my 93 SSM FD build

[Brent]

Originally Posted by TRISPEEDFD3S

How much was the paint? Like the actual paint itself. You get it from the dealer?

I was at the paint store today and rather than dig through my receipts, I priced SSM(3L) for you Jeff. I priced upper grade PPG and it was $40 a pint and $70 a quart. I think you could do the whole car with a couple of quartz very easily. A gallon of clear package(includes cataylst, etc) is around $100 a gallon. Unless you are a really good painter you aren't really going to be able to tell the difference between the cheaper stuff, but I still get it anyways. Don't forget all of your other supplies like sanding materials, primer, high build primer, fillers, sealers, tac cloth, etc, etc, etc...


I troubleshot the idle some more today. I redid all of my vacuum hoses and was able to get the idle down to around 2850rpm. I pulled the throttle body w/ TPS off my working red FD that idles great at 750rpm today and put it on the car... no luck... Idles is still around 2850rpm. Dan Chadwick gave me some great sugguestions on how to search for the vacuum leak that I will be checking out tomorrow.

I also was limited in what I could do today because fedex wouldn't deliver my stuff I had overnighted from Mazda Motorsports on Thursday. I went to the fedex location and they said it was unsorted and there was no way I could get it. Oh well, I guess I'll get the rest of the little stuff on Monday.

I put my 5ZR wheels back on as well as installed my feed sideskirts made by aerofiber. The car is starting to look a little better. I still have to clean it up ALOT though!! Here are a couple of pictures. I'll get better ones tomorrow. I'm planning on hopefully *knock on wood* fixing the idle finally. Installing the 99spec front lip and 99spec undertray as well as a few other things.

My buddy Mike eating some dorito's, hard at work... haha. He's the guy that did my battery relocation and all my electronic stuff. Great guy that does quality work.




The car currently has eibach springs with Tokico Illumina's. My car seems to sit higher than any other FD with this set up I have ever seen. I'm hoping they settle a little since the car hasen't really been driven since the engine and tranny were pulled. I was trying to hold off on installing my Tein HA's until later, but I don't know if I can take the huge gaps.

On a side note, on my way back from the parts store I spotted a very very red FD with Pettit fender flares and kenesis wheels. It looked so MEAN!!! However, as I got closer, although it looked like a rotary... it certainly didn't sound like one LS1. So I did what any self respecting rotary owner would do... I burned his car to the ground. J/K. It was a nice car all around. Just not for me. I do think I will do pettit rear fender flares now though at some point.