how about a some posting on the little things your up to on your car, might spread
some the word around about some nifty ideas?

Like now I'm putting together my driver xr, currently working on the cross member
for the green flamed out T5. Soon to be Camaro t5 i got for free!!!!!!

so lets see some stuff!! photos too ill have some soon.

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TSSFAB.US No HYPE just parts!!!! And check us out on Facebook!!!

Finished installing the other burmeister strut top. Went twice as fast as the first.

Mocked up the rear crossmember and got the measurments for the steel order.

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-Jason

I thought about working on the XR but didn't. At least I got it started and set base timing earlier this week. Thanks for letting me borrow your Gun JV.

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

I finally sold and delivered the Formula Ford, so the TR7 is now in the garage.

For a TR7, my car has very little rust. For a TR7. However, since it is a 1970s British car, built before they discovered the benefits of corrosion protection and built by Communists who didn't care about quality, there is a good bit of rust control to do.

I am also collecting pieces so I can move the battery to the back of the car and collecting carb linkage bits so I can reorient the Webers so I can get to the adjustment screws while the engine is running. The plan is to drive the car around for a little bit before stripping it down and sending it sending it off to Cascade for a cage.

alan

Remind me to tell you what my cousin did to his TR7 sometime; something about an International truck chassis and a 400 smallblock...

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Jay Woodward
Snohomish, WA
'90 Mazdog Frankenprotege
Chronologically, 46...

just got a turbo thunder chicken for 50 bucks at this rate ill never get anything done!!!

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pulled the turbo out yesterday (sorry, no pics....dog chewed my memory card and haven't gotten a new one yet)

sent it out to get rebuilt.

next project is those pin jack receivers, I'll probably order stuff next week along with a metal bandsaw.

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

Bought a new one:
87 or 89 (not sure) volvo 240.
Crappy craigs list pic:

$1300.
Now I just have to wait a few weeks to actually get it, its 8.5 hours away. But my friend is gonna keep it for me until we can figure something out.
Just gonna be a daily driver for now.

I washed the Outback and adjusted a Hella 4000 compact that was aimed at the power lines. Yay.

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Andrew Steere
Lyndeborough, NH
KB1PJY

Matt and Tim and I ( at least a little) tried to get spark outta the car today but the new ecu and assoc. wiring didn't wanna play. Once more into the breach.

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Jay Woodward
Snohomish, WA
'90 Mazdog Frankenprotege
Chronologically, 46...

It was last weekend but my pin jacks are in. sourced a merc pin jack from ebay for $25, its made for a 3800lb car and has a 17.5in lift

just need to pull the windows and roof out and its time for a cage.

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-KTurner
Stomp down on the exhilarator and hold on to the wheel.

Today, I ...

- vacuumed a bunch of loose rust and debris from under the front "nose cone" panel, under the carpet under the driver seat, and the boot (it is a Brit car, so I have to call it a 'boot', not a trunk)

- removed the AM/FM radio antenna cable (I sold the radio on eBay over the summer for $250)

- removed the sill carpet and a lot of the adhesive that once held the carpet down

- removed the exterior vent panels (the black panels behind the doors), breaking all of the T fasteners that hold them on, inspected for rust and found almost none (this is a big rust area for TR7s)

- put the car up on stands, inspected the underside of the car for rust and found very little

- painted one of the front (factory) tow eyes

- tried to remove the rubberised cover for the front bumper, but every fastener that I tried to undo just snapped off

recalibrated the terratrip, wow

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It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
William Ralph Inge

TANSTAAFL

KTurner Wrote:
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> It was last weekend but my pin jacks are in.
> sourced a merc pin jack from ebay for $25, its
> made for a 3800lb car and has a 17.5in lift

Pin jacks rock. I gotta do that one day.

What do you mean by Merc? As in mercury? I didn't know any factory cars used pin jacks.. lost a bit here!

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Andrew M
Onterrible
30ish

fawk. We pulled the tranny out to see if we could fix the issue I'm having with the new clutch "sticking" to the flywheel causing the input shaft to spin up even though the clutch pedal is depressed. Some careful cleaning and more lube on the input shaft splines but it didn't work. I'm back to square one. It makes shifting into reverse a grind (no synchros) and first and second can be tough. Not the end of the world stuff obviously but its annoying enough and I'm stubborn enough that I'm going to have to fix it somehow.

argh...