Team Chihuahua SR20 RX8

[RedlineKits]

ah sure shes got an irish reg.. if you've test on the shell she'l be sound for road..

if your lookin for any funny bits for this give me a shout can get them in used from japan handy enough

[Kruizer]

NCT expires next month Sound dude

Well it only took a couple of hours but already looks way better, started with full trim, still have to take out the doorcards, heater matrix, loom and sound proofing but happy for now...

[mx5ideways]

It's coming along nicely Brendan, you weren't long stripping it.

[Kruizer]

Cheers Kieran, just takes a bit of time and effort.... The weight of the stuff that came out...

It'll be your car next

[doug]

gona be different when done! you usin it for road or track?
saw ya today with 2 big dogs! haha

[Kruizer]

gona be different when done! you usin it for road or track?
saw ya today with 2 big dogs! haha

Track only dude, shell hopefully won't stand me took much by the time I sell off a few more bits...

The dogs rock, hence why the car will have Team Chihuahua on the windscreen LoL

Not much of an update, been busy with moving and work. These are fiddley little fuckers to strip, plenty of hidden clips and bolts. got the boot stripped out, my god the amount of shit coming outta this car, I can't wait to see what the final weight is...




Stripped off the rear doorcards also and the locking system on these should be a balls with fibreglass doors... The more panels that come off the more wiring I find, stripping the loom is gonna be a pain in the sack !

[Kruizer]

Quick update, I got bored of stripping panels and the wiring loom is just gonna be a balls so I moved onto removing the sound proofing. I started in the boot and on the right hand side chipping away, what I had noticed is that there had been a pretty big oil spill with the previous owner and what you could call the spare wheel well had been filled. What happened next was brilliant, the oil had soak into the sound proofing over time and the centre section just lifted off, no hammer or force needed, the glue came off also with the proofing so a quick wipe of a cloth brought it right up. Curious to see if this would work again I got some waste oil and used it on the glue on the sides of the boot and it lifted it. At the rear bench I spread some oil on a small corner and let it soak in overnight, hoping (desperately LoL) that it would work again. Unfortunately it needed more time and I don’t have patience so I hammered away and used some petrol to lift off the glue. Job done for the back half, gonna get stuck into the front half of the car later on. Here are some pic’s for now :

Notice how the centre section is practically mark free compared to the rest… Pity it is not an overnight process….

[Kruizer]

Been kept going with removing the sound proofing from the passenger foot well and drivers foot well :




And now the dreaded wiring, this f'ing car is riddled with wires, labelling plugs




Can't wait to see this thing with a full wide arch kit dropped on its ring



Then got stuck into ripping out the heater matrix and more sound proffing from the firewall, small bit more to chisel off the foot wells but almost complete, nearly ready to receive the cage

[Spartacus]

I can't fully remember if I read this in your thread but are you going with fiberglass doors in this? Just the front's or is it possible to do the rear one's that flip backwards open as well?

Just out of curiosity/interest really if its possible to use fiberglass alternatives for all four doors of the RX8 and what effect would it have on the handling/shape on the car seeing as they have no B pillar and all. I know in essence you could reduce all this with the cage you are getting built for it with that in mind but i'm just interested in how ye plan on combating it.

Seem's like a tough/complicated car to work with, but interested to see how it develops.

[Kruizer]

I can't fully remember if I read this in your thread but are you going with fiberglass doors in this? Just the front's or is it possible to do the rear one's that flip backwards open as well?

Just out of curiosity/interest really if its possible to use fiberglass alternatives for all four doors of the RX8 and what effect would it have on the handling/shape on the car seeing as they have no B pillar and all. I know in essence you could reduce all this with the cage you are getting built for it with that in mind but i'm just interested in how ye plan on combating it.

Seem's like a tough/complicated car to work with, but interested to see how it develops.

Yes I will be running all lightweight panels by the end of the build. All doors, wings, bonnet, boot, quarters and of the obvious bumpers / skirts.

It has been done many times before, below is a link of a built R3 model but in addition to the cage I will have the car seam welded. This portion of the build will be finished by the end of Feb all going to plan...

http://www.driftireland.com/forum/sh...ad.php?t=24986

If it was straight forward it wouldn't interest me...

So here is todays quick update, there was a drip, drip, drip from the pipes leading to the oil coolers and it was getting on my nerves and the garage floor so they had to come out. Threw the car up on axle stands got ripping the splash gaurds from the front arches.



I don't think Mazda used enough bolts and clips



Unbolted the corners of the bumper which gave me access to the top bolts on the cooolers, 3 more bolts and the complete system dropped out, some set up to have direct from the factory.



Job as usual cut short by crap weather, so back to the garage until tomorrow, bless Ireland LoL