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Old 07-07-16, 02:52 PM
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Originally Posted by 04G35S
In my personal opinion the painted lip only works if you have the OEM side skirts to keep the lines going. The front lip looks a bit out of place to me.
It never looks as good painted as it does in natural unpainted finish.
They're meant to scrape on the ground and flex, which makes paint look like crap.
Car's still sexy AF, tho.
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Greddy Vmount
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Recaros in
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Sakebomb HID kit and Greddy Vmount
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I put the meisters on the FC for the time being, I think I'm going to keep them on there instead and get something smaller for the FD.
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Old 11-28-16, 10:19 PM
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very nice
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the greddy kit looks so damn nice ....
Old 11-29-16, 04:01 AM
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Those seats look fantastic, slightly jealous I must admit .

Great choice of parts so far .
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^ I agree.

Good job OP.
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This is such a sick *** thread so much win keep it up
Old 01-06-17, 12:06 AM
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Took the car to IRP and had them add a new Walbro pump, an HKS twinpower and John Renna tuned it on the powerfc.

Car made great power for stock twins.
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366/339 but the best part about a working sequantial system is the almost 300ft of torque at 2700rpm.

The other red line in the 4s is for a set of BNR's they did on another car for comparison
Old 01-08-17, 12:21 PM
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Where did you get the Recaro`s? What model head unit is the Alpine?
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Originally Posted by 7_rocket
Where did you get the Recaro`s? What model head unit is the Alpine?
Bought the Recaros from a member here, had them redone by ESH Upholstering who also make the kit to redo the seats.

Alpine CDE-HD149BT
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Got rid of the ugly chrome front bumper lights
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Reamemiya front stabilizer brace
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Finally got wheels Advan GT's in 18x9.5 F and 18x10 R 255/35/18 275/35/18 Michelin Pilot Supers Sports

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Super now hub covers and swapped to red Advan stickers

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All the Shine Auto stuff is mounted, 99 spec carbon fiber lip, Feed style side skirts, Re-amemiya style rear diffuser and Odula rear wing insert

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Currently going through the interior, re-insulating everything, center speaker gauge pod, innovate boost, wideband and coolant gauges, felt tape around all the plastics, goal is to have it solid and rattle free.
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Porsche is yours too? Love the rims and insert. Good taste, more pics of the rims too
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Originally Posted by arkady151

Currently going through the interior, re-insulating everything, center speaker gauge pod, innovate boost, wideband and coolant gauges, felt tape around all the plastics, goal is to have it solid and rattle free.
Looking good. Do you know when you plan on having everything done in the interior?

I'm looking for ways to have a rattle free interior to and will be interested to see how your adventures goes.
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Car looks great. Very similar to how mine will likely look.
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Originally Posted by 7_rocket
Porsche is yours too? Love the rims and insert. Good taste, more pics of the rims too
Yes sir, will have a proper photoshoot once I'm done with the interior.

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Looking good. Do you know when you plan on having everything done in the interior?

I'm looking for ways to have a rattle free interior to and will be interested to see how your adventures goes.
I'll make sure to take pics, I'm finishing up the dynomat stuff now, I did something similar when I went through my vert and the difference in comfort and quiet was big.

https://www.rx7club.com/build-thread...thread-936768/ starts at post 35 if you want ideas.

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Car looks great. Very similar to how mine will likely look.
Thank you
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This is one fine build. Keep it up!!!
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Originally Posted by 04G35S
In my personal opinion the painted lip only works if you have the OEM side skirts to keep the lines going. The front lip looks a bit out of place to me.
Agreed. If painting the lip there has to be sideskirts to go with it. Otherwise, leave it black and add the feed style sideskirts as he ended up doing.

Originally Posted by arkady151
Got rid of the ugly chrome front bumper lights

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nice!
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Innovate Boost, Wideband/Ethanol content/fuel pressure/fuel temp and coolant gauges.

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Great build so far! Your giving me some ideas on what to do with my white FD haha
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I used plastic weld on anything that was broken or cracked and was salvageable.



Bought some cheap felt tape from Amazon and added it to all the panels I put back.



Replaced all the old crusty clips with new ones.




Added more under carpet insulation under the bins and the floor







Most of my interior rattling came from the middle section where the rear bins are, figured I'd go all out there, biggest pain is that most of the attachment points on my rear bins are broken so figuring now how to redo those.
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Adding felt tape is smart.
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Originally Posted by gmonsen
I don't know if you are taking the interior plastics out or not, but putting some very thing felt between them will eliminate some creaking.
Yeah I'm putting felt where ever I can, I did it to an fc years ago and it made a noticeable difference.

Hope to have it finished by the end of the month, progress has been slow as the x5m is being replaced by the new daily and needs to be de-modded and posted for sale.
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Please post your offset for the Advan GT. I know I asked you on IG but I forgot
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Yet another nice CW build
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Originally Posted by 7_rocket
Please post your offset for the Advan GT. I know I asked you on IG but I forgot
18x9.5 Front offset 35 and 18x10 Rear offset 40 255/35/18 MPSS fronts and 275/35/18 MPSS rears.
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