Generation Specific > 2nd Generation Build Thread
FC Rallycross/Stage Rally/Ice Racer
fidelity101:
I\'ve had this car for a long time so here it goes.
Sold my 240sx for more money than I bought it for (thank god for the fast and furious movies) and bought an rx7 along with some toys for it.
only have a few of the two together
I am the 3rd owner, the 1st owner drove it and the rear rotor went out on it and it sat in their backyard in South Carolina until that person sold it to the guy I bought it from in boystown area Chicago.
I bought it in the spring of 2006.
it didn\'t start out to be a rally car but its making its way that way now as the years move on, its had a crazy life and lots of changes. Gotta love this chassis.
it started out as this to me:
it had knock off crappy beat up \"racing\" seats and with a smokers grey interior but working ac, ran kinda crappy but had this motor rebuilt on it with about 55k miles, and yes that is some home made vent he cut in the hood.
The guy I got the car from didn\'t know sh*t about mechanics but he managed to put an aktins rebuild but the car hesitated (bad grounds)
ran fine for a while and did some work to it:
PIAA yellow fogs
Atkins streetport
3mm apex seals
Tokicko blue shocks
tanabe GF210 springs
Ported and polished throttle body
momo wood/aluminum steering wheel
battery relocated
Centerforce clutch
Racing beat aluminum flywheel
12a tranny mod (shorter 1st, 2nd, 3rd gears)
Manual steering rack
Air conditioning removal
Air pump removal
ACV removal
Racing beat header/presilencer/cat-back
S4 clutch type LSD 4.10 ratio
Weight reduction (lol)
5th/6th port & sleeves removed
Dual alternator pulley mod
Battery relocation
Audi A6 dual electric fans
NGK plugs/wires
C-Wings GT3 fiberglass hood (functional scoop)
15x6 OZ lancer rally wheels (made by enkei FYI)
205/50/15 avon M500s in the rear
205/50/15 dunlop direzzas in front
wiperless hatch
then after several months later I decided to fix that hood with something lighter, was planning on a molded FC turbo scoop hood but I got this hood from the same guy because he didnt like the way it looked with his body kit.
and then this happened that winter
and that led to primer:
so that leads to Honda OEM Grand Prix White, aka s2000 pearlescent white :) only 900 dollars for everything, labor/parts because I had it done by a friend of mine at school who was going through the auto body program.
updated with S5 tails in the process, even had the moldings painted :D
and then the summer hit...
time to sharpen \\\"Snow White\\\" up
new interior, got rid of the gray and I\\\'ve always been a sucker for the red shag carpet interior in it so I swapped from gray/blue to red/wood
got the wheel from my friends dad who is a big euro car nut and its a real momo wheel that was attached to a momo hub that matched some benz models and the shift knob was made by another friend of mine\\\'s uncle
and ran like this:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hN5XoCaW34[/youtube]
The car runs great and kicks ass till next fall around late October and blew up the atkins rebuild, broke the rear exhaust diffuser apart and it was rattling around in the port along with cracked housings around the sparkplugs.
I part out the motor to fund me buying a running S5 NA motor along with some other misc rx7 parts
my closet turned into an engine \\\'build\\\' room, painted some stuff before dropping it in
and if your eye is good enough you can catch the solid mounts dangling on the passenger side... but there are also made solid trans mounts which was free because I had yet another friend who machined them for me for a 6 pack of beer :)
engine bay gets painted to match the rest of the car, very few blue is left...
ceramic coated the header before dropping it in, keep the heat in where you want it.
fidelity101:
updates!
know what that is?
its porting templates!
so I got more practice lapping and began practice porting, fun mistakes happened and etc.
looks like this:
and the housings are now painted!
front cover is primed and I sanded off the 13b mazda on the housings, looks cool.
thats the engine build table, so thats what the engine will look like, black and blue sandwich plates
soft seals for rebuild from rotary aviation (more aircraft grade RE stuff)
and the good/reusable hard seals/springs, rotary aviation apex seals
there is an excess of seals and springs and within spec from tearing down sooo many motors.
I should probably just build a 2nd motor....
updates!
ported the exhaust housings and put in turbo exhaust inserts, nice and flow friendly :)
ported vs stock port with the inserts out
cleaned up, inserts in
much better than this:
they put those in the NA ones for noise suppression, more like exhaust restriction...
megasquirt is on the way as well as some rebuild gaskets.
spring break 2010~!
fully assembled in the kitchen/living room (small place)
and yes my roommates and I like to party...
Megasquirt2 vb3 w/ goodies for ignition and fuel? hrmmmm okay lets give it a shot
but the engine is in the car mounted up fluid filled and etc.
but the body harness is shot which makes things impossible at times...
so with coincidentally I needed a new gauge cluster I decided to finish the wood theme...
Fuel level, h20 temp, oil pressure, tach, wideband. (KISS - keep it stoopid simple)
sicc, right? I thought so :P GO WOOD OR GO HOME LOL!
long story short I have a history of bad luck with electronics so I decided to go this route instead. (and STILL with a bad body harness)
Mikuni 44 PHH racing carb
current engine bay:
current driving condition of rally vehicle.
2 KC 100W spotters and 2 KC 100W fogs, turns night into day and makes it seem that God is coming down your street.
next step/pre ice racing season work:
turbo drivetrain and brake swap from this donor car:
BEFORE-ish
AFTER
powder coating rear suspension, powdercoating front LCAs, powdercoating rear wheel uprights, reinforce diff, poly suspension/diff bushings.
started on it already but I have ALOT more work to do including replace bearings/bushings:
mount studded snow tires on factory turbo wheels
(pics soon to come)
but most importantly REWIRE CHASSIS! clean up the gawdy engine bay wiring as well as remove the useless wires that are in the car doing nothing.
fidelity101:
some teaser work:
yes that is part of another engine. details of which are still fuzzy but expect a new engine after a cage gets in there with over 230whp N/A but there are a lot of ideas still in the works.
YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS!!!!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UePtoxDhJSw[/youtube]
well not black and yellow but more like green and blue!
Getting the car ready for ice racing! although the season already started I got this done to it.
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things you may not notice....
poly bushings in the blue swing arms
mazdaspeed front diff mount
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more things you may not notice....
KYB AGX adjustable struts (all 4 corners)
mazdatrix adjustable endlinks (all 4 corners)
stainless brake lines (all 4 corners)
rear toe steer eliminator delrin bushings
new wheel bearings
things you may notice
no more 4 lug!
turbo2 drivetrain!!!! (beefy)
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ebay/china special on brake rotors/pads:
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it sounds more like a snowmobile with the studded tires on the road...
sh*t just got reeeeel
Picked up new gravel tires and wheels (pics to come later)
rhino lined the interior
Just finished re doing the engine bay, stripped and gutted. Just finishing the rewiring this week.
perma sleepy eye setup to come next week, no more bulky motors and pop up system.
Folded aluminum dash and AL door panels in the near future, before the end of August.
until then, I am bored at work:
more updates next week on the rewire and dashzillia.
~Groll69~:
Man that is alot of work you have been puting in. great job and keep us updated.
toplessFC3Sman:
Wow, its looking awesome! you've put a lot of work into her!
The colors of the rear suspension pieces remind me of a project I did in college to model the motions of the rear suspension, and the CAD model was all different colors like that.
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