323Permin's 323 SE transformation into a GT

[Escortfan]

Haha, well we havent seen nearly as much snow as the states have, so dont tell them that either ;P Those tires need some breaking in buddy >:D And nice machine work, are you a machinist, or is it a expensive passion like these cars? Haha

[323Permin]

I am personally not a machinist . My father was ... and I have learned a few thigs from him. Plus we also have all the machines in our our personal tool cache. Lathe , milling machine ... etc etc.. it comes in really handy when any of the family are working on there cars .

My uncle has a 63 Falcon Ranchero, My Father has 1948 Ford Angia , my other uncle has a 1949 Moriss 8 Series ( which is a little blown beast , see the youtube video) , my cousin has Mazda 1992 GT-R, another uncle has a 1932 Ford (all steel) T -Bucket .

Our family also puts on an annual custom car show in Surrey BC, Part of the A&W restaurants out in Western Canada. Its to raise funds for Parkinson's disease. Check out the pics of the cars I took from the 2009 show .

http://rwgphotography.smugmug.com/Cars/AW-Show-and-Shine-for/12161918_mwxoW#865245368_SMjZZ

As you can see my family is into cars, and we all build them ourselves. Lots of custom fabricating on the old ones.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCgX3S3CRM4

[323Permin]

Got a bit more done over the weekend.. and my Cousin showed up with is GT-R and the old suspension from it .. so I got a few more pieces for the GT 323 Projects suspension. As he isn't using the old suspension he had in the Gt-R.

I will have helper srings fromt and rear, pillow ball front and rear and camber plates for the front .

[Mazda_Powered]

wow! that looks awesome! any details on the rear setup? any brand name?

[323Permin]

@Mazda_Powered... the rears dont have any markings on them . And whoever had them before ground one edge down to the shape they are now . They were originally circular.

I am not quite sure yet if I can even use the helper springs due to not knowing what the I.D. of my ground control springs are .

I think the ones which where on the front will work , but the rear set of helper springs are bigger than the ground control springs .

It looks lie if I am to make them work I will have to machine some parts up to make them fit together . Off to the lathe ....

[323Permin]

So got my subframe back from the powder coaters and in my rush I put it together and installed it , but didnt take any pics while it was out of the car ... Duh !!

It looked nice and shiny . Here it is installed with the GT sway bar and new polyurethane bushings .



While I wait for other parts to be finished by the powder coaters I started and finished the brake rotor/pad change over .

Front and Rear EBC slotted / dimpled rotors along with EBC GREEN stuff pads . I am hoping it will stop better now . With the stock set-up I couldn't get it to lock up .

[bomdoutscort]

Too clean

[Mazda_Powered]

awesome man!!! so clean...gotta love it

[tireboy]

wow thats pretty cool 323 permin.. ive seen most of your families cars at various car shows when i lived in the lowermainland . i used to hang out at the old a&w in langley when it was still open . and saw most of the required burn outs out front on the street .

[323Permin]

I have gotten to work on the final stage of my engine build .... The intake ..

If you didn't see the custom CNC'd " MAZADASPEED " piece my cuz made, well here it is now going to be installed on the intake .

I must have way to much time on my hands , as you can see I almost polished the whole intake .

I did this just to clean the aluminum up for me to paint it ... but it looks like the weather is going to be sh*t over the next 3-4 days .

So painting will have to wait ... I will be sure to post the final finished intake when its done.


BEFORE





AFTER

[Mazda_Powered]

i say hit it with some clear coat instead of painting it now lol, looking good tho!

going to be doing any porting work?

[323Permin]

Him ???? Porting work ???? if I do that then I will never finish ... If I did start porting work it may lead me down the path to a turbo set-up ..LOL

[89BG 323]

do eeet!!!
and btw, that intake is THE SEX!!!
there is entirely TOO MUCH WANT!!!

[u.k gtr]

whilst ur on the subject of porting. . .iv a gtr in the uk,am after info re;portin/flow ect.step by step guide as i dont have a clue.cheers

[Mazda_Powered]

oh man there's so much tweeking you can do in the n/a intake manifold!

sit down and examine the top 1/2 of the manifold if you want, and look how the air flow will be going through the secondary runners...there's a lot of cast marks and imperfections to help out flow!