I was wondering, do you think I'll be alright with out it, also I have about half of a roll of 3/8 line left if you can use it

That ball thing is only useful with the stock fuel system. An aftermarket fuel pump isn't going to like it very much. And sure I could use some more 3/8" line. :)

I was worried that it wouldn't be able to handle the high pressure also, in the trash it goes, since it's leaking anyway, thanks

Possibly an "inline tip over valve"?

RCI Inline Fuel Cell Tip Valve

I'm interested as well...

I haven't had much time lately to work on the car because of work and bad weather. Today I routed the 3/8 fuel line, made some brackets for the vmount intercooler. Made a new front frame rail cross member because the original one is too big for the vmount to fit right.
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Made a vent tube out of a piece of brake line and drilled a hole in the fuel pump cover and Welded it in.


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Also these stainless steel braided brake hoses came today


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Alao got a hid headlight kit, amd this relay harness

Tomorrow I'm going to tack the new crossmember in so I can cut the old one out to mount the vmount setup

Finished running the new fuel line, ran a little short on the fuel injection hose, have to get more tomorrow, also started to mock up the v Mount.

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Heres where i got so far, only the top part of the radiator is bolted up, measured where the bottom has to be and how im going to mount it, and how to mount the intercooler and oil cooler

The intercooler is sitting too high in this picture, that was the only way I could have it sit there on its own so I could take measurements, going to home depot now to get met at to make the rest of the brackets that i need, also thinking about getting 2 small electric fans for the oil cooler

Erick, have you considered mounting the intercooler down in front of the rad? I guess I don't understand how you're mounting yours. This is how PercentSevenC and I mounted his, in front of the rad. (quick link so I don't clutter up your thread with pics) https://www.rx7club.com/nw-rx-7-foru.../#post11192106

Oh, a front mount, I was going to go with that, but when I pulled out my engine, I found that the radiator was trash, the whole bottom of the core was eaten away by corrosion.aND I already had 2 vmount set ups that i got in a parts deal.so for now, this is what I'm going with until I get another radiator.
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This is basically how it is going to fit, the rotary works kit that i was going to modify and use wouldn't work, i got all of the mounting brackets to work, but the radiator was way too big, i would have to cut a lot of my radiator support, and it still wouldn't work because it would hit the sway bar, this is actually the intercooler from the rotary works kit.if anyone has a fc that wants a vmount kit , let me know

I may play around with this some more to see if the radiator will fit in a normal mounting position, that way i can still use the factory ac condenser and not have to get one made:)

Ok, cool. I was going to ask if you still had AC. Sounds like you do. I do like the short charge pipes. That should work out well assuming the slanted rad gets enough airflow etc.

As for your boosted Nikki setup, I think the front mount idea can work fine. If/when I do an intercooler, it's getting a front mount because my rad is one of those tall 83-85 ones with a big 16" electric fan and the factory AC is long gone. I also have a beehive because the factory GSL-SE oil coolers are notoriously easy to leak at the threaded bungs. Mine went from a drip to an oil patch in only 75 miles. I had a nice beehive already stretched to fit a 13B. One afternoon, a couple of plastic Tee fittings from Napa, a little extra 5/8" hose. Done. Rock solid temps that runs cool, even with a turbo! In fact it runs a little too cool than I'd like in winter. :) I might have drilled a small hole in the thermostat where the jigglepin usually sits - don't recall.

Jeff: check out VW bug intercoolers... That's what I'm gonna do this summer. Single side and slips right in behind the bumper.


Erick: you're running a/c? Where are you gonna put the condenser?
The V-mount does look better than the ridiculous amounts of tubing required to front mount an intercooler.

Yeah, I'm running a/c, I'm not sure yet. I'm looking into getting one made, and mount it right on top of the radiator. I don't like having all of the tubing either

I decided to make a few changes with the fuel system.is replaced the factory pressure regulator, and factory fuel rails. I replaced them with rising rpm fuel rails,and aeromotive pressure regulator with gauge,also completely finished the fuel system and the tank is back in
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Here is a picture of the new rails installed


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How they look with the intake back on


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And here is a picture of the new regulator. While putting it back together, i noticed that some how one of the terminals on the intake temp sensor got broken off, so now I have to get another one

I'm also thinking of just making the intercooler a front mount with the factory radiator,I forgot that I had another radiator laying around that I can use,with the way I had it set up in a vmount ,there wasn't hardly any room to mount the afm or any thing else

Today I got the coils ,fuse box, radiator,condensor,intercooler mounted, I decided to go with a front mount intercooler for the time being.that way I can hook up the a/c until I can get some custom hoses made.the only problem I found with this,is where to mount the afm at. With it hooked up to the stock t.i.d ,it is in the way of the intercooler pipe.
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This is what i came up with to solve the afm mounting problem. I ordered some silicone adapters to move it to in between the radiator and fender apron. This is just to show the basic idea. It will be lower than this


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Here is how i mounted the intercooler. I liked rhe vmount set up better,bit im dying to drive my car ,and dont want to wait to get custom a/c hoses made


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Here is where i mounted the coils and fuse box


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Here is another view of how i mounted the intercooler

Finished mounting and plumbing my oil cooler and intercooler

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I also figured out a better way to mounty afm,without it being in the way of anything. It turns out that i couldn't use the stock t.i.d.,i just used a 45degree coupler coming off of the turbo inlet,and it pretty much fit right under the intercooler pipe.plus it looks a hell of a lot cleaner this way

Not too much more left to do before I can start it

What kinda battery are you running?

You're coming along.

I'm jealous of ur progress...

Not sure yet. But I just found out that I can't mount it in the stock location, I went to mount the battery tray,and it sits about every inches below the intercooler pipe. So I ordered some 2 gauge battery cable, and will be mounting it in one of the storage bins.

Craaazy, thanks for the compliment. It means a lot coming from people on here that I respect and admire,thanks everyone.
The car was getting to be a total mess and covered in about an inch of body dust from being in my work,is had to clean it.
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Nice and clean now,time to get it wired up


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I just got back from new York ,i picked this set of rims up from i guy there. Thanks roger,i think they look great on there


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I also got this in the mail the other day, im not sure whether or not if im going to run the fuel lines through it, im thinking no,because i dont want the gas running through something that is hot, if anyone has experience with one of these, please let me know

Made my harness for the alternator, oil pressure sender,coolant temp sender,wrapped it in braided sleeve,my phone was about to die so I couldn't take pictures, I'll take some tomorrow morning when I get to work. Should also get some more wiring done

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My battery cable came today,hopefully i can finish the wiring this weekend

How u did the harness

how is ur wiring coming along?

Hey Erick can u text me if u can don't know how to use this app 215 252 1320 manny

Sorry guys,I came down with a really bad kidney infection, I was basically in bed for the last 2 weeks and wasn't on here much and couldn't work on the car.I had a chance yesterday to work on the car,and I'm working on it now.

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I finally figured out what battery im going to use,i got an optima 680 ,a lot of people on here have good things to say about it,this thing is tiny,i could probably mount it in the radio opening if i wanted to


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Also ordered a big brake kit off of ebay.sellers name is hounderville. Very good quality, this is the only picture i took of it so gar,and i forgot it at home.i still have to get all of the fc brake parts to install it, but first im going to take measurements of everything in the kit .


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Got the ecu,knock control unit, atmosphere pressure sensor installed on the mounting bracket. Im going to use my rtek 1.8 until i get it running good and all of the bugs worked out. Then I'll switch to my rtek 2.1


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Got the harness ran through the firewall. I know it dont look pretty right now, but i want to make sure i have all of the bugs worked out of it before I wrap the harness and tie it down


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Here is a picture ofy alternator and coolant and oil pressure sending unit harnesses

I'm hoping to have it started today, I'll post again after I get done workingon it today :nod:

Dang Eric, sorry to hear you were sick, but glad to see you're back at it. Wiring is one thing I really suck at. I admire people that can do that and do it well. Great job!

Thanks,it really sucked,I literally could not get out of bed for almost a week, and then I couldn't be out of bed for more than a few minutes for about another week,I'm still not fully over it,but a hell of a lot better than I was.

Ok yesterday I got the battery cables ran,and hooked up
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I drilled a hole in the side of the transmission tunnel and put a grommet, and ran a 6 foot piece of 3/4 in. Heater hose through it ,and then ran the power wire tjeough that, dont want to take any chances of something wearing a hole in the insulation of the wire


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Heres how it came out ,its actually a really good fit,and the piece of hose is tje perfect size to make it to the driver storage bin

I also put a new oil filter and oil in it,started putting antifreeze in it and noticed a puddle on the floor, look down and notice that coming out of the middle of the radiator I just ordered an aluminum 3 row radiator and electric fan from eBay hopefully it will get here before the weekend

Are you planning on being up and running this summer?

I'm hoping to have it started this week,and then get all of the bugs worked out of it. And then clean up and wrap the harness, and install the ac.hoping to be completely done within the next month

If you're impatient you can always pull a ful out of the copper radiator and solder it closed on both ends.

Worked for a temporary fix for me... that was 2 years ago. hehe still holding. :D

Hmmm!,not a bad idea, I think I might have to do that and that way I'll have it as an emergency spare because it's leaking right from The Middle of the radiator I already ordered the other one I'm just hoping it'll be here by Friday it's coming from California

Removed the upper intake to take out the stock engine harness that I had so I can install the emissions deleted one that I have
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Here is the stock harness removed, i should have never installed it to begin with


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The engine re wired up again,i am not plugging the iat in until i have everything bolted to the engine, if you look close you can see that one of the tabs is missing on it. that broke off when I installed the stock harness, that little tiny sensor was like $75. I am not breaking another one

So basically everything on the engine is wired,I just have the boost sensor, variable resistor,coils,and a couple relays and the wiring is done.now I'm getting really impatient, I want to drive it bad:bigthumb: