Mr. Project

THE PRESIDENT · see above

Mr. Project

Viet · POOP Bum

nice work!

what are we planning to do with this car after the repairs? are we going to us the 4a or swapping in the 5s?

I'm in for a 5s swap, but just to get it running with the 4a would be cool too.

A4seen Racer · VP

sweet, looking better already. Ive got 2 shelves i can bring next time to put parts on.

viet has a master cylinder at his house but i think we still need to take pretty much everything off the s/c car

for the engine,i think it would be sweet to build a high revving motor but thats expensive so my current vote is for the 5s with a t3

TRAF · hey man! i have a skinny weiner!!!

Damn I wish I was there to help. I've been working on getting my R/C car back up and running. I think I might make a thread about my progress with that. lol

thefastestcorneringcarhere · YOUR MOM

Well like i told jamin, once i get the motor in the car and all the parts that i want or need i am giving you guys the car so you should have everything that you need. I really havent done much to my car besides the rear trime peice and that is about it. I cant wait to do the swap and also let me know what you guys are going to do swap wise. I think that you should at least put the 4a in it.

Viet · POOP Bum

i thinkwe should run the 4a until we get all the stuff for a the 5s swap.

majorposer · howling machine of destruction

definitly, way more motovation when the car is running!!

A4seen Racer · VP

i dont know i think that if we ever want to use the 5s in it then its best to start with it. you know how those things go where you say "i'll just do this for now and change it later". usually never gets changed. but if you guys want to use the 4a then i'll go for that. of course theres always the 5sgte. ive seen 3sgte heads for 300 before and that could make some serious power. ive just had an itch to do something with that motor and and this is the first oppurtunity

THE PRESIDENT · see above

the thing is we dont have a tranny for that motor. we DO have a tranny for the 4age. doing the 5sfe would require more money before we have anything that works

im off sunday all day and dont work until 1 on monday. if you guys can get over here then that would be sweet cuz its my only day off until after xmas. let me know, oh and bring a FD for carting the engine around.

Im also working on it thusday cuz i dont work till 7, and maybe after 5 on wed. if anyone in the area wants to stop by give me a call.

thefastestcorneringcarhere · YOUR MOM

I will be there wensday night. See you then.

Viet · POOP Bum

if jon goes up sunday i'll probably be up there.

Viet · POOP Bum

we can swap the 5s and not deal with the 4a but that will be a long time before we get that done. So I think its better to get it running with the 4a since we will have everything for it. then just dump money into repairs, suspension, and crap for the 5s swap. Then 3sgte head swap after we get the 5s running.

oh and if we get the car running ppl will be more movtivated to invest into the car.

thefastestcorneringcarhere · YOUR MOM

once i get my motor in my car i am all for helping you guys in any way possible even b 4 i do it. I dont have much money to invest but i do have alot of time.

A4seen Racer · VP

thefastestcorneringcarhere wrote:

once i get my motor in my car i am all for helping you guys in any way possible even b 4 i do it. I dont have much money to invest but i do have alot of time.

same, ive got alot of time. I'll try to make it on sunday or at least monday

THE PRESIDENT · see above

sounds like a plan....4age...get everything working good......then start buying parts for the 5sfe swap

THE PRESIDENT · see above

UPDATE 12/15/05

I pulled the car out of the garage today and cleaned out/organized the garage. It's much nicer to work in a nice clean garage.

On the mr2 i cleaned off all the shoe polish on the windows and scraped all the stickers off. I also disconnected most the stuff that connects the engine to the car. thats abt it really.

Sunday we should be able to pull the motor, along with the rest of the accessory crap. get all the stuff thats hanging off the bottom off, and hopefully start cleaning up the car a little. Maybe some rust removal too.

things we need sunday if you have them to bring.

-Extra jackstands

-extra floor jack

-sheet metal

-metal working tools (hammer, files, jigsaw, whatever you got to do rust repair)

-furniture dolly

and whatever else you think might be useful

A4seen Racer · VP

ill bring the 2 jackstands and some tools

we going to leave it on jack stands while we work on it? i think that would be best since alot of the suspnsion needs work.

THE PRESIDENT · see above

yeah, im thinking its going to be on 4 stands for quite a while. better make sure its in a good spot.

TRAF · hey man! i have a skinny weiner!!!

So what happened today???

THE PRESIDENT · see above

we got a lot done on sunday. I dont have time right now to explain anything, but here are the pics. oh and jon and viet are planning on coming up wed. to do more work if anyone wants to help.

THE PRESIDENT · see above

oh, i decided we definitly need to put a big white gumball on the side, and get that sticker pack for the tow hook, and emergency power cut, etc...

A4seen Racer · VP

THE PRESIDENT wrote:

oh, i decided we definitly need to put a big white gumball on the side, and get that sticker pack for the tow hook, and emergency power cut, etc...

agreed

THE PRESIDENT · see above

im off the 3rd thru the 6th. thats tues, wed, thurs, fri. if anyone is available to work on the mister, let me know

A4seen Racer · VP

ill be there wed or fri depending on my clutch, or maybe both

THE PRESIDENT · see above

cool, sounds good

majorposer · howling machine of destruction

ideas?

THE PRESIDENT · see above

not really a big fan of those shapes. we were thinking a

main hoop (only thing we'll have to get bent).

diagonal bar from top left to bottom right.

from the top corners back to the strut towers

and abt half way up on the main hoop, we will have diagonal bars that come down past the occupants forward to the floor.

there is no need for a harness bar, because we can just put the eyelets throught the rear firewall, with backing plates

like this

A4seen Racer · VP

that seems like a pretty good design but how about connecting the side bars at a joint rather than pushing on the center of the main hoop?

something like this

and possibly tying in the stock cross bar and the front strut towers

TRAF · hey man! i have a skinny weiner!!!

How will there be entry and exit into the car with that design though?

A4seen Racer · VP

TRAF wrote:

How will there be entry and exit into the car with that design though?

thats not needed