fender roller showed up yesterday, so today I threw the car at the lift and tackled rolling the front fenders.
The fronts were in real bad shape, as the rim at the top was pretty much pointing straight down, they have been since i bought the car. The tires must have been catching on them and pulled them down, that's probably why the old front tires were messed up. the fender roller wasn't ideal for the FD all the positions for the pins seemed to be in posistions so that it would bairly work, if i drilled a new hole through it to change one of the pin locations it would work perfectly. but I was to lazy.
either way it took me a bit cause I needed to figure out how to roll the lip back up into stock location in the opposite direction than the fender roller is supposed to go. I got the driver side done pretty easily(forgot to take pictures) and then rolled it up a little past stock while I was at it. By the passenger side I thought enough to actually take some pictures.
Before
The painted cracked and chipped really bad on the passenger side as I had to bend it from pretty much straight down. Not sure the best budget way to deal with this as I haven't learnt how to paint worth a shit yet, even rattle canning simple parts I seem to do a shitty job but I've been wanting to learn some bodywork stuff for a long time now. anyways here's some pics
I threw some black silicone to seal it up in the meantime
Alright, update time
I decided to do the half track day on Sunday so on Saturday I decided to duct in my rad a little better since I've always had water temp issues on the track. and the new setup wouldn't make much of a difference.
made the top plate out of scrap aluminum
looks like some horrible childish drawing.
Putting the aluminum under the bumper brackets caused the bumper to lift slightly and fit a little worse, I eventually ground down these points so it wasn't as bad
Getting closer
Thought about painting it black but gonna leave it sandblasted for now, not like the rest of the engine bay looks anywhere near immaculate anyways.
I filled in some of the side and bottom spaces with piping insulation, stayed in place pretty good.
I had a great time at the track I still had overheating issues so I could only run a few laps, 2-4 before it got up to where I felt I should let off (110 Celsius water temp). I could then do slower laps to cool down and get another few good laps in. my best time was a 1:37.36 according to my Go Pro. I also had a little whoopsy that I'll post up when it finishes uploading.
As far as temp issues go I'm going to try to switch from 50/50 to straight distilled and water wetter.
I also wore my breaks right down, my bad didn't realize they were that low, just in case anyone was wondering why I was squealing all the way around the track. Gonna google rx7club best street pads right now and get some ordered.
Also I've been using a straight atmosphere bleed for my oil system, bought a catch can but the hose sizing isn't even close. Either way my turbo's must be leaking quite a bit cause this is what I fond after the track day. I'll need to hook up the catch can before I come back. never seen much oil before this.
Some Video's from the track day, I was new to this track so I was taking it pretty slow
http://youtu.be/dkS0CY3WPvc
http://youtu.be/QyuF7PYTDac