Project: "Last RX-7" by Herblenny

[ilikestance]

holy shit sick build can you say murdered out lol... good work man

[Herblenny]

holy shit sick build can you say murdered out lol... good work man

Thank you!

Here is the latest update!


December 22nd, 2011 - I went over to MPFab to check out the manifold progress and lend a hand if needed (not that I can do much). We also wanted to test fit the turbo and get some measurements and clearance.. But in order to finish everything up, I need to get the new steering rack.

Anyhow, here are some Walker Morgan's handy work (www.MPFab.com)

[Zic]

awesome work that's for sure.

[Burke]

Those welds are beautiful. I was thinking of getting a miatia or FB or FC when i sell my F150.

[Herblenny]

Those welds are beautiful. I was thinking of getting a miatia or FB or FC when i sell my F150.

Why not an FD

[Herblenny]

December 26th, 2011 - After a full day at work, I decided to take the dash apart and get it ready to get it recovered by my interior guy tomorrow..

Here are some pics of the stripped dash..



re-enforcement bar and wires..



I'm also re doing the center tunnel and door panels.. Should take about a month..

[ilikestance]

header is insane love it i wish i could get an fd.. there scarce around here though unless you have 20k lol

[Burke]

Why not an FD

Well, if i could find one maybe. However ive seen maybe 5 in the last two years on the road in Canada. If anything i'd import it directly from Japan. However, i really love the look of old Japanese cars. I currently own a datsun 720 and would KILL for a 510, so you get the idea! :P

[Herblenny]

December 30th, 2011 - Not much update on the car... but in a rotary related thing, I had a chance to go see some rare historical rotary cars in Nashville, TN.

Thanks to Founder/Director of Lane Motor Museum, I had a chance to see, hear, and touch some historical and super rare rotary cars.

Here are some pics from my private tour.

1967 NSU Spider - This is the first production rotary car with single rotor, rear mounted engine.









Another Rare NSU Ro-80 - A Birotor sedan









Citroen GS Birotor - I knew about the NSU, but did not know about this Citroen vehicle.







And finally a super rare Citroen M35 Prototype single rotor vehicle... This is the only one in USA.

[Herblenny]

January 4th, 2012 - Happy New Year!!!
Well, not much have been done to the car as I was busy at work... Also, I'm about to trade this shell for an R1 shell without the sunroof. Hoping to do that this weekend.
Anyhow, the little time I had, I stripped out the dash and refinished the rusty metal dash frame.



I sanded it down to bare metal, treated with rust inhibitor, and primed it.

I then sprayed with gloss black then quick shot of gunmetal and clear the whole thing.. Shouldn't rust again



I'm heading to my fabricator's shop (www.MPFab.com) to pull the engine out and get it ready for this weekend's shell swap.

[Herblenny]

January 5th, 2012 - My clutch for the 20B came in today from my favorite clutch company, EXEDY CLUTCH!! Here are few pics

[ef9jdm]

cant wait to see this monster fire up

[roof_rack]

promising thread looks promising

[J-Dizzle]

just started drooling!! cant wait to see this finished!!

[Herblenny]

January 10th, 2012 - Well, I would of made an earlier update but I had to put 14 hour day at work yesterday and didn't have much time to tell you all what happened to my trip.

Well, last week I was running around town trying to get my shell ready for a swap with an R1 shell (without sunroof) that a friend of mine had in GA. So, I had to pull the 20B out, get the hatch from my friend's shop (which I was going to paint it and put on my MB FD), find a trailer, and a friend to help me tow it. Because my fabricator does not come in on saturday, I also had to go there day early to pull the car out so I can load it day after.

Saturday morning (Jan. 7th) - We loaded up the car and got to my friend's place in GA. We started taking stuff off of his car and started to transfer to my shell.



During this process, the car smelled really bad and we found some crazy stuff. Like dead mouse





I guess the car was sitting outside for awhile and a mouse made a nice home out of this RX-7.

Since I was going to strip this car to bare metal, I didn't really care about the smell or the dead mouse.... but I did care about what I found next, a bent frame that lead to bent head light assembly mounting points. This is a bad sign as when headlights are mounted and pop ups go up and down, the geometry is messed up so the lights might not line up. At this point, I was quite upset.. Just because I asked my friend to check the car as he knew the car was in an accident before. Also because my car was on hold for 2-3 weeks as my fabricator couldn't cut anything on the shell because of this swap. And I wasted my weekend, other people's time, etc just because my friend didn't take 10 mins to check over the car carefully and to see where the accident was. But he's a friend and he feels bad and going to help me out later so I cant be mad at him.

Anyhow, we loaded the car back up and drove it back to my fabricator.



Hopefully, I'll have more fabrication updates later this week!