Project: "Last RX-7" by Herblenny

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Love the new colour! Plastidip?

[Herblenny]

Quick recall from PRI in Indy..



Couple of cool stuff I saw at PRI

Davies Craig EWP


Holley's new fuel pump sock


Alpinestars gloves


And got to have steak at St. Elmos place.. little hyped but good.



Back to the project updates.

So... got these lights


And also changed the color on the car.




Trying out what wheels will go with the new color..


Decided on the Volk Racing RE30





Hit the local car meet





Track day at Barber Motorsports Park, with Just Track It! They are one of the best groups to track with.

[Herblenny]

More Update..

I started to add some rare parts I had..

C's short shifter.



Mounted the Radium Surge Tank



Chase Bay overflow tank and eliminated OE tank.



Finally its all bolted up



Andy from Adaptronics flew in from Australia and with Elliot from Turblown, they came down to Birmingham AL to tune my car.







Video of the dyno run..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARhV6UW0950

Due to some boost controlling issue, we ended the tuning and decided to do couple of days later.

Couple of days later (day when all of us were heading to PRI) I brought these with me in case..



Here is Andy watching the car being loaded.



And done!



Several days later, while trying to put some miles on the engine and such, I ran into my friend Zach with 20B.

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[Herblenny]

Read most all of this thread the last few days. Stellar stuff all of it! Never seen anyone be like, "Cool, building cars and stuff and now I'm going to construct my own turbocharger."

May have leaned me towards one day owning an FD, but if I ever need a practical daily I don't know if I'll cope paying for three cars haha.

Thanks! Hope one day you do get one of these cars.

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Read most all of this thread the last few days. Stellar stuff all of it! Never seen anyone be like, "Cool, building cars and stuff and now I'm going to construct my own turbocharger."

May have leaned me towards one day owning an FD, but if I ever need a practical daily I don't know if I'll cope paying for three cars haha.

[Herblenny]

So, Update continues..

I pulled the engine out of my FD.. old engined worked fine. Did over 10 trackdays in a year and several out of state trips.



While it was out did could of add ons.. Like this IRP Brake MC brace.





Also added new oil coolers..


And I decided to drop the subframe to install because I needed to also change out the coilovers.





I also added Radium Competition oil catch can and IR Performance Oil filler neck






Full Function Fuel Rails for 13B-RE LIM, Full Function Oil Filter neck, and few other new parts.. Anyhow long block is ready to install


Engine in!




Also upgraded fuel system using Radium Fuel Surge tank with Bosch 044 pump inside.



Stance Super Sport + coils installed!



Engine is port matched for 13B-RE Cosmo LIM and UIM.. I'm running sequential twin set up for this..


Installed some polished goodies

[Herblenny]

Since I was putting in a new set of turbos, I decided to put in a new engine verses using one with about 80K miles on.

To Start, I wanted the new engine to be balanced, lapped, and using a newer housings.

Balancing the rotating assembly


Exedy Twin plate will go on and will be balanced




Lapping of the housings


Lapped housings


My JDM housings.

Inside the rotor housings


My color combo like the 3 rotor engine.


Spec'ing the rotors


Me assembling


Porting the intakes


New seals


Seals in the rotor


Assembling the engine


And here it is!
On a spare subframe, using Full Function Engineering Motor mount kit.
I should also thank Luke and Luis Canizales who have been very helpful to building this engine.


Next install and tuning pics.

[Herblenny]

What is that ring around the outer edge of the wheel? Is it curbed or is it just a lighting thing?

Wheels are the newest TE37 Ultra in Blue Gunmetal. Its machined lip

[Aitch]

What is that ring around the outer edge of the wheel? Is it curbed or is it just a lighting thing?

There's 1 or 2 SE versions of the TE37 that have a thin machined lip around the outer edge.

[Dudermagee]

So, I did several track days in year 2014. But one of the more interesting track experience was driving my friends R35 GTR at Barber Motorsports Park.

Here are couple of pics of his car and a video
2010 GTR making about 550WHP on Pump Gas..





YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/LY_cbazSgvU

My friend let me drive 2 x 20 min sessions with his car. Since it wasn't my car I was braking early and was getting used to the paddle shifter. Also the lack of 4+ point harness, I was sliding around in the seat. But was it FAST!!! Also, even on Race setting, I could feel the traction control kicking in at certain spots on the track. I guess it made sense as I was pulling some serious G in 4000lb car and I guess it kicked in to save me.

Anyhow, Driving the GTR made me realized I needed more HP and I was in the right direction when I started to build and upgrade my engine bay set up. I been wanting to build my own engine and turbos. Luckily I was good friend with owner at BNR Turbos and he allow me to be trained and build my own Stage 3 Turbos (www.BNRSupercars.com) and Engine build was assisted by my long time engine builder, Luis Canizales of LCR in Gadsden, Alabama.

More Photos of turbo build and Engine build in next couple of days..

What is that ring around the outer edge of the wheel? Is it curbed or is it just a lighting thing?

[Herblenny]

More Update...

Turbo Build...

For 3-4 weeks, I would take one day a week to head over to BNR Supercars to learn how to build turbos. Funny enough, I started off by building upgraded Mazdaspeed 3 turbos. Mainly assembling.

Finally, started on my own Stage 3. Everything for these turbos are new. Everything!

Started off by rotating assembly


Learned how to balance


After balanced, assembly




Cartridges assembled..




Compressor Housing on




Yup! Here it is..


By the way, Exhaust housing are new and needed a lot of machining and such.. All that was done by Bryan at BNR. These turbos took solid couple of days on my part and couple of days of BNR. A lot of time goes into these.

Next update tomorrow is about the Engine...

[JHermes]

Dayyyummmnnn!!!! Nice

[Herblenny]

So, I did several track days in year 2014. But one of the more interesting track experience was driving my friends R35 GTR at Barber Motorsports Park.

Here are couple of pics of his car and a video
2010 GTR making about 550WHP on Pump Gas..





YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/LY_cbazSgvU

My friend let me drive 2 x 20 min sessions with his car. Since it wasn't my car I was braking early and was getting used to the paddle shifter. Also the lack of 4+ point harness, I was sliding around in the seat. But was it FAST!!! Also, even on Race setting, I could feel the traction control kicking in at certain spots on the track. I guess it made sense as I was pulling some serious G in 4000lb car and I guess it kicked in to save me.

Anyhow, Driving the GTR made me realized I needed more HP and I was in the right direction when I started to build and upgrade my engine bay set up. I been wanting to build my own engine and turbos. Luckily I was good friend with owner at BNR Turbos and he allow me to be trained and build my own Stage 3 Turbos (www.BNRSupercars.com) and Engine build was assisted by my long time engine builder, Luis Canizales of LCR in Gadsden, Alabama.

More Photos of turbo build and Engine build in next couple of days..

[Herblenny]

So much work put into this car. I'm in love, props.

- Renato

Thank you for reading and liking the car. I appreciate it!

Car is looking great!

I prefer the bumper lights with the lens.

Wait a little and I'll get to my latest project with the 'lights with the lens'

Been following you on Instagram for years and my old Miata was actually featured in the same issue of S3 Magazine as your RX-7 a few years back. Just discovered your build thread on here!

Awesome!!! Now I have to go dig out my old S3 feature. Thanks for following me by the way!

I'm in love with all the beautiful things in this thread... <3 FD

Thank you!!!

[DER E30]

I'm in love with all the beautiful things in this thread... <3 FD