Resurrecting a 144k FD by Fd3BOOST

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Early this mooring I went out in the shop before the family woke up and got a few hours in. I went ahead and got this reassembled with the pieces and put it in the car. Austin you did a killer job on these shift and brake boots.  

The floor to ceiling suede is sexy. This car is taking on a personality all on it's own.

Then I mounted up the pass side Feed skirt, it's carbon fiber. Didn't fool with the drivers side since I'd have to pull it off anyway to get the fender painted up these week anyway. 

Last thing I fooled with was mounting the SBG HID's in. 

Thats all for tonight, Happy Monday tomorrow..  

6-4-2014

Well I got sick of looking at this fender so I went ahead and started on it tonight. I rolled the lip on the fender and then I got the most of the fill work done. I sprayed a few coats of primer on it before walking away from it. I'll finish that and seal it out tomorrow. Might not get the clear on it until this weekend. 

Just in case anyone needs one, You can still get new OEM hood cables from Malloy for around $25. 

And I went ahead and installed the two gauges I am going to have. These are Autometer GS gauges. They are a dead match on the JDM OEM green interior lights. I have these in my Jeep and they are awesome. 

6-8-2014

I got the base color laid on the fender this past Friday. My catalyst for the clear coat is old though since i bought it last summer and I don't trust it. That being the case I had to order some on Friday since I can't find this stuff locally. The fender looks great but I am waiting on supplies to get the clear on it. 

So then I switched gears and jumped on the long block. I went ahead and stripped it down. I sold the 93 turbos off of it and shipped them out Friday. I am replacing every coolant line on the block, the engine harness, vacuum hose tie-wrap and maybe remove a few items such as the OMP, AWS, Double throttle etc... The oil pan needs to come off and be resealed also. It's leaking.

I'm not exactly sure on my plans for this yet to be completely honest. It's been over 11 years since I have had a twin turbo set up on an RX7 so I have forgot some of the bits on the manifold and I need to read up on and re-fresh my memory. My old car was bare bones. I removed everything non-essential off the manifolds. This time I want the car to run and idle as close to stock as possible. 

Anyway, doing the tie-wrap job brought back some old school memories.

Behold this mess...

The vacuum lines were pretty much petrified. 

The engine hardness, Oh excuse me I mean harness is going out the window as well. A brand new one is $800 at Malloy. I'll be calling in that order on Monday. I have two older ones for sale if anyone needs a spare. 

Okay so 30 min or so and one Red Bull later...

Then I broke open a can of old school 2002 and did a tie wrap job on the rats nest. I had a spare from my old car which made this go really fast when I had a reference. Cleaned off all the grime on the solenoids and the rack. Resprayed the rack too. 

Bolted up the ACT HD/Street too.