"I drive my track car on the street" BUILD

[LaMaR-]

So its been a long time since I updated this thread. Shortly after the last post in this thread (August 2013) I deployed yet again. Not anywhere bad, just Okinawa Japan. 8 months in a country where I would love to drive so many cars that are a norm for the locals. I had a blast and really was looking forward to buying parts while I was there and shipping them back. No luck on that, all I bought was a set of mirrors. Ill get to that later though.

While in Japan I met quite a few people, mostly air force, that were into cars. I love photography and really want to better myself so I decided to try and get them to let me shoot their cars. Heres the outcome...






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[Mr Von Smack]

Been waiting for an update to this!

Glad you're back.

[LaMaR-]

Back to my car now... I got back and drove around the RX7 for a little bit, it had no plates or insurance so it was mostly just starting it up, letting it idle for 5-10 minutes then driving it around the block and then parking it again. Nothing too exciting.

While I was deployed I started to order a few parts. Nothing major.
ASD Hydraulic Ebrake

RaceFab dual caliper bracket

PBM suspension pieces - I currently own everything made for the rear end of the RX7


The car had a sketchy cage in it ever since I bought the car and I really wanted to go ahead and get a FD legal cage put in so I started cutting out the cage and the old cage mounts. What a pain in the A** that is.


I had torn the car completely down so I could do bodywork and have the car finally become the car I had always dreamed of it becoming.


At some point during the cage cutout I decided it was going to be way to much work and I really needed to find a new shell instead of wasting my time. A couple months later I sold my 2013 GSXR-1000 and ended up finding a Black shell that was pretty clean other then the 6 coats of paint that would need to be stripped off of it. I actually don't have any photos at this time of when I first bought it, but just imagine a completely stock FC RX7.

With the money from selling my bike I decided I wanted to order some more parts.
Shine Autosports 30mm rear overfenders
Shine Autosports 30mm ventless front fenders
Shine Autosports Roof spoiler
S13 Coupe Rocketbunny rear spoiler
Replica BN Sports Type 1 kit
Varrstoen ES2 18x9.5/10.5 wheels

After all these parts arrived it was time to pull my motor out of the blue car and get it sold. This was the first time I've actually pulled the motor and since I was going to keep the subframe from the blue car I decided it might be easiest to just drop it through the bottom and pull the car up and over it when it was out. Again What a pain in the A**.

After finally selling the blue car I started to work on cleaning up the bay.. Heres a couple photos of that work going down. Now remember there was probably 6 coats of paint on the whole car and it had to be stripped in order to apply new paint and to make sure it doesn't have any chipping or peeling issues.


Finished bay for now, still to come is tubs and welding up all the unused holes. Then I will paint it and add gold heat reflective tape to the firewall


Lastly here you can see the "finished" bay and my motor patiently waiting to be rebuilt and cleaned up

[LaMaR-]

I guess I can't leave anyone hanging on what its gonna look like roughly lol

Heres a rough look at the rear of the car. The tire size and height is going to change quite a bit still.




and heres the money shot.. The front end


and in the end i would love for it to be a similar color to this S13.

[justaneffer]

love it with the new kit. color should be awesome.

[LaMaR-]

love it with the new kit. color should be awesome.

Thanks man, I can't wait to get it all back together and take it for a drive

[Miroteknik]

so glad to see updates on this. the mock up looks rad, keep posting!

[royalife]

bad ass keep updates coming!

[244Brick]

I have friend named Eric Theirgood. Man, if i get stationed there i'll go crazy lol Too much want

[LaMaR-]

so glad to see updates on this. the mock up looks rad, keep posting!

Will do, I'm currently in South Carolina at my parents for christmas but ill be heading back to Jax and starting work again next week.

bad ass keep updates coming!

Thanks and will do

I have friend named Eric Theirgood. Man, if i get stationed there i'll go crazy lol Too much want

Eric Theirgood??? I'm confused lol. Are you in the navy?

[LaMaR-]

This week I've been slowly working on getting the front suspension and subframe cleaned up and put back in so I could have a rolling chassis again. One of the biggest things I wanted to change this time around was the add power steering to the car since it never had it, now I know why it didn't lol. The motor mounts made it so that I had to bend custom lines to fit, and while doing so I came to find out that its hard to find the fittings for these racks anywhere local. I might end up ordering some later on and go ahead and bend custom lines if the ones I have on there now don't work.

I ended up taking the stock lines and adding a couple bends to them and removing a little out of a couple bends. Heres where I am at with the power steering setup.


From there I had to put back in the A arms and coilovers so i could throw the wheels back on and for the first time see it on all four wheels.

[t.han]

stock to missle...LOVE IT!

[EricT93]

Loving the FC progress sir! I'm that "eric thiergood" guy he was talking about, I guess he thought you were stationed in Oki as I am. Glad you enjoyed your stay here! Sorry to hear about your marriage situation, but what better way to get over things then in a cloud of tire smoke! I would recommend starting a new thread for the FC build, as it's kind of a hidden gem being masked by the original 240 thread. Nonetheless great progress with the FC, my buddy in the states runs a 5.0 FC in the LoneStar Drift series in Texas and it does well.

[LaMaR-]

Loving the FC progress sir! I'm that "eric thiergood" guy he was talking about, I guess he thought you were stationed in Oki as I am. Glad you enjoyed your stay here! Sorry to hear about your marriage situation, but what better way to get over things then in a cloud of tire smoke! I would recommend starting a new thread for the FC build, as it's kind of a hidden gem being masked by the original 240 thread. Nonetheless great progress with the FC, my buddy in the states runs a 5.0 FC in the LoneStar Drift series in Texas and it does well.

Eric did I ever meet you in Japan?? The Silvia and the R32 GTR photos above are from two of the guys I met there. Both stationed on Kadena. Thanks for the love btw, more and more is happening so ill try to post some more photos this weekend if I get some time.

[vgjvxchj]

Well, considering it's a "build thread", why would you expect to see a car already converted into a track car? Eventually it will evolve to fulfill its purpose, hence the thread being in the builds section.