Brad4g63Starion
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- Jul 17, 2018
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Boston,
Massachusetts
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Had a chance to get some more work done on the car this weekend, ended up cleaning the garage a lot and plumbing up a line to finally get shop air from the house to the garage! Also have the car back in the garage after a few years outside unfortunately. I'm embarrassed to show a before picture but let just say I'm proud of how 'clean' I got the garage this weekend. Just enough room to get the car in, I'm doing my best with the borrowed space I've got.View attachment 567910 View attachment 567905
I need to get the wiring harness out of car as well as clean up the engine bay so the front bumper and fenders have to go for now. Lots of rusty fasteners later here we are, a few became victims of the cutoff wheel. I'll have to repair those when going back together. My brother snapped a picture of me persuading the lower fender bolts off.View attachment 567906
Did a little bit of cleanup in the engine bay, removal of some mounting brackets I no longer have a need for and quick coat of paint to keep it from getting rusty. Next time I need to sand blast the drivers side where my battery leaked and got a nice layer of corrosion on everything.View attachment 567907 View attachment 567908 View attachment 567909
After sand blasting I'm planning on doing a quick coat of the stock gold paint in the engine bay just to give it a little more of a polished look, right now its pretty nasty as you can see. I have a lot of electrical work in my near future. Also after I clean up the engine bay I can put the engine and trans in to start the real work of plumbing it all up.
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Gotta love that electrical work!
I'd rather do the electrical (long as I can find diagrams and manuals) than do body work. Luckily you just have some surface rusty clean-up!
Yep, I was running my HX35 on my SQ. The motor is upgraded and it's MPI swapped. It was a blast to drive for one night before the transmission died. If you're on projectzero's page, look up the transmission section. That's where I got the idea for the RX7 trans swap. That's what I have in the car right now. Currently, I think I'm going to go with a HY40pro. It's supposed to spool at ~3500rpm. But before I get to that I'm trying to get the 240 rack installed.Hey! Nice line up of cars you have there, did you use an hx35 with the g54b?
My main reason for switching to the 14b was cost but as I'm doing more research I certainly don't know enough about the 4g63 and fuel management to be in the power range the holset is capable of. Sticking with the 14b will allow me to use as many stock parts as possible at first to get it running and then upgrade from there. From what I've read on here the 14b does not become a limiting factor for a build until around 300hp which is more than the d50 transmission I'm using is probably capable of, so the answer I suppose is, hopefully I can get a little while out of it until I lunch the tranny!