Hey guys I just joined the forum yesterday, I am currently a member of 3tcgarage.com and I thought I would share my thread here. My name is Nic and i'm 15 years old, luckily my father had a couple toys back in the day one running 12.66 on nitrous so I am learning. My car is a 1980 sedan with some sr5 wheels. I put in 4.10 gears and got exhaust.







Here are some pictures of my engine that will soon be built up. It has a Norris 342 cam, Ported head with bigger valves. The head is also shaved. Hardened rods with valve springs. Stock pistons. We are using a Holley 500 carburator.
For the adaptor plate we are shaving off the bottom part that bolts up to the stock manifold, then welding the other half directly to the manifold. We are going to turn the carburator around backwards too.
For the gearbox we have an indestructible clutch lol. Its for the T50 but we are considering the W50.






Here is the car with the new exhaust system, Flowmaster. No resonators at all and it sounds cool even with the stock engine. We are using the stock manifold and downpipe as of right now.







Thats it for now. I will be driving in one month finally so I can wait for the new motor to be placed in! Positive feedback is awesome and any tips for my setup. Negative feedback is welcome but frowned upon.

Too cool!

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@ Nic#66: What are you specs on your cam?

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2000 Mazda Miata
1987 Mazda RX7 (For Sale)

Cam Specs: Norris 342

Intake:
Opens: 37 degrees BTDC
Closes: 73 degrees ABDC
Duration: 290 degrees
Valve Lift: 480in.

Exhaust:
Opens: 73 degrees BBDC
Closes: 37 degrees ATDC
Duration: 290 degrees
Valve Lift: 480 in.

My Holley will be jetted properly to ensure maximum performance. Thanks for the comments and concern guys.

cool! I wish my dad was half that cool can't wait to see that beast of motor in there, and more updates you plan on using that car to drive to highschool in? lol when I was in highschool (2001-2005) a bunch of kids thought they were cool cause they little civics and such, I would of loved to have something that cool when I was in highschool . enjoy it

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current project: 82' s11 200sx (ka24e swap)
current daily: 89' integra RS 5-door

Yeah this thing will be daily driven to school and hopefully I get a job as well. And nothing has changed with the kids having "fast" hondas lol. The only thing kids at school do is the infamous 4 inch diameter canister exhaust and body kits to there hondas. They think they are so fast with that vtec crap and I can't wait to put them in their place!

Well on to better things, any updates on the build.

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2000 Mazda Miata
1987 Mazda RX7 (For Sale)

I noticed you got a new shifter boot on 3tcgarage thread, coincidencially I put this nicer circular one in. I will have some pictures of that coming shortly.

Another good thing is we are going to look at this 75 te31 today for my brother. It is priced at 150 and hopefully its 5 speed and not a KE30. Otherwise we will probably part it out.

Yeah it's a much nicer one too, leather and it cost me around 25 dollars for it. The shifter knob was 10 dollars. I said it before, but I love ebay.

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2000 Mazda Miata
1987 Mazda RX7 (For Sale)

doesn't happen very often on this forum but this thread needed some pruning
let's keep it nice from here on out (responsible parties know what i mean )

oh, and welcome christine!

Hey man I'm sorry for the trouble I just felt like that guy thought I was some ignorant teenager which isn't true.