Waking up the FD, the rebuild of car and life

[oyvindjs]

small and detailed work today, god how i hate this...

attacked the abs unit and break drum vakuum unit thing with brush, air grinder, sanding paper, degreaser, primer and paint today.










finished up the engine bay in satin black today as well, im pleased!!







Also, one shot of the sun going down today, from my garage.

[oyvindjs]

another day, more work.

Put together my BNRs today, minus a few parts im gonna clean up and paint:





Went on to reassemble the following units:

 painted abs unit:



and the brake-unit:



igniter and fuel unit:



then went for a drive in my friends newly tuned celica GT4, man what a nice car to drive! its like riding a train! Nice weather as well





and came home to find my dog bored half to death chillin on the carpet, that little frog! :lol:

[oyvindjs]

more tedious work today. So little done it seems, but so much time goes into getting into those tight spots to sand down, prime and paint... Boring work..!

[oyvindjs]

Got some work done today!

rust-prevension in the wheel-wells up fron, nice and shineyt:



removed covers in front of window, washed and grinded down, zink-primed it and painted satin black





cleaned and washed calipers


bolted up the rear subframe:


and fitted it!



nice, clean, black!

[oyvindjs]

What an effing nice day it was today! Sun is out, cold beer in the fridge, so we had to do some car-duty!!!

Had to snip a few photos of my house and garage and the view:





Today, it was front subframe-time!  Yes, i know i mounted the front swaybar wrong here, but corrected it before i fitted the subframe:



sliding it in:



and done:


Sandblasted the rear calipers:


Started to remove and clean my old shock/springsetup:



4 HR springs, sold to a friend of mine, got a brand new set of eibachs, type Howard Coleman-recommended coming in:

[oyvindjs]

My dog was getting pretty fed up with me by this time, so he gave me a " i dont give a fnuck"- attitude when i tied him to the Cosmo :lol:






painted rear calipers:





washed down plastic covers:


washed, primed and painted all heatshields under the car. I know they are alu, but its just to get a uniform look to the car. The paint is heat-withstanding paint as well.




all calipers done:



car rustprotection-covered to the moon and back!



all in all, a good day!

[oyvindjs]

Had a friend come over today to help me do some heavy lifting and fitting today.
Lovely celica GT4 he has, with some nice bolt-ons and tuneups, but pretty stock looking:



I started to clean the gearbox:



while he started to wrap the downpipe:





Then, we bolted up the Dragon Performance diffbrace:




Threw in the main shaft and PPF, together with the Dragon Performance transmission brace(no more 3gear shiftfails they say)




refitted the intercooler and front fiberglass thingy:


and threw in the spaghetti(main wiring loom)

[oyvindjs]

ran into a pretty....annoying... problem with the downpipe. At first, it rubbed against the exhaust-housing of the twinturboes, so we shaved it down abit:







Then, when we test-fitted it, we saw that the hole where you fit the lambda-probe, was totally in the wrong place....!:icon_tdow The downpipe is of unknown origin. Good quality, but i suspect foul ebay-play by the one who sold it to a friend of mine(JDM TT), who couldnt use it, so he sold it to me... and i got the cat in the bag....


Anyways, its not my friends fault. Ill just have to fit two new bunges, or whatever you call em, on the other side where it should be

All in all, a great day!:icon_tup:

[oyvindjs]

Got a package from  NVMYRX-7 on rx7-club today! Superseller, great guy to deal with! He even followed my instructions to make the brand new in box Eibachs look used, so he dusted them up and made em look dirty, and wrote a "thank you for the wires" and tagged "trade" in the export box.   Got em through customs without having to pay Norways silly 25% import tax. :icon_tup:

Brand new in the box Eibachs. Approved by Dennis!:lol:



also, i hung up the front bumper and placed the hood on top just to dream abit , knowing that my baby is on the road again in about a month :blush:

[Grant Monkhouse]

looking very good

[oyvindjs]

Saturday, nothing-to-do-day!  So, we do some work on the FD.\'

First, i introdused and paired up the newly aquired eibach springs with my old yellow Konis:



Fitted the rear callipers:



then, i had to modify the front underpanel to fit both the FMIC, and the radiator i was to lower abit to get more room up top:




Had a radiator built for me locally by a friend of mine, and he welded up things abit off, just a few mm, so i had to widen the lower support holes for the fan:







then, i started to fabricate some new lower radiator mounts, to fit the radiator a few cm to the front, and lower:

[oyvindjs]

Radiator sitting nice and low:





threw up a IC pipe just to see how low it was:







Cut out hole for the drain bolt:


like a glove:


Also, modifying the undertray abit to let in cold air from underneath the car. Cut a gap 5-6 cm behind the bolts that bolts the tray to the 99spec front, and im going to space out that gap so its even and flows good. a plus, it wont be visible from the front, and air will have a nice trip through the rad, and out the big ventilations in my hood:

[oyvindjs]

Hung over-day, so time to do some work on the 7 to get the body working again

Bolted up the suspension and swaybars today, and fitted the wheels just to "dream" abit



jacked up the rear, to see how low the eibachs are when they are not broken in, i recon they will drop alittle more when they are used abit



I can also lower the spring-cup another 2 cm on the shock itself, if it doesnt get low enough, ill do that.


Also, have some clearence-issues i have to sort... they juuuust rub, its 3-4 mm, so i have to roll the lip inside the fender to solve the problem:






but, we are getting closer by the day! Paid shipping on my longblock a few days ago from legio here on the forum. He is crating it now and shipping pretty soon I cant wait!

Man, the FD looks so sexy from the rear!

[oyvindjs]

Another day, more to be done!

Used the rest of the exhaust bandage i had on the mid-pipe. Didn`t even get halfway through it before i ran out. Well, something is better than nothing.



started to bolt up intake pipes etc to the twins, just to sort stuff and have as few loose units as possible





Discovered that the intake-set on the car was a trust-set. Im pleased!



Got my "new used" AST from ebay auction today. Unknown brand, but looks pretty good. Anyone know if its from a known manufacturer?



Found broken pills, fixed em with superglue






started to clean more old parts to make em look new again

[oyvindjs]

Dug out my spankin brand new upgraded alternator(left in box), old one right side



old:



New





Anyone else have this problem while doing work on their car? :egrin:




Also, snapped a few cool pics of an awesome moon passing the bridge here, and later going down behind the ridge: