Diary of a Madman; TitaniumTT's see you @ DGRRXI RE-REbuild

[WE3RX7]

I'm knocking out a portion of my brake upgrade right now...

[Force13b]

I wish i could do that to my FD. Hopefully sometime down the road.

[helghast7]

will probably bring the seats, the following weekend if you have time for them

engine should go back in sometime this week/end so i can mock up the intercooler kit right after that and figure out where i want the flange and then i drop everything off

i guess the first stop she takes after i get her running is to your place so i can get the reasonator welded in..dont really want to drive her long on the cat because i know shes gonna clog it up real quick and cause all sorts of problems...course....i could just be stupid and run it open DP to your place

cops would love me.

on second thought i better not after all the crap i just went through this weekend...that was some scary shit man!!

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by WE3RX7

I'm knocking out a portion of my brake upgrade right now...

Nice! I'm gonna have to pick your brain on that at Deals. I'm putting mine off for a while as I'm spending too much coin on other things. Traction control, fuel and spark is getting more expensive than originally anticipated.

Originally Posted by Force13b

I wish i could do that to my FD. Hopefully sometime down the road.

Definately worth doing. I wish I had the means 7 years ago when I first painted the car. Oh well, as soon as I determine that there is nothing else needed to be welded to the chassis of the FD, she's going up on the same rotisserie to make sure the undercarriage is 100% and getting re-undercoated. Nice to know that everything is squared away before the pretty paint goes down. My biggest concern is that I'll damage the paint

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by helghast7

will probably bring the seats, the following weekend if you have time for them

We should be good. You thinking the 21stish? Are you planning on dropping everything off or hanging out while we do what we gotta do?

Originally Posted by helghast7

engine should go back in sometime this week/end so i can mock up the intercooler kit right after that and figure out where i want the flange and then i drop everything off

Cool! So you're gonna bring that with the seats?

Originally Posted by helghast7

i guess the first stop she takes after i get her running is to your place so i can get the reasonator welded in..dont really want to drive her long on the cat because i know shes gonna clog it up real quick and cause all sorts of problems...course....i could just be stupid and run it open DP to your place

cops would love me.

I like it. The cops in Stamford have much better things to do than actually bother people. I jumped a curb, up on the sidewalk, around a few cars, and blew through a light turning right before I saw the cop staring right at me, didn't even flinch. Frankly, the louder the better, especially if you can come after 7:30, that's when my neighbor goes to sleep

Originally Posted by helghast7

on second thought i better not after all the crap i just went through this weekend...that was some scary shit man!!

What happened man?!?!?!

[helghast7]

yea im gona bring the seats and the pipe at the same time...seats ill leave till there ready..the pipe ill probably wait for since im going to need that to finish the engine bay...and it has to get painted and what not

we still need to figure out what to do about those pesky seatbelts..grrrr lol

oh yea, had an amazing weekend
come home from work saturday to find i magically have 8 points on my license:

apparently whatever company my insurance used to do there annual check up had false information claiming that i had 8 points because of 2 tickets i got

the truth of the matter was those 2 tickets i had brought down to those tickets you get that are no points but you pay out the ass for(i call them get out of jail free cards lol)

what was worse though was apparently the company cant even count because even if the DMV did mess up the 2 tickets still wouldnt add up to 8 points, one was a 5 over speeding ticket(2 pts) the other was a failure to obey traffic signals(2 pts)....so...yea

the real kicker.....because of the false info, my insurance company jacked up my yearly payments for both cars from 1800 to 3900!!!!!!!

luckily i sorted it all out today...but i think im going to drive 10mph for a while lol

but if your serious about the open DP ill do it lol i dont really care....its not like i can boost yet with zero miles on the engine and clutch lol, im positive hondas will still be 1000000000 times louder then me anyways hahaha

[TitaniumTT]

Damn man, that blows. The insurance that I have doesn't check my license with the DMV when it's time for renewal. It's this great little thing called the Platnium Discount. It's not really a discount, the actuaries figure it out such that you pay a small fee over what the normal policy is, but they don't run your license. Basically spreading the risk of not checking the license for people that haven't had tickets in a while. It was funny as hell, You've got a discount!! COOL! wait, why is it more expensive? :scratch: Whatever

If you want to come open DP that's cool with me, I would just be worried about the backfires catching shit on fire. We've got plenty of time to piss off my neighbor If you're gonna wait on the charge pipe, we're gonna have to meet @ Alex's, about 10 minutes north of me. We moved my 450lb welder to his place to take care of some stuff. Kinda nice to have it out of the garage, but when I start doing the fuel cell, I'll have to do all the welding there, and then drive to my shop to fit. Meh, alot of back and forth but not too bad.


So, I got half the undercarriage cleaned tonight.. woo!!!! clean the other half tomorrow and probably flip her right side up and wash the bottom, and strip the harnesses and then have at the bottom of my car with a plasma cutter, die grinder, 4.5" grinder etc etc etc..... oh how I LOVE metal work Just wish it wasn't to a finish painted car :wallbash:

[helghast7]

noice!! making some killer progress, my engine will definetly be in by the end of this weekend if it kills me!!!

and though i have no clue since ive never done it before, i cant imagine i would get much backfiring not driving past 3k rpms..but who knows....

[TitaniumTT]

It depends on how the map is. When I first started my car last year the bumper was black after a 20 minute easy drive. Better to be safe than on fire.

65 days to go

[BigIslandSevens]

Pretty nuts progress man. I was wondering if you have plans for the Rotiserie? Meaning the dimensions etc..I need to build one for a few projects I have coming up.

The use of proper jack points is greatly understated . Sorry for the extra work involved fixing that crap.

HelgHast7: FWIW- Insurance companies can add different point values for tickets than your states DMV does. They also hold them longer Here in NC alot of our traffic clients have run into this. It gives us a whole new field of practice in going back to old tickets and reducing them to eliminate insurance hitting you so hard. Not sure if NJ attorneys can go back into old cases or not but it may be worth checking into with a local lawyer.

Dave

[Force13b]

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

Definately worth doing. I wish I had the means 7 years ago when I first painted the car. Oh well, as soon as I determine that there is nothing else needed to be welded to the chassis of the FD, she's going up on the same rotisserie to make sure the undercarriage is 100% and getting re-undercoated. Nice to know that everything is squared away before the pretty paint goes down. My biggest concern is that I'll damage the paint

I plan on getting my car painted in the next year or so i just don't have the room to do something like that...or the know how Maybe sometime later.

[TitaniumTT]

Originally Posted by BigIslandSevens

Pretty nuts progress man. I was wondering if you have plans for the Rotiserie? Meaning the dimensions etc..I need to build one for a few projects I have coming up.

The use of proper jack points is greatly understated . Sorry for the extra work involved fixing that crap.Dave

Don't have any plans for the rotrisserie, Alex actually built it. I can easily pull a few measurements for you if ya like and get some detailed pics. The problem is going to be making it universal and still having it with the roof as close tot he ground as possible. Meaning, the measurement I give you from the pvot point to the floor will onlt definately work with an FC, might need to adjust it for the FB or an FD.

Next time the comp makes it to the garage I'll get some measurements and a few pics for ya.

-Brian

Originally Posted by Force13b

I plan on getting my car painted in the next year or so i just don't have the room to do something like that...or the know how Maybe sometime later.

If I could do it again I would definately do the undercoating before the paint. My biggest fear is some of the shit is gonna run into the paint or I'm going to damage it somehow. Not a fun feeling by any stretch of the imagination. For you though Tyler, you've got a CA car so you shouldn't have nearly as many problem spots as I do. Unless of course the PO was a moron like mine and destroyed the "jack points." I still haven't put up the money shot
My car spent her first 9 years in VT, claimed it was stored for the winter in a garage but if there was no vapor barrier, it might as well be outside, concrete is fine, but some of the garages in VT are just a barn built on a mudpuddle. It would be easy enough, just time consuming, to get under the car, strip the suspension, drop the tank and the lines, go hog wild cleaning, and then roll the undercoating/bedliner on. If I didn't have any repairs to make that's what I would've done. It's all the welding and cutting and cleaning and grinding nad plasmaing and etc etc etc you get the point that is just much MUCH easier and quicker of the car is upsidedown like this

[helghast7]

Originally Posted by BigIslandSevens

HelgHast7: FWIW- Insurance companies can add different point values for tickets than your states DMV does. They also hold them longer Here in NC alot of our traffic clients have run into this. It gives us a whole new field of practice in going back to old tickets and reducing them to eliminate insurance hitting you so hard. Not sure if NJ attorneys can go back into old cases or not but it may be worth checking into with a local lawyer.

Dave

i understand what your saying, and we have something similar to that...however

in my case it was just whatever company my insurance used to get the license info from, had completely false information

i already got it fixed monday, told my insurance to get my drivers abstract, which they did...

they called me back a couple hours later like..."ohhh....we fucked up....sorry"

[TitaniumTT]

64 more days to go and all I got done today was to finish striping all the heavy nasty grime and dirt off. Tomorrow we're getting hammered by snow so the plan is to get her flipped right side up and strip out the harnesses, then get under the car while she right side up with some hot water, joy, and a stiff bristle brush and clean one more time. Flip upside down and dry. Hopefully I'll have all the repairs and prep done by the end of the weekend. Then I can get the shop up to 75* in Feb and roll the liner on. I'd LOVE to see her on the jackstands by early next week. Still have a bunch of harness work to do and the interior coating......... FUCK!!!! I need to do the RX8 seat mounts before the undercoating goes on.... damn.... hopefully I can get that done tomorrow as well.

Got the big 7" diameter pipe for the surge tank today Just waiting on my Bosch mount and some fuel hose and fittings and we can get into the fuel cell hardcore I'm liking working on it while it's upside down. Kinda refreshing and frightening at the same time.

[calicrewchief]

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