So what did you do to your car today?

not today but tuesday, guess that vw part used as a jack point.

Pete Wrote:
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> Hydro handbrake done.
>
> edit:
> cock gobbling POS Wilwood master cylinder
> hydraulic circuits are backwards. The ony closest
> to the flange is the outlet not the inlet!
>
> Spent 1/2 hour getting a firm pedal and I grabbed
> my new happy-handle and it did nothing. WTF?
> Applied the regular brake and it went soft for a
> moment. Grabbed handle and it just pushed the
> brake pedal up. FUUUUCK.
>
> I'm just going to cut and splice the lines, I
> didn't make them long enough for them to be easily
> switched. (M/C is stuffed between the trans
> tunnel and the passenger seat)

Don't feel bad Pete, virtually everybody I have sen plumb in Willwood and Tiltons and for that matter Girlings in the last 8 years has initially plumbed them backwards.
(and call me all sorts of names when pull out the drawings and point to where it says "INLET"(And that I did remind them---maybe they should listen more!)
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> Pete Remner
> Cleveland, Ohio
>
> 1984 RX-7 reshell
> 1978
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> Edited 1 times. Last edit at Jun 12, 2009 by Pete.

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

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CALL +1 206 431-9696
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is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

What'd I do to the rally car today?

Put it up for sale.

gilbrock Wrote:
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> What'd I do to the rally car today?
>
> Put it up for sale.

Always a bit of a bummer to do this.

If I could quickly sell one of my cars, I'd be really interested in picking up yours.

I bet you sell it pretty quick though.

Good luck with sale.

-k

worked on Ivan Orisek's 2002 WRX some more.

welded wide band 02 bung on the exhaust pipe, ran the wires, installed gauge
fabbed and mounted skid plate
more roll bar padding zip tied in place
front tie-rod+ball joint castle nuts secured
mounted co-driver footrest
found trunk light switch
bolted on the hood
listened to Ivan make motor noises while he sat in the car (sounded like an Audi)
ate pizza with Ivan and Olga

almost ready for Rally New York Gravel Sprint on the 20th.

-Brian

krisdahl Wrote:
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> gilbrock Wrote:
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> > What'd I do to the rally car today?
> >
> > Put it up for sale.
>
> Always a bit of a bummer to do this.
>
> If I could quickly sell one of my cars, I'd be
> really interested in picking up yours.
>
> I bet you sell it pretty quick though.
>
> Good luck with sale.
>
> -k
>
>

Thank you Kris.

Eli

Finally found the last nut holding the heater box in place, removed it and then removed the heater box. Removed the last of the sound deadening on the floor (which was under the heater box).

Pulled the front portion of the wiring harness through the fender and into the engine bay. Disconnected the battery connections on the main harness from the battery lead. Pulled the majority of the harness. The harness was covered by a thick layer of dust and was very messy to remove.

Removed the passenger side shoulder loop bracket. That was the last of the interior brackets that needs to come out. Except for the seat base brackets, which have to come out because I need to lower the floor. And the fuse panel mounting tabs on the firewall.

Stripped the paint at the well-known TR7 rust spots, the areas with surface rust coming through the paint and areas where the interior adhesive residue was really thick.

Started to run out of reasons not to take it to get caged.





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/14/2009 11:46PM by tipo158.

I cut up an old truck to make way for my next project car!

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Robert.

"You are way too normal to be on Rally Anarchy." Eddie Fiorelli.

I finished some things up before I took a test drive that ended up with a ticket. Boost for the win! Jerkass cops for the loose!

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Name: Dawud Jackson (DJ)
Age: 30
Location: Seattle, WA
Occupation: Computer dude.

Did a bunch of Wal Mart quality welding to the exhaust of my street XR4...I may just be able to get it inspected this week!

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Andrew Steere
Lyndeborough, NH
KB1PJY

Today:

Safety wiring hell. Rebuilt slave cylinder on Xtrac which requires removing the cyl. housing from the bell housing (safetywired) and the input shaft from the inside (safetywired), which requires removing reverse gear, the diff and half the shift drum.

Filed the dogs on all 6 gears, replaced 5th...it's a bit too beat up. Replaced a couple bearings. Shimmed the 5th/6th fork to relieve a bind. Cleaned parts and reassembled gearbox.

Overtorqued the clutch bolts, cuz the number I wrote on the flywheel with a paint marker was for the FLYWHEEL bolts (dummy), so I have to get new bolts/nuts tomorrow.

Adam changed the wastegate spring for beeeeeeg booooooost.

Curt bolted up my sexy new rotor hats to my new tarmac rotors and (yup) safetywired them.

Hopefully I get my new bar shafts for my axles tomorrow. Ditched the uber-expensive custom outer joints for CX7 joints. Dad machined the seal surface to accept the Protege hub seal. Using RX8 hubs that are machined and ground on OD to fit Protege wheel bearings. Joint should be just as durable, but with larger, stronger spline that won't twist in the hub.

Then I can get my clutch, trans, and new axle shafts in tomorrow and (yup) safetywire them.

Then it's just bars and springs and I'll be ready for Time Attack in Joliet next weekend.

Might make a couple gurney lips for the rear spoiler outta some different sizes of alum. angle to try. Not legal for RA, but may help at the end of the long straight at Autobahn.

Lurch--Member: Vintage Xtrac Preservation Society

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Lurch
Eric Burmeister
The west coast...of Michigan

oooOOOOooo, speeding or loud exhaust?

painted my rockerpanels w/rubberized paint....the sideskirts were just falling off, useless to keep replacing those clips.



on my 'new-used' truck, I've got the 'death wobble', so I replaced all the tie rods/trailing link....anyway, the tie rod connected to the pitman arm was stuck like a mother fucker...like, bending-mygod-damned-tie-rod-puller kind of stuck.

finally had to cut the bolt flush and drill the damned thing out....nothing like a 10 minute job taking half a day. now to drop it off for an alignment and see if the 'death wobble' is still there. if it is.....FUCK.

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Jon Burke - KI6LSW
Blog: http://psgrallywrx.blogspot.com/

Jon Burke Wrote:
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> painted my rockerpanels w/rubberized paint....the
> sideskirts were just falling off, useless to keep
> replacing those clips.
>
>
>
> on my 'new-used' truck, I've got the 'death
> wobble', so I replaced all the tie rods/trailing
> link....anyway, the tie rod connected to the
> pitman arm was stuck like a mother fucker...like,
> bending-mygod-damned-tie-rod-puller kind of
> stuck.
>
> finally had to cut the bolt flush and drill the
> damned thing out....nothing like a 10 minute job
> taking half a day. now to drop it off for an
> alignment and see if the 'death wobble' is still
> there. if it is.....FUCK.

King pins?
Ball joints?
>
> Jon Burke - KI6LSW
> Blog:
> 'Holy Shit!' @ 4:10

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John Vanlandingham
Sleezattle, WA, USA

Vive le Prole-le-ralliat

www.rallyrace.net/jvab
CALL +1 206 431-9696
Remember! Pacific Standard Time
is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time.

^^tie rods....its in the steering for sure. All research points towards the trailing link arm, which I replaced, and both tie rods. So far, a quick test run (75mph on a not so smooth bit of highway), and everything is good. I replaced the steering damper too just for good measure.

Strange what just a tiny bit of play in the steering will do to a big truck.


So, I hate normal mechanics. I called this place down the road (they only do tires/alignments) because my normal guy went out of business....I called AHEAD of time, specifically to ask them if can can do a ram 2500 quad cab, cause its big, and heavy (I went to one place, they got it on the rack, and it couldn't lift it!) and they're like, sure, as long as its not a long bed...nope, short bed, "you're good, bring it on in."

I show up today....sure enough, too fucking long. Then the guy says to me (I really hope it wasn't the same guy on the phone)...."you know, it probably couldn't lift it anyway."

I ended up taking it home and just eyeballed it....little bit of toe-in and runs straight as an arrow. I'll find a place closer to work tomorrow, but I'm searching for a 4x4 shop or something.

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Jon Burke - KI6LSW
Blog: http://psgrallywrx.blogspot.com/