It looked so simple at first!

[GySgtFrank]

Originally Posted by mazpower

Badass Kevin!

Did you still want a bellhousing? I might be able to tow it behind my car LOL...

Whenever you get a chance. Like I said, I kind of have my hands full with this part of the project at the moment.

[mazpower]

Originally Posted by GySgtFrank

Whenever you get a chance. Like I said, I kind of have my hands full with this part of the project at the moment.

Will you have a way of bringing it back to KS with you from DGRR? Or is shipping better?

[GySgtFrank]

Originally Posted by mazpower

Will you have a way of bringing it back to KS with you from DGRR? Or is shipping better?

We'll probably have to go with shipping, as I'll be flying this time. I don't think I'm going to have the car together in time.

[GySgtFrank]

I finally got the rear portion of the driver's side wheel well done. It was a pain as I had to make it from small sections of flat sheet, heat and bend them, then weld the whole mess in. The welds are smoothed and I have primer on it anyway.

[chibikougan]

Damn fine for no sandbag, planishing hammer, and English wheel

[GySgtFrank]

Originally Posted by chibikougan

Damn fine for no sandbag, planishing hammer, and English wheel

I'm not that fancy. I just want to get it back on it's wheels and moving.

Currently paying the price for trying to work on a GM product. I need to get back on the RX-7, but the @#$%* truck has other ideas. The up side is that it gives a perspective on just how good the Mazda engineers were, (and just how bad GM is).

[TitaniumTT]

Yeah.... fuck gm

What's the latest on the 7? Or has she been shunned for the POS PU?

[GySgtFrank]

Originally Posted by TitaniumTT

Yeah.... fuck gm

What's the latest on the 7? Or has she been shunned for the POS PU?

I keep looking at it and wishing I was working on that instead.

I've been through 3 engines and two chassis' with this POS and still no joy. All of my spares turned out to be garbage and the original still won't run. If you think Microwreck ECUs are bad, try screwing around with the early stock GM TBI ECU. Finding wiring diagrams and information is almost impossible (Chilton and Haynes books must have been written by people working at GM, utterly useless), it's as if GM thinks they're data is Top Secret. I'm at the point where I'm about to yank the whole works and push it off to the side, until I can afford to build an old school carbureted and HEI ignited small block. They were the last thing Garbage Motors built that was worth a crap. This thing is just not worth the headaches.

[GySgtFrank]

back to work by GySgtFrank, on Flickr


... and back to our regularly scheduled programming.

[chibikougan]

Cool!

[estevan62274]

Glad to see you back at it, one of my favorite first gens.
I hope to see it next year at DGRR

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[GySgtFrank]

Originally Posted by estevan62274

Glad to see you back at it, one of my favorite first gens.
I hope to see it next year at DGRR

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Thanks, so do I.

Do you think you'll have your FB ready by next year?

[estevan62274]

Originally Posted by GySgtFrank

Thanks, so do I.

Do you think you'll have your FB ready by next year?

Yeah, that's the plan but it was the plan last year and it didn't happen

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[GySgtFrank]

Originally Posted by estevan62274

Yeah, that's the plan but it was the plan last year and it didn't happen

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It sounds like you're on the same plan I am. I need to get a different plan.

[GySgtFrank]

Finally done with the grinding on the left side and threw a quick coat of primer on there. I can no longer get the good 3M etching primer here, so I had to make do with Krylon. Which is why there is a color change in my primer.

Oh well. I'm not going to get carried away with paint yet. A good rattle can job will do in the engine bay until I'm done with the engine and all likely mods. I'll then have everything media blasted and use filler (or lead?) to smooth everything out prior to laying on the actual finish coat.

left wheel well 1 by GySgtFrank, on Flickr

left wheel well 2 by GySgtFrank, on Flickr

left wheel well 3 by GySgtFrank, on Flickr

left wheel well 4 by GySgtFrank, on Flickr



... and a shot of both wheel wells done and in primer. It's amazing how much faster and easier it always is to tear stuff apart rather than putting it back together again.

left and right wheel wells by GySgtFrank, on Flickr

I still have to do a little cleanup on the bottom of the right side and get it in primer, then I'll be finished with the sheet metal portion. Then back to the lower K-member/upper shock mounts. *groan* I have to put it all back together again. at least once and probably more, just to check measurements and then take it all back apart again for final fixes to both.

Yes I will get this done this year. At least until I tear something else apart and have it laying in pieces again. I suffer from a little recognized malady known as Brian Treffeisen's Disease, or CQFWI (Can't Quit F***ing With It).