Daily Drifter/Fun/Track WIP - RX7 FC.

[STU?]

dude i love this little thing keep it up

[driftsucky]

this is friggin awesome.

[Adamowsky]

Dude, everything is so perfect about this build! Especially the wheels!!!!!

Thanks man! I love the SA3R's ^^

dude i love this little thing keep it up

Thanks stu

this is friggin awesome.

haha, thanks mate!

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First of all, I modified my original hydro I made ^^ Found this little katana sword in the attic and put it to good use! :



Will probably end up somewhere round here, I was going to ditch the original handbrake and just make the hydro look oem-ish and build a center console around it. We'll see later on in the build :smash:



Then I decided to cut more shit out the bonnet :wack: Going to mount the vent from the bottom and fibreglass it in from the top. Will look miles better imo but first, making it fit.





Here it is, riveted back on. Edges smoothed, and etch primed, ready to go in with the fibreglass when I get some!



Started stripping the car for the making of the cage too! Slowly removing the sound deadening on these cold days, it actually makes it come off easier which is nice ^^





On to fixing some rust, finally decided to fix all the 4 arches round the car as their all looking sorry for themselves. Started at the rear, can't lie I kept bodging this arch all season and everytime a tire would delam the body filler and fibre glass was 100% flying out haha! Here's some pictures of the fixing process !

















After welding, the metal shrunk quite a bit more then I expected! Guess it's just something you learn during the process. Some arch rolling and a bit of hammering, sorted it. I just ordered new springs for the back of my HSD's as atm their fully maxed out without collars and can't go any lower. When these come, Ill bop them in and finalize the fitment before smoothing stage :thumbs:



Lastly, just today I had a go at modifying my own knuckles after reading a lot on forums and such. After all I sprayed them yellow and put them back on. The lock now looks really good but I'm more excited for the faster steering. Looking forward to testing it on track!





Also I had some spare frames lying around so decided to get some of my favorite pictures from last year printed :euge:



And to finish off, here's some irrelevant pictures haha!

[Zach Thomas]

Car is looking better! I seriously love the headlights more and more, I don't understand why haha. I might have to get some for my FC down the road. I also think it'd look good if you did something with the rear bumper to help the skirts flow with the car better. But overall I like the car a lot

[labuffness]

Did you cut your carpet when you removed it? Currently gutting my interior but want to preserve the carpet as well as I can. Car is looking real good though. That hyrdo is rad as hell. This thread makes me motivated to work on my FC more lol

[Adamowsky]

Car is looking better! I seriously love the headlights more and more, I don't understand why haha. I might have to get some for my FC down the road. I also think it'd look good if you did something with the rear bumper to help the skirts flow with the car better. But overall I like the car a lot

Thanks man! Do like the headlights too but might go back to squares soon. Also I did play around making some rear spats but they didnt flow as well as I wanted. I do want to make a little diffuser sometime down the line!

Did you cut your carpet when you removed it? Currently gutting my interior but want to preserve the carpet as well as I can. Car is looking real good though. That hyrdo is rad as hell. This thread makes me motivated to work on my FC more lol

Thanks man! Yes I had to cut the carpet around the dash centre piece. Cut really far back so hopefully it shouldn't be noticeable at all when the interior is back in!

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Bit of a quick update, started smoothing the bonnet!





Sound deadening pretty much fully out!



Got my new springs from Driftworks, moving up from 5kgf to 7kgf. To be fair, I was hoping they would get rid of my stupid amount of droop but they didn't. I must have measured something wrong but I basically ended up with the same amount of droop as before haha. Although hopefully harder springs should give less grip and handle better.

(This photo is before I had to droop the spring fully to get back to the height I desired) :cry:




Finished off my hydro, made up all the brackets and actually flipped the handle round as it does feel better in the end.



Also here's how the rear fitment looks after installing the springs, I'm not sure they still might settle a little.







Got my roll cage tubing yesterday too! Put that away for time being as there's not enough time to start fabricating it before buxton.



Put the seats back in, along with the hydro, fire extinguisher and so on. Left all the trim and carpet as that can all go in after the cage is done and interior sealed and sprayed.



Lastly I went down to Chris today to give him a hand with the little engine rebuild, hub install and so on! Schedule's a bit tight with both our cars still needing plenty of work before buxton next week! :no: Thanks for reading !

[Adamowsky]

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These pictures might be in the wrong order but hopefully it should more or less make sense! Let's start off with this, bonnet is smoothed and had a quick coat of primer. :



Extended some S14 arms for Josh, then gave them a quick lick of paint!



Mate came over in his NA recently too! We lowered it a bunch and rolled the arches. Later that day got alignment too, obligatory squad photo :wack:



While I primered the bonnet I also hit the rear arch just so it doesn't rust for a while! I still need to give him some more massaging and then some body filler :smash:



After getting everything ready, sorta, brakes bled, seat in, hydro mounted in new place and so on. I gave it a quick wash before I packed it up for the weekend.



Fast forward to Buxton time ! Decided I'll do the full weekender this time, good idea in the end. Still quite cheap-ish! £92 worth of fuel, £30 a day for driving. Not too bad, great fun. My hydro is wank so I ended up not using it pretty much all weekend, while also getting used to the hubs. Was quite fun. I'll drop a load of pictures now :smokin:

Hard parking with Josh!













All the oil out of Chris's car ended up on my front end :wack: haha, his engine is on the edge of its life (170k miles). Smoking a lot, using litres of oil, even after changing valve steam seals. But no worries, I'm pretty sure hes putting swapping engines out this weekend :smash::dw:



After a great weekend at buxton, not crashing, nor breaking anything. Apart from the fuel pump being a cunt on saturday morning! I ended up short wiring it straight to the battery... straight after that it was all fine throughout the rest of the weekend. Cruising back home.



Came back home, washed the car the next day!



Now here's were it gets interesting, this weekender was the last for the rotary. This engine has served me well since sept 2014 and to this day it's still going strong! But now I'm at a stage where I'd like a bit more power, of course I could get more power out of the rotary. But it wouldn't be cheap, nor driveable. I really want to daily drive the FC again, but when I'm spending over a £100 a week just for fuel getting to work it's not quite working out for me! So new engine of choice will be a 4 four cylinder turbo, more precisely the B6ZE out of a MK1 Mazda MX5. Nice little engine with great potential, the lightness of the engine will maintain the great balance of the FC, compared to like a straight six or a V8 swap. The turbo of choice will be a T28, easy enough to get and will be good enough for what I need. Managing all this will be a Megasquirt MS2. That's all I'll say for now, I'll let the story unfold as I'm progressing with the engine swap and updating this thread. But don't worry, the 13B isn't going anywhere. I will keep that engine, and will use it in another project ::

Engine making it's way out the car!



I raised the car around 80mm all round so I can push it round the driveway easily and be able to put a jack under it too without an issue.



I also put my other Nardi on for now, I get real anal about touching my suede nardi! And seeing I will be moving the car a lot with dirty hands and getting in and out the car a lot I thought I'll take it out for now. :nod:



That's how the car is sitting now. I took the engine, gearbox etc out. And waiting for the new engine, which I will have on saturday! Then I can start getting it in and making mounts and so on.



In the mean time I have made new fuel lines, the standard fuel lines run along the other side. This would mean with the new engine they would be on the hot side, running right above the downpipe and so on. I didn't want that risk. Hence new fuel lines where the best option.



That's it for now! Thanks for reading, and there should be more updates soon! SAFE!! :

[190Evan]

This is my favorite build on this forum right now. Rx7's like these are my motivation to get a 2 car garage so I can have a POS rotary car that's badass as fuck.

[Adamowsky]

This is my favorite build on this forum right now. Rx7's like these are my motivation to get a 2 car garage so I can have a POS rotary car that's badass as fuck.

haha thanks a lot man! Appreciate it

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Here's some videos from Buxton btw! :

Here's one my sister made!



Aaaaand here's one Chris made!



And here's one I put together with some left over footage and stuff



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So firstly, put the FC and MX5 gearboxes together. Swapped out a few parts and made 1 good box out the two. :smash:



Got Mat's MX5 in for body kit repair and a full respray, I had to take a photo when the car was all white! (primer) haha. B6ZE friends :thumbs:



I got some parts in the post, turbo manifold tubing :thumbs:



Had to lay off the work on the FC for a week or so while I got the MX5 done. Here's the result, I think it came out great !





After that I finally had time to mock up some engine mounts to get the engine sitting where I want. I aligned the engine so it's nice and central, then I tacked up the mount on one side, got it all welded up and boxed up. Then the same for the other side the next day.





And the other one



Engine all mounted now and solid, mocking up the manifold will be next :smash:



Also Mat gave me this cool little turbo timer he found in his garage, cool lil thing



Aaaand a random photo, sorting out the headlights and panel gaps is a high priority on the list after the engine's done :wack:

[labuffness]

Looking good as always. I can't wait to hit the track. Sad that we wont be NA rotary bros anymore, but I still love you. P.S Throw chur boi a sticker this way

[Peeunit]

Some great work going on here, love the project

Are u making the trip down to japfest in a couple of weeks?

[spaaals]

that miata looks amazing

[190Evan]

That miata is so rad omg, I would have the same exact thing but it pink and literally never sell it.

[Adamowsky]

Some great work going on here, love the project

Are u making the trip down to japfest in a couple of weeks?

Thanks man! And I won't be attending Japfest unfortunately man :/

that miata looks amazing

Thank youuu!

That miata is so rad omg, I would have the same exact thing but it pink and literally never sell it.

haha thx man, the yellow does suit it. Would look wiiiiild in pink.

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Bit of an update -

Painted RB rocker covers for a friend from down south :smash:



Just rotated the turbo and put the flange on to start mocking up the position of the turbo and flange location on the manifold.



Started making my manifold too! Sort of realised that the tubing I bought its quite maybe a bit too thick! XD Well at least it might prevent cracking in the future. Anyway, after hours of cutting, grinding, aligning it sort of looks like it could work.



So I threw some tack welds on just to see how it looks on the engine. I will weld it up fully soon, I will then mock up the flange with the turbo and finish it off. :thumbs:



Also while dad took over the garage for a day I couldn't do much, so decided to strip down the intake manifold and give it some paint lovin'. I also got my injectors today too! Thanks to Dave from Minty fresh! Overall turned out great! I really like the OEM clean as fuck look on certain parts, tomorrow I just want to spray up the fuel rail in candy and I'll be able to put it back together.

[EasySpeed*Inc]

That thing cleaned up nicely, awesome build as well