its better than paint them, paint cracks, and rust comes.
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I guess my concern is that tightening a nut onto the threads would scuff the plating off and let it rust exactly where you don't want it to rust. Otherwise it looks nice, will this plating polish to shine?
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should polish. Rust, with time maybe, but since im using lock nuts, i always use antiseize in the threads, and that will prevent rust...
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the hardest part is choosing, and making a decision..
by know you guys know whats going on here....
yes boys and girls, only one survives....
special body cart made to handle the process. good solid 3 days to tear a car apart by my self, of course with a lot of breaks and goof offs...
then i need to take the electrical stuff out...
and came to a wtf moment....
wtf, wtf, wtf..
how in the hell one can wire like this... what a mess. im having headaches....
well i hope i finish tonight so i can get on with live, will cut the parts i need for the other shell, and so forth.....
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Seems like a truck left their axle in your way.
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
lol. old cars....
finished pulling the harness.. or wiring or wtf,
feels like im working on a house... look hidden fuses....
the spider of death....
and here is to future headaches...
going to leave some pics of a nice car....
I let my emotions get the best of me, paid a steep price.... but the concept will be saved
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At least it looks like they somewhat labeled things.
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
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Hey, that looks like race car wiring - it has to work, and the car has to go fast. Looks are only considered through the lens of sanctioning body regulations ("wiring has to be tucked up, no loose wires"). Some won't let you on the track if your car really looks like crap, or even if too many body panels are just in primer.
Perfect candidate for a LeMons car though, already has a cage...
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QUOTE (slavie @ Nov 16, 2017 - 1:32 PM)
>You got 11 bucks for the engine or the car shell? Hard to tell which one you decided to trash, both are good candidates in my eyes.
engine block, the car i just bought. The block was full of water, and i did not need it....
I'm bummed out my sarcasm was lost in transmission from server to server.
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QUOTE (cheela @ Nov 29, 2017 - 8:42 AM)
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yes i know, i said the same thing, when i saw it for the first time, 2 years after i bought it....
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QUOTE (slavie @ Nov 29, 2017 - 7:27 AM)
>Hey, that looks like race car wiring - it has to work, and the car has to go fast. Looks are only considered through the lens of sanctioning body regulations ("wiring has to be tucked up, no loose wires"). Some won't let you on the track if your car really looks like crap, or even if too many body panels are just in primer.
Perfect candidate for a LeMons car though, already has a cage...
too bad the car shell is not worth 500 bucks, lol. In my opinion is worth more. Why. Because the cost of a rollbar in my new shell will be at least 800 or more if i hire someone to do it. and also i need the parts of this car to fix my other shell. I once put it on ebay and someone offered me 500 for the whole car. I LOLd hard. Then i realized, in the current condition the car will never sell. Then i started to care for the bastard, and now im using it to fix a much better shell. At the end, what matters is the end product...
This TE37, once restored is a beautiful car.... Not a Lemons candidate any more.. Ill use for shows, or maybe sell for a profit to the right buyer....
This cage is coming out of the car, will get blasted, painted and reinstalled. All the components removed, like the rear sway bar, fuel cell, and race engine and ae84 brakes and coilovers are to be swapped.
The wiring will be fixed...
the shell car will be cut, and the rest sent to scrap. thats the way its got to be done....
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QUOTE (njccmd2002 @ Nov 29, 2017 - 7:40 PM)
>or maybe sell for a profit to the right buyer....
You mean not a kid that just wrecked their last car?
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
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QUOTE (Box @ Nov 29, 2017 - 8:54 PM)
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QUOTE (njccmd2002 @ Nov 29, 2017 - 7:40 PM)
>or maybe sell for a profit to the right buyer....
You mean not a kid that just wrecked their last car?
a te37 will only be sold to an adult, with kids. LOL..
a kid that just wrecked, wont be able to afford it.
Usually these sell for 6k to 10k range... The right collector will come along. like i said. the te37 only made it to the states for 2 years before ir had an ugly facelift.
Not many examples left... and in the end, i rather keep than loose money....
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well i just wanted to give this thread closure. because, i did not want it to just die like most. Recently My te37 went to racecar heaven.......
used a plasma cutter, what fun i had...
got it out in one piece....
last but not least, the donor parts....
I will be woking on the new shell, wont post thread here. maybe somewhere else.....
It kinda made me sad....
the end.....
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Kinda dramatic eh, Noberto?
I like seeing what you're tinkering around with.... Reminds me of all the things I can't do now that I have the baby.
~bloodMoney
So the new shell ended up being in a lot better shape or something?
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
drama is good.
box, the floorboards are gone.... need to weld new ones, outside is better.
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so you're gonna open it up from the bottom, stick the cage in and then weld in the floors?
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QUOTE (cheela @ Jan 30, 2018 - 7:48 AM)
>so you're gonna open it up from the bottom, stick the cage in and then weld in the floors?
thats for another forum hahahaha....
I wont continue the updates here, but of course not, that would be impossible..... Im going to use shrinking fluid....
lol, dont know yet.
Ive started my thread in JNC..... where it belongs...
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2001 Miata LS 5-speed
I will keep updating box here...
So let me show you some halloween pictures of my new project.....
the brown is not paint...
that is paper thin rust...
and moving on to the interior...
and the side
Just because the car is so rare to find for sale, and was only made for two years, but made me regret spending on it thinking it was a better shell. Well only exteriorly....
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If you have an air hammer get one of these for the nose of it so you can blast rust off frames and stuff real easy, this chews through scale and gets you down to nearly bare metal in a jiffy, down enough to paint on rust encapsulating paints or grind to bare metal in much much less time with much much less wasted grinding media.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Ironton-Utility-Ne...TAAAOSw0W5aDgSC
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NO!.....
Thats the worst repair, sure it can be quick. but the metal is already thin... so it only weakens it... The solution is on the works...
and here is the hump removed...
the second hump was removed...
of course i need to remove all that paint and bedliner and fix the minimal rust this floor pan has....
and of course all the other sections will be transplanted as well...
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Hopefully you have enough between the two cars to make one. I want to know where these cars were sitting to get so ****ing rusty. With the *counts* five 60's to 70's domestics between my brother and myself none have been anywhere as rusty, yeah they had the usual pan rust but that was it. I don't think domestics did any rust proofing beyond paint either then, of course there are plenty of old domestics just as bad. Then again he had that '79 280ZX as well and it wasn't rusty either, so I guess it's more an issue of no salt exposure period to any whatsoever and it's all over.
2001 Miata LS 5-speed
It's meant for heavier parts like frames, engine blocks, differentials, transmission cases, etc cause jesus it would punch right through sheet metal!
2000 Celica GTS 'slowest gts evar'1998 Mazda 626 FS-DE/CD4-E
whoa! makes your RA24 look in great condition.
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in so lazy with the RA....
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no, I hear ya. why do we keep picking up new projects when the old ones aren't even done yet? hahah
last thing I did was slap a pacesetter header on a while ago. lol
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the hardest part is to prep the donor...
and of course removing spot welds....
that bedliner was thick...
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You'd better get an article on Jalop when this is done
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