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car is alive and on the road. I bailed on the vmount for now, it was taking too long and i still needed parts. i'll get back to it once I've collected everything else i need.
refinishing wheels is way way way too much work. wow. never doing that again. pretty happy with the outcome though. the wheels are Riken RTWs, and they are period correct (from the mid 80s, they were apparently a dealer option on 86 saleen mustangs and some 300zx models)
the car is driving great. new tires are incredible (Bridgestone Potenza RE-71Rs), and with the new crossmember, the transmission doesn't sound like it's trying to kill itself any more.
^^ lol, it's not like 1000s are really 'big' nowadays in these engines. i'll definitely need more fuel pump to really take advantage of these though
work on the car this winter has been slow but steady
got some new HSD coilovers and cleaned up everything on the suspension.
por-15'd the knuckles. new bushings everywhere, new tie rod ends, new ball joints, new bearings, etc... also scrubbed the crap out of the wheel wells
dropped the whole crusty old rear subframe
underestimated the amount of work and parts it takes to make the rear suspension 'proper' when lowering the car. ended up buying parts shop max camber links, subframe arm, trailing arm spherical bearings, toe-steer eliminator bushings, and trailing arm solid upper bushings
everything cleaned up pretty well
axles look almost like new!
that's pretty much where it sits now. i still need to press in the new rear wheel bearings and the trailing arm spherical bearings, then slap everything back together. should feel slightly different than all the old crusty broken stuff did
Ya the images do not work.that is why you had to repost.
Can you post up images that DO work,,,..lmk and I can clean your thread up a bit.
thanks man.
By the way..my stereo would eat your stereo..lol!
4 4" cdt in dash
4 6X9 Cadence in bins
2 Focal 6.5s in shock towers...6000 watt amp...(boom goes the dynamite!..haha!)
Sylvester Stallone is living in your dash!..he's alot shorter than I though he would be!
screw google photos, their idea of 'public' image hosting is really broken
rehosted everything on imgur, styx could you just delete the previous post?
work on the car this winter has been slow but steady
got some new HSD coilovers and cleaned up everything on the suspension.
por-15'd the knuckles. new bushings everywhere, new tie rod ends, new ball joints, new bearings, etc... also scrubbed the crap out of the wheel wells
dropped the whole crusty old rear subframe
underestimated the amount of work and parts it takes to make the rear suspension 'proper' when lowering the car. ended up buying parts shop max camber links, subframe arm, trailing arm spherical bearings, toe-steer eliminator bushings, and trailing arm solid upper bushings
everything cleaned up pretty well
axles look almost like new!
that's pretty much where it sits now. i still need to press in the new rear wheel bearings and the trailing arm spherical bearings, then slap everything back together. should feel slightly different than all the old crusty broken stuff did
Ya the images do not work.that is why you had to repost.
Can you post up images that DO work,,,..lmk and I can clean your thread up a bit.
thanks man.
By the way..my stereo would eat your stereo..lol!
4 4" cdt in dash
4 6X9 Cadence in bins
2 Focal 6.5s in shock towers...6000 watt amp...(boom goes the dynamite!..haha!)
Sylvester Stallone is living in your dash!..he's alot shorter than I though he would be!
i don't have any recent pics of progress on the stereo stuff, but here's the main idea of how everything will mount. this panel will go in the spare tire well, everything totally stealth. planning to build a sub box that's easily dis-connectable and removable but still mounts easily and securely. haven't worked out all the details yet!
quite a bit of work over the winter, but apparently I didn't take many photos. still a few things to finish up before it's back on the road
-FFE hall sensor trigger wheel
-RX-8 Cloth seats (drivers seat done, still need to finish passenger side brackets)
-FD upper intake manifold, throttle body, etc
-Vmount and all related bits
electrical is all done, and it's pretty much all back together. all that's left is to cut the hood make up some ducting both in and out of the V. May need to look into better rad fans as well, they aren't doing a great job at keeping temps down
What V-mount setup are you running? I love the placement of the overflow tank. I have constant issues with mine since I have it hidden under my rad panel, so it frequently overflows after hard driving lol
vmount is unknown brand parts that I picked up a couple years ago. came off a race car originally with a full tube front end.
the tank needs to be the highest point in the system, doesn't it? mine ended up being about 1-2cm too high actually, i had to trim the hood ribbing for the hood to close flat
updates! over the winter I installed a minty fresh s5 turbo and a full new fuel system. AEM 340 pump, all AN6 PTFE lines, parallel fuel rails, AEM pressure regulator, etc..
also started fitting things for dual rx8 oil coolers. with the current setup the stock oil cooler is basically an air pre-heater for the v-mount, so going to the dual side coolers should let the rad and intercooler each get cooler air. still need to get a few parts to finish that at some point this year but the rx8 coolers damn near bolt into place once you've made some room (like relocating the windshield washer reservoir)
