Well the day has finally arrived - I got to get the RX this saturday.
I wonder what it\'ll be like?? Havn\'t seen it since november when it was covered in road grime & broken down.
Cant wait to pollish it all up & finnish the little bits & peices off (bit of paint work & fitting the boost gauge).
Will post pictures next week once ive cleaned it.
Stay tuned!
aaahhhh
I opened this with excitement as Im in TBW tomorrow, and you wont have it :mad:
Is it running in time? :reallymad :rollin
In time for what?
Hi Tim
they finished that off quickly, has he fitted the diff?, Rich was saying that you will have to run it in now, once its run in you will have to get it on the rollers to have the microtec mapped.
Will be nice to see what figures you get
drive safely
regards
tony
Don\'t know where to get the mapping done. Hope I dont have to drive all the way to dorset again.:(
oooooooooh exciting, are you planning on going to Brooklands next month? (I think it is anyway)
I don\'t know if I\'ll be there in the rx7 ... its not looking likely as I\'m pretty sure I\'m going to have to take it appart to check these throttle bodies fit.
Yeah, if the cars all shipshape I\'ll bring it. Hasn\'t really been on the road yet. Wont be on the track tho.
Who do I see about passes?
think you just need your club card ... best ask Lisa. Theres a thread somewhere about it.
Thats how it used to be I think, just show your card?
I don\'t think I have a club card.
Car wasn\'t ready after all any way. Heres hoping for this weekend.....
Radiator is very blocked,I guess your last engine got hotter than normal and then detonated.New rad needed!
QuoteOriginally posted by Timrxmotors
Radiator is very blocked,I guess your last engine got hotter than normal and then detonated.New rad needed!
thats not like you Tim,finding other stuff that needs doing...;)
Can I have a boost controller please.7 psi is not enough!
Fack! Yous spendin it faster than I earn it!!
Water injection then an LSD, now a radiator & boost contoler??
So this is what it must be like to have a heroin habit....
Tim, i see you\'ve still got your wicked sense of humour!
BTW, one of my tips did go..otherwise the compressions were excellent!:D
I\'m going for Titaniumceramiccarbonplutonium ones next!
Pete
he\'s finished it really ... just doesn\'t want to give it back yet :D
It sounds beautiful... I was following Tim in it today, and it was almost perfectly silent, each and every time he just dabbed the throttle with his foot it roared... I don;t think he took it above about 4K, but it sounded awsome all the way. Gagging to hear that thing go to 9K!!! Even with the turbo spinning up it will sound incredible. You are gonna be one happy man when you drive that thing home!:D
Whoa there! Best not have been going over 4k in my not run in engine :mad:
Bloody joyriders...
QuoteOriginally posted by MikeLMR
he\'s finished it really ... just doesn\'t want to give it back yet :D
Sounds like it! When ARE u getting her back Don?! :rollin
F**ked if I know mate. They\'ve had it for 6 months now. I hope they\'ve built me whole new car - they\'ve had enough time to do it!
Yeh but it will be worth the wait mate! and plus if you calculate the money that you would have spent on fuel if you had gotten it abck ...say 3 months ago, then it has probably almost, nearly paid for itself!:) :rolleyes:
Anyhoo, hope it all goes well and we get to see and hear of its exploits.
cheers, michael.
Tis true, I wouldn\'t have been using it much over the winter, but now the sun is out I\'m itching to sort out all the little bits of paintwork, get the stereo in & drive it.
Might fit a remote central locking alarm & posh it up a bit (once my bank has recovered from the HUGE withdrawal I\'m about to make)
It can\'t be that bad, having the UK\'s top 1st Gen Guru fine tuning every last detail. We did a little work on the throttle before the weekend, made it more responsive, checked, tripple checked and checked it all over again. I can\'t help polishing bits in the engine bay whenever I\'m working on it... I\'m bloody obsessed! Shouldn\'t be too long before it\'s run in. Then it\'s rolling road time ;) 200hp here we come. Still one of the finest sounding rx7\'s I\'ve ever heard.
You won\'t need a stereo! All is well.Tuned it today on the rolling road with Geff at Reworx. Only took it to 10psi,but with that it has more rwhp than a stock FD,with just one turbo,no intercooler and a smaller engine. :D
I noticed it said FD3S on that sheet Tim .... but seeing as the registration number is correct I\'ll guess its not another windup :rollin
looking like it\'ll be a quick car ... your going to need some new underpants when you drive that Don !
QuoteOriginally posted by MikeLMR
I noticed it said FD3S on that sheet Tim .... but seeing as the registration number is correct I\'ll guess its not another windup :rollin
Well spotted! It is Dons car really,just didn\'t enter the model.
QuoteOriginally posted by mattmaclennan
We did a little work on the throttle before the weekend, made it more responsive, checked, tripple checked and checked it all over again.
I\'m saying nothing Tim ;)
Don - I can confirm the graph IS for your car mate, looks and sounds good :)
Say Tim,while you\'re at it,what\'s the estimated bhp of my old jalopy,cos you reckoned aboot 200bhp..?Not really that bothered,cos soon i\'ll be getting my T04 xxxxxxx
QuoteOriginally posted by mattmaclennan
It can\'t be that bad, having the UK\'s top 1st Gen Guru fine tuning every last detail. We did a little work on the throttle before the weekend, made it more responsive, checked, tripple checked and checked it all over again. I can\'t help polishing bits in the engine bay whenever I\'m working on it... I\'m bloody obsessed! Shouldn\'t be too long before it\'s run in. Then it\'s rolling road time ;) 200hp here we come. Still one of the finest sounding rx7\'s I\'ve ever heard.
Don I can confirm the car sounds fantastic.
Don\'t pay attention to Matt he\'s never polished anything in his life.
Well IF its my car then I\'m well happy considering it hasn\'t got its boost contoller yet (I was going to suggest putting it on when I come back for the rolling road after its run in, but hey it seems RX team are way ahead).
But if thats from someone elses car AGAIN - thin ice Tim, THIN ICE!!! :mad:
Straight up govnor - I can provide 6 witnesses (if u include the boxer dog) that will testify that the car WAS yours Don :rollin
Yep, it\'s genuine, I witnessed it!
Very nice 1st gen you\'ve got there Don, you\'ll be chuffed to bits with it :)
QuoteOriginally posted by Don Pamponi
Well IF its my car then I\'m well happy considering it hasn\'t got its boost contoller yet (I was going to suggest putting it on when I come back for the rolling road after its run in, but hey it seems RX team are way ahead).
But if thats from someone elses car AGAIN - thin ice Tim, THIN ICE!!! :mad:
Don that\'s your car mate anyone else would of been bouncing off the ceiling with excitement:D
Can\'t believe you think this is a wind up.
I\'ve only heard at idle and being manouvered around the workshop but it really does sound great. The body work looked good to me what exactly are you going to do to it?
Car\'s like yours makes one very temtped to get a first gen :bandit
rgds
Well, some of the spraying was third rate - he didn\'t rub down the bumpers before he sprayed them so bits of paint are peeling off here & there. The cowboy ripoff merchant stung me good - bad paint & knackered lump & I paid him WELL for it.
So yeah, I\'m not allowing my self to get too excited this time. The car owes me about 10K now. I really needed the £££ for my wedding in may & a new van. So I just feel stupid.
Hey mate, dont feel stupid, come round here, your resonably local, I\'ll show you a car that has had close to 80k spent, I\'ll show you cowboy rip off work, Ill show you my 2 1st gens as well, yours does look good.
Dont get me wrong - I\'ll be dead chuffed when I get it home. Its just that the timing is all wrong moneywise. (& I\'m still ****ed off at the bloke who sold it to me half done, then I bought an elford kit with a knackered turbo, then the engine blew up on the way home from its 1st outing, & now i\'ve spent too much on the new lump) Bunch of expensive, frustrating 1 year on & still no car a*se!
More expensive than children this car.
ah, think this is expensive, wait til ya get married. :p
Already starting to add up the cost of wedding (not to mention new house) thats why Tim didn\'t get his boost contoler.
You can live in a car, you can\'t drive a house... Don\'t pay any attention to Brian, 1st Gens aren\'t in his Mazda Manual:rollin
So, when will it be finnished then?
QuoteOriginally posted by Don Pamponi
So, when will it be finnished then?
Sadly,:( ,it is ready! Just tuned for cruising,what we didn\'t do on the rolling road.Diff is in.All that there is left to do is to take it to Santa Pod.:D I\'ll take it,Please,Pleeease.
Easy tiger! Lets run it in first eh? Things tend to blow up doing the 1/4 mile, which is fine if you have another 20 or so engines in your airplane hanger, but for me this probaby a once in a lifetime expense.
When is santa pod going on then?
Ooh, can i pick it up on monday then?
i think it\'s gonna be quite tricky getting Tim to part with your car... He seems to have become attached to it, and he\'s always talking about it. Maybe you could distract him with a big box of chocolates and run away with your car! I\'ve seen Brian Ellis do it on a number of occasions. On a serious note, I think you should call him and find out. It\'s looking, sounding and performing really well! It will be a shame to see it go. Oh well, guess we\'ll have to get Tim\'s drag car back on the road.:D
QuoteOriginally posted by Don Pamponi
Easy tiger! Lets run it in first eh?
I think that you will find that it is already run in!
Regards
Carl
hahaha,ask if Tim wants to buy my 12at!
Right, ok then. I\'m beginning to get the picture:
My car WAS probably finnished back in January on schedual, but Tim\'s purple car broke down & he\'s needed something to drive to work & back.
I shall deduct appropriate hire charges from your bill Tim.
TIM IS AN ENIGMA :god
Hmmm....yes, perhaps he should be the club mascot - Tim\'s mug could replace the MRC logo on all our tax disk holders!
All in favour say aye! :rollin
QuoteOriginally posted by Don Pamponi
Hmmm....yes, perhaps he should be the club mascot - Tim\'s mug could replace the MRC logo on all our tax disk holders!
He\'d have to become a paying member first tho, surely!!!! :rollin
Oh dear....I have been summoned by the enigma.
Don\'t think he\'s amused :eek:
He\'s not... he\'s having to wave good buy to his latest brainchild. His purple perril is looking more like a picnic bench than ever before! Ahh well, I guess he\'ll just have to spend more time making the RX8 Turbo go even faster! :D
Never the less, I think we should all refer to Tim as \'The Enigma\'
from now on.
Or, \'The Enema\'?:D
Bugger! Never going to see the car now, what am I doing?!!
Tim is really known as the enigma because he may as well be speaking in code most of the time :D
LOL or just waffling b*ll*cks about; "they stole a whole bloody hour the bast**ds, I want my hour back! And they made it rain!":rollin :rollin :rollin
Yep, I shall be employing Matt\'s services as a translator when I go down (maybe this saturday- he he!).
Aren\'t they auditioning for the next Dr Who?
Has anyone ever met a more suitable candidate than Tim from RXmotors???
I doubt it.
not unless they dropped a 12a in the tardis!
Doesn\'t he already own his own set of sonic screwdrivers?
Well its on.
T minus 15 hours & counting.....
I have it & its fast!
Photos to follow tomorrow!
can you put a full spec list up on here,Don?As detailed as you can get it,like what injectors you are using,your custom turbo manifold etc..I\'m especially interested in what clutch you have.Everythings probably been detailed in earlier posts,but i can\'t be arsed to trawl through it all again!Thanks if you feel like doing it,Dante
woohooo another first gen back on the road today :)
are you coming to Brooklands then ? hhhhhhhmmmmmm ? hint hint ? its not far from you either hint hint :D
lump
blah
lurm
blaxos
floob
bosh
There should be something here
woopsie
bang
plop
eh? wossisthen?
needs finnishing
Right then.
It looks like Tim has been living in my car for some time.
I found an odd collection of stuff left in the car when I got it home.
Do you want any of this stuff back Tim?
As for a full spec - when Tim sends me an invoice with details I\'ll pass them on. All I know now is that its got a new heavy clutch, loud pipe, a box with wires, a green thing & a blue thing.
Hope that clarifies things
QuoteOriginally posted by Don Pamponi
As for a full spec - when Tim sends me an invoice with details I\'ll pass them on. All I know now is that its got a new heavy clutch, loud pipe, a box with wires, a green thing & a blue thing.
Hope that clarifies things
mmmmmmmmm green and blue things:D
Looking good
QuoteOriginally posted by Don Pamponi
Right then.
It looks like Tim has been living in my car for some time.
I found an odd collection of stuff left in the car when I got it home.
Do you want any of this stuff back Tim?
That\'s a funny picture!!:rollin :rollin :rollin
Pete
Yeah, I don\'t know if he left them there by mistake or as a gift.
LOL, i used to have that exaxt same BB gun, presuming it is a BB gun:eek: ;)
Car looks trick,
Paul:cool
Tim would appear to be a dark horse
the unidentified pipey tubey silver thing is a bung for the exhaust, it should clip into the tail pipe and make it quieter
QuoteOriginally posted by MikeLMR
the unidentified pipey tubey silver thing is a bung for the exhaust, it should clip into the tail pipe and make it quieter
How ghey!
wont be needing that then...
unless your MOT man or local plod is deaf I\'d keep hold of it :)
looks nice BTW, is that ECU in the footwell or is tucked up out the way usually ?
QuoteOriginally posted by Don Pamponi
Right then.
It looks like Tim has been living in my car for some time.
I found an odd collection of stuff left in the car when I got it home.
Do you want any of this stuff back Tim?
Oh no,my teddy bear! You can keep the gun,I\'ve replaced it with an AK47. :D
When your in the area, Dartford drop in, dying to see her, got a spare 1st gen, might be begging a project. She is looking real sweet.
QuoteOriginally posted by Timrxmotors
Oh no,my teddy bear! You can keep the gun,I\'ve replaced it with an AK47. :D
Tim, you have great hidden sense of humour...bring it on!!
Pete :)
QuoteOriginally posted by Timrxmotors
You can keep the gun, I\'ve replaced it with an AK47 :D
I heard Matt was a bit of an arms dealer, didnt realise he was rolling with AK\'s under the seat these days tho :eek: :rollin
Yeah, scratch the surface & who knows what you\'ll find
QuoteOriginally posted by Don Pamponi
wont be needing that then...
Thats the spirit! My local plod just wave me on when I go thundering past :D
Louder! Louder!