I'm the opposite, worked on the car all weekend still isn't done. I did take 2hrs. out of that to cut grass Saturday evening. The weeds in the flower beds look really nice.
Nice FB!
I bought a '79 SA Limited Edition with 32,000 miles on it in January, No pic's of the car I bought the car and dropped it off at a friends house, I will be picking it up soon to do some maintenance and then get it on the road.
Nothing cool for Christmas but I did spend time with the family and that's what it's all about for me these days. I took some time off to start working on the RX-7.
I found a good way to figure out the oil cooler line routing and length was to cut up a garden hose an insert it into the fittings to see if would interfere with any thing and then measure the hose and make a copy of it out areoquip line. That car is looking dangerously close to running...
I've been premixing for over 10 years on my rx7 with a 12a, I completely eliminated the OMP. I use synthetic 2cycle oil from Royal Purple , it doesn't smoke much except when the car is cold. I can not address if it would pass emissions testing since the car is old enough to have Historical...
I have a set of parking brake delete rear calipers from my race rx7 that have all of the parking brake pars removed and the outside of the caliper cut off, so I don't think you need the parking brake part of the caliper.
My 2 cents. I have been driving an RX-7 at autox and track events for 15-20 years. Leave the motor stock add a header and cai make sure you keep the oil an water temps in check. lighten the car and do a suspension upgrade. Drive it and have fun. Any car can be reliable if you take care of it...