It's getting a little cleaner. I am trying to resist the urge to pull the wiring harness to pare it down.
It's getting a little cleaner. I am trying to resist the urge to pull the wiring harness to pare it down.
So I didn't resist the urge to pull the wiring harness. I took it out and removed the airbag wiring. Now I have to put it back in.
Put the engine up on my newly acquired engine stand today so I can start replacing the necessary gaskets. From looking at the oil on the engine that would be about all of them. Also found out that the clutch in the car was a replacement Excedy that has a lot of life on it. Oh well, I have a FM clutch and lightweight flywheel that is going on no matter what.
Finally got around to pulling the front suspension today. Now to find somewhere to get the shocks rebuilt.
Go to Home Depot, get a pair of screen door dampers - problem solved!
That's my plan for next season anyway 
This is one of those threads I always need to keep up on. Can't let you get too far ahead of me. 
At the rate I'm going you won't have much trouble. One of these days I'll have the motivation to put in a full weekend of work.
I also just ordered a master cylinder to make the hydraulic handbrake along with a hood pin kit. More parts to pile in the corner and avoid installing.
Hydraulic handbrake! Holy crap! I can't even bring myself to adjust the crappy stock parking brake so it will hold. You're hard core.
Installed the FM frame rails today. Still debating whether I want to stitch weld or not.
The shocks are still at Bilstein for a revalve. When I get them back I can make it a roller and get it out into the driveway to wash down so I can paint the interior and engine bay.
mazdeuce wrote: Hydraulic handbrake! Holy crap! I can't even bring myself to adjust the crappy stock parking brake so it will hold. You're hard core.
I installed one in 2009.
2011, I went to Nationals. Very few people had hydraulic handbrakes.
2012, MR was made its own separate class. Will drove my car to ridiculous times at Nationals.
2013, Hydraulic handbrakes were on a large percentage of cars at Nationals.
IIRC, Will never used it, and I mainly use it to adjust brake bias - the foot brake is mainly good at locking the front brakes. I've been thinking of converting to automatic transmission and running separate front and rear brake pedals.
EvanB wrote: At the rate I'm going you won't have much trouble. One of these days I'll have the motivation to put in a full weekend of work.
You're still doing better than I've been doing. I parked my car in mid-November and the only things I've done for it since were to bring a battery to the car last week so we could move it to a different parking spot (took a half hour - it was sunk deep into the ground) and I just renewed the registration today.
Removed the front sway bar mounts yesterday since they weigh something and are not necessary. I'll trim down the radiator mounts to remove the unnecessary portion from the A/C system mounting.
Today ordered some gaskets for the engine and new radiator fans. I'll get this thing back on the road eventually!
You guys are just getting your cars back out while mine is just about to go down and stay down for some time.
Says you. I'm still putting together the car I can drive so I can stop driving the rapidly-falling-apart car that I'm currently driving so I can avoid driving the RX-7 over the winter. Once that is finally assembled (just have to finish porting the head before sending it out - this is engine number two's third head, incidentally... some day I'll freeze the design and finish the thing) THEN I can think about pouring what little money I'll have left into the rallycross/summer car.
See, we in Ohio don't run year round, in theory our rallycross season starts in April but we usually get rained out the first couple events so we don't actually get started until late May or June. None of those rallycross-every-month-all-year like you get to have where it gets cold enough that the ground freezes instead of turning into slime you need hip waders to navigate. We've tried it, it really really sucks
Resealed the engine today. Tomorrow I will put on the new flywheel and clutch. Shocks are still at Bilstein.
I have been waiting to get the suspension back together so I can roll it out and wash it down. Today I realized that I didn't need suspension, I have plenty of short pieces of 4x4. I put some wheels on it and rolled it out. Finally some decent pictures in the light.
New FM clutch and flywheel on:
Also washed out the engine bay and interior but no pictures of that.
when do you guys start your season?
Next weekend if the site isn't too sloppy.
Wait, what? I haven't seen anything posted anywhere.
This has me very pissed off. I haven't paid any attention to the Mazda because I'm too busy trying to get my other car put together first. There's no way I'm going to get the engine and rearend rebuilt and new rally tires shipped by Saturday.
OVR has probably only posted on Facebook. I'm taking the season (mostly) off from organizing; planning on 1 November event at Roos.
In reply to Knurled:
The schedule is up on the OVR site.
There is no way I will have the Miata ready next week. If the event does go forward I will just show up in the Volvo or bum a ride from someone. I have a strong feeling that the field will be too wet to hold the event and April 26 is next up.
Oh well. I've been thinking of sitting out the year anyway. It doesn't look like I'll get my voice back any time soon and most of the last season, I was too frustrated with the people who don't take working seriously to be able to have much fun.
Well who am I supposed to race against if you are sitting out and Chris isn't racing much this year? I'll have to enter in MA for some competition.
The Hoback crew? Run the Volvo in SR against Mr. Vaguely?
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