Paint day is Friday!!

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Inodoro Pereyra
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Congrats DR! Great looking car. :D

About the bumper gap, don't sweat it.
It's not bad alignment: it's just an extra cooling fin for your engine... :mrgreen:
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Inodoro Pereyra wrote:Congrats DR! Great looking car. :D

About the bumper gap, don't sweat it.
It's not bad alignment: it's just an extra cooling fin for your engine... :mrgreen:
hey good thinking! It's just a front-end vent!

Now I need to get the RX7 turn signals that fit the bumper. Mazda speed mx3 had the bumper molded to fit RX7 turn signals (I think 3rd Generation RX7), and I want to get those so everything is done.

Look like I'll be making a j/y run tomorrow.

I need to check tomorrow, though, for a vac. leak. Car is fine when driving, but on idle, or immediately after reverse, it starts idling rough, and a few times I've sputtered for a sec when driving out of idle/starting to drive after putting in reverse.

I hope it's nothing major.. I'm not sinking any money into the engine... I just need the B6 to run me while I get my work done on the BP.

Other then that, the paint is a huge turn-on :lol:
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Hey DRR (Dark Rider Revolution), I haven't been around much since I've been movin and all. And man I gotta say. I flame body kits more than anyone, including mx34ever. There's something about that colour that makes the kit work. I respect your dedication to your car, and can't see any peel. That same amount of work in red deer would cost at least 7k, I know because that's what I've been quoted.
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93vtecklr wrote:Hey DRR (Dark Rider Revolution), I haven't been around much since I've been movin and all. And man I gotta say. I flame body kits more than anyone, including mx34ever. There's something about that colour that makes the kit work. I respect your dedication to your car, and can't see any peel. That same amount of work in red deer would cost at least 7k, I know because that's what I've been quoted.
Thanks for the appreciation! I know that a lot of body kits look horrid.. but like you said.. with the color, I think it turned out amazing. And yeah, it's nice to have friends in the business. He really cut costs and not quality.
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DR: did you find the coolant temperature sensor? :?
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Inodoro Pereyra wrote:DR: did you find the coolant temperature sensor? :?
I thought I left you a message :|. Let me re-send it ><
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Never mind. I saw your reply on your other thread. Thank you. :)

That sensor is supposed to be for the temp gauge...
Puzzling... :confused2:
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Inodoro Pereyra wrote:Never mind. I saw your reply on your other thread. Thank you. :)

That sensor is supposed to be for the temp gauge...
Puzzling... :confused2:
Yeah.. not sure.. is the thermosensor and temp gauge sensor different?

I really don't see any sensors around the ditsy though...
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That's what's puzzling me. Using the same sensor for the ECU and the gauge is possible, but "dirty", from an electronics point of view.
Also, I wouldn't use a one wire sensor to feed the ECU. One wire sensors are normally a lot noisier than 2 wire sensors, and computers don't like electrical noise so much...
I don't know... Personally, if I were to get rid of one sensor, I'd leave the 2 wire unit next to the disty, and feed the gauge from the ECU, through a buffer. Using the 1 wire unit just feels...cheap... :shrug:
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