it went very well and pretty damn smoothly, i actually already ordered another one :)

the hardest time we had was with the new poly engine mounts not wanting to cooperate, but we got it in good, PPF was perfect ;), though i forgot to bring a 1/2 inch extension home so i could only gun on 5 of the 9 bolts onto it..ill save that for tomorrow lol

now i have to put her back together lol, im gona try and finish the real important stuff and then jump to the intercooler kit so i can bring it with the seats this weekend

but im hopeing things go just as smoothly with putting her back together as it did with installing the engine...ill put up a couple pics in a momento lol

before we dropped it in, looks just as clean as when she first went up

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n...d/DSCF6194.jpg

looks like shes gona eat it..nom nom nom

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as its going in

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BAM!! mission accomplished

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RIP map sensor though lol

SWEET! So whens the first fire? Liking the color combo on the engine and really glad to hear that the PPF fits as it should! That's awesome. now you've gotta drop in a single and break it in some other place ;)

I feel so bad for you working outside, although at least it was nice and warm today. I went outside this morning with a cup of coffee and turned the heat on to 60* and then went back inside to finish my coffee while the garage got warm..... but I'm old and get cranky easy :smilielol5:

How bad is the anticipation to drive her?

RIP MAP sensor :lol: if that's the only thing that went bad, that's a good thing, could've been a lot worse.

hopefully by the end of the month, i still need a few things..mostly im just waiting for it to ship to me now...kinda went crazy this weekend lol

and yea like a glove, couldnt have asked for a better job

yea i no man, i wana go single but i burnt up so much money this season that theres no way i can do it, ill have to wait till next season, luckly i did all the nonsequential mods this season so it shouldnt be much work when i do go single

haha yea it sucks...but it could be worse, at least i have a driveway, i know some people that dont even have that with FDs

lets put it this way...i sometimes zone out imagining im driving her, hahaha, its eating away at my soul :o11:


yea definetly, i can deal with 25 bucks, i dont think i could have dealed with worse

Good to see brian fixed your PPF and you used poly mounts did you look at your diff mounts also or replace them? I broke my PPF within the first 4000 miles after reconstruction I had poly mounts on the engine and bad diff mounts I used a set of jimlabs bushings in mine (I still have the rest just never put them in :) )

lol at frosted propane tank what kind of heater you running there

no i havent yet, its on my to do list, but time and money are kind of a restrictor at the moment, im not to to worried about it yet, since as of right now the weakest point is my tires, so she'll break lose before she snaps something

if i find a set/make one ill throw it in when i can, doesnt look all that hard to change....definetly a hell of alot easier then changing the diff mounts on a fucking FC.......ive had the front diff mount on my FC broken for a good year now...the new one is still sitting in my room :)

nothing like getting a big bang everytime you change gears ;)

Yeah tell me about it. I've bought $450 worth of tools ...mmmmmmm... tools... $200 and something for an alarm, $80 fuel pump mount, I think about $400 from MoTeC for connectors and $250 for some pretty sexy billet mounts for my ECU and TCMux.... I don't know why, no one will ever see them.... maybe I'll cut out my carpet and make the cover out of plexi so I can show them off :rofl:

Awesome... glad to hear it!

Sweet.... by then I should have a jig setup for a mani :suspect:

My buddy blew his timing belt in his DSM once, we had it towed to his apt and had to deal with that there.... I swore I would never work in a parking lot again... :shudders:

:smilielol5: Know that feeling

Yup, worse things could've happened.

Hmmmmm.... I'm gonna have to do some reengineering when the time comes. I know I'll be rocking a solid torque brace on the engine, Building my own diff mount out of AL (and jigging it) and I'll probably build a tranny brace as well.... not using the FD tranny though :rofl:

LB White 80,000 btu thermo controlled. It's usually outside pumping heat into the annex but it was so damn cold lately I moved the boat out, and closed the bay door and got the garage up to an easy 60. The boat's outside, Landi is back in and we had the annex and the shop up to about 65-70* tonight.... so awesome.

Been there, done that..... doing anything regarding the subframe on an FC blows.

god damn snow! i swear its like forces from above are just fucking with me now

Hey Brian, im definetly coming to drop off the seats this weekend, but im not quite ready for the weld yet, damn weather is slowing me down. ill probably bring that by when i pick up the seats

let me know which day is better for you

I'd say Sunday would be better, when do you think you're gonna need the seats back? The weather is supposed to BLOW next week and we need to pull my FD out of storage and do the bulk of the fitting outside as Alex's car is coming in for paint as soon as mine rolls again. It MAY be better to push it back a week?

So my testicles finally decended :smilielol5: and I started on the rot repair tonight. Started by removing the factory sound deadner. I've found that if you score it with a scraper, then use that same scraper to hammer away at it, it comes off in sections. I plan on leaving as much down as possible and just putting the LS over what the factory put down. Trying to make the interior as quite as possible.

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266565789

Then the good 'ole plasma comes out. Way more get's cut out than you would think to make sure you get all the cancer out and have good material to weld to. The factory sheet metal is thin, really thin, 18 maybe 20 gauge.

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266565789

and from the bottom, the car was right side up for most of this repair but being able to flip her upside down for welding both sides is KEY!

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266565789

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266565789


Had to cut out a piece of the seat support so I could get better access to the area that needed to be repaired.

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266565789

Welded one piece of 16ga into the bottom

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266566179

Then the vertical piece gets welded in... I swear that vertical peice was 22ga and MIG'ing 22ga to 16ga is a PITA..... not my prettiest welds but they're strong as all get out.

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266566179

and one shot of the nastiness that I cut out. Shame, damn NE cars. The worst of the repairs are still to come over the next few days. PRAYING to get the Herculiner on by the end of the weekend but I doubt it'll happen..... oh well. I still have 56 days left :rofl:

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266566179

well if its easier on you to wait till next weekend then thats fine with me, im not going to need them for a bit since i still have a bunch of stuff to put back together, i think im pretty close, but i still feel like i have miles to go....it doesnt help that i keep loseing my antenna mast lol

You can always flapper wheel those welds down to a nice finish if you cared, but its getting covered back up I'm assuming anyways...

The factory sound deadening is 25lbs+ so its all coming out on mine before LS goes down. Most of the factory sheet metal in the rear is pretty thin, I know just pulling the speaker towers out resulted in a few small holes in mine, it almost tears like paper its so thin!


Good weather down this way this weekend though, so hopefully you'll have the same and get a bunch of shit knocked out!

It's really up to you pal, I'm looking at the weather now and they're saying some sort of precipitation EVERY day next week :banghead: Lemme talk to Alex and see if we can fit the FD in his garage. I doubt it, but it's worth a shot. Then we just need to bring my Plasma cutter to his place. If you're not in a huge rush than I would say we should put it off till next weekend and save you a trip to CT. This way you can drop the seats off, hang out for a bit while I weld up the intake pipe, and come back hopefully the following weekend and snag the seats. Sound like a plan? What do you want to do?

Yeah, but when you flapper them down, you remove strength, not a lot, but some. I plan on sanding the bottoms down, because that'll be seen..... sorta :rofl: Had I flipped the car upside down and welded the bottom first, I would've been able to run a continuous bead on the top, but the vertical piece still would've been a series of incredibly small stitch welds... oh well.

According to FedEx the 2Gal LS weighs 30lbs for shipping, I'm not concerned with weight so much anymore. I used to be nuts about it but there gets to a certain point, for me anyway, where 25lbs of weight vs something that's quieter, cooler, and better sounding is worth it. You're looking for a 2600lb FC though, so yeah, every little bit helps. The FD for example, I'll be surprised if it weighs less than 2900 lbs'. The FC is 2800 which is light enough for me.

Supposed to be awesome weather up here too.... lower 40's and sunny to boot. Most of the work is done in the garage so the weather doesn't really effect me, but we're out of space until the boat leaves which doesn't look like it's happening anytime soon.... sadly. Oh well, with Alex's car here I'll be forced to devote a bunch of time to the boat.

My FD on a set of CAT scales coming back from a dyno run was 2660 with 1/2 tank and NO driver( 200#) I am single turbo R2 with no a/c,p/s,ABS,etc..

How accurate those scales are I don't know.

yea that works for me, im not in a rush yet, when it starts to get closer to being done...like when i first fire her up, then thats when ill be in a rush lol

VERY accurate, and DAMN Dave, that's light!

No worries man. We just got set back a day too with Alex's crap. It'll be a miracle if his car makes it to my shop by mid week as planned.:banghead:

It's just a matter of getting one day of decent weather were we can both crank on it for a solid day.

yea i completely understand what you mean

im praying this weekend is good, im intending on getting alot of stuff done, i just picked up everything i need to finish my battery relocation and my fuel pump rewire except welding wire :( stupid store closed right when i got there

oh well theres always tomorrow

Yup, I need to rock and fucking roll this weekend. I've got 2.5 patches done and 6.5 left. AND I decided that I'm going to roll my primer which means that it needs to kick for 2 days :banghead:

So I can bust my ass all I want I still need to sit around for 2 days and do nothing but touch myself while watching paint dry :smilielol5: before I can do the Lizard Skin or the Herculiner

Meh, 55 days left, I just hope that I don't have any issues bodyworking/shooting Alex's car, that could fuck us both for Deals, and if I don't make it to deals becuase of some abortion LS1 powered RED RX7.... I may have to kill him :rofl:

lmao!!!

.....i think i need to go to modders rehab....i cant turn it off man

i keep getting these ideas in my head that i want to try....ugh

cant discuss these things here :suspect: lol

:rofl: There is no rehab, there is only cold turkey, the cure is to go out and buy a honduh ;)

Not a bad, but not a good weekend either. Got most of the patches done before I ran out of weldthru primer, pics say it all I guess. This is getting old damnit, I just wanna SPRAY!

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266807619

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266807619

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http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266807619

A few more

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http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266807811

Last batch maybe?

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266807812

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266807812

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266807812

This was the patch on the "frame rail," don't know why I didn't get a before, but there were three layers that needed to be patched, and this is where I'm going to put the 1/8" thick Jack Pads if I EVER nee to get something there.

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266807812

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266807812

This one is gonna suck.... I have more to cut out on the outboard side of the pinch weld :banghead:

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266808079

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266808079

ohhhhh...i love looking at your welds, it always inspires me to get better at welding myself....which is why im diving right in and trying to weld up my own battery tray :D

im sure next weekend ill come crying to you to fix it =D

btw im gona post up a pick of the first time i mocked up the IC piping i want ur opinion on where you would put the BOV...though space is going to be more limited once its in for real since i didnt put the rad or condencer in yet

ive always been told to put it before the IC but idk

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n...d/DSCF6214.jpg

Brian car's looking...holly :lol:

So that box i asked you about it is a lojack box i can have them come out and "inspect it" and they'll put in a change ownership for it for 99$. Not sure what i'm going to do.

Also for the sound deadening i heard if you put dry ice on it or, you know the air cans, turn that upside down and spray the liquid on it the stuff will break off easier.

dry ice works wonders on tar for sure.


As for the BOV, I've traditionally kept mine closer to the TB - 12" or less away, but I've run them both ways. Physically it makes more sense there then before the IC...

:rofl: Thanks Dave.... in a few months I need to build an Aluminum one for my truck so I'll keep some measurements etc and see what we can figure out. The one in the FC I welded strait to the chassis, just need to coat it now.

I've always kept my BOV's as close to the TB's as possible, like Bill said, makes more sense to have it there.


:smilielol5: You should see what I'm tackling tonight.... see comment below *** :lol:

Cool, glad ya figured that out. I dunno, it's worth it to have sometimes. It doesn't matter how many starter kills, fuel cuts, etc etc you put in the car, it's just as easy to tow the fucker. It doesn't make all that much sense for me becuase of where I am, I don't take alot of trips, and when I do the cars are locked up, not to mention I have a ton of neighbors etc.... so I wouldn't, but for $99, it's already there, I don't know what their monitoring contracts are like but it might be something to look into.

Yeah, but honestly, my LS weighs like 25lbs, the sound deadener weighs 25lbs, if it was a track car I would strip it out, but I want to make this thing more of a touring car that's competive on the auto-x's/track days, not a track car that I drive on the street, so the sound and heat rejection that the LS plus the factory offers is where's it's at for me

So does heat. Heat gun to soften the shit up, then some 3M Adhesive remover for what's left over works awesome as well ;)


*** If I EVER catch anyone jacking an RX7 up by the seems, I'm going to jam that jack so far up your ass that I'll be able to use your face as the jack pad to show you were to properly jack from while operating the jack with your leg

I think i'll leave it in but fix the hack job for wiring. Then later on i'll call up and have them come check it out.


lol just by looking under my car i can see the old owners did that to my car quite a bit. Not to mention a dent where it looks like the jack sliped or something.

cool, makes sense to me..

i actually made the tray already....well its in pieces at the moment...i just need to weld it together..hopefully harbor freight is open....i swear they have the stupidest hours

I missed all the pics on page 15 - dude, your car had a ton of rot... that SUCKS! Good thing you're addressing it now though before it got worse. You may need to move to warmer/less salty climates!

How much is the service to keep lojack active? Couldn't you also get a cell phone for a kid added to your plan I think I have seen them have a chaparone (check spelling) feature on them so you can track them yourself(also be good to track S.O. if anything suspicious) . If I was going to do it I would wire it in someplace hooked to the charger it would be better than the cops sitting there not giving a s*it about another stolen car and if you need another phone it would be there waiting



BTW... Brian I received the merc. marine coils whenever you get ready to do the testing let me know I'll ship them up to ya if you are still planning on the great coil dyno day.

Cool! Bring it, I wanna see :D

Something else to consider is putting it right on that Greddy elbow. THe elbow is cast AL, THICK cast AL and that flange, if it's the Greedy one as well is a nice thick billet AL.... those two will weld together nicely. I dunno where the intercooler piping came from but I've had issues in the past trying to weld ebizzle intercooler piping kits together...... just something to thing about.

Cool, sounds good to me! Yes, we're still planning on doing the great dyno day. I think it'll be very early April at this point with my car getting a little behind and Alex's getting here for paint sometime this weekend. I spoke with Simon and he is sending his M&W CDI and Merc coils when he sends me some sensors in a few days :D This is gonna be fun..........

You're telling me Bill..... it keeps getting worse and worse. A little pinhole requires HUGE pieces to be cut out to get all of it.... fucking blows!

Here's the repair from the passenger side.... wait till you see the drivers side :banghead:

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266904343

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266904343

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266904343

Fuck you winter


Fuck you rot


Fuck you piss poor ex-husband body shop owner repairs..... who the fuck does this?!?!?!?!? (oh yeah, the PO's ex husband owned a bodyshop..... if he treated here twice as good as he treated her car, well it's a good thing they're done)

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266904464

I mean, he just welded the rot shut! There we're 1" long peiced of welding wire sticking through the other side... shoulda gotten a picture of that :smilielol5:

And look at this shit, an entire piece if just rotted away:banghead:

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266904464

So yeah, we're gonna have to be replacing that whole piece... yeah, spot weld cutters are awesome......

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266904464

I don't know if this was a jack incident, more like she ran into a fucking curb..... that's a pretty serious hit and the run under the valance is distorted as well.

http://rotarycarclub.com/rotary_foru...1&d=1266904464

One more corner after this repair and I may just rock it out all night tomorrow just to be done with it........ ugh... I just want to turn the corner and get my girl on the ground.... dee dee dee... no pun intended on that one.