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Author Topic: 1992xr2' picture/build thread no 56k UPDATE 4/25 , blown motor out, wire tuck  (Read 51486 times)

1992xr2

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1992xr2' picture/build thread no 56k UPDATE 4/25 , blown motor out, wire tuck
« Reply #15 on: January 18, 2008, 09:31:00 AM »

I'm glad to hear Bob's is good news.  I'm buying my first aftermarket clutch tonight, ACt unsprung disc with a yellow clutchnet pressure plate.  This will definately be one of the less street friendly clutches I've ever driven, I hope it won't be too unstreetable (this is my daily, lol)
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1992xr2' picture/build thread no 56k UPDATE 4/25 , blown motor out, wire tuck
« Reply #16 on: January 31, 2008, 04:47:00 PM »

New pics: gutted interior, catch can, remote mount washer fluid and MBC removal.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/22855253@N03/
I'm too lazy to post all of them just look here, it should work.
here's the highlights:
 
Christmas present
 
What is this? Can I remove it? It's on the passenger side of the engine bay.
 
my interior in a box
 
My snows versus my dads hankooks, his 195 hankkoks are alot bigger than my 195 kumhos too
 
Konig snows
 
This is clutchnet's stiffest capri pressure plate, I ordered the mild performance upgrade, this is gonna suck
 
The chattering bastard, yeah, this is my daily driver
 
5+ finger gap, most of the higher honda guys are at what 2 fingers? I need coilovers
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1992xr2

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1992xr2' picture/build thread no 56k UPDATE 4/25 , blown motor out, wire tuck
« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2008, 04:52:00 PM »


 
gutted, i drive it to work like this, in winter, in illinois
 
 catch can
 
this was originally a rx7 setup, it work nicely here
 
All of the a/c crap, coolant resivoir and battery are going this month
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1992xr2' picture/build thread no 56k UPDATE 4/25 , blown motor out, wire tuck
« Reply #18 on: January 31, 2008, 04:53:00 PM »

That box is your knockbox. You need it.

I dont think that clutch disk will be very friendly...  :(
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1992xr2' picture/build thread no 56k UPDATE 4/25 , blown motor out, wire tuck
« Reply #19 on: February 01, 2008, 04:09:00 AM »

I was in contact with clutchnet and apparently they sent me the red 2x pressure plate which happens to be exactly the same as the yellow plate I ordered, it just costs more   :confused:  So that makes me happier, lots of turbo honduh guys run discs crazier than this on the street and dont think its that bad.
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1992xr2' picture/build thread no 56k UPDATE 4/25 , blown motor out, wire tuck
« Reply #20 on: February 06, 2008, 11:54:00 AM »

I got more boxes today...
 
Box from Midco...blurry but these boxes are always good news
 
Cheap ass alignment tool
 
OE Ford box...I wonder what could be in it
 
BNIB throwout bearing
 
$47 worth of Redline goodness.  75w140ns FTW
 
There she sits in a pool of her own blood    I'm going insane not having ripped on her for more than 2 months now
 
Crazy ass snow storm out the garage window...The car was clean and driveway shoveled less than 2 hours before the pic was taken.

On other notes, 5 days until she gets taken to the mechanics and I start my new job (4 jobs in 1.5 years).  I think I'm going to relocate teh knock box inside through the ecu grommet and I found 40ft of 4 guage wire for my battery relocation for $32 How? just hack a set of jumper cables.
Has anyone ever tried removing the throttle dashpot?  I think I'm going to try it once she runs again for giggles and grins.
And I can't get on to mazda323performance.  Did I get IP banned somehow or is there site down?
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1992xr2' picture/build thread no 56k UPDATE 4/25 , blown motor out, wire tuck
« Reply #21 on: February 06, 2008, 02:57:00 PM »

Hey XR2! If you're relocating your battery then 4 gauge is too small. Go to a welding supply and get the appropiate length of cable and ends. you may not get red cable but just mark the ends. And I also cannot access 323
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1992xr2' picture/build thread no 56k UPDATE 4/25 , blown motor out, wire tuck
« Reply #22 on: February 06, 2008, 09:15:00 PM »

323performance is down for some reason.

I'd reccomend leaving the knockbox where it is.

And you do want a throttle dashpot. The car will run like crap when its out of adjustment, let alone removed.
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1992xr2' picture/build thread no 56k UPDATE 4/25 , blown motor out, wire tuck
« Reply #23 on: February 07, 2008, 06:36:00 AM »

Thanks for the advice.  I guess I need to do more research...sigh
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1992xr2' picture/build thread no 56k UPDATE 4/25 , blown motor out, wire tuck
« Reply #24 on: February 07, 2008, 09:05:00 AM »

After a few hours of research, it appears that the best way to do this is to buy an Oddessey PC680 and stick it under the passenger's seat after fabricating some sort of bracket to hold it down, finding a suitable location for a new grounding point somewhere close to the battery, a new grounding point in the engine bay and a couple distributer blocks from best buy.  I'm broke now but I'll probably mess with this sometime after I get it back from the shop and lower it.
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1992xr2' picture/build thread no 56k UPDATE 4/25 , blown motor out, wire tuck
« Reply #25 on: February 07, 2008, 12:36:00 PM »

An Optima Red Top will work just fine, they're around $120 and they have 800 something CCA's. Way more than enough.

They're gel-cell so you can mount them at any angle. Mount it in the trunk laying down, theres enough room to fit it next to the spare. You can run heavy gauge cable along the driverside of the carpet, and up thru the aux harness hole in the firewall. It comes out behind the driverside fender, and you can sneak it into the engine bay very easily. There are some pictures on my website showing how I did that with my old capri.
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1992xr2' picture/build thread no 56k UPDATE 4/25 , blown motor out, wire tuck
« Reply #26 on: February 07, 2008, 12:48:00 PM »

How much does a red top weigh?  a PC680 weighs 12.8 lbs IIRC, I thought optima stuff was normal size/weight.  I don't really want 15' of 0 guage cable that ends up weighing more than the battery.  I've gone fairly obsessive about weight reduction, it's seems counter productive to add weight just to get better weigh reduction.  All I'll end up doing is oversteer around the track slower.  I used way to many periods in this post.
Oh, and isn't running the cable and mounting the battery on the driver's side of the car counter-productive?
EDIT: and your site is down, I get soemthing about you installing new software and not having re-uploaded your content.
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1992xr2' picture/build thread no 56k UPDATE 4/25 , blown motor out, wire tuck
« Reply #27 on: February 08, 2008, 08:06:00 AM »

Its a capri. It doesnt matter what battery you put in it, its still going to handle like shit.

If you want a circle track car grab an n/a 5spd, they're way lighter in the front (no turbo, much smaller transmission) you can make that handle better than an XR2. Build it for all-motor.

Regardless moving any battery to the rear will give you better weight distribution.

They were doing some server maintenance last night, my site should be up now.
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1992xr2' picture/build thread no 56k UPDATE 4/25 , blown motor out, wire tuck
« Reply #28 on: February 08, 2008, 08:35:00 AM »

Yea, I relocated my battery to the trunk, pretty easy process.
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1992xr2' picture/build thread no 56k UPDATE 4/25 , blown motor out, wire tuck
« Reply #29 on: February 08, 2008, 12:53:00 PM »

I busted out some information I had stored away about weight distribution and changed my mind again, I'm going to move the old battery to the trunk w/ 0 guage for now and when I get sick of that I'll buy a pc680 and relocate it again.  Also my dad and I took out the dashpot out of his I/H/E 92 protege and it did nothing drivability wise except fix the idle and made low rpm revving come down faster.  Mine is now sitting in my old parts box.
I'll take a look for the battery relocation on your site.
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