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09-04-2012, 06:52 AM
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Torque less wonder
Hey my name is Jeff. I live in Utah unfortunately. I heard this would be a good place to learn about welding and what not. I'm restoring a 72 Mazda rx2(capella) coupe. My floor pans are basically gone and the rear quarters as well as the window frames. I don't know really anything about welding or sheet metal and I can't get any sound answers from people I know. I'm hoping to learn enough here to make my dream car come together. Thanks.
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09-04-2012, 08:09 AM
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sounds really cool. should pick up alot quick from the guys here.
down in atlanta there is a place called maz-mart and its full of old mazda stuff. the guy there sheldon knows all the old school rx guys. might be able to help you find some panels. they had everything for me to do my RHD conversion to my old rx-7
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09-04-2012, 09:46 AM
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HI Jeff welcome to the forum
Peter
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P.Tommasini Metalshaping tools and dvds www.handbuilt.net.au Metalshaping clip on youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEAh91hodPg Making Monaro Quarter panel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIpOhz0uGRM
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09-04-2012, 10:23 AM
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Welcome to the forum from Illinois. I remember those RX2s and 3s. My buddy had a 2 sedan and I had a 3 wagon for a short time. Torqueless, yes, but they would wind out just fine, much better than any of the same sized competition from Japan at that time. Hard starting in our Chicago winters, used to squirt an extra tad of oil into the carb to temporarily bump the compression on crank.
By the time I got mine, it was pretty worn, I had a friend who was a Mazda tech at the time, he said the salespeople never told new customers how to drive them: warm up, etc. and that improper warm up was killing the seals prematurely.
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09-06-2012, 07:03 PM
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Why did I know this was about a rotary nut! I also have the terminal disease. Check out the old shot of my RX2 on my chassis rack in this thread, post #18 I think.
http://www.allmetalshaping.com/showt...?t=1938&page=2
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09-10-2012, 08:16 AM
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John, if I had a shop like you do, my car would be running by now. I have so much free time but with it sitting under a tarp outside, it's hard to get much done. The housings are getting milled, lapped, and nitrided so hopefully
I can have a twin dizzy that makes 200k miles  it will just have a weber 48 ida and racing beat intake manifold matched to a bridge port. I'm getting a house soon. My life won't consist of much else besides body work at that point. I'm still on the hunt for some fender flares that fit or can be made to fit. I should have bought a mig welder.... Flux core blah
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09-10-2012, 08:30 AM
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should post up some pics.
 
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09-10-2012, 12:15 PM
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Sheet metal repair
Make sure that before you go cutting the pans and rockers and quarters out that you brace the car up really well on the inside. If you dont and you cut all of that sheet metal loose the body could sag and then when you weld all of the new metal in, none of you reveals on your door gaps or panels will line up. I have seen guys cut cars up without bracing them up with angle iron on the inside and wonder why they cant get the doors to close. post some pics of the car and I am sure everyone will hop on board to give you all of the advice that you need.
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