Great find....lookin nice. Wonder why the tail lights had been changed to the earlier '72-'75 style. Maybe thats a good thing , if you could get it registered as a 75 before you change 'em out. Hope to see it in person someday here in Cali. Good luck with it. Tom G

 

The saturn is a four door and I allways hit the corner top at the post,make sure you change the coolent reg. I just had the head gasket replaced, it was corroaded by GM's 100,000 mile coolent.
The lights,first they are not in bad shape to start with(thanks Brian)no sun fading or skratches just paint, calicum deposits, and a bunch of thick dust ***** the bottom 1/8th was full. I dissasembeled the lighs entirely being really careful with the gaskets. next soaked the parts in warm soap and water and scrubed them with an old tooth brush I was tempted to use my sonic care but didnt. then I used limeaway on the on the calicum deposits used sparingly.on the housing behind the lenses I used a fine grade steelwool and repainted with a silver reflective paint,also replaced the silver tape behind the turn signal with an aluminum plumbers tape. then last I used Eagle one nano-protectant for vinyl & leather to bring back the new look , I dont like armor all its a dash board killer---MadChad.

 

looks like progress is moving along well. I am having a little sellers remorse, to that i would just say i want first opportunity on a buy back if you ever decide to get rid of it. which my guess is you never will. again looks great keep us up on the new news.

 

I'll change the coolant with the oil in the spring.

 

Mike you'll allways be the first on the list, we never know what time will tell---MadChad.

 

I think the remorse will fade the closer we get to getting "the race car" going. It's a 1988 bmw e30 m3 that we have mounted a 1996 skyline gtr drive train in. The motor is highly modified and we are in the works of designing the front suspension. It's a little complicated. but my boss built street rods for 15 years and has read every suspension book he could get his hands on so shouldn't be too bad. With 700-750whp you deffinetly want to have good control. I am going to try to post a picture we will see. You should check out the web site some time idahospeed.com there are a couple of cool vids and and picturesm of some of our projects. Gonna go watch a movie now.

mike

 

 

I likey a lot, keep us posted.

 

Finished r&r on the tail lights and here is the new/old look. piece by piece part by part---MadChad.

 

those lights look kick ***. good job on the resto.

mike.

 

Getting ready to strip and paint, only one cleaning needed to get to this point.its nice to start off with something that is so clean---MadChad.

 

Nice ride bro!

I take it that its going back on the road and not remaining a racer...

 

It is going back on the street but only to shows or cruises and maybe so I can blow some steam in the crest. I'd like to put it in a car musieum somewhere ,its definitely a piece of history that shouldnt be lost---MadChad.

 

What sort of wheels / size are on the 3??

 

Hey way cool ride and great craftmanship I like the savanna center console. the rims are 13"x8" havent quite looked into the make or offset . if you do flare the fenders please post the results. I'd like to go with a larger wheel but space is limited---MadChad.

 

great find chad congrats on the new ride, looks like you have enough room for 9" wheel in the back by the look of that fender flares. I have 8" also on on my car with flares with about 2.5" from the edge on the flares, I may expriment with a 9.5" this weekend and see if its do able....

 

come over and bring some heine's. I can drink and watch while your trying them out.

 

Ha ha I dont have to go to your house to try them out I have a set sitting in the garage. But you can come over, I pulled out the bridge port last sunday from the rx4 you can help me install it in my corolla.

Hey I've got the recent issue of Vintage auto with all the local Old School rotary guys in the magazine including "Featured" jerry's 3 rotor rx3 and "Wankelholics" repu and it also covered the seven stock and jccs. I'll san some pictures and post them up tonight when I get home from work. Yeah we're famous in Japan..

 

I said, I want to drink and dont wanna work

 

geeze..... ok you come over and drink. and bring me that front air dam.

 

Very nice, I would love to have an RX3SP. Are you just returning it to stock? Or do you have big plans for it?

 

What sort of corolla are you sticking the bridgy in?

 

he is dreaming. he knows where that motor is going to.

 

its gonna go into my 73 mango, if the weather this weekend alows the motor mount and tranny mount will be made.

Dont listen to wacky he know's he cant handle that motor

Believe it or not I get alot of stuff for "FREE"

 

and how deep do you go?