Project: "Last RX-7" by Herblenny

[Herblenny]

Aug. 23rd, 2012

Couple of things to update you guys..


Car's coming along with all the panels are on except for the fender mirrors.. I'm hoping to pick out the paint color tomorrow or early next week.

I also started to work on other things attached to the engine.. I stripped down the throttle body (TB), cleaned it, and painted simple black with polished ends. Hope all ties well together at the end.



And finally, the writer of this article contacted me and told me about the rare 767 4 rotor race car (http://www.stanceworks.com/2012/08/a...-road-atlanta/).

It was being rebuilt at the famous Jim Downings in ATL (Also developer of Hans Device). I made call to a friend at Downings and found out that it was still in ATL, GA. I planned to head over there and couple of days before, a friend and manager of Mazmart, Paul Thomas, decided to organize an event for those interested in seeing. I than talked to Paul to find out when, rescheduled and went to see this rare 767..

And here are some pics from it.



And I got to see it before everyone got there and took few of these without the crowd.







i'll post a video of this in couple of days.

[Herblenny]

Aug. 26th, 2012

Let's see what I've been up to...

Friday, I went over to my long time friend, Bryan at www.BNRSupercars.com to use his sand blast to clean up some suspension parts.









And yesterday, I was pressing on some Powerflex Bushings. I heard great stuff about them and once the old stuff were pushed out, install was a simple hand press in. I was amazed how easy it was since I've installed a set of Delrins in the past. Quality of Powerflex bushing were awesome!!





But I did break something... Lack of sleep and hurry to get the job done, I did this..



Luckily I had a spare


I also decided to refinish my Alcon calipers for this..



Did a pretty good job on one, but other one, I kind of messed up and have to re do it..



Anyhow, Tomorrow, I'm re blasting the one I messed up and re doing it.

[Herblenny]

Sept. 2nd, 2012 Well, I been busy trying to fabricate some stuff and re-doing my caliper that I messed up.

I had a chance to re-sand blast and re paint them.



now looks perfect



Also, an announcement of new LIM for 20B!!

I was lucky enough to hear about this LIM 6 months ago and now I can show it off to you guys.



This one isn't my photo.



More information about the LIM and more pics later...

[Herblenny]

Sept. 5th, 2012

Worked on few this over the past few days..


Cluster surround, fiberglassed and process of smoothing out.

making my own MS R-Spec signal lights


Studded everything and shorten bolts so I could put FD chrome nuts and bolts for the LIM.

This was from about 3-5 FD engines

And starting to test fit everything and such..

[MattyHacks71]

It's......beautiful :')
hahah

[that911]

Awesome build. One day I'll have an FD in the garage.

[Herblenny]

Sept. 10th, 2012

Well, some update.. but before that, some of the goodies that are going in in this car..

Aluminum rack..







Carbon Shaft.



FEED trunk thingy in carbon

[Rob&co]

this is fawkin win! are you on rx7club.com?

[dav3design]

I truly mean this when I say that the engine is a thing of beauty!

[JawDropper]

Awesome work so far. Cant wait to see it complete.

[dkell426]

This is awesome. Great work!

[Big Red]

i am planning on doing a full bushing kit this winter in my car but i did not ever think to sand blast everything. i like that.

[Herblenny]

this is fawkin win! are you on rx7club.com?

I am.. Same SN.

I truly mean this when I say that the engine is a thing of beauty!

Thank you SO much!! I appreciate that!

Awesome work so far. Cant wait to see it complete.

Thank you!!

This is awesome. Great work!

Thanks!

i am planning on doing a full bushing kit this winter in my car but i did not ever think to sand blast everything. i like that.

Yeah, my first set I made a mistake by non blasting it before replacing.. one advice.. tape things well.

more update...


Sept 13th, 2012

I finally took some time to work on the rear diffs of the FD RX-7s.

Here are some pics of the diffs.

Stock vs Kaaz


After cleaning the case, sanding it down, and re painting it with epoxy paint,.. I put the new covers on.

Stock vs. Greddy higher fluid capacity cover.

[GLi16v]

Awesome thread!

This requires more updates!

[Volvosome]

Love rotary's, love this.