blwfly

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little update. took my bed off to start mending it and treating rust.
my 4yr old daughter decided she wanted to paint so i let her go for it lol since i will be stripping the frame for rust treatment any actually dont mind the silver lol..

my walbro 255 pump failed so i am going to redo the fuel system
going to do the surge tank setup using a holly blue to fill it.either gonna buy a tank or make one also going to source a better pump since cheap dosnt allways work out stupid ebay crap.

blwfly

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repu left 2gen rx7 right


cut out the pump bracket with some extra meat


drill tack welds on slosh cup


hmm where to put it


cut the hole figuring where sloch cup needs to be

blwfly

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ready for welding


moding the pump neded to be extended 3"

turbo_dave

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good idea you got going here,i should had thought of this when doing the fuel set up on our repu.

blwfly

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thanks only cost me 40bucks for the 2gen tank and its far less complicated then a surge tank setup aswell as cost considering a surge tank is usally 100 and the u have two pumps for the jobby..

1973rx3

Awesome thinking outside the box! Keep up the good work!

blwfly

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thanks i try

DriveFast7

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well now that's a neat idea. nice jobber!

blwfly

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thanks
i thought it was a common mod in 1st gen rx7's for boost just not talked about alot. let alone show pictures

blwfly

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so my origanal goal was to tig weld it all together but we had constant problems with the welder the board fryed then the replacment didnt work.
i got sick and tired of waiting around for the inlaw to get it fixed up.

lucky enough i had done enough welding that everything was held together strong.The other day i was gandering through bimart and found a solder for metal. i thought to myself this might just work and it did.yay
i know solder isnt the awnser let alone it being weak but it seems pretty damn strong and sealed up the pin holes.

slapped it in the truck and went for a drive. Couldn't go very fast my wheel keept spinning on the gravel/tarmac got stuck a bunch on grass lol.


here is the pump and bracket welded up


I ended up drilling holes through the tank and sloch cup and using some steal rivits then i used the tig to fuse all 3 together. As you can see my first attempts sucked lol then i came up with the rivit idea. The big hole's i soldered up so the sloch cup held gas instead of leak out



mass amounts of solder

the drips are from when i filled the sloch cup holes with solder it basicly sealed the tiny pin holes


i know it looks tacky but it did the deed

mymmeryloss

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not real pretty, but it gets the job done...

lookin good

u ever gonna turbo this?

DiegoRx8

dang that is dangerous work!! lol you must of let it aired out for a while and cleaned it pretty good.

blwfly

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one day i would think so. lol money dosnt grow on trees and my twins are almost popin out of my wife

blwfly

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its only as dangerous as u make it.. some people overreact to welding tanks think they will blow up lol

basically i ran soapy water in it once then rinsed twice let it dry it was done in about a 1hr no super cleaning of any sort. even if u drained the tank and let it air out the gas would evaporate would be a small chance of fire but u would be welding and have a helmet and gloves on for protection ..

mymmeryloss

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Any updates?

blwfly

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no updates sorry been really busy with my 1 month old girls and working on fixing our new home up.aswell as trying to get a job.probaly wont have any updates till summer.

yoeddynz

Getting there eh! congrats on the two sprogs- they'll keep ya up at night! You can sneak out to the garage and find peace and quiet there

blwfly

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thanks mate avreaging 4hrs of sleep each night starting to catch up with me starting to lose my marbles..

blwfly

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small update

i have cleaned and sealed the inside of my fuel tank with a por15 kit i would totally recommend it.
also put in a aeromotive 344 stealth pump and rewired with 10ga.
now im just waiting on my aeromotive fuel pressure regulator as the stock one cant handle the pump

was running for awhile but just flooded out since i had 55psi with just the key on..

mymmeryloss

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Yay for updates!!!

blwfly

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Drove my repu today...
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sourc...ISzkB-RB9h-qQw

blwfly

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little more progress

i bought a mig welder and started to fab the exhaust keep in mind this is my first time welding/fabing.







thinking i will have the 2nd muffler at the rear with a turn down tip.



what do you guys think.

papsmagu

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i agree...add a second muffler. always thought that the REPU looks funny with only one muffler. good updates. keep up the good work.

blwfly

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Thanks mate this is the last loose end to get on the road. Then i can see how bad all the suspension components are lol

blwfly

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I just have one more mount and a tip left to complete the exhaust.