What did you do to your ride today

NeW ShOeS BrUh

 

No more chevy badges. Just need to get the radio and cluster flashed.

 

At the exhaust shop. Damn Ebay dp was 2 inches shorter than CS dp and test pipe.

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Why does this sound familiar? How are the lugs?

Tapatalk, it sucks for free!

 

Because I was just at the exhaust shop having another issue fixed with the cobb cbe? Finger tight so I can get them off more quickly!

 

I held 3rd and most of second!!!!!!! Been waiting for a 60 degree day all winter to mount my 555r.

 

I've had the setup for a few months. I had my tech guy remove the strut tower bar and soften the ride up quite a bit. It was too harsh, expansion strips were almost painful. Now it is awesome. Definitely stiffer than OEM but also smoother. I haven't autocrossed it yet so don't know. Since upgrading the tune I have notices that where I had to torque steer before the tune, it has opened low end turbo to where I have to be aware of some propensity for some torque steer on hard acceleration. I am really happy with the lowering and dampering.

 

Okay so you said it is smoother, but not softer?

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Yesterday had 80K miles oil change and tire rotation done. Apparently I'm getting some inner tire wear and the fronts were 3/32 on the inside. Will need new tires sooner than I thought. Spark plugs were replaced. I also had my intake valves and throttle body cleaned. Also had the state inspection done. Car is a lot more responsive on this morning's commute.

 

Car came out of winter storage today (fucking finally.) Installed the CS v1 battery box to finally relocate the ECU and solid shifter bushings last night.

I understand why there was another revision of the battery box now and I need to get some additional anti chafe for where I cut off the plastic harness split protection and replaced it the ziptie standoff art.

On the other hand the shifter bushings appear to have taken away some of the problems I had getting the car into second with the SSP. Hard to tell though because I haven't driven the car in 5 months.

Also located an engine for the RX-3 woo!

 

ummmmmmmm RX3 build thread, por favor.

 

I'll mirror it here when I get started. Here's the teaser though:



I'd say it's a barn find 1973 RX-3 wagon but that's cliche. I only know a bit of it's history but there was a barn involved.

I bought it from a friend of mine after a night of bullshitting on the flight line about cars after he asked who owned the modified MS3 in the parking lot. We started talking about rotary cars I jokingly told him that I wanted to build an RX-7 in full TCP Magic aero panels to run in UTCC but my dream car was an RX-3 Wagon.

He comes out and says he has one in his barn (yes literally) that he bought a while ago but never got around to doing anything with it and would sell it to me. No way.... There were less than 50k of them made worldwide and they're formed out of the finest soup cans the Japanese ever beat into panels. As such they're a bit of a rare bird these days.

So naturally I bought it. The hubs have been swapped to GSL-SE 4x114.3 and it's engine and transmission-less right at the moment. The entire interior is intact and I'm only missing the trim on the rear hatch. That's basically unobtanium so I'll be filling and smoothing where that would go. It was hauled from SoCal high desert to Pennsylvania after I changed jobs.

Current plan is to save as much of the interior as possible. It's old but still there. Someone on GRM offered me a NA S4 13b motor, trans, and harness for 600 bucks if I pull it so he can zero out his challenge car. After I get it running for a while I'm either going to turbo it or convert it to a 200ish HP NA motor. I'm traction limited on it because I don't want to tub or flare the rear since I want to keep the back seats. Realistically I can probably only get 195's under it so I don't really have big power dreams.

All the rubber is shot so I need to order a kit from Australia. It need brakes and a drive shaft too. I also have plans for an air ride setup so I can hard park it and get it up my steep ass driveway.

Really I just want to make it something fun to cruise around in and embarrass the hell out of my now 4 year old daughter when she makes it to middle school. Driving her in or picking her up in a straight piped rotary powered station wagon tends to draw more attention than most kids want at that age.

It's also fun with prospects at work or at networking events when someone does the "Tell me about yourself" bit to make conversation.

"I own a rotary powered station wagon that I sought out and bought on purpose. If you know what that means you should know everything you need to know about me."

 

Corskport intake manifold and HTP 3.5" installed. Time to rip through some new pump gas and ethanol tunes with @Jason@DizzyTuning !

 

Valve Cover Gasket

 

Installed my first mod, good ol' catch can. Good thing there's 6000 miles worth of oil vapor already in the intake manifold.

 

Put a LS in it and break everyone's heart.

 

Got an Anker usb charger for the car. Now my phone can actually get charged while driving with Waze and Spotify.

 

You're not the first to suggest that but there's not many of the rotary variety running around and I apparently enjoy the idea of a perpetual project more than actually driving my cars #rotarylifeproblems. If it were just an 808 I would without a second thought.

It already blows peoples minds that these things exist, an LS would just make it a Japanese Nomad.

 

Not so much what I did to my car but what I did for my car.

 

Took the car to Minnesota and back. Did great! Just tacked on about 3500 miles. View attachment 8544 View attachment 8545 View attachment 8546

Dirty as all hell now

 

Just finished putting this in.