great to see you doing a FULL rebuild! alot of people just slap them together.
i look forward to seeing it progress.
i will start a thread of my rx4 build too. mine has a lot of work to do!

ive sent you a PM

I have shipped the car offto the body shop on saturday.. should have the dents and rust taken care of over the next week or so

OK so I went to clean up the interior parts but they were knicked up pretty good and had dirt ground into the plastic that would not come clean no matter what I used. So not being a fan of the brownish silver anyways I went and picked up some silver paint with about the same brightness as the original interior. I also picked up some vinal paint and some gloss and satin black.
I went to town on all the interior this weekend except for the center consol. It needs alot of cleaning and there are cigarette burns/melt marks in the tray under the ebrake handle I have to figure out how to fix.

Heres some pics.

This is the top pad from the center consol.. it use to have green nail polish all over it.



After painting the silver I had to mask off and paint in the holes this was very time consuming, and although the pics look good I may have to do this piece again



After completely taking the dash apart it and painting it here is how it looks altogether with freshly painted parts.






And here is everything

here is a pic of what it all looked like before

Nice project. I hope you keep it green.

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-Cam
1980 Toyota Celica
1984 Porsche 911
1988 Mazda RX7

Well here are some pics of the body work taking place as we speak.

Nice fab work there. Your body shop looks like it knows what its doing when they're making rails from scratch.

The dash plastics are actually a platinum soft gold colour rather than silver but it still came up alright.

Any other updates?

Still keen for tail lights?

Here's another coupe i just got before new years: http://www.performanceforums.com/forums ... t=67262565

Same colour as yours (paint code D8) but rolled out of Hiroshima with a 4 cyl not a rotary. Will have a rotary in it on the weekend

Yeah aaron I am still interested in the lights.
Also I do have updates, the car is home and the metal work has been finished now I am just putting the interior together and refurbishing it.

I didnt like the gold color on the dash and wierd enough the roof console was already silver instead of gold so I went with it.

Got a bit done over the last little bit in the interior
put down two layers of sound deadner





Then a good layer of underlay insulation



Cut the spare tire holder out of the back



Cleaned and painted the tranny then installed it




Painted the carpet with dye



And assembled the interior




And heres how she sits today

Great work but the snow must be a right bitch!

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round and round and now up and down!

An update.
got slot mags
got a full parts car
good headliner is in
good shape front bumper
good shape rear bumper
tail lights
new motor
Car is looking good

for some reason now my pics are to big to post

Hey I may be getting a 74 rx4 with 5000kms. But it's been in an accident needs good grill and fender. Would u concider selling parts off the parts car u mentioned?

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It's not an addiction
88 300zx 2+2 turbo. 81 Toyota pickup +2 more
69 datsun 1000 deluxe. 73 to 78 Mazda b1800
65 datsun 1600 roadster. 94 nissan pathfinder

Nice find in Canada! Most of ours seemed to be the piston powered cars that got scrapped years ago. Progress is impressive so far.

Thanks, yeah from what I have heard basically a guy drove it from the states and was headin to alaska and broke down in 1980 and never returned for his car.

Other updates.. I got my 2 MSD 6A's today and my dell 48 should be here tomorrow.

Anyone have any info on changing out the points setup and putting in some msd's on a FB elec distributor?

good to see some progress.

IMO don't put the MSD anywhere near your car. Just upgrade to an RX7 distrubutor and *if you really must* wire it for dual leading coils. The modification and variations of it are covered in detail on Ausrotary.

Stock motor demands a stock carby. Especially since you're in cold climate I'd be wanting something with an effective choke on it.

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