[Brent]

Originally Posted by Brent Dalton

Setrab M22 -8AN adapters were used to convert the Mazda Oil Coolers for the 8AN fittings and lines.
DS with Setrab adapters and AN fittings:


The line leaves the Driver's side and goes into the passenger side.

PS just like the DS:

This is the Moroso One Way Oil Check Valve with adapter fittings converting it from NPT to AN:

It's installed after the passenger side oil cooler so if/when the accusump triggers, the oil will go into the engine and not flow back into the oil coolers.
Installed:


Here is the bulkhead T fitting with nice bracket that connects the line coming out of the passenger side oil cooler, the accusump line, and the return line going back to the plate/engine.

Some more nice brackets and clamps for the lines:


I didn't get any pictures of the line going from the T to the accusump.

My sweet supercars.com radiator

That was part of the way through taking the Hinson decal off. It's a nice fit. After our initial test fit, I wasn't sure about it. After everything was buttoned up, it fits nice and tight:

Very close to the water pump pulley:

Using the stock overflow tank(thanks Fritz):


Soooooo... fuel is plumbed, oil is plumbed, coolant is plumbed. Getting really close now. Have to do some wiring, bolt the seats down, fluids, etc, etc...

Originally Posted by Brent Dalton

I don't have any pictures from this past weekend as I wasn't around, but here are a few pictures over the previous couple of weeks that I snapped.

Idler Pulley finished product:

Dash coming together:

traqmate view from my angle:

Originally Posted by Brent Dalton

Well, 95% of the wiring is done. The list of the last 1,000,000 little things is down to 36 items on the list now. With any luck at all, she'll come to life this weekend and I'll be shaking her out at Nashville Super Speedway the weekend after that... fingers crossed. A few pictures:



Dan made a really really nice passenger foot kickplate/bulkhead. I have some pictures, but it really doesn't do it justice. Dan may post some, or I'll get some better ones of it later.

Hatch and wing are on the car now(still have to drill the holes for the hatch pins) as well as my 18x10 CCW's. I'm going to give the 275's a try and see if I can get the power to the ground on track. If I can, I can keep an extra 30-40hp. If not, I'll put the flares on and run 335's in the rear, but have to tune it down to lose that extra hp.... double edged sword.


Dash with switches:


Dan wiring stuff in with his new earphones. They are noise canceling with microphones. You can literally be whispering on the other side of the shop and he can hear you. but it cuts loud decibals out. There was a trans am on the dyno earlier in the day.


Old and busted:


New hotness. Toe Links and Trailing Arms from Ben at Rotary Extreme(thanks man!)




I have the intake finished for now, but I'm waiting on the next Samburg Radiator/CAI group buy so I can replace it.

Hopefully I'll have a big update this weekend.

Brent

Originally Posted by Brent Dalton

Well gentlemen... she's ALIVE!
http://www.vimeo.com/10397469
Sorry about the poor quality, the dim lighting didn't seem to like my crappy HD camera. At the very end, Brian blips the throttle a little and you can hear a little better.

Before I get into everything, I want to thank Dan and Brian for all of their hard work on this car. We all have day jobs, day jobs that require alot of time. We have been over at the shop pretty much every night of the week from when we get off work until no earlier than 10pm and as late as 12:30am as well as every weekend working on this thing. Needless to say, all of our significant others are just as ready as we are to have this car finished... and so are we

The last week:

We worked on the car all weekend. The alignment and corner balance were completed on Sunday. I'm going to put a line of space in this...

Final Corner Balance:
Front/Rear: 49.6/50.4
Cross: 50/50
How awesome is that?

Anyways, we were ready to push the button on Sunday to start the car, but Jerry(Corvette guy at the shop) was at an SCCA club race at Road Atlanta so we were fairly certain that the ecu would throw a theft code and not allow the car to start. This was confirmed by turning the car over as well as pulling the engine codes. No big deal. We were also having an issue getting the fpr set to the stock 58psi fuel pressure.

Monday came and Jerry loaded a different map into that should be a little closer to my application as well as turned the theft device off. The car still wouldn't start. Well, after troubleshooting for a couple of hours, we discover all 8 of the injectors are bad. We did this by using the same method that is posted in my fuel troubleshooting thread on this forum. I assume it's from where they sat for so long they just got stuck. We were able to locate another set of injectors at the shop, threw them in, and it wasn't a 1/4 of a revolution and the car SCREAMED to life! Pay day. We let the car run for 20 minutes or so. Everything was working. The fuel pressure was high. Oil pressure was good, accusump came up, etc.... everything was working as it should. We shut the car off and went to Krystal to have a celebratory dinner(around 10pm).

Tuesday we come in and check the car for leaks. One little oil leak on one of the adapter fittings for the oil cooler that needed to be tightened a little more. Now no more leaks. We discovered that what we thought was fuel pulsation dampener on the rail, was actually a stock fpr. The aftermarket fpr was removing and the stock one holds 58psi no problem. Problem solved. I picked up a couple of little things I was needing like shift knob, exhaust gasket, and oil catch can(brian put it on) and put them on. Jerry is looking on the computer and realizes our MAP sensor and TPS sensor are not working. We have to have the MAP sensor functioning to be able to tune the car. In order to get to the map sensor you have to pull the fuel rail and intake manifold off which is extremely simple. After replacing the MAP sensor, no change... still not working. At that point we called it a night.

Wednesday. Brian started troubleshooting the MAP sensor. We had a couple of hang up's, but after a couple hours, Brian discovered the MAP sensor was wired in backwards. So much for purchasing a custom made stand alone harness so you don't have to deal with electrical issues. Fixing the MAP also fixed the TPS. We installed my widefoot sway bar mounts and the sway bar off my silver car. The clutch pedal stop bolt was adjusted and now we have a functioning car that moves I'm sure more stuff was done, but it all kind of bleeds together at this point.

Today, I'm going to drive the car around a little to start breaking everything in some more. We are hoping to have everything done tonight. Tomorrow will hopefully consist of me driving the car around a bunch and really breaking it in, followed by Jerry tuning the car, and loading it up on the trailer and getting it ready to make it's track debut on Saturday.

I'll see if I can't get my pictures uploaded here after while.

Originally Posted by Brent Dalton

Back from the track!! The car did awesome!! I did get one video today, but it's prob. going to be really crappy because I really don't have anywhere to mount the camera. I'm going on 2 hours of sleep right now and I still have more stuff to catch up on, but I'll go a little more in depth here after while if I don't pass out first.

Originally Posted by Chadwick

She weighed in at #2780 with driver and 10 gallons of fuel

50/50 cross weights and 49.6% front, 50.4% rear weight.


Dan

Originally Posted by Brent Dalton

Hi Dave, I remember. The gunmetal NA car I'll see if I can't get you some pictures of the dash. As far as the cage, it was already in the car when I purchased it. I think there are already quite a few pictures of it in this thread, but if there is something specific you'd like to see, let me know and I'll see if I can't snap some pictures of it.



Hi Niles, what Dan said above The car originally weighed in dry at 2250lbs. At that point, it was looking like it would be around 2600-2650lbs with me in the car... which wouldn't work. My class is a 8.7:1 power to weight ratio which would mean I would have to de-tune the engine to less than 300hp. I added a few things and now I can have 330rwhp. We are still having issues getting it that low by simple ecu de-tuning, but I think we are going to run a restrictor plate or a stock LS1 throttle body to get it within class specs.

Originally Posted by Brent Dalton

Encountered a few new race car build pains, but nothing that won't be remedied in the next week or two. Car was at CMP last weekend, but I had some transmission/clutch issues so I didn't compete in the Time Trial. I drove some sessions in DE to show my student a few things. Here are a couple of pictures with the everything painted and my stickers added:



I did the prep work and sprayed the primer and Brian sprayed the base/clear behind the shop. I'm happy with how it turned out.

Next event is VIR May 21-23 with several fellow RX-7 track rats. After that, NASA Time Trial at Road Atlanta in mid June.

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