Day 17 Painted both turbo CHRA’s and the main exhaust manifold VHT header black with satin black 2000f paint. I painted my first glitter pieces – the turbo compressor housings. I finally finished re-painting the engine. I wanted to redo the green and when I pulled the tape off theContinue Reading
Day 16 2 more parts arrived. My replica B&M short shifter and I got back my injectors from RC Engineering. I am so thankful I did this – probably saved me a motor. I was checking the ported wastegate and found out it would stick open sometimes. On the flapperContinue Reading
Day 15 so – in my quest to be BOUSOZOKU Im going to paint all the aluminum parts with a glitter look. VHT cast aluminum, coated with glitter then sealed with VHT gloss coat – I heated the face of the test piece with a 900F heat gun and itContinue Reading
Day 14 I cleaned the turbo actuators, sanded out some scratches on the pri turbo wastegate actuator (picture shown is not finished with sanding), used the eagle one again to remove some corrosion. It cleaned up the charge relief actuator pretty good. I also pulled off the oil pipe onContinue Reading
Day 13 – Greeaaattt Succeessssss !!!!!! So I read the Eagle One mag and wheel cleaner cleans aluminum well. I was praying that it would work and it did, so well that it also took the green coating off of the parts on the Throttle body assembly. I also gotContinue Reading
quick visual I had the AB-Flug GTM body kit on my rx7 back in 2000, I went to sevenstock 4 with it. (I think the rims were Volk GTN’s) I have 3 pics showing what the spoiler looks like in different angles. I will use the AB-Flug GT7 widebody kitContinue Reading
Day 12 – a complete disaster !!!! I found the green paint for my engine, cleaned up turbo exhaust shields. I made a mix of some cleaners and it turned the aluminum black Luckily I have a power washer and I was able to get most of it off, butContinue Reading
Day 11 I took apart the 99 twins for inspection and cleaning and to port the primary wastegate. The stock wastegate measured roughly 26mm (1.023 inch). Ive read to port it to 31.75mm (1.25inch). The motor was blown so I was hoping not to find any damage on the blades…..wellContinue Reading
Day 10 I cleaned up the engine and taped it ready for paint. Made a little paint booth. Who knew my little dust mask would be worth millions. I used dupli color engine enamel with ceramic. First I painted the black white, then I painted the orange to make theContinue Reading
Day 9 I got my engine from Jamie – aka Battlecat – he painted it green and black well…this whole time I was trying to figure out how I could tie it into my theme, i finally had a vision. I will paint the black parts orange. Paying respect toContinue Reading