How long does this thing go? My 7 likes to pms sometimes

 

the run it self is not very long, hour tops for slow people, after that there is always a party. I will reserve a VIP section at what ever place we have the finish at

 

that works dont forget we have youngens tho (including me)

 

it will be someplace decent, as long as you are 18 you can get in

 

K, well that sounds great to me then.

 

I am also going to get some tshirts made, help promote the big cannonball in june

 

If you do that will you tell me where you got your shirts printed? I am going to help with the Fall BBQ and I will probably have to get shirts made.

 

You've been under the hood of the neon too much :P

Or the mustang.

Give the 7 some more lovin!!!

 

there is a place in denton that I use to make shirts, they made the shrits for the crew of my race team

 

well when the time gets closer to the bbq I will message you for info

 

actualy I may just get lazy and hire someone to do the tshirts for me, the 2nd cannonball I did I hired a girl and she did everything.

 

haha lazy bum!

 

its more work then you think

 

Oh BELIEVE me, what little bit of love my Neon or Mustang gets is absolutely NOTHING compared to what the RX7 gets. Did you see the pics of the complete interior teardown I did? Charcoal leather seats, brand new carpet, custom dash and doorpanels all getting ready to go into it after I repaint the whole thing. I'm also getting ready to strip all the exterior trim off, pull all the dents, and skimcoat the whole thing, so I'll be ready for my repaint.

I'm also waiting on my new intermediate iron and turbo UIM/LIM to come in from Kevin Landers so I can finish rebuilding the engine. So for the past few days I've been completely cleaning and repainting everything. I just finished cleaning and repainting the new starter and TII front cover last night. The night before I completely cleaned and repainted my rotor housings - I found a piece missing and had to pull another one out of the garage, prep and clean and paint that one, so I figured I'd redo the other one also - plus the metalcast blue paint gets dirty too quickly, so I went with a high-heat bronze to match the whole theme of the car. now both bronze rotor housings are sitting under a couple of coats of high-heat clear.

I picked up my transmission from the transmission shop, so it's ready to go back on - I just ordered the new sensor I needed from Mazdaspeed today, along with a brand new center dash vent to replace the one I was missing.

I've also taken pictures of all the underhood area, so I can pull everything off and repaint the engine bay, and everything in it - I repainted the coilpacks in black and bronze.

So -Much much love to the rx7

 

Since I took some pictures of the cars today for the "WTF u look like" thread, I took some pictures of the progress on the rx7 -

So in response to giving the RX-7 more love, here's much love, with pics!

Cleaned irons, repainted rotor housings - (middle iron in picture is the bad one. :P New one should come in Wednesday, fer yayz.) For the record, the Colorcast paint didn't hold up like I wanted it to, so I went with a different color since I had it apart anyway. It matches my wheels.



Got a new starter in - now maybe I won't have to push the button like 4 times in a row to get it to turn over. I know it's not visible, but it had some rust starting so I went ahead and cleaned it all up, primered it and painted it.



Disassembled, cleaned and painted the leading and trailing coilpacks - for the record, make sure you pay attention to where the wires go, because I did a bad - luckily I found someone selling one on ebay with a lucky picture, so I was able to get it all back the way it should be without waiting for the rx7 meet.



I've also been cleaning and painting the miscellanous bracketry from the engine bay as I pull it off, but that's not interesting so I didn't take a picture of it - you can see some of it in the starter and coilpack shots - here are the leather seats from a 2002 Lincoln LS, already mounted and sitting on the rx7 seat rails. Some of you saw these in the car already. These were actually cheaper than the APC seats that lasted all of 4 months. It's alright though, the other APC seat is my Gran Turismo racing chair now.



If you did see the seats in my car, you may have noticed they were still sitting on that hideous blue carpet. Well, here's my answer to that: brand new custom charcoal gray carpet - the bins are black, but they'll get repainted and covered eventually - for now they seem to match closely enough.



If that wasn't enough fun - I also picked up a polyurethane master bushing kit from Prothane - my old rubber bushings are SO gone, I couldn't even tell what they were.



After all that, the turbo's on the shelf, tII LIM/UIM and TMIC are coming in Wednesday, and as soon as it's warmer, I'll finish stripping and painting the engine bay.

So my RX7 gets MAD love, like TROPHY WIFE love. I spend a lot of time, money, and energy making her look better and upgrading her parts, and she doesn't even have to work, just sit there and look pretty and put out occasionally.

 

look'n good

 

Thank ya! I'm looking forward to the TII intake manifolds - because last time it was running I was like "Check it out! I painted my engine! Here, I'll pull these wires and hoses back, and if you look RIGHT through there with this flashlight, you can see it! Cool right?!"

 

lol yeah. Kyle found his kit to block off emissions, so my 7 might now have any soon... :P

 

Ahh, Turbocharged at long last - I picked up the turbo off e-bay for a pretty good deal, but it's been on the shelf for almost a year now... every so often picking it up, squirting a little bit of oil in it, and spinning it up with the hose from my compressor to hear that whine. If I aim the intake port at my face I can pretend I have the windows down.
And once the compressor turns itself on, if I put my ear on the tank so it's as loud as it can possibly be, I can pretend my engine's running. LOL!

 

Man, I love new block and new parts shots...

 

I'll let you touch them for $5.

 

How bout I touch it and you give me 5 dollars for the blessing?

 

I guess I should have mentioned, the $5 will be donated to the Richter12x2 fund for Furthering the Shiny New Parts to Take Pictures of for you Fund. You can make checks payable to the RFFSNPTPOFY.