My Rex rebuild

[mikey-t]

You should be able to splice into the loom or you could have the fans run through the apexi standalone and run the ewp standalone trough the inline thermosensor and just base the flow speed on inline temp and leave the fans to do there thing

[boosted]

Hi Mikey what sort of costs are the ewp and blanking plate?

[mikey-t]

I got it in a group buy, full kit hit £500 delivered including duty,
I would say a cheaper method would be find a good engineers or cnc place like dm motorsport "borrow" a blanking plate and get a copy done up, I'm sure the rx7 community would like a blanking / bypass plate and could sell well.

After initial costs I reckon it would be a cheap product to knock out

[C J R]

You should be able to splice into the loom or you could have the fans run through the apexi standalone and run the ewp standalone trough the inline thermosensor and just base the flow speed on inline temp and leave the fans to do there thing

Many thanks for sharing. I'll post up how things work out.

[mikey-t]

had another go today, my arbor press is nowhere near man enough to press the bushes out so thats for another day,

i even tried poking it with a stick repeatedly whilst saying "work" and even that didnt work



so today we focused on mounting the electric water pump, as you can see from the picture the pump is meant to mount direct on the outlet pipe but the anti roll bar is right in line so its a no go, the angle is far to tight to pull it up anywhere else structural so needed to think outside the box,



had a few bits of scrap metal lying around so twisted a bit and drilled it to try and come up off the old rad support bar mount whilst still clearing the powersteering lines and oil pipes and leaving enough room for the inlet pipe to mount near the fan and keep all the angles fairly shallow to avoid kinks,




im thinking that the angle is small enough to avoid kinks and i have raised it enough to help but hopefully the pump has the power to push and pull coolant with the distances

[mikey-t]

so turns out the bushes take quite a bit of pressure to remove, 9 tonnes to be exact, luckily my friend has a 100t and 500t press so we got it done.



once i started cleaning the parts up looks like someone had had them polished but badly, i cant be arsed with that shit so painted over the lot of it,

also managed to source some suspension supplies but could do with a supplier for ball joint boots/ covers and clips etc.

also require a new main 120a fuse. blew that in a rookie mistake, any uk suppliers

[boosted]

if you want a standard set ready to bolt on...

these are mine.  http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/151977295713?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

[boosted]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/RX7-Mazda-FD3S-OEM-Genuine-120-AMP-Main-Fuse-/301867461441?hash=item4648b3eb41:g:FZkAAOSwc0FUoYun

[mikey-t]

so new toys,
replaced the main fuse i broke in a rookie error,
nice and shiny



also got my hands on a nifty little impact wrench, man enough for anything on the car and even on my truck



still having nightmares with my coolant system and bushes,

got the heavy duty press on them and fitted some of the new stuff, but still having a game with some snap rings on 2 bushes, tried all my circlip pliers and my snap ring tools and no dice, they are not the usual clips with holes in etc they just have a slight angle cut into a open end that i cannot get anything into. not sure what to do about it

[re japi]

Umm, just curious, how much that Milwaukee costs there? I work in local hardware store, and I asked a price from our dealer. It was alot

[boosted]

Whats happening with the coolant system ? The topgear AST has gone ? same issue?

[mikey-t]

In a word yes the impact wrench is "expensive" but also "priceless"

I had a snap on one before and it was brilliant but this is more powerful
If you have ever had to change a wheel on a artic truck you know this is a sound investment,
Rated to 1100lb ft
It cost me £450 but for the amount of use they get that's nothing, will undo ANYTHING on your car the only limitation you have with something like this is access as they are rather large.

As for cooling yes I got rid of the tank and reverted to standard, I now have a electric water pump and will be installing B numerous bleed points and hopefully that will resolve all the cooling issues

[re japi]

Hmm, so its about same price there too. Ok, thanks for info

True, I understand. Sometimes price is irrelevant...

[mikey-t]

enough nut busting torque to spin the earths axis comes at a price

[mikey-t]

 finally got my spoiler thanks to thomas