its almost done

focinite · Sun Jul 16, 2006 10:39 pm

well i worked on it during the weekends i had off work its going slow cus every one needs me to do some thing for them or work calls me .........or its one fucking hundred degrees!!!!.......... i got the motor and trans in and hooked up should fire on tues( the next day off) need to paint some inside parts ( the dash) gotta lower the rear sub frame to put in the pipe with out cutting it, gonna use the rear sway bar( no one wanted to buy it) got the front bumper off , im gonna fab up some mount for my hella projector fog lamps, gotta finish the sub encoser........ ive been freekin busy

CleanZX3 · Sun Jul 16, 2006 11:20 pm

i cant wait to see it!

sc0tty8 · Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:30 am

He has been spamming my phone with pics of the progress. I remember one day he sent me a pic of it hanging from a cherry picker and then yesterday sent me a pic of it in the car...

Mon Jul 17, 2006 10:55 pm

Sounds like a race to get done then to race

focinite · Tue Jul 18, 2006 12:10 am

Pappy wrote: Sounds like a race to get done then to race

fuck that .. i do this shit for a living , i hate wrenching on cars!!! if i dont need to get er done in a hurry i wont rush, it saves money , i break less shit!

plus i lost my friggin clutch line clips and ford dont sell them individulay, cus no one ever looses thoes small fuckers

on tues im gonna pick up some parts and finish it up.. it will be driveable tomarrow( tues july18/06) and by next summer it will have 10-12 psi of intercooled boost, im selling a shit load of the chassis parts of the rollover to fund my boost fund raiser. but yeah i spose we can race, i dont got a compressor though, and iv had like 2 1/2 weekends in it already. and we can race after we get done wrenchen, i wanna see if my little tricks did anything. oh and sorry to hear yer still workin for ford, my las pay check from tires plus was 750 take home for the week(yes one week, a slow week) plus a 700 dollar check for ase bonus( i took three tests)

focinite · Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:00 pm

ok i lied....... i need to get a maf, and hook up the rest of the harness( the harness is friggin huge!)

Tue Jul 18, 2006 9:19 pm

focinite wrote: ( the harness is friggin huge!)

No shit, I'm dreading rehooking that thing up....

sc0tty8 · Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:48 am

Pappy wrote:
focinite wrote:( the harness is friggin huge!)

No shit, I'm dreading rehooking that thing up....

You got it cake, he is doing the FULL harness....engine, dash, ecu...

zurno · Wed Jul 19, 2006 5:37 pm

sc0tty8 wrote:
Pappy wrote:
focinite wrote:( the harness is friggin huge!)

No shit, I'm dreading rehooking that thing up....

You got it cake, he is doing the FULL harness....engine, dash, ecu...

there isnt that much to the interior wiring

sc0tty8 · Wed Jul 19, 2006 7:20 pm

zurno wrote:
sc0tty8 wrote:
Pappy wrote:

No shit, I'm dreading rehooking that thing up....

You got it cake, he is doing the FULL harness....engine, dash, ecu...

there isnt that much to the interior wiring

It is when you have to pull the dash and everything else out, remove whats in there and put in the other harness.

zurno · Wed Jul 19, 2006 8:44 pm

which is pretty much what I did when we picked up the rollover, minus pulling the airbag and radio, and the seats/carpet, but there really isnt much to it in the interior

focinite · Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:15 pm

zurno wrote: which is pretty much what I did when we picked up the rollover, minus pulling the airbag and radio, and the seats/carpet, but there really isnt much to it in the interior

well you didnt have to remove the air bag( sucks!) or the 3 clips up by the windsheild( sucks!) you didnt have to fish the monster harness through the fire wall and most the shit on the roll over was missing. plus i have to be carefull cus this has to run and drive when im done.. but yess for a novice you impressed the shit out of me on how quick you were.

focinite · Wed Jul 19, 2006 10:23 pm

did some work today and i just need to find out how diff the hanger for the right side shaft is from the zx3 i think it needs to be shifted to the left 1/4 inch and out 1/8 inch but its hooked up and ready to fire this week end i have a few more small things to do( like reassemble the inter.

sc0tty8 · Fri Jul 21, 2006 3:20 am

When you turn the key, the car isn't going to turn over and then an electrical fire is going to start.

focinite · Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:47 pm

sc0tty8 wrote: When you turn the key, the car isn't going to turn over and then an electrical fire is going to start.

god i hope not thats a lot of wire to burn!! plus the 40 kazillion fuses should stop the flow