RX3 PP

So now it's in need of the interior of which I hope to get sorted as soon as I can, some new rubbers are coming from a guy in aus who took his factory rubbers and had them copied as he was sick of phils rotary rubbers and rear spares ones not fitting properly, I have had amazing feedback from his mans buyers, so will order in next few weeks. Now is time to ditch the engine and ida, a pp on the road?, um no thanks, took it for a drive at the weekend, what a pig!. So I guess I'll been now posting pics of the interior build and now the new engine build, hopefully with brand new rx3 rotor housings which I know a man with about 7 sets of various brand new pairs still in the boxes. My engine of choice will most probably be a Bridgeport secondary with an original 4 barrel carb, although being a true rotor head I do like a nice quiet pulse. So I'm open for opinions as I'm not decided at this point.

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Very nice car, these were another classic shape that's hard to find these days. Awesome car!

Well today was judgement day before the gallows to see if she was going to be released or sentenced to lethal injection, pleased to announce she had been released, new Wof and now reg, pleased as!

It used to be red and was painted blue once before guy called Ryan and mike used to own it. May be the same car I don't know

Just need some small details left and then the full savanna interior will be going in over next couple of months.

So today we fitted a brand new screen and put the moulding back on, had it's very first wash, fitted and wipers, cranked it up ready for wof in the morning.

So last night was a night of some minor detailing, we cleaned up the rear window trim gave it a polish, inserted all brand new plastic retaining clips and the moulding clicked in sweet and firm and not sticking out like before as it was glued on with silicon!. Mounted the battery in boot and fixed the fuel pump back in its home, waiting now on a brand new screen to be fitted today as the other replacement screen I was hoping to fit seems to be for a sedan so at the end of the day a new screen will look far better. Today after work we will give it a wash and wax, as well as clean the mags up. Will get some pics.

Above is a couple of short clips showing a top coat and the first clear coat.

Cheers fellas, yeah I'm stuck with the modgies for now, as they have grown on me slightly, wasn't really worried about the engine as Brian from rotary research taught me everything I know today so engines are for me easy and cheap to build, I guess what made me buy was a mate looked at it and confirmed it was genuine which is what I really wanted as personally I couldn't own anything but a genuine rx. I'm over hornby way so yeah if you see it say hello for sure.

Yeah ok I don't think this is my mates car nor mine, yeah back in the day I brought my rx2 sedan for $1400. It's crazy the prices they demand these days

So I fitted the new clutch master and slave, gave it a good bleed, now I have a mint clutch, one of the threads in the gearbox mount for the clutch needed a helicoil, and now that's fixed and secure as hell. So then we had electrical issues to sort, the lights come on when the battery is connected and one side of headlights was full no indicators, he found within 3 mins, 2 problems and had them all fixed again, just a earth we thought was for the horn was off. Made me look like a right tard, but hay I do engines not electrics. My m8 whom painted the car has stored it at his place for now, he's buffing the paint so it has some insane shine going on, must say thought it was a different car when I saw all the dust wiped off it! I actually joked and asked him if he had repainted it again. So this sat morning we are going for a warrant, and I'll throw some pics up of the finished process for those who want to see it. Bear in mind I havn't put in the new interior yet only the front seats are in, so over next month or so I'll add complete pics inside and out.

Not mine, but looks like a mates old car if I'm correct was based in chch, and had a red rotary research sticker on it, looks very similar. But I'll find out, I know the man to ask. Do you know the person to whom owned it ranter?

So after trying to bleed the clutch it's just fizzing like fanta, so it's a no brainer, new clutch master and slave complete for under a hundy bucks, can't go wrong, so will fit these in next day or two.

Lol know the feeling, cheers bud

Yeah has it's moments, wrong exhaust and bad jetting hasn't helped. Will get better once all that's done.

After fixing the float hight, main jets still far to big as some numpty had drilled them out. Got it running ok, some clutch work needed but we took it for a skid round the road.

Sweet beetle!