since i am having to daily commute this turd 70 miles one way until i get my daily up and running.... some to do list items.

1. fix power steering. Rack is leaking from inside the boots and from what i can tell, my return fittings i cobbled together. Might need something better to seal it all up with...

2. exhaust needs to exit beyond the bumper. Seem to get a lot of fumes into the car and my chest feels funny.

3. car is slow. like damn. Needs more 13b. or a turbo. or a 13b with a turbo. then a bigger turbo. but probably just an Rx-8 engine.

4. diff pinion seal leaks.

5. driveshaft is too short, but if I ditch the miata engine, then i will likely not want to spend the money to deal with that crap (its always something... i swear)

6. needs pillow ball tops with speherical bearings. The caster i have induced is not doing good things to the stock strut tops rubber. Need to get my hands on a set of FC pillowball tops. Since the Rx2 needs coilovers from an FC... maybe I can get coilovers for that, use the FC tops on the rally car, then acquire tops to use on the Rx2 (which is radically different than the FB/C)

7. tach doesnt work... which is lame.

8. still have wiring i need to wrap up and finish.

Looks great man!

thanks Eric. She is coming along. Keep finding little things, making adjustments. Since I've been daily driving her (not by choice) I've been getting a feel for everything.

So i realized an issue, that needs addressed.... some what soon.

I never spaced the rear of the subframe off the car. whoops

So what that means i my lower A-arm is moving on the x-axis but from a negative angle whereas my caster is such that the strut is at a negative angle in the Y-axis. Which under movement... cant be good.

behold. a crappy, not-to-scale diagram!

http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/...psd06a384c.png

okay, so i either 1) suck and cant get this power steering leak to stop, or 2) dont suck, but still can't get this power steering leak to stop :rage:

Might require the use of a new rack, and either tap for a fitting or weld in something so the stupid crush washer thing is eliminated.

Also, the car still overheats. Its leaning towards a blown headgasket. Lots of small bubbles being produced in the car, pushed into the expansion tank. Does not stop bubbling...

pull the dipstic, if you see bubbles on it then yes, Also check the level if its higher for some reason fluid is being added to it :/

i have not checked the oil for bubbles yet. Do that running i assume?

Basically, i have to drive this thing to CA middle next month. So I am considering doing a headgasket on this car (and deck head to minimum spec). Unless when i open the car up it looks like WWIII inside. I am still concern about burned rings or pistons

I skipped a few pages to see that the car is prettier. Nice job, If there was a place to rally around here and I finally had my fc running I would like to try to build a rally FC.

I am also suprized you are willing to throw a renny in there. Most people want nothing to do with them. They are lighter then a S5 13B N/A

my friend has a 13b-msp in his FB and it has been one amazing swap! And would keep me within the Group 2 class, which porting would otherwise remove me from.

compression check on the B6

141-152-150-148

which is pretty damn good i would say. Min. is 135 and 28psi difference.

So that means the rings are probably fine. Looking at doing a headgasket to resolve various issues (oil burning, running hot)

Headgaskets are a "weak" area for that engine if you had to pick a weak spot. Had to deck a head and do a gasket on the last turbo 1.8 we built about 10 years ago, also had to do a head gasket on a 1.6 a few years later, so I wouldn't say its unheard of by any means.

i plan to deck to minimum spec to. get a couple extra .01% horsepower out of it!

so the list of things I need to finished to get racing:

Finish various wiring
brakes need done all around
Master Cylinder for clutch is dying (black fluid)
new 3 hole rack that wont leak
headgasket
figure out in which way i want to have a matching lug pattern.