Haha, well we havent seen nearly as much snow as the states have, so dont tell them that either ;P Those tires need some breaking in buddy >:D And nice machine work, are you a machinist, or is it a expensive passion like these cars? Haha
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I am personally not a machinist . My father was ... and I have learned a few thigs from him. Plus we also have all the machines in our our personal tool cache. Lathe , milling machine ... etc etc.. it comes in really handy when any of the family are working on there cars .
My uncle has a 63 Falcon Ranchero, My Father has 1948 Ford Angia , my other uncle has a 1949 Moriss 8 Series ( which is a little blown beast , see the youtube video) , my cousin has Mazda 1992 GT-R, another uncle has a 1932 Ford (all steel) T -Bucket .
Our family also puts on an annual custom car show in Surrey BC, Part of the A&W restaurants out in Western Canada. Its to raise funds for Parkinson's disease. Check out the pics of the cars I took from the 2009 show .
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As you can see my family is into cars, and we all build them ourselves. Lots of custom fabricating on the old ones.
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Got a bit more done over the weekend.. and my Cousin showed up with is GT-R and the old suspension from it .. so I got a few more pieces for the GT 323 Projects suspension. As he isn't using the old suspension he had in the Gt-R.
I will have helper srings fromt and rear, pillow ball front and rear and camber plates for the front .
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wow! that looks awesome! any details on the rear setup? any brand name?-Jack
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@Mazda_Powered... the rears dont have any markings on them . And whoever had them before ground one edge down to the shape they are now . They were originally circular.
I am not quite sure yet if I can even use the helper springs due to not knowing what the I.D. of my ground control springs are .
I think the ones which where on the front will work , but the rear set of helper springs are bigger than the ground control springs .
It looks lie if I am to make them work I will have to machine some parts up to make them fit together . Off to the lathe ....
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So got my subframe back from the powder coaters and in my rush I put it together and installed it , but didnt take any pics while it was out of the car ... Duh !!
It looked nice and shiny . Here it is installed with the GT sway bar and new polyurethane bushings .
While I wait for other parts to be finished by the powder coaters I started and finished the brake rotor/pad change over .
Front and Rear EBC slotted / dimpled rotors along with EBC GREEN stuff pads . I am hoping it will stop better now . With the stock set-up I couldn't get it to lock up .
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awesome man!!! so clean...gotta love it-Jack
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91 626 LX - basically stock and pretty slow still
http://www.clubprotege.com/forum/sho...my-GD-626-LX-)
01 E53 3.0i - FOR SALE! pm if interested
91 USDM Protege LX - SOLD! turbo/manifold up for sale!
http://www.clubprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46606
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I have gotten to work on the final stage of my engine build .... The intake ..
If you didn't see the custom CNC'd " MAZADASPEED " piece my cuz made, well here it is now going to be installed on the intake .
I must have way to much time on my hands , as you can see I almost polished the whole intake .
I did this just to clean the aluminum up for me to paint it ... but it looks like the weather is going to be sh*t over the next 3-4 days .
So painting will have to wait ... I will be sure to post the final finished intake when its done.
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i say hit it with some clear coat instead of painting it now lol, looking good tho!
going to be doing any porting work?-Jack
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91 626 LX - basically stock and pretty slow still
http://www.clubprotege.com/forum/sho...my-GD-626-LX-)
01 E53 3.0i - FOR SALE! pm if interested
91 USDM Protege LX - SOLD! turbo/manifold up for sale!
http://www.clubprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46606
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do eeet!!!
and btw, that intake is THE SEX!!!
there is entirely TOO MUCH WANT!!!loves BGs too much for his own good...
93 pro lx. daily runaround until a straight shell can be had.
73 datsun 260z, yet another project in need of more love.
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oh man there's so much tweeking you can do in the n/a intake manifold!
sit down and examine the top 1/2 of the manifold if you want, and look how the air flow will be going through the secondary runners...there's a lot of cast marks and imperfections to help out flow!-Jack
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91 626 LX - basically stock and pretty slow still
http://www.clubprotege.com/forum/sho...my-GD-626-LX-)
01 E53 3.0i - FOR SALE! pm if interested
91 USDM Protege LX - SOLD! turbo/manifold up for sale!
http://www.clubprotege.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46606
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