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Old 02-17-11 | 11:45 PM
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You mean you have a girlfriend who likes to work on rotaries and drive fast... and you haven't married her yet!?!?!

You may be the luckiest guy in the world, hombre, but 'smartest' is reserved for the guy who gets a rock on her ring finger first!
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Old 02-20-11 | 02:28 AM
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hahaha well i got to finish college first, Got some progress we found housings in pretty good conditions got them cleaned and painted, still waiting on the corner and apex seal springs.

Pic of the plates and housings

Old 02-20-11 | 11:16 PM
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Oooh that thing looks so good! And that girl has some amazing taste!
Old 02-20-11 | 11:50 PM
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Yea she does lol today she put together the rotors and now shes waiting on me for the port job I finished the housings and now im on the irons
Old 02-21-11 | 10:09 PM
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She painted some other things



heres some pics of the engine that im building for my dads blue rx2



Old 02-21-11 | 10:13 PM
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Its an Rx2 Capella
Old 02-25-11 | 10:34 PM
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Finished porting the housings and irons and the gf put it together just got done with it going to try to put it in this weekend
Old 02-26-11 | 03:54 PM
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pics of the port job?
Old 02-27-11 | 04:12 AM
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Forgot to take pics but its a small bridge port since she's wants it for the street
Old 02-27-11 | 08:45 PM
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I didnt like the rx7 flat black any more so i tracked down one of my old rx7s and bought it




Completely forgot about taking pics of the ports! any way its bridged


Baffle pan and super seals




Only pics i got were from the rx2 engine built both of them in one night when i work on engines i cant sleep sometimes lol stayed up til 5am


Old 02-27-11 | 09:11 PM
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Its all just so beautiful!!
Old 03-13-11 | 08:44 PM
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Thanks engine got put in last week before we left to PR for spring break just got back yesterday and finished it up and started it sounds really nice ill put a video in later

before we left to pr




After PR





Still need to clean it up a bit but its almost there she got to move it around sounds really good for a stock exhaust but thats going to be changed soon
Old 03-14-11 | 12:46 AM
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Video sucks but here it is still working on the timing and carb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85mw_ef2jak
Old 03-14-11 | 07:18 AM
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awesome work man. i'm not a huge fan of those triangle air filters, had a friend's car go up in smoke with a backfire because the filter media is directly over the carb. he had a fire extenguisher luckily, but still quite a scare...
Old 03-14-11 | 09:43 PM
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Damn don't want that lol i guess i need to find a different one i really dont like the racing beat ones
Old 04-04-11 | 10:40 PM
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me and the gf have been taking the car to the street alot its running really good
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Video of me and the gf racing the car only vids were of me out of track lol

http://youtu.be/3EhNDFxglDs
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Basically got wheels for it heres a pic of one side with them and one without and the flares im putting on ( held with tape)







Old 05-21-11 | 10:29 AM
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Those will be sick once they're attached. Thought about lowering it?
Old 05-21-11 | 10:47 AM
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im puerto rican too! nice miata!!! and marry the girl!!!!
Old 05-21-11 | 07:33 PM
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yea i am going to try to find a way to put ground control lowering springs on it
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haha planing on it cant wait for the miata to be done im just waiting on the super seals
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So i lowered the car and put the flares on with tape to get an idea on how it looks before cutting the fenders im planning on making custom coilovers



I think it looks pretty good let me know what you think



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I love that stance!
Old 05-31-11 | 09:20 PM
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Looks good!!



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