He said "for sale"

I said "Sold!"

Sam and I are now making changes that Eric wanted to do anyway.

This car is too nice to let leave the "family"

Here are some under-construction pics

 

Whoo hoo! progress!!


in case anyone doesn't recall what it looked like back in the heyday of the DFW RX7 crew...



or when being put to good use...



Very glad to see it going to good use rather than collecting even more dust in my garage!

 

did we all grow up? or did we just not recover as well anymore?

I bet Cavel is the only one that still looks at 3 am as he comes in, not as he's changing a diaper...

 

cant wait to hear it run and go for cruise tuning it.

 

I remember that car.. one of my first memories of RX7club

 

Wow. Ancient...

 

Hey! Watch that ancient talk, dammit! (Man, getting old sux)

 

Lol. Havent seen you in ages! Hows that hip doing?

 

Wow... talk about nostalgic!

 

Hip is fine. The knees are what's a killer. Too many trips over pit wall. New profession is much kinder to the body.

 

did someone revive the old dfw rx7 club?
car looks good!

 

Eric I see you've managed to keep your head down in the RGV!

haha,
Wow, old memories!!

Any one remember this pic? Guess where this was at?

I have plenty of these in an old storage drive.

 

where was that? city streets?

 

Damn throw back!

 

We need to make an "old DFW picture" thread.

 

Wow, Was I drunk?? that musta been a very long time ago?? I don't remember any of it?

 

In a few months, we can start comparing G-load strain on freakin baby car seats...

I feel like Eric would be cheating. His MSM has the correct harness hooks for one, dammit

 

That's in the karaoke bar at City Streets on one of our Thursday night adventures.... Circa 2003...

I have a ton of those on a flash drive somewhere too... Man, the memories!

Clint - here's one for you... Recall one Valentine's day and BING! with the chopsticks?

Yeah.. found the chopsticks from that night in the door pocket of the Rx-7 when I was cleaning it out... How's *that* for a flashback??

 

oh yeah I remember the BING night, good times

 

Just wondering, do I need to sanitize the interior of this car?

 

OK, Sam and I got the install complete, and fired it up.
At first, it smoked so bad, I thought the locals were going to call the Fire Dept. Turns out, we needed to restrict the oil line to the turbo alot more. Did that, and it smoked less, but still enough to be a bother.
Relocated the turbo drain from the OMP hole to a hole we made in the front cover. MUCH BETTER!

Got it running and it has a bit of an Ignition issue (only with the trailing plugs), but it's definitely TURBO'ed!

Ran a few pulls at 10psi this afternoon. Pig-rich, but gets moving quick. Played an old Camaro, but nothing real illegal. Just testing the waters...

More pics.


Huge Thanks to Sam and all the guys at A&B autocenter. Without him, I would have just parked that car and dreamed about what could be...


PS. 205's are not enough tire. 1st gear is a waste of time.

 

Whoo hoo! It lives!!

 

Pig rich = what rwhp?

 

Radio Tokyo!

 

Seat-of-the-pants dyno feels like 225-250hp.
My goal is 14psi or 350HP- which ever comes first.

The clutch slipped a bit on a long 5th gear pull, and spiking just over 10psi. It was running about 9.8-10.2 O2, so there is alot still on the power.
We are going to dyno it at Steve's shop (in Lewisville, i think) Saturday. I just hope the clutch holds up for a few pulls.