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04-19-2011, 06:58 PM

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Soooooo much work, holy crap. Do you have a performance goal in mind? I would think it would run 9s easy, it looked like it hooked up decent when it was cam only.

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04-19-2011, 09:04 PM

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Soooooo much work, holy crap. Do you have a performance goal in mind? I would think it would run 9s easy, it looked like it hooked up decent when it was cam only.

Thanks man, I really love this car and wanted to give it the proper restoration I thought it deserves.

Performance wise nothing too crazy maybe 750rwhp on pumo and a 9sec pass would be cool. Maybe someday in the future auto+race gas?

Who knows. Right now I am just trying to build a really nice driver and plan to drive it as much as weather will allow once finished.

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04-20-2011, 01:53 PM

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****'s weak

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04-20-2011, 02:06 PM

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****'s weak

i'll stab you!

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04-20-2011, 03:20 PM

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man you helped me burn half a work day!

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04-20-2011, 03:27 PM

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man you helped me burn half a work day!

HA! cool. I still feel bad about bringing my entire build here at once with a million pics but oh well. Makes for a nice read if you have the time I suppose.

Car should start coming together pretty quick now.

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04-20-2011, 10:13 PM

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how did i miss this!? this is amazing

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04-21-2011, 03:20 PM

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how did i miss this!? this is amazing

Grabbed everything from blasting/coating

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04-21-2011, 05:09 PM

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talk about the money shot!

That is a T6 turbo right?

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04-21-2011, 05:10 PM

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Thanks man. Yes it is a T6 BW piece.

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04-21-2011, 05:27 PM

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Where are the coils going? That passenger side is looks pretty cramped in the pics.

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04-21-2011, 05:54 PM

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Where are the coils going? That passenger side is looks pretty cramped in the pics.

Yeah there isnt room there anymore. That is why I took them off for now and I have a set of super long wires from msd to make custom ones. I have not yet decided on a place for them but am open to ideas.
I might stick them under the dash behind the intake mani area and make a small hole to bring the wires through. It could basically all be hidden then.

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04-21-2011, 05:58 PM

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Nice progress. Def going to be a fun ride.

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04-22-2011, 09:11 AM

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The black/gold actually looks really good...beautiful car man, nice work!

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04-22-2011, 03:48 PM

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Thanks guys. I honestly would have done the valve covers gray if I knew at the time that they wouldnt have the coils on them toning it down. But I too am really hapy with how it is coming together. Next step stainless lines and an fittings everywhere!!!!

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04-22-2011, 04:26 PM

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This looks insane. I'm definitely doing an LSx RX7 FD3S build some day.

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04-23-2011, 02:26 PM

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This looks insane. I'm definitely doing an LSx RX7 FD3S build some day.

Thanks man. I had dreamed of building one since the first time I heard of people doing it some years ago. I had it together last year and then decided to go ***** out this year. I am exhausting myself trying to get it done and out this season as I did the entire car. But it is truly rewarding and I know it will all be worth it in the end.

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