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I\'ll put this one last post up then this thread can be removed as far as I\'m concerned.Both myself and Grant are genuinely grateful for any and all advice from people who know more than we do,this is the reason why we ask. What I will not put up with is the .... taking and sarcastic remarks from certain people who like to sit in front of their keyboards. Why the rest of you on MRC put up with this crap from those certain people is beyond me. I\'ve said it before and I\'ll say it one last time, if you don\'t have anything constructive to say then say nothing.
 I asked Grant not to put anything up because of the .....y remarks that seem inevitable on here, this is why I have not posted anything for months. I\'ll personally be glad when he gets shut of his Mazdas. One last thing, I have been in touch with Drtool and thanked him for his advice, my sarcastic remarks weren\'t directed at him and I\'m man enough to publicly apologise for causing offence.

If you want to be picky then take your anti roll bar off the car(front and back) and then drive the thing(if you can),then see why we are doing the mods we are. If you build a car like this then you put everything necessary on the car while its stripped. Anti roll bars are there for a purpose, thats why we are putting the bloody thing on.
        I might point out that I put a post up a long time ago on several rotary websites asking for advice from people and got .... all from anyone in this country. Advice came from a number of experts in Australia and the States who were all enthusiastic about what me and Grant are doing and bent over backwards to give their very welcome advice. One of those bits of advice was to put a ....ing anti roll bar on the rear of the car, much the same advice I got from Mustang handling experts in the States which is why my Mustang has anti roll bars front and rear.
      We are trying to do a little bit of our own thing here and thats why I\'ve spent all day on a lathe modifying front hubs so that we can put FD calipers on the front of this car. Grants idea and my engineering expertise.When we\'ve got the setup right then I will have new hubs cnc\'d from steel.
 As for someones comment on there being lots of other things to do with a live rear axle(with leaf springs) other than put traction bars on it, well, smartarse,the floor is yours.What do you suggest, maybe an FD rear axle? Hmm, have to put the tie rods somewhere. Coil springs? Hmm, now then, we\'ll just chop a very rare car up and do that. Maybe torsion bar suspension? Or Air suspension? We are trying to keep the car as much as possible an \'Old School Car\', theres a clue in the heading that the car is under on the website. There are one or two other things that we\'ll be putting on the car that we haven\'t made, things like tyres, the odd wheel bearing, petrol, ooo, brake pads etc. I\'ve said it before and I\'ll say it again, if you haven\'t got anything to positive to say then .... right off. Oh, and this is Grants old man speaking.

The only problem there is that the lids won\'t come up when you turn the headlights on, I\'ve a feeling it\'s to do with the relays but I\'m buggered if I can find them.

We are having problems getting Grants headlight motors to operate. There is power to them(if you screw them down maually they return once they get to the limit of their travel). I feel its a switching problem and am thinking the relays to fire the motors aren\'t getting a signal. The healights work fine, the lids have to be raised manually which is a pain. Any advive will be gratefully received, thanks ,Bob.

Heres Daddy thinking the tramp Grants talking about was  his old dad and his flaming slippers!!

Will do, thanks- though our MOT man sort of wouldn\'t bother with something as trivial as a mirror, he kind of ignores the emissions :godso a mirror is a very minor thing!!!

so here is the picture of when my dad set his slipper on fire from welding my car. I think before he started welding he had spilt som thinners onto his foot, common sens would dictate to GO PUT SOME BOOTS ON! but not my dad, he got the welder out and started, after thinking to himself what the hell is that burning smell?? and why is mt foot really hot, the 2 thoughts came together, shiv my foot is on fire!!!!!! run to outside tap to put it out, but take picture before hand as it is funny! :rollin:rollin:rollin:rollin:rollin
http://i1215.photobucket.com/albums/cc507/grantmonkhouse/morephotos4709130.jpg

I had to put my leg out first though as it was getting rather burnt:flamed,a good job I keep a bucket full of water for just this purpose,I\'m surprised the photo is in focus as I was laughing that much!!!!:Hammer

You need two rear view mirrors, not sure the regs say where they have to be though

What regs. do you mean as regards to the wing mirrors?

I forgot to mention setting myself on fire, now that was funny:Hammer, I have the photo of my shoe in flames somewhere, I\'ll get Grant to put it up. I\'ve only got the Trans Am, my Mustang and Garys FD to build after the RX4, whatever going to do with myself after that(assuming I live that long)!!!

Hello number two son, just to remind you that you forgot to mention the really important bit for the RX4 that money can\'t buy. That would be me!!!!!:Giggle:Giggle:Giggle:Giggle:Giggle(Thanks Dad for grovelling in the .... and burning yourself, grinding yourself, cutting yourself, getting arc eye-several times- and all the other things that wonderful Dads like me do):Giggle:Giggle:Giggle:Giggle:Giggle:Giggle:Giggle:Giggle:Giggle:Giggle

Could someone point us in the right direction regarding the above? Grant has had some frogeyes on his car for a couple of years and has now gone back to pop ups, however I\'m buggered if I can get the motors to energise properly. Any suggestions will be gratefully accepted. Thanks ,Bob and Grant.

I put a thread up somewhere looking  for mph speedo faces to go over the kph speedos on the imported FD\'s. We finally found some illuminated faces on fleabay to fit all the clocks on an FD and very nice they are too!!
    Anyone looking for these should go to  www.visual-performance.co.uk. They are £50 for the set and look great in the car. Hope this is of help to anyone else.( I\'m nowt to do with these people so this isn\'t an advertising plug)

After working all night (well, a couple of minutes this morning), we have found that Fairy liquid does indeed stop the new seals from squeaking. However the car now looks like a bubble machine driving down the road.Obviously more experimenting needs doing.
 You can be assured that we will not stop pushing the bounds of technology(and the truth) to bring you the latest on our highly technical research. As someone once said, \'Every bubbles passed its fizzical\'.

Me and Grants just got back from Carls and I can now reveal what his new seals are made from!
      He\'s making them from old wiper blades(the bit of metal that holds the blade stiff can also be used for a sideseal, you just have to be accurate when cutting them to size with a pair of pliers. I can guarantee the new rubbery seals work(I was wondering why they were called \'bendy seals\' and now I know!!
     The only downside on running these seals(apart from not being able to see where we were going on the way back oop nooath as we used the wipers from Grants car) is that they do tend to squeak a bit. We are now experimenting on using Fairy liquid as a two stroke oil, I\'m fairyly confident this will cure the problem!!!

On the subject of warranties, Grant got a written guarantee form Carl for 2years/24000miles. Carl told him that he could turn the boost up (a bit) if he wanted to but as the turbos(stock Mazda ones) are getting on a bit it might be wise to keep the boost to 1.2bar.
   This warranty says road or race ,something I was quite surprised about. Race motors usually have no guarantee.