I do just one more post, I get post number 16,000 on the OGTA thread!

 

...I'll just leave this here....





And no, that's Grace that SunkenKarma has...

 

Collin, old buddy! Long time, no see!

And you're still just as fuzzy as ever.

Like, what's that picture of the blue car, your current FC?

And who's Grace? An ex?

And don't tell me you're going to spend another winter up there in Vermont underneath all that snow?

Mike, I'm down for Chinese at the Hunan on Friday, September 27. Makes me hungry just thinking about it.

 

So you finally got it all mariner blue. Looks good! Too bad that hood scoop isn't cooling any sort of cooler

Check out my new transmission! It's so clean, you could eat off of it...

 

Looks like we finally might be having a good formula one movie coming out of Hollywood again, first one since Grand Prix in 1966.

It's called "Rush", a film by Ron Howard about the rivalry between Niki Lauda and James Hunt, back when race cars were race cars and drivers were drivers.

Rush - Movie Trailers - Preview - NYTimes.com

Rush Movie | Official Site for the Rush Film | Now Playing in Select Theaters | Everywhere September 27th

 

Yeah. I wish I'd had more money for my paint job tho... it was a huuuuuge pain in the *** to sand thru everything that was on the car... car was originally white... then painted sunrise red.. then the car was primed gray.. and in areas primed black, green and red. A lot of the car had a layer of bondo on it... certainly some areas were necessary, but some of it was hiding large areas where the red paint had begun to peel off.

Strangely , it does not appear that the original paint finish was prepped before it got sprayed. From what I could tell , the white was not even keyed with a scotch brite !

Had I had more money I would have gone straight to metal rather than the factory primer. I also would have used filler primer in addition to the epoxy primer to smooth things out. Especially the jambs where I had sandblasted.

In a nutshell , I completely disassembled the car.. stripped and sandblasted.. and the car received the following..

- PPG black epoxy primer
- PPG epoxy primer hardener
- PPG single-stage in Mariner Blue
- PPG enamel reducer
- PPG high-gloss hardener

If I'm completely honest , I could have done a better job of the jambs , but I was running out of season to be able to paint the car outside under twenty feet of canopy. I also wish I'd bought more paint to do an extra wet coat.

There's quite a lot of orange peel on the main body (which I sprayed first) , and as I got the feel for my gun with this paint system and adjusted all of my settings , it got better.

Did all my edges and jambs first.. the only things that are not mariner blue are the engine bay , under the carpet, and I left the inside face of the doors in black epoxy primer.

I was determined to do a better job of it than those bastards that "painted" Grace... and while my paint job isn't the best? Still worlds better than the mess I paid someone else to do.

Still needs color sanded and buffed like you would not even believe.

 

Hunan next Friday, sounds good.

Collin that's a lot of work. I'd have to pay someone to do all that. But now you know how.

Brett, 35# bag of wild bird food. If their wild birds, they should find their own food. Oh and the trans looks really nice.

 

More pics Collin, looks like we all could learn something.



On the wild animals thing, I was sorely tempted to get a bag of that deer corn at Kroger yesterday. Only $9.99 for a 50 pound bag.

I'm sure somebody around here would eat it.



Hunan next Friday!

 

First 2014 Toyota Corolla commercial dances through time - Autoblog

 

 

Could win a contest for the ugliest 1st gen for sure.

Anybody having lunch at the Hunan tomorrow, or going to the October 1 OGTA meeting next Tuesday?

 

Hunan tomorrow - Yes Can you do 11:30?

OGTA Tuesday - Yes

 

If you can do 11:30, I can do 12:00 Mike.

Anybody else for 11:30?

 

Turns out if you can do 11:30, so can I Mike, see you then at the Hunan.

Anybody else need a good dose of excellent Chinese food?

 

Ray and I got our MSG fix. That's how we stay so young looking.

12A count - 0
SkyActive count - 2

See you guys Tuesday.

 

Hello all, I am looking for my wifes old 95 white exterior, black interior rx7. I have reason to believe it has ended up in Atlanta and I would love to see what has become of her baby!

-Thanks in advance!

 

Well, after some help from Collin today, my FC is back in a drivable state. Bad thing is, my pretty new transmission has quite a bit of bearing noise. It whistles like a supercharged car or something

I'll be at the meet Tuesday, though, whistling through the parking lot!

 

I'll see you all Tuesday night. I think we will have an OGTA member from Vermont join us also.

Holly

 

See you there Holly. And Collin too.

If anybody is looking for some very nice slightly used tokico illumina shocks, this could be your lucky day if the bidding stays low. Coming up on ebay in 10 hours:

Used 1984 1985 Mazda RX 7 FB Tokico Illumina Set of Shocks Gslse GSL | eBay

 

If anyone has some long lug studs from an FB I could use a set, my BBS's wont fit with the lugs that came with my deuce. I seem to remember someone telling me that they came with the LE's

 

Anybody looking for a deal on a stock FB muffler? This one looks practically new, only $150 shipped:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=181228560942&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:3160


And check this out, a 6 port 12A on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300980201848&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:US:3160


See ya'll tonight. And if anybody has two sets of those long lug FB studs, I'll take the second set! I need them for my LE BBS wheels.

 

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This thread is really degenerating. All this talk about long studs?

What happen to goats and beer.

See you guys tonight.

 

Hey guys its been a while !!.. I will be there tonight car look different from the last time so thought i would swing by and add to the fc count lol

 

I'm going to try to make it...I'm trying to get out of work now. I'll be in my work uniform.