Ok, so i was bored outta my head and have a bad back at the moment, blown through all the newspapers, forums and internet-games, so i decided to make a small worklog on my FD. Feel free to post suggestions, better solutions etc, thats what forums are for
Translating my worklog from norwegian to english now, so the first few posts might be abit misleading regarding time spent, work etc..
Short story, the last 2,5 years has been a living nightmare for me. While work has been a madness the last 4-5 years, with sick work hours, bad management and selv-centered bosses and leaders wearing out people in their 20s so bad they get sick for months and dont care to replace em or pay the ones hanging in there good money, i have this self-pride in what i do, and i will go to any means to get the work done. It wears you down bit by bit, but you hang in there for the others and try to keep em afloat and on their feet. the management takes advantage of this and put more work on us, selv pride kicks in, we manage, and so the evil circle has been drawn... the downward spiral...
First, the FD broke down due to a waterseal blown on a mazda reman engine. Picked the engine down, when i suddenly and unexpectedly lost a close friend of mine. He`d killed himself for reasons nobody knew about and nobody knows about this day. Barely got inside the front door from the funeral when i got another phonecall, a friend of mine had died in a car accident, so new funeral... cant get any worse..?
A short while later, i lost a dear family member to brain anurism after decades of diabetes-years....
Then, a while later i had to go through a loong fight with insurance company about a drywall behind the kitchen that had been waterdamaged.. Me and my girlfriend had bought a house, everything seemed fine, until i one day got curious about the back wall underneath the sink.. It was completely soaked and molded..... as im allergic and have astma, i cant live in a house like that, so we used all our savings and fixed the wall, and then take the fight with the insurancecompany...
finally got it sorted after months... and then she dropped the bomb on me.. Its over, she didnt wanna be with me anymore...
I hit the wall...bad...! Buried myself in work, more work, cut contact with all of my friends, and just lived under the radar for 1,5 years, staid with friends and family, while she(my ex) stayed in the house... finally, after 1,5 years, she contacted me and said she`d moved out and someone needs to live in the house... I moved in, and decided to keep the house... So, i bought her out and now own a house of my own, 30 years old. 135 sq.metres, double garage, 2 bathrooms, 4 bedrooms, dining room, seaside view, beach 5 mins down the road... LOVE IT!
So, to "refurbish and renovate" my own life, i started fixing up my house, and "renovate" her out of the house... Walked into the garage a week after i`d moved in again, and sat down and just looked at my downed poor FD sitting there... And decided that house is house, it will have to wait... I need the FD on the road again to move on and get myself sorted once again...! So, i began the restauration and rebuild of my old FD, and see it as "therapeutic" selv-help...!
Plans:
Car, 1993 silver touring FD. Painted it spirit R grey.
Engine and surroundings:
Streetport 13B rew, built by Banzai racing. RA black superseals, TII lowcomp rotors etc.
KG 850/1600 fuel setup with walboro 400pump rewired.
HKS twin power with LS/yukon coils, 11" raceplugs and FAT magnecor coilwires
Big FMIC kit
big radiator
3" turboback exhaust from GP-sports
BNR stage 3s in seq mode, going to push em to the max(21psi area)
AEM water injection setup
Apexi PFC and commander with datalogit
Innovate LM-1 wideband, wired to the datalogit
Blitz SBC-ID dual boostcontroller with a Blitz datalogger on the side.
Aezknights simplified viton seal industrial strength solenoid setup with viton checkvalves etc(100psi setup)
Self-designed oil baffle pan with one-way valves to keep oil centered by the pickup at all times.
Fuel baffle setup
suspension and braces:
Yellow koni shocks, Eibach springs
Tanabe rollbars
a known brand of strutbraces front and back, yet to be decided.
dragon performance diff-brace and gearbox brace
Polybushes diffmount and enginemounts
Wheels and brakes:
RO_JA R2 rims 9x8 front on 245s, 10x18 rear on 275s.
standard FD brakes
Drivetrain:
FD gearbox
Kaaz 1,5 way diff, with new seals, bearings etc.
Looks:
99spec front
99spec wing with carbon winglip
Feed side underskirts in carbon
shine auto street diffuser rear.
99spec lights
CF hood
Prolly a ton of things ive left out or forgotten, but im going for a mild and "stock" look with small touchups. enginebay will be simple black on black with no crome. Reason for this is simple. My car is imported on a silly rule that states that the car has to appear original to keep its plates... If im busted by the vehicle inspectors with this setup, im screwed and have to put it all back to original state again.. So, fingers crossed
Starting point:
