So Where to Start

For me this has been a long haul, I knew it would be a lot of work and money but to experience it first hand is a little different than expecting it. In either case many things have been done and still more to do.

After I bought all those parts many months ago I sent my engine over to Garage Life which is a Rotary specific performance shop here in SoCal. It houses some very talented individuals who understand power goals and simplistic setups like what I'm trying to attain.

 I spent many months locating lost and missing parts mostly stock even though I never planned to keep it stock its always good practice to have stock parts laying around in case you get your hands slapped by your local law enforcement. So I literally got all the stock intakes and emission stuff just to have on the shelves.

Got the smaller battery to save some space in the bay even though this battery may end up in the tray like everyone does.

On the other side of town my block was coming together nicely and was built rather quickly with a medium port because race car lol.

Lighten flywheel and 99spec turbos were added to this build as well. Still a very simple build for a shop that regularly pumps out 500whp cars.

So knowing I was missing a bunch of random bits I had to ask GL to install the motor they built for me as well as the stuff I didn't know was missing. So they did...

 

 

More to come soon!

Behind on Posting

Been behind on this for many reasons, one I'm lazy at social media related things and two....is pretty much like one.

Anyway after many months of work and financially draining aspects of putting my FD back together I am very to announce.....I'm not done. :- |

I have tons of progress pics that I will post up eventually but I'll just start with this and hope it'll do.

Sitting at Garage Life awaiting things!

Well Shit 2014 has Come and Gone

And all I got was this stupid.....nevermind.

Though there haven't been many updates on this blog there have been many updates on the seven...thank god!

Buying a rolling chassis has mad me some what of a serious parts collector, having to replace things that really shouldn't be missing in the first place but hey its all good. I think instead of explaining everything up to this point I will say this. The motor is in the shop and I'm finishing my 5spd swap and my bank account hates me.

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!

On a side note I actually broke the original Cwest lenses immediately after fixing a slight crack on the face of both. So I started to make my own....Then found some for sale not to far from my house. 

Isn't that LAME or what?!?!

Moving on.

 More to come stay tuned!

Titanium!

Yeah long time no post I hear ya! Well I've got a few things lined up to post but I've only got pics of this so....well there you go lol. A buddy of mine decided to to go full race car on his FD so he went a different direction for his shifter. Lucky for me he likes high quality stuff! He off loaded this to me.

Brake Duty

Well much time has past since I purchased the 7 and many things have been slow going due to many things. But as of late I've been working on this thing 4-5 days a week just to make some progress! Its been like 90-98 degrees in my garage but that didn't stop me as much as I hate roasting my buns off!

So I'll direct our focus on the stock brake rotors which I thought for sure were goners lol rusty as heck and haven't been used for over 10 years but hey my guys over at JER fixed me up. I figured I'd rock these temporarily during the construction period (until its running) so I may then focus some real attention on the brakes and how they function and what improvements if any need to be made.

So this is where I was I guess many of you who have messed with older rotors know the condition of these at first site...not me. But I gave'em to my bro's at JER and this is what the gave me in return.

Not bad right? The width was still within spec and for temp use I can live with'em. So me being me I like cool looking things...in this case less crappy looking. So I masked these off and painted them down.

And so here we are, resurfaced and freshly painted....bling!

 

So I thought I was done, until a buddy of mine made a simple suggestion which turned out to be more laborious than I had figured it would be upon re-instillation...whatever at least it looks cool right?

 

 

All done for now. Time to focus on my 5spd swap and my engine rebuild.

Moving Forward

    Still chugging along between projects and the FD. Starting to get to that point where I just want to work on this thing and nothing else. Can't let that happen lol, the key to staying fresh on a long term build like this is to not consume yourself with it. Hard to do when there's so much to be done, but its all in good fun.

     My good friend over at JER loves to entertain me with all of his awesome successes that are his hoard of classic Japanese muscle cars. Hit the link to see what I'm talking about. So I on occasion visit him for no reason at all, It turns out my latest visit was much needed in the further progress of my FD. My buddy has an FD of his own which is how we became friends in the first place, In front of what use to be Super AutoBacs in Stanton CA now an empty building of memories. Anyway we talked for a while and it turns out he had a project motor that came out of a chopped FD from Japan that he was not going to use. So......I bought it and sat in my garage for when the day comes for me to get to work on it.

So after walking around his shop I found a set of wheels I had been drooling over for a while so yeah still trying to work this one out lol. In the mean time.....test fit!

Phewwww I've been busy....

But not on the 7 haha. I have done a few many things in the way of the 7 but none of which will get it on the road any sooner other than having the 5th gear syncro updated in the trans before install which has yet to happen....These things take time and lots of money...both of which are limited in my case lol.

A buddy of mine was so generous to have given me for Christmas a set of Hella horns! Pardon the bad cell phone pic but times are "hard" lol just kidding.

As you can see in the pic the Koyo sits in nicely, I hope I won't have to adjust much one the 13B gets in there.

I finally picked up a matching front bumper and r1 lip that need refurbishing but looks decent.

 I mentioned these little beauties early on.

 Also got a good deal on this aftermarket bumper lights off of a buddy on the 7Tuned forums.

That empty bay needs filling but I've realized I've got to take care of a few things before I can even get that far.