if respeed goes ahead and produces the part.

 

Ah that makes more sense....

 

LOL! Ah....ok

That makes a bit more sense. Interesting point. I do buy from american companies whenever possible if that's what your refering to. I wish American car companies would build quality automobiles so I could buy one. But I don't want to see it assembled in mexico. I want it assembled by americans in american. That's one reason why I like buying Accords. They are Japanese but all the Accords that are provided for the world are assembled in the USA. Meaning US citizens get paid and I appreciate that. We need more jobs and less out sourcing where applicable in my opinion. Yeah I know alot of the parts are made in Japan and Honda's Headquarters are in Japan obviously. Japan is damn near part of the USA anyways. They always treated me well when I met Japanese people in Japan even though my Japanese sucks they were still nice to me. I wish I could buy a Camaro / Mustang or something and have it be worth a **** that would be cool. Most Fords seem to be assembled in Mexico now though. Not sure where the GMs come from. Too bad are econony is going to **** due to the Federal reserve and it's infinite wisdom. Most people have never heard this but the fact is that when you go to your major bank of choice and get a loan for say a house or car. Something that's really expensive. You get that loan through your bank which goes all the way back to the federal reserve. That money you are loaned is not in exsistence yet though. The money you are buying your house with is not there. It's not anywhere. It's fake. The way the money comes into exsistence is when you pay it back to the bank. Then it is real money. So the federal reserve makes all this money off people in interest and the actual money you pay to them like service charges and what not. And actually they do nothing to receive it except say it's ok to do. Or give the go ahead if you will. Also the federal reserve is not part of the government it's privately owned. You can imagine how rich the people in charge of it are. There is no backing of the monetary system with gold or anything els. There just is no back period. The only two US presidents that where assasinated were killed shortly after attemting to make changes to the monetary system for the US to better it's standing monitarily. Lincoln and Kennedy. Sounds to surreal? It's fact booth wouldn't have killed Lincoln under any circumstances due to the fact of him being one of the only friends to the south that was in the north during the civil war. That wouldn't make much sense to do if we were about to be a union again why kill the one person with your best intrests at heart? That's ridiculous. The real reason is because Lincoln was going to issue a kind of presidential currency backed 100 percent by gold. The proccess was already in the works due to the man in charge of the US treasury department at the time. Kennedy was in the same boat under slightly different circumstances. The law is still available to this day that the President can issue his own currency. But bieng assasinated is a pretty big deterent I suppose. No president between those to or after kennedy has even mentioned anything about the currency. It's all fact just check it out for yourself if you don't believe me. I never knew anything about the federal reserve until recently. It sould be abolished. It's also responsible for the stock market crash back in the day and the one that's coming again. There were something like 3-4 before the current one that all failed in short periods of time. That kind of baking system is like communism it's a great idea on paper but humans make it impossible to work right due to greed and corruption.

Fun stuff.........

 

FYI our money was backed by gold and silver from the establishment of this nation. It was President Nixon who changed it to backed by full faith in 1971. Our currency is backed by the full faith in credit of the United States. Basicaly the money is backed by the government's ability to collect money or levy taxes. The federal reserve is not privetly owned. It is part of our federal government they establish the rules and regulations that our banks and foreign investory are allowed to opperate under... Go back to school and take some more economics and maybe a history class.
http://www.federalreserve.gov/
http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/frseries/frseri.htm
http://www.usa.gov/Agencies/Federal/...es/index.shtml

 

That's nice just a posting of the gov site. Yeah I know it looks like it is part of the government but it's not. The name is picked to fool the common person. It worked on you I guess. I'm telling you it's not what you think. the federal government isn't backing your money. If you think so I guess you'll find out when it all comes to an abrupt end soon. Good luck when your money is worthless. The Amero is on the way. Not sure if that's the real spelling but basically a north american currency. Which includes Canada, USA , and even Mexico. That will be the "fix" if you will. Just like the EURO for most of Europe. It's just a fix for their failed banking which was and probably still is the same type as ours.

 

One more thing I think your of the mindset like a person that lived in New Orleans before it was flooded. The hurricane comes and floods the whole place and you think it's a surprise or something. There's a levy there you say and you trust it's enough. I on the other hand wouldn't trust my possessions to a old inadequate levy. Or trust my life to it. But you would still be there saying it's held up for how ever long let's say 100 years. Then you would be underwater and say oh no how could this happen? I'll tell you how because your ignorant of the fact that most of the city is below sea level and the water is right there not to mention hurricanes go there quite often and it was only a matter of time. But if there was a government website that says it's ok to live there you would anyways.

I would love to move to texas so I can have no smog and own cool guns. But I'm afraid to have my house destroyed by tornados every year. They don't randomly and infrequently happen like earthquakes. There is a whole season for them. Think what you will. Everything your see and hear is a bigger tangeled web of lies than you could imagine. I was fortunate in my short 5.5 year term in the USAF (due to my position)to see what actually goes on that you would never even dream was possible. There's **** out there you can't even imagine.........

 

Damn this got heavy... can we talk about cars again?

 

that's what I was thinking.

 

Guess since his motor mounts are off getting powdercoated he has no updates so the thread got off on a tangent

 

Yeah I just wanted to vent a bit about the "man" but this guy is like a thread sniper He's watching shhhh.....

He's still mad because his car is carbed and apparently not tuned with a wideband. He'll get over it one day.

The parts should get to billy on this thursday I'm hoping. That's the promised day according to fed ex so I'm assuming they actually know when packages will arrive. Where's your pictures transam? I wanna see your finished product. Give me the linky if you would or email them to me or something if you don't wanna share your hard work with everyone. I also cut down my tension rod brackets so that they are just sway bar brackets. Plasma cutters are so fun! My buddy chopped them off in seconds and even too. I hardly had to use the angle grinder to make them a bit nicer. I wish I had 1-2 thousand to buy one or whatever they cost. **** I wish I could justify buying a gas cylinder to get some bi mix in so I could have just weld ed the whole thing up. I did a couple of the beads with his mig and it was so much easier than mine. It's so simple when there is a fire breathing dragon in your hand. Throwing sparks and flaming metal popping and all that.

Also got my seat rail finished and the seat in the car. there is no further adjustment to the seat needed I believe or to the steering column. I can just leave the column in the stock location that is. So now I can finish the steering shaft when I get the brackets back. i need to cut the next piece just a bit longer and then do the divets for the allen heads and it's good to go. Then a tow to the alignmnet shop in Visalia and it's ready to drive. After of course hooking up the stuff to the motor. lol! it's so close to being done. yeah!

 

I was just thinking after that last post I didn't even take any pics of the seat rail but here's a few of the seat in the car. The stock sliders were reused since my friend Mike said Corbeau's seat rails suck for the RX-7 and told me to just make my own. So I did. It was very easy anyways. I tried to split the difference from the stock location between the trans tunnel and the door and keeping in mind there will be some kind of cage in this car at some point I left myself a bit of room on the door side for a bar or two. The seat is a bit towards the tunnel but still lined up with the steering wheel. Hard to explain but it worked out good. I may have to shim the back up just a bit when the car is back on the ground. The car's level but I don't think the car is actually level when on the ground. So the front or back might need to be shimmed a bit but no big deal just some washers and it's corrected.

In case your wondering the stock rails are bolted down with some steel plate that's 3" across welded to span the rail front and back then the holes drilled in the plate to line up with the new seat and that's bolt on as well. So the rails are welded together and the seat and car are seperate. Hope that makes sense. If I take it back out some time I'll take some pictures of it for you guys. Oh! and I painted the rails and stuff with an appliance epoxy (black) for the durability. Oddly enough it looks powdercoated. It takes like 2-4 hours to dry though.

 

nicely done, which model of corbeau is that (wanna check the dimensions).

 

Backed by faith means it's backed by an idea, I know it's all about hope. so far the government has been good about collecting our debt, so I'm not too worried. this is just another hickup well it's just a hick up unless spend all our money and not have any plan on collections hillary gets ellected. hell if she gets the nod I'm moving to canada

 

I'll post some pics of my motor mounts when I can get some decnet ones, seems like everything is black on my car, so all the pics I have are too dark to actually see anything useful.... I have been working hard to get the car all together, I'll try to get some pics for ya

 

www.zeitgeistmovie.com if you wanna learn about the federal reserve. A bunch of old greedy ***** if u ask me.

 

BTW those seats loook great and i can't wait to see this thing finished! great thread!

 

"No, what you have are bullets, and the hope that when your guns are empty I'm no longer be standing, because if I am you'll all be dead before you've reloaded...Beneath this mask there is more than flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are bulletproof." [ V ]

I couldn't resist... that idea thing sparked the quote.

 

do you know if this kit is available in RHD?

 

No but there is someone on here from either NZ or Aus who has the kit and is adapting it to work with some toyota rack, apparently it is working out for him...

 

sweet, i'll try n search it

 

Heres some info that I can up with before they had a kit. I was looking at doing it myself with some race car builders and using race car parts. Low and behold, on thing I did find where Mustang race parts as well. For you I would suggest the older Ford Escort racing rack or similar. Thats the first thing that came to my head, I'm sure theres more.

 

Here's from their website:

http://www.corbeau.com/products/clubman/clubman.shtml

I'm sure you noticed it's a fixed bucket. I like the price. I actually paid $150 from a friend brand new he was a bit too fat for it. lol haha fatty.


Does anyone know what the spline count or demensions for the stock steering shaft are? I think I want to get a quick release steering hub to ease getting in and out of the vehicle. I may not after I see the price though. Or maybe one of those tilting hubs instead. The one that justs tilts up out of the way when you press the release button. See Billy there's one more thing for you to make. A quick release collar for a stock steering wheel. I'm probably alone on this one but I like the stock steering wheel a lot ofr some reason.

 

OK here's what I did like two days ago or a day and a half or something. Actually I don't know because I had to go to the F ing hospital. If your wondering why pluralsy (I have no Idea how to spell it) Inflamation of the heart bag in layman's terms. Hospitals suck and they still really don't know foir sure what it was. They know it wasn't a heart attack. I could have told them that and I'm not a dr. of any kind. But since I put that I was there for chest pain so I would get looked at quickly an no f ing wetback with her child that only has the flu would go before me (I'm not racist I live in CA and these are facts). YOU DO NOT GO TO THE ER FOR THE FLU!!! It doesn't matter if you have insurance or not. You still don't go cause guess what there isn't medicine for teh flu only for it's symptoms so there's not even any point in taking said medication in the first place. Just so you guys know what I had hurts just slightly less than a collapsed lung. I had one of those too before. Not fun but not as bad as they make it out to be in movies. It hurts but I still drove myself to the hospital and checked myself in and all that. No chest tube just rest and pain medication. You could get a chest tube if you want I just really didn't want a tube sticking out of me. If it can fix itself then leave it alone.

Anyways I re-did the headlight assemblies somewhat. I ws tired of the raggedy black plastic and the wiring having to be pulled out of the assembly everytime I needed to take the wiring out of the car. Here's everything disassembled.




The ends of the harness that plug into the headlight were pretty green with corrosion on my stock wiring. So I chopped them off and soldered up some new plugs that I had left over from something but i can't remember what. On the car side I added a plug to be able to unplug the main harness from the headlight harnesses. So I guess I made two sub harnesses. You can see each end in this picture.




One of the headlight installed. I'm not sure how many people know this so I'll mention it. If you get yourself some fine steel wool it cleans everything off of glass and chrome with no additional cleaners. just rub until it's clean. It works on all glass. I cleaned the chrome retaining ring and the headlight glass.




A picture of my method for raising the assemblies with no power applied to the chassis. The top of the **** is a 12 point 19mm socket I just use my cordless screwdriver to speed up the process.




Here's with the black part repainted. It's that same rustoleum brand appliance epoxy. I decided to try it instead of dye to see how it holds up.




And a picture of the whole front assembled.

 

I finally resized the oil cooler lines and got one of those hose brackets on the car so it looks a lot nicer and the hose won't saw up my new steering rack boot and anything else they use to touch. Here's a couple pics of how it came out.








Nice little bracket. I just welded a nut to the chassis and then drilled the bottom bracket straight through since it was threaded. Bought a longer bolt now it sandwiches the two half moons together and bolts to tha chassis.

 

I've got a question Skidtron.

Where did you get the fittings to go to -an oil lines for the oil cooler and out of the engine as well?

What size of line did you use?