mine(red) and my oldest son's(beige) gsl se's
his is in the garage getting restored

 

Its a BAD *** mother steering wheel

Its just stock on the SA :P

 

Stock in the S-model SA's; GS & better SA's had the 4-spoke wheel like mine.

 

REW in FE & S5 TII w/FD Upper manifold in FB

 

Thought I'd share one last recent picture of my car.

I will be installing its coilovers, brake upgrade, and new wheels soon!
Now I just have to decide on tires...


~Smith

 

couldn't pass up the background

 

these are the best pictures I got. sorry my SA is a daily driver so she is pretty much always ugly or dirty or something

 

Couple of recent ones of mine with latest bodywork mods, more to follow in the new year

 

The wing kills this car..

 

I love everything except the wing

 

 

Picked it up a few months ago. Will update when get some new pictures.

 

My 1983 FB.

 

Mine? Shame you think so, guys. Can I ask why, particularly? Always interesting ot hear feedback.

 

i personally like the wing, it's different than what everyone else already has. clean car!

 

Thanks! You can stay My inspiration was old American muscle-car ducktails, that kinda look. It's actually a 240Z one cos I always thought that was like a mini-sized muscle car and it fitted perfectly, if not aesthetically, it seems

Would a different angle persuade you guys?

 

For me it just doesn't "flow" with the cars body lines like the popular lip spoilers.
It just just up straight into the air right at the end, that's just my opinion.
It makes sense it's from a 240 though it looked familiar.

I do like your wheel choices. Brand, size, offset, etc?

 

Fair enough, thanks for that. I've had a real 50/50 split of opinions about it, the "nays" saying pretty much what you just did. I'd have happily gone with no spoiler at all at the time, but that would have meant welding holes and re-spraying where the original one came off, so basicall I had to get something on as an interim measure.

As to the wheels, the rear are Sharak (they have a name like Double-Star IIRC). They're Japanese but I haven't been able to find much more than that about them, it may even be an "Engrish" miss-spelling of "Shark" for all I know. Y'know, like "Starion"... They're 14" diameter, 6 inch rim and an offset of +10.
The fronts are Watanabes, also 14" but unknown offset and width. In comparison to the originals and the Sharaks I'd say the offset is ~+25 and they're probably about 5 inches rim judging by what size of tyre we could get on without bulging.

They might have to change soonish, if I can't get the car lower without smashing up the front bumper I'll have to get slightly bigger wheels to fill the arch gap a bit, I think. I've been updating my build thread after being away for a while, but it's in the wrong section now (wasn't a Build Threads one when I started it, I don't think) https://www.rx7club.com/1st-gen-non-...85-7-a-978013/

 

I'll throw on another nay vote... Wings just don't look right on this car in my oppinion. Also, your's kinda faces upwards awkwardly.



Do you have a backup cam on there?

 

No, it's the foglight. Got to have one in the UK by law, so I swapped the stock one for an LED effort because the Mazda one was really nasty;

 

Wow so many gorgeous cars. Can't wait for mine to finally arrive from Chicago so I can get some photos on here!

 

**** man it doesn't have to be gorgeous.... I just like to see first gen 7's


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