"I drive my track car on the street" BUILD

[tyler589]

keep it up man lookin good

[HWY HNTR]

hey dude, car is lookin good and awesome to hear about the swap. the drift meet that you're talking about in february are you talking about the camp out one? We were thinking of going to that as well. You go to any meets or w/e in Jax? We should meet up and film some stuff with the goPro's and dslr's (I have gopros and dslr's lol) or w/e.

[Miroteknik]

looks great, high five for grassroots drifting.

street drifting is dangerous dont do it.
motorcycles are dangerous dont do it.
women are dangerous dont do it.
drugs are dangerous dont do it.

dont do anything.

[LaMaR-]

keep it up man lookin good

Thanks

hey dude, car is lookin good and awesome to hear about the swap. the drift meet that you're talking about in february are you talking about the camp out one? We were thinking of going to that as well. You go to any meets or w/e in Jax? We should meet up and film some stuff with the goPro's and dslr's (I have gopros and dslr's lol) or w/e.

That is the campout one in Stark. I used to go out once in awhile to sonic on saturdays but not recently. I would love to meet up sometime I am trying to get better with my dslr but havnt had alot of time to play with it as of late. What programs do you use to edit photos/videos?

looks great, high five for grassroots drifting.

street drifting is dangerous dont do it.
motorcycles are dangerous dont do it.
women are dangerous dont do it.
drugs are dangerous dont do it.

dont do anything.

All the fun stuff is dangerous...Do it all except drugs..well if your not in the military do those too lol

[Tom Marius]

the build is looking godd!

And the tubbing seems like a great idea :P

[LaMaR-]

the build is looking godd!

And the tubbing seems like a great idea :P

thanks, there is a lot more to come including a full respray, lower, different wheels, and more more more.. Thats if I dont get bored and trade it for something else.. This always seems to happen to me lol

[LaMaR-]

Bought these wheels as drift spares.. Cant wait for the 16th

[JHank]

I'm loving this!
And I think you have the best thread title out there.

[LaMaR-]

Lol thanks, I ripped my front lip off yesterday so I can go lower in the front now lol. I also wanna get a custom exhaust so I can bring the back lower as well

[LaMaR-]

Idk how many people know that I sold this car but heres a quick update. I sold the car due to life issues I have going on with my wife. We have now been split up for about 7 months and a divorce is probably in the near future. I sold the car thinking it would make her happy that I wouldnt spend the time in the garage and I would spend more time with her. That was the wrong idea, I sold the car and she got more pissed off lol. Woman haha

Heres a copy and paste from a local forum of my current build...

Now that I look back I wish I would have kept this shell. Hindsight is 20/20 right? Either way I ended up driving to North Carolina a few months back and picking up another RX7. Why North Carolina? Reason being is for the price I paid I got a heck of a deal. Its a 88 FC3S RX-7 with Tein Super Drift coilovers, the same coils I had in my s13, it also has a ford 5.0 swap with T-5 trans and the full grannys swap kit. The motor has some work done to it most of which I have no idea what lol. As far as I currently know it has after market heads, cams, its chipped, headers, arp headstuds, and a whole bunch more internally probably. Here it is when I picked it up.

[LaMaR-]

Alright heres a full update after finally uploading all my photos from my phone. I got her home and decided I needed to figure out why it was running so poorly and that I needed to put my touch on the car for sure.

In the garage doing what I always do lol take the front end off and have a look at everything else

The engine bay was and is still a mess, I cant wait to pull the motor after the september drift event and start cleaning up the wiring harness and the engine bay itself. The interior wiring on the car is even more of a mess, heres what it looked like under the dash :evil:

At this point I started ordering parts to make it a better platform to drive around




Grip Royal Royal Knight


NRG Hub and Quick Release


Crow Harnesses


Bride LowMax Replica seats


After this it was time for its first street legal drive.. Everyone loves gas station pictures


It was running a little better still has vacuum leaks and whatever else going on but overall I am super happy with the way it runs and drives. Interior was together and I could drive it legally so I went to my first drift event as a driver. I learned a bunch and enjoyed the car, I just wish that I had swapped my rear tires earlier and not missed my competition run.








During the event I noticed that my rear differential was still leaking even though I had just replaced the pinion seal, and also Brandon noticed some smoke from my engine bay when I met him at the gas station to head to the event. My slave cylinder was leaking right on my exhaust and would burst into flames for just a second so we had a extinguisher ready the whole day just in case.

After this event I decided I had to do something to fix the rear suspension, the FC doesnt have a real camber adjustment stock and at the time there were very few options to fix the camber. Not a week later Drew decided to take me in a PBM thread stating that the camber links, toe arms, and Camber arm would be coming out. I ordered them as soon as they were put up for sale along with the solid Differential mount and bushings, and the solid subframe bushings. Heres some pictures of the rebuild of the rear suspension, As I was rebuilding I took my differential to a shop here on the westside to have them fix the leak and check over the internals.

Toe Arms Left, Camber Arm center, Camber links right


Diff bushings top, subframe bushings bottom in my freezer


It was now time to pull the rear suspension, you might want to scroll slowly because its really ugly..


First things first start to dismantle it all


Broken forward Diff mount, and rear bushings are cracked to shit


Pretty sure the factory camber link shouldnt be bent lol


Scrub the subframe clean with a red scuff pad and burn the bushings out


Then I started spraying things


Diff with installed solid mount and bushings


Subframe mounts in with diff


Complete rear end minus axles and brakes


Rear end is now reinstalled and ive been driving the car around heres a few final shots and a quick 7 second video of the car and how it sounds

Drivers view




picking up food is what it mostly does lol


Heres a photoshop of how I am hoping it ends up, blue is the color im going with as of right now.


Lastly heres that video, Needs more angle for sure, but the new suspension should allow me more control and easier transitions. I still need an alignment and more seat time is the biggest thing for sure. After deployment I will hopefully be upgrading the front suspension with the PBM angle kit that is not yet available.

[Nick475]

sorry about the wifey man rx7 looks great though. again, awesome work

[LaMaR-]

sorry about the wifey man rx7 looks great though. again, awesome work

Thanks man and I still have a lot of work to do, I have a drift event on the 28th so after that the motor will be pulled and wiring will be gone through. Then I leave on deployment in November so while I'm gone I plan to order wheels, a clean kit, wide body, bcl wing and if possible I want to find another shell because this one is really beat up.

[motocaddy]

When life gives you lemons, V8 drift car. Good luck with the build!

[244Brick]

Sorry about the marriage issues man. Well, life goes on and you learn from your mistakes