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Well it was a rainy day didn't stop at all, well not enough to even dry the track out but went out and had fun anyways managed to keep it on the black stuff and had no spins.

had about 8 little moments but was a great learning curve, not sure on time's ill have to go through the footage but didn't break any records :)

the car ran great all day, temps were spot on 80 water and 100 oil. didn't have to worry about tyres but got the brakes nice and toasty a couple of times as i was doing to many consecutive hot laps HAHA

might looking into some better exiting ducts for the oil coolers by chopping up the front guards.

here are a couple of pic's will get the footage up later.

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Here is a little bit of footage nothing spectacular nor breaking any records but still good fun and a great learning curve

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpF5fz8aec4&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdip6Y_rwRY&feature=youtu.be

Well I finally got some time to work on the 7 yesterday, started by repairing the front bar fixing the hole they made for a tow point and making a mould of the drivers side combination lamp housing as it was cut out to make way for some air filters/duct's.

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and then the fun started cutting up the front bar...........

1st photo shows the stock hole on the right and the modified hole on the left
2nd photo shows the cut out's i made

3rd photo shows the 40mm gap i have enlarged it by

4th shows the oil cooler behind the cut out and the 5th shows with the piece put back in increasing the hole by 40mm

6th photo shows what it should look like once complete

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Saturday arvo I finished off filling in with fibreglass and then a Mate and I spent majority of Sunday rubbing it back, had to refibreglass from the front as it had sunken in on one of the sections but otherwise looking good!!!.......... almost ready for highfill

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Yes it's going to be V mounted, was cheaper to buy this than even a core of the same size. so will just cut off the pipes and turn them around :)

ahh cool beans. Don't wait dat heat soak for the FD. Mazda messed up the cooling hardcore in the FD lol.

Well my pulley kit turned up on Friday so I could go ahead with fitting that, removing the air pump (5kg) and remove the center exhaust with the cat in it (13.8kg)
appon removing all the pulleys the only one that wasn't in the kit was the power steering idler pulley pulled it off to check it luckily I did as it still spun alright but sounded very dry, so i picked up a new one and pressed it in. Just waiting on a call the my straight pipe is ready for pick up.

then to move onto removing all the air pump pipes and block them all off with the emissions blanking of plates :)

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its a very nice car and you're doing it justice, but fark i would not have the patience or determination to replace/repair so many poorly implemented items.

i would probably bin the whole front end and start from scratch.

thankfully, its not my car.

If I had of known it would be so much drama with the solenoids/twin turbo and all the money I wasted in getting it running, I probably would've bit the bullet and went single straight away but hay you learn as you go.

and doing things on a budget makes you think outside of the box. it'll all be worth it in the end :)

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