Project: "Last RX-7" by Herblenny

[loekaaz]

Good looking cars those q50's.

I make the instruction manuals for those, for the European market

[Herblenny]

Update:

It's been busy few weeks for me. Purchased a new car for the family. Back SEMA 2015, group of friends rented a Infiniti Q50 3.7 in Vegas. I was driving around and put about 100 or so miles on it. Car was comfortable and had decent pick up in speed. At the SEMA, I ran into a guy who put GTR R35 motor into the Q50, and though how it would fulfill my GTR desire. Well, Nissan finally came out with Q50 Red Sport 400, which I recently purchased. Car is just what I needed. Comfortable daily my wife can drive and enjoy, switched to Sport + mode and car comes alive and becomes a beast with 380WHP (thats what some of the stock RS400's been dynoing). Here are couple of pictures of the car.




With both of my Daily, RS400 and IS300 Wagon.


Regarding Rotaries...
I've decided to clean up some wiring to get ready to put a new set up in the car.


To do it right, I also needed to pull the dash and clean up the hacked up 20 year old interior harnesses.


More to come next week..

[Herblenny]

I've read all of the speedhunters articles, and even remember when you had that mazda cosmo in modified magazine. I didn't even intend to follow you either hahahaha. You're in inspiration to rotards.

Thank you!! and Thank you for following!

Tuff as, man! And so cool to have the history behind it

Thanks!

[bjk]

Tuff as, man! And so cool to have the history behind it

[rice4life]

I've read all of the speedhunters articles, and even remember when you had that mazda cosmo in modified magazine. I didn't even intend to follow you either hahahaha. You're in inspiration to rotards.

[Herblenny]

Here is my other feature with SpeedHunters... with my 1973 RX3 and history behind it.

http://www.speedhunters.com/2016/09/mazda-history-tales-friendship/

I am honored that Mr. Larry Chen was able to shoot the car. It almost didn't happened because of the weather. It rained all day and as I was leaving the track (Road Atlanta), weather started to clear up and Larry gave the thumbs up.
Like any cars or people at this age, it comes with fantastic history. This car was initially built by a gentleman named Tom McGuire. It was his daily for many years and later I was told about the sale of the car by another friend, Chris Mahaffey. At that point, I was only interested in FD RX-7 so I passed it to a good friend Steven White. I regretted no buying first time so, when it was available for sale, I snatched it up from Steven. I fixed few things and after my marriage and 7 cars parked, I ended up selling it to yet another friend who recently had to sell his beloved FD RX-7, Marco Lau. He owned it for several years and was moving to west coast and I ended back up with this car again. I've updated few things for this feature and all my friends have great memories with this car. My future plan is to put maybe NA 20B in it. But I guess I need to finish up few other projects before I do that swap.

In case some of you don't or can't click the link above, here are some photos from it.







I am honored that Mr. Larry Chen was able to shoot the car. It almost didn't happened because of the weather.

[Herblenny]

Update...

Continuation of the bumper making..

Here are the detail pics of the bumper.


Test fitments:












Overall, I was very happy with the results. Fitment was satisfactory for being what it was. Height of the bumper was similar to the stock 93 bumper with 99 front lip. Compare to the first version, its night and day difference in fitment and quality.

[Herblenny]

This is effing cool!

Thank you

[I_Haz.:R32]

Update..

First bumper pulled from the second mold.



Phil

This is effing cool!

[Herblenny]

Update..

I realized I didn't post anything about the bumper project I did early last year.

Back story.. When I first started this thread, I was building a car for SEMA, my 3 rotor project. For years leading up to this point of building this car, I had a vision of my ultimate 3 rotor. But like most of you, job, family, money, etc. can lead to not quite execute your dream build. In this case, one of the thing I wanted to do was make a unique bumper. I wanted to mash together my 2 favorite japanese companies; Fujita Engineering (FEED) and RE-Amemiya. If you look at the car now, you will see that its pretty much built using both of those companies. But what I really wanted to do was build a bumper using two iconic bumpers. FEED Type 2R and RE-A N1-02 bumper. I love the signal/driving light set of of the FEED and loved the aggressive bottom of the N1-02.

FEED Type 2R on my 2 rotor


Re-Amemiya N1-02 with Front diffuser add on


Back in 2015, I decided that it was time to fulfill my goal of making a bumper that meets my vision. Instead of using RE-A N1-02, I decided to used the N1-05 which has the molded in undertray/diffuser. We cut the both bumpers and started to put them together. (Oh, I should most definitely give credit to my engine builder and long time friend Luis Canizales and his son Luke Canizales for their help putting the bumper together and helping me make the initial mold).

I did not like the 90's 'hump' on the front bumper so we made it to sit flat.

Here is an initial shaping of the bumper.. It weighs 40-50lbs


We made a mold and pulled one bumper off. When running the bumper on the, it didn't quite fit correctly. It sat quite low and required some hand on modification. Again thanks to Luis and his friend, we were able to have it on and made it to an event very next day (low as in I couldn't make it out of my driveway).

I was able to have it on the car and get it featured in SpeedHunters.

http://www.speedhunters.com/2015/07/meet-the-rotary-maniac/

But I wanted to make the bumper correctly and more of it.
Following year, I was conversing with my friend Michael about the project. He said he knew someone who might help me regarding making a new updated bumper.
So, I took my initial bumper and started to correct some of the issues. Being extremely low was an issue, so first bumper was cut, fix the height issue, and corrected the flat part of the bumper.





First bumper pulled from the second mold.


Im running out of time so I will update next week regarding the fitment and the results.

Phil

[hkz286]

Thank you for the kind words. Hope you acquire an rx7. I think they are under rated car, til you get in one

ha unfortunately this thing takes up all my time and money at the moment :P

http://www.stanceworks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=86920

[Herblenny]

badass build. just read it start to finish

Love the use of jdm parts! never really wanted an rx7 until now :S

Thank you for the kind words. Hope you acquire an rx7. I think they are under rated car, til you get in one

[hkz286]

badass build. just read it start to finish

Love the use of jdm parts! never really wanted an rx7 until now :S

[Herblenny]

Holy fuck that silver one is clean. I feel like I should lick it

Absolutely beautiful!

Thank you both for the kind words!!


Update...

Happy New Year everyone!! I have couple of projects to finish off this year and maybe new one to start later on

2 Rotor update..

Going with couple of different stuff this year..

1. Haltech Elite 1500. It has loads of features. One of the thing I didn't realize was the OBD II output. This means that I can still use my Defi Dash and get more reading out of it by using this ECU. This time, I'll be adding Haltech flexfuel, 2 x EGT, Borg Warner Speed sensor for the turbo, wideband, etc. and keep the OMP.



2. Chris Ludwig/ Ludwig Motorsports (LMS-EFI) harness for the Haltech. Amazing details on this harness!! This is my second harnesses by LMS-EFI and I highly recommend. They will be also attending DGRR 2017 and will be doing a seminar and Q&A at the event.

[rice4life]

Absolutely beautiful!