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This is my 4 and bought it in 78 with 32k on it. brought all my kids home in it.
That's Cindy my youngest, I started this in the NW section but then as time went on I realized the the section realy needed it seemed to be a little slow.
Well any how I going to try to post evey day a feww pics, got lots of them.

nice. u must be retired already or getting close to it. :bigthumb:

GAMBONE could you get a close up shot of your sidemount alternator setup and give a quick explanation on how you moved it to the side. That is something that I would like to do on car.

Is the front nosework on the car original? Was it originally a US-spec car?

hey buddy,
can you pleaes explain to me what i am looking at, IE what extensive mods you have done. THanks for me and everyone else who didnt think about asking.

my teacher always told me the only stupid question is one not asked, then i asked if i could leave the room and she said NO>

And bTW Crit waht does your plate mean? LMPYCAM lumpy Cam, ie rotors?

theres no such thing as stupid questions...only stupid people who ask them ;)

jk man

I'm curious as well.

Gambone I never Knew! Wow! That's a Hot Set-Up! You do that work Yourself? Love to see more Pics!

You should know by now Gambone THIS is the Hottest Forum Board for Ole Skool Rotaries Period! :grouphug:

Matt - My RX-2 runs a bridgeport, and I've had a number of people ask what kind of cam I have in it from the way it idles. I've thought about changing it, but yes, it's supposed to be lumpy cam.

Gambone - What did you use for throttle bodies, are they off a motorcycle?

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Founds the alt mounting pics, pic 20 is the one in the cercel and it mounts to where the AC would have gone, pic 21 shows the top adjusting arm which came from pick a part, need to get a better pic of how it's hooks up to the motor, the trick is, it usese a mounting bolt from a seat belt harness for the swing action. The rest of the pics I will be showing for some time yet are of the intake and yep I built all of it

Crit, I use to work at a Mazda/Isuzu dealer ship and the throttle bodys are from Isuzu Troopers 2.6, they where warrenty clames, they where sticking

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Crit, the nose work, all it is is a tube bumper, the OEM wiegthed a ton and I needed a tow point to get it to the drages, so built into this frount bumper is a hing point for a tow bare.

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Gots to keep this going, you all are going to be getting bord

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Well Matt22, this is what you are looking out in a million word or less, My Rx4 and what I did to it on less then a dollar a day for the last 15 years. These pics are of the intake system which I hand built for use with a K fuel system off of a rabbit, well that's two of them and still I need more fuel. So some where in of the pics you will see two ele nozzle which came from a Subaru. Pic # 17 shows how or what the tubes are for, they hold the nozzles

has anyone ever told you that you are nuts. but super inventive. it jsut amazes me tha amount of work you have put into your car. GREWAT JOB> what was it runnin gin the quarter mile? Matt22

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Well now I think it's time to move onto other pics. like the suspension and here we go. The frist pic is of the car being blocked up in front on one side and you will be able to see that the other front wheel is off the ground. And why is that?, well that's becoues of the realy stroung sway bar in the rear. And if you think that is swell just know that the front sway bar comes off of a S10. Yes Matt I'm nuts

in the Racing Beat book they built one of those engine for industrial use I dont remember the page number.

I used a K-jetronic from a Volvo V6 on my 13B turbosetup.
It works really nice apart from the amount of fuel it can deliver.
I had two extra injectors and a preassurecensor, that worked really nice!

I will put the system back in the 7 wothout turbo quite soon.

BTW, where did you get the fuellines to the injectors?
Are these VW?

// magnus

Mr. Magnus Berglund, I did a inter net searh, don't remember the company name, mit still have the recept, the ends are the OEM fittings cut off from the old lines and hold in place with a outter copper tube which is then slighty crimped. get better pics of this soon along with more detailed pic of the rest of the fuel system. Thank You for your quiston

Mr Gambone: If i understand correctly.The scoop on the bonnet (hood) directs air to the intercooler?

Wowee,you my good man,are not affraid to do work to your car!

I remeber finding pics of your intake manifold on the internet.(Thanks!)It helped allot with brainstorming to build my own manifold for a 4 barrel a few years ago.

I like the kjet setup!I love them,simple to keep on working,and yet very effective.

Thanks for sharing!

karis

i have some questions about the suspension design that you have pictured.

the front looks to be of quality construction but it looks like bump steer might be a problem. the rack looks to be set pretty far back. did you make use of a double a-arm front suspension or is it a macpherson design? did you factor in the scrub radius for the front end as well? and finally, how has it performed? i'm starting a similar type of project on a GSL-SE and am looking for a good conversation on suspension design and construction.

Ray

I knew I recognized those throttle bodies. You do great work! :bigthumb:

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Mr.GTRa7, the front end and how it is set up, becouse the 7 sub frame and A arms just wouldn't fit, (no problem in the rear) had to designe the set up my self. The most importen thing is to follow the rules of geomtry for a front end and as for handling I'm finding no problem but much improvement over the 4 stock set up. Yes it is single lower a arms with the 7 shock assy and rack. We all know how poor a 4's brakes are, well there's somthing there now that realy works.I also have taken it on a clossed coure raod track, GOOD

Mr. Karism yes that is a air scoop for the intercooler with a fan built in that runs off of a vac switch from a Isuzu desal, works real good coming of the line

I'll probably do a similar thing on mine... nice to see we have the same idéa....


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hi, Well that was the last of the front end pics and this week end I'll be working on getting the fuel pics ready for monday

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Well I was planning on doing some fuel pis but had problems with poto shop trying to blow some of them up to show details, I'll get there soon but in the mean time lets go with rear picns of the suspesion.
One of them ther pics shows a sway bay which come off of the front. had to do a little rebending to get it to fit but does seem to work just fine, O the one in the front comes off of a S10

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gambone
If possible, can you please post a pix of your turbo oil return.

thanks

Yes Oil Return Line, is now on the list

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Hey, I'm wondering if the suspension parts you have on the front will work on a 73' rx2 and, if so do you have the specks or can you make the speck up for me? Thanks, I would love the help. I love the work you have done im going to do a lot of custome stuff on my duce. :bigthumb: :bigthumb:
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Gambone ~

let me tip my hat to you. hell, let me take my hat off to you!

i'm very impressed with your ingenuity and dedication to this car. keep the pictures coming. how does the car run?

my request: more pics of the whole car in addition to the different focal points.

lovely, just lovely ...
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Hi to Bluemunky and Diabical1. The specs for the front end, I worked them out, just got the books and follewed all the rules. Thats about as much as I know what to say. If you are thinking of doing the same, that's the same boat you'er going to be in.
O thank you Mr. Diabical, and yep more pics are comming, got some requist for pics on the turbo oil return lines and the fuel system. Will be working on them this week end.

how bout pics of the wife? just kidding, what did you run in the 1/4 mile? did you ever get it dynoed? i am curious as to how much pwer you have. besides being a god to all those who love rx4's. oh by the way, what is a good price for an RX4 in your opinion. a guy i know has one that he no longer drives, and i might make an offer for it. I would love to have an entire rotary army of my own. Hahahahaha thanks Matt22

Time slips, at the 1/8 mi it's a killer but then that's where it runs out of gas, so from there on I'm trying to ners it down the track, think it was 92mph@14.3sec. still got the slips. Got a dyno here at work, had a 3rd gen on it and it out pulled the dyno thats becouse the dyno is a smog unit from Ca. so then I put my RX4 on and it just out pulled what the 3rd did, just feel the defferenst, like the dyno was not even there, but it falls on its face, been working on a fix MORE GAS DELIVER

Oil Return Lines
 

Well went thruogh all the pics I had simple becouse getting under the car and getting the ones of the oil return just didn't work. Pic 20 is on the work bench way back when I was using a 35mm, found it so here it is.The red line out lines the oil return line and the other line out lines the Alt mount which some one requested, think I all ready posted that pic. Pic 23 shows in yellow the oil return and in red is the coolent lines. And the rest of the pics are as what you see.

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well now, waht tho say, O just look at the pics. What I did wsa to take out the inner head lite and replaced it with a 6" speaker screen which fits and with the help of a little silicon gel held in place. On the back side there are openning for the head lite connectors which lead rite into the air boxes, it's all sealed off so all the air is trapped and well go into the boxes.

Very cool car, but I hope that front bumper is temporary!

Nop, It gots a hing point so I can tow it to Woodburn Drags, Thank You

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The first picture of your car looks like it was taken at triple x rootbeer in issaquah WA.
Am I crazy?

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No that was taken in Salem Or just down the road.
Well I think there are a lot of you guys out there just waiting to see the next pics, this mornning at work my PC for some unkown reson dropped my pass word so I couldn't log on. Do this each day befor 8am, well had to wait to get home to post pics. Bad part I will be gone for the next week, O well we will live

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I,m back and the price of gas just past the Ca. state line was 2.73 gl, and got back to Salem Or and found it to be 2.17 gl. Well any how here is more pics.

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I think I just ran out of pics to post, well now what can I do about that !

what ia the last pic of
and what is all the stuff is in your "fuel box"