I don't remember what the coils themselves cost. It wasn't much, but Claudio talked me into them when I bought the Haltech e8. The coil bracket was free. One of the perks of being an engineer in a manufacturing plant with their own machine shop.

 

yeah i hear that...sucks i have to fab everything up from scratch and buy all my own ****...eh it's all good though...keep us posted on pics...im hungry for more pics

 

NICE work... Keep us up to date..

L8R

 

Nights and weekends I work at a local fabrication shop. Mostly, we do industrial stuff like semi-beds and pipeline stands. On rare occasion, we'll do rollcages and other hot rod related stuff. It gives me access to some pretty neat equipment and lets me get quite a bit of fabrication practice.

 

If you take the car to shows you will have to film reactions, I imagine you will get some good ones.

 

You can tell anyone you go up against that you have less than a smallblock.

 

VERY NICE , u shouldn't have any rear end problems lol ..........



luv ur project keep up the great work, I will keep my eye on this one. r u goin auto ?




LMAO !!!!!! damm i'm a dumbass 4 not reading ur "setup" if I was goin that route I would put a 3 speed auto
just my 1 cent dat bitch would RUN !!!!!!!!!! good luck

 

Did a little more work on the car. I am planning on having the Big Bore modification done to the RE throttle body. Did a little reaserch on this forum and decided it was rediculous to run 3" intercooler piping, neck down to 2.5" to mate to the intake elbow, and then neck back up to a huge throttle body. It looked at what other folks were doing and welded some 3" aluminum pipe to the intake elbow and then bead rolled the end.

 

I welded all of the unused vacuum ports on the LIM, UIM, and throttle body (there are 4,195,546 of them!) The lines going to the wastgate & solenid and the BOV are all -AN. I'm trying to keep as few rubber lines as possible to minimize the chance of one blowing off at high boost. The only lines that need to be rubber in my application are the MAP and Boost Gauge. I wanted to use the fittings at the back of the UIM so they could pass through the firewall with as little showing as possible, but the nipples are just straight tube and are much too small for the MAP. At first, I pulled out the stock tubes and tried to drill and tap the locations for 1/8 NPT. Blowout! I figured I'd just weld up the holes and tap a little higher, but that is right where the division of the Upper/lower ports is. So..........I built up the edge with weld and contoured it to look like this......Pain in the @$$!

 

Keeping in-line with trying to have as few non-AN fittings as possible, I read a post that said an Accufab GM IAC Motor to FOX mustang adapter might work on the RE throttlebody. Money! So I punted the Haltech IAC adapter stuff I made earlier and am going with this setup.

 

In fact as far as muscle cars go, you can say you have a micro block!

 

the nova is like a tank bro...are you going to cut anyweight out of the car or leave it the way it is...By the way the car is looking great is it back from paint yet?

 

Absolutely! As stated in the original post, we have tried to make the car as light as possible. Here is the list of weight reductions. I'm sure I left some of them out. Most of them are estimates, but it should be fairly close.

Weight Reduction (lbs)
Fiberglass Front Bumper 90
Fiberglass Rear Bumper 90
Fiberglass Hatch 50
Fiberglass Hood 20
Lexan Hatch Window 5
Removed Trunk Paneling 50
Removed Trunk Paneling Mounts 2
Removed Hatch Springs 2
Removed Hatch Spring Mounts 2
Chris Alston's Front Clip 40
Disk Brakes and Aluminum Calipers 10
Engine/Transmission 150
Aluminum Radiator 5
Removed Heater 5
Aluminum Door Pannels 2
Removed Door Cross Bracing and lightened doors 20
Gun Drilled Axles 2
Drilled Rear Window Arms 2
Sound Deadening 10
Carpet Padding 2
Hollowed Radiator Support 1
Aluminum Driveshaft 5
Lightweight Battery 20
Windshield Washer Fluid 3
Aluminum Exhaust & Burns Muffler 20

Weight Addition
Subframe Connectors 22
Undercoated Trunk 10

Vehicle Base Weight 3364
Total Weight Reduction 608
Total Weight Addition 32
Final Vehicle Weight 2788

Not back from the painter yet. It won't be back until August........damnit.

 

AUGUST! Damn that stinks.

 

I've been doing quite a bit of reaserch on exhaust manifold design on this forum and have realized that my design could be greatly improved upon. So, I'm remaking the manifold using the following criteria.

• Equal length primary tubes
• 2" Sched 10 304 SS Primary tubes
• At least 3" of straight pipe after the exhaust ports
• Dual wastegates for total runner division
• 13-18" primary tube length
• Bracing at the turbo flange
• Turbo location to allow for 3" to 3.5" downpipe expansion
• Turbo location to allow for at least 4" of straight pipe on the downpipe before making the first bend

Going to get started tonight.

 

Good ****! That will upset the big cube boys!!!

 

August? Why so long?

 

The shop that is doing it does regular bodywork during the day and restoration work at night. It's a very labor intensive process to do a full strip and then do a show quality paint job on the underside/inside/and outside, especially when ghosting in graphics.

 

Don't worry about the weight. Hes doing fine. I gathered some weights and hes ok. This was searching through the internet. Some weights might be off, but basing on what he said about the FD these figures should be close enough.

Curb Weights...

Rx-8 ----------------------3045
Rx-7 1993 TT Base----------2789
Rx-7 1993 TT R1------------2800
Rx-7 1993 TT Touring-------2862
Rx-7 Convertible ----------3045
Rx-7 Turbo ----------------2888
Rx-7 88 Base---------------3003
Rx-7 84-85-----------------2640
Rx-7 79-83-----------------2440
Rx-5 ----------------------2464
Rx-4 Sedan-----------------2620
Rx-3 Sedan-----------------1945
Rx-2 ----------------------2315
R-100 ---------------------1782
Rotary Pickup -------------2865
Miata 1990 ----------------2293
GLC -----------------------1790
Mazda 626 -----------------2530

 

No dis to 2cute, but I'd love to see a rotary in EVERYTHING! Good job on the swap and major props. On another note, 2cute with over 51,000 posts how do you find time for anything else??? Wow!

 

I think I would go with a set of 4.11 gears instead of the 4.88 since you are going turbo. Nice project. Keep it coming

 

I figure I've got enough tire so why not. In all of my past cars I'd always wished I'd had more gear. We'll see how it works out.

 

Finished the turbo brace tonight.....Now, on to the new manifold.

 

Very nice.

 

like i said i can respect the work he did however im a purist and dont like to see this kind of thing. as i dont want to see sr20 in rx s i dont want to see the rotary in other vehicles. thats just my own thing sorry.

as for posts lol dont ask