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Sockington posted:WTF Mazda? Never heard of that on other FWD/MR transmissions. Is this just with the Mazda transmissions? This was the case with the trans in my MX-6. Just stick an extension through there or tie some wire through the hole. Intermediate shaft needs to bolt to the engine block, so if you didn't already have holes there for it....
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laymil posted:This was the case with the trans in my MX-6. Why? Did your spider gears fall out? I mean, I want someone to actually show me proof that they fall out, rather than this "I heard from the forums..." Not trying to be a dick, I just want to know if I should go shove a 3/8" drive extension through there next time I'm out there.
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I didn't have my spider gears all out of my MX6 tranny, but they had slippe down out of place a bit. I ran a wire through the middle of the tranny and was able to use it to 'walk' the gears back up into position.
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Whats going on with the MR2?
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alternate.eago posted:Whats going on with the MR2? Sitting a corner while I make a new daily driver. Nothing really new yet. See it tucked away back there?  I'm going to try my hand at fixing the horrid paint on the 323 before I tackle the MR2 body work. There's less curves to the 323 to sand off after loving up.
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Awesome work Sock! I wish I was half as dedicated to my e30 project as you are to your projects.
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good job, that's a nice work area you've got. But the rust, O GOD THE RUST
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AcCeL posted:Also I had to go grab a Dr. Pepper after seeing yours.  Awesome project(s).
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Just to play it safe, the screwdriver goes in.   Hanging the B6 up in the air to pull off the lower tranny bolts first.  B6 and 5 speed have been separated.  Get the BP up in the air to do the exact same transmission removal.  Separated.  Hung up the starter and removed the annoying rear intake manifold brace.  Down to the flexplate. I hate automatics (and frozenphil's love of them).  Thanks for the flywheel, Mr. B6. You've been a sport.      And the clutch. This will be changed out with the transmission in a month or two.  After blasting with the torch and drilling out the loving broken stud, I am left with a clean header to start my exhaust from.  Done for today. 
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Apr 10, 2008 00:11
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I think you get more done in a week than I get done...ever. Keep it up, it's awesome for all of us slackers.
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Painted radiator reinforcement with truck bed coating.   Chipping away at the crappy asphalt-tar poo poo.  Upper radiator supper cleaned off and ready for paint.  More chipping.  Painted.  Painted.  Starting to clean up the paint on the driver's fender. Going to try and take it back to the metal to make sure there's no filler. Also, the paint stuck like crap, so I don't want my paint flaking off due to the lovely base.  And some time later.  Mounted battery tray in the rear.  Mounted battery.  Running some 1gauge cable for the power lead and ground to chassis.  Big freaking mess.  A tiny bit more work.  All packed up for tonight.
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With the exception of the engine work, you've been doing the same work as me! Chipping off goddamned terrible tar like sticky poo poo, painting that area, and de-painting other areas. It's good to see this. It gives me hope.
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Apr 11, 2008 05:48
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man sock you really really dont gently caress around. Im hoping to clean up the residue from the tar poo poo on the mr2 this weekend 
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I just want to say I love how your project threads always have a multitude of updates all the time. My only complaint is the lack of work on the '2 because i'm secretly in love with yours and want one of my own.
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Haha, I thought this was going to be a DD. If I didn't know any better, I'd swear you're building a track car.
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leica posted:Haha, I thought this was going to be a DD. If I didn't know any better, I'd swear you're building a track car. Old habits die hard it seems. From reading this latest project I think a forklift is the best thing to have in a garage ever.
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8ender posted:Old habits die hard it seems. Pretty much. I don't need a lot of fancy things while I drive (in fact, I prefer almost ZERO options just for simplicity reasons). I added some cheap speakers (Pyle?) to replace some EVEN CHEAPER speakers that were blown. They were $15 at Princess Auto, so what the hey? The two bolts had secured them in but I added zip-ties for that extra bit of security. Also, the P.O. connected those speakers with alligator clips that were just dangling about.   Clearing out the interior for some super fun (said fun is described below).  Fun time! Poisoned pie, eat your loving heart out. This was done in the span of two hours with the tools pictured below. No dry ice. Just manual labour, a big screw driver, and a big loving hammer. Enjoy. I know I did.         After cleaning up the driver's side I'll give it a coat of truck bed coating. After that, I'll paint it with Tremclad Hammered Black for that extra bit of rust protection (also, it looks cool as poo poo).
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yo, can I fly you out to NZ for a weekend to finish up all the boring as poo poo interior work? cause drat son. Also I bet you had that poo poo that just chips away as as pie. The pieces under the seats in the MR2 were like that - just came off in massive chunks. Pity the firewall was balls-thick, and the foot-wells were really solid. But I did mine hammer and chisel too!
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Sock you are loving awesome.
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poisoned pie posted:Also I bet you had that poo poo that just chips away as as pie. I'm sure it helps working in cold temps. Down here (Florida) it gets soft and gooey.
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leica posted:Haha, I thought this was going to be a DD. If I didn't know any better, I'd swear you're building a track car. These motor mounts certainly won't help that cause. A couple more days to dry completely (filled with polyurethane window-weld). 
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NitroSpazzz posted:That is a drat good idea, I usually have my laptop out there but the battery gets low or I worry about getting it covered in grease. Will be taping wiring diagrams to the car next time. no kidding, i don't know why i didn't think of this. I never wanted to waste ink printing an entire binder, so i always had papers flying around whenever the wind kicked up. Having a wife sucks the life out of giant projects like this, I still have an unfinished car, sitting out in the driveway with a car cover. =( Aeka 2.0 fucked around with this message at 07:32 on Apr 12, 2008 |
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Have you seen my apex seals? I seem to have lost them.
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Aeka 2.0 posted:Having a wife sucks the life out of giant projects like this, I still have an unfinished car, sitting out in the driveway with a car cover. =( Mine has been very supportive of replacing my 300,000km Altima. Today I'll head out to finish up the work on the driver's side floor. I expect to paint it, then get to work re-installing the interior. I'll be tossing in the Escort GT rear seats during the swap to gain that super awesome 60/40 split that my 323 never had. The power cable will also be run to the front today and tied down at various points along it's way. The trunk should be completely assembled by this evening (save for the pieces coving the rear struts, those will have to stay out for a bit). Also, I got the front Escort ZX2 S/R struts assembled with the factory Escort GT springs and upper mounts from a ZX2 as well. The fun came when I had to install the upper spring mounting plate. On the Escort GT "spring isolator," the hole where the strut comes through is shaped like a circle with opposing sides having two small flat sections. The ZX2 S/R struts are simply a slightly larger perfect circle. So, out comes the die grinder and we're set. Proving funds and remaining time, I should have the rear ones assembled and maybe installed tonight. Finally, just to give you an idea of the extra fun about this project. It's stored, with the MR2, in a shop about ~45minutes away from my home. So after a really loving hard day on the car, I have to battle to stay awake on this long and straight highway. I'll have to develop a taste for coffee or something to battle off having a nap against the driver's side window while driving. Oh yeah, and the gas going there and back is starting to add up (mind you, an extra ~80L this week to get ALL this work done so far, isn't really THAT bad).
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Finished painting the interior. I decided to get to work on the exhaust since it was rotted to crap anyways. Laying out the pipes.  Made some brackets to mount the muffler where I wanted. I still have to make a rear mount and reinforce the driver's side mount still.  The muffler is placed exactly where I want it. I have to trim a 1/4" of plastic bumper, but the rear spare tire well is now the lowest point on the car. EDIT: Yeah, I could have got another muffler with a center outlet, but this one was extremely discounted. Also, this was the last of the cheap 2.25" mufflers we had in stock (the company we bought them from went out of business), so I was bound and determined to get it to fit. I don't care about how it looks, it's all going to be painted black when finished. Sockington fucked around with this message at 05:54 on Apr 13, 2008 |
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Where is your shop? You're in Sarnia right? Does that mean your shop is near London?
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gently caress you, sockington you glorious motherfucker. I was all like "oooo that sockington got me all riled up, maybe I should make a huge effort to finish stripping the MR2 and paint the whole interior just to show him". Yeah, I ended up painting under the drivers seat and thats all  .
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8ender posted:Does that mean your shop is near London? Think Chatham. I'm going out to work on the car again after work tonight. I'm hoping to run the power battery cable through the interior so I can re-install the carpet and seats. The exhaust will definitely get worked on. I'll most likely get that crazy bend section sorted out and have the straight shot for the catalytic converted made. Here's a list of days worked on the car so far; March 14, 2008: Bought the car. March 20, 2008: Cleaned out the car. March 31, 2008: New tires and shocks arrived. April 2, 2008: Got the Escort and started stripping it. April 3, 2008: More Escort work. April 5, 2008: Rear suspension out of Escort. April 7, 2008: Escort out. 323 comes in. Both motors out. April 9, 2008: Transmissions and flywheels swapped. April 10, 2008: Cleaning asphalt undercoating and painting April 11, 2008: More of the same. April 12, 2008: Last of interior paint. Exhaust started.
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I don't know if it's just the picture decieving me, but surely you could have mounted the muffler the other way up to make the pipe line up with the notch in the bumper?
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xp67 posted:I don't know if it's just the picture decieving me, but surely you could have mounted the muffler the other way up to make the pipe line up with the notch in the bumper? Yes, but then the other side (that you can't see) wouldn't line up with the rest of the exhaust, assuming it is offset there as well.
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laymil posted:Yes, but then the other side (that you can't see) wouldn't line up with the rest of the exhaust, assuming it is offset there as well. It has to do with the angle coming over the rear suspension. When flipped. it would involve cutting some metal out of the upper support. The angle of the 'frame' rails didn't lend itself to angling TOWARD the center of the car, it had to be slightly angle AWAY from the center (pointing to the right of the picture). Also, yeah, the inlet would have definitely hosed me if it was flipped.
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Got the carpet installed. The battery cable coming from the back.  And somewhere up here when I get the engine harness installed.  Got the manual seatbelts installed.  The rear seats installed as well.  After the engine is installed, I can put together the center console and drop in the two remaining seats. I'm also going to cut the crappy trunk carpet to drop in around the new gel-cell battery in the hatch. Then, I'll track down a full size spare which fits in the wheel well just perfectly. I've got to modify the fuel rail (because I hate the Ford setup) to accept the high pressure rubber hose and clamps. I've also got to take apart the front and rear suspension to get my new struts in as well as install the Escort GT sway bars. There's lots of other things I need to take care of; - Install Escort GT master cylinder and run appropriate new lines - Take care of rust hole in driver's wheel well - Undercoat the crap out of everything to protect against rusty crap - Sand down the body for paint - Paint the drat thing - New tires - New brakes all the way around (calipers, pads, rotors, flex lines) - New e-brake cables - Ahh poo poo, this is getting expensive - Radiator - probably grab a bigger one from work for under $100 and get it to work. Much bigger, of course. - New fans. They're either damaged or have a half destroyed shroud. Ugh. I don't want to think about all this stuff. On top of that, I'm going to need to get some intake gaskets and fuel injector o-rings so I can re-install the fuel rail (and change the intake manifold gaskets, because it will be a WHORE to do it later while the motor is in the car).
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One of the best radiator fans around is actually one from an older Taurus. Dual speed, and very compact. Can't ususally beat the price either.
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I've noticed that the Radiator fans on the newer Proteges are nice and compact as well. They're actually two fans side by side in a narrow package. car-part.com is telling me that A&L near Tilbury has a couple of late model Proteges to scavenge from. Might be worth taking a look at since its close. I've attached a diagram of the cooling fans from the shop manual.
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Sockington, stop working so hard. You put the rest of us to shame. This is probably the fastest progressing project I have ever seen.
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Lynex83 posted:But what happened to the 240? All that natural weight reduction finally took its' toll and the 240sx sadly returned to the dust from which it once came. Or that's what I imagine, anyway
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Method Loser posted:All that natural weight reduction finally took its' toll and the 240sx sadly returned to the dust from which it once came. Dust in the wind, everything is dust in the wind... I'll be taking a few days off from the car probably (work and school, aces!) until Wednesday. It'll give me some time to get some parts into my personal inventory so I can continue the crazy pace.
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Exhaust manifold removed. Horrible valve cover oil leak cleaned up.  Intake manifold removed.  Fel-pro, for all your gasket needs.  And the intake apart.  Intake side of the motor wiped up of dripping oil.  Gasket surfaces cleaned up.  Lower part of intake manifold painted in a flat-black base paint to act as a primer.  And the top coat layer of hammered black.   I'm waiting on my fuel injector o-rings before re-assembling the intake manifold and dropping the motor in the car.
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