took some pics of a 77 rx-7 my buddy owns. it is damn spiffy
has a mildly ported gsl-se 6 port 13b, al flywheel, crazy cool old school enkies, lots of other good stuff too.
he was nice enough to let me drive it at an autocross course too :-D
very weird shifting left handed and sittin on the wrong side of the car, but man was it fun. thanks Thomas if you ever read this haha
pics are here:
http://wheelspecs.com/gallery/savannah

anyone know where he can get a dashboard for it, or what gauge pods would fit? ive read that crx gauges fit if you heat em up i think, so i would assume a rhd crx pod would work fine. lookin for a dash cover for the darn rhd model is tough too haha
already asked the ausrotary guys and havent had a lot of responses yet.

gamble

 

Woah!! Where did those OMP lines come from? Those look perfect!!

~T.J.

 

i dunno man, i'll ask when i see him tomorrow though. he had to make the omp linkage himself and get it all workin but i dont know where the lines came from.

 

the car is in good shape for it's age! did he have any problems importing that car?

 

the car was already here in the states somehow. he prepped and painted it himself so it looks pretty good now. he jsut did a quick paint job on it though and said he'll prolly do a nicer job when he redoes it. right now his project is the interior though.
gamble

 

Thats the way I want mine to look. Nice bright white with dark windows. Ask him what % tint those windows are too . I really wanna know about those OMP lines though man, and also, if you see him again, see if you can get pics of the linkage he made .

~T.J.

 

Hmm, give some props gamble san. Where'd you meet the man is the real question. Naw hes a great guy. I figured gamble could use some help on his car too. The RHD is fun to tool around in, but hard to not run into curbs or drift into the other lane. The looks are priceless. The OMP lines he did himself and I believe just made it up as he went along.

 

now THAT is a beautiful car.

 

What did he make them out of though?

~T.J.

 

Just realized that is me driving in those pictures. Forgot about that.

 

thats bad ***!!!! i did one with a stock nikki 12a turbo,,,, my brothers friend since jr high school, fun and fast!!!! but WTF!!!! try making a left turn!!! you cant see ****!!!!

 

of course not
it was fun none the less

 

That thing is sweet.

 

I might be able to hook him up with the dash. It is coming over here from New Zealand. It should be here sometime this month. I havent decided if I want to use it or not. I might go with an aluminum race dash now for my RHD. I will post when I recieve it.

 

Ya how do you get those titled in the US? I am getting close to needed to know that. Does any one know???

CJG

 

I cant get the damn page to load!!!!!

 

Obviously thats not a US spec car....

But I thought the first year of the RX-7 was 1979? At least here anyways. When did it start in other countries?

 

The first RX-7's were offered on April, 1978 as a 1979 model. I'm pretty sure that is the earliest the car was available in the US. I have no idea when the car was produced for the Japanese market, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't much earlier than the US debut.

 

I want a RHD car .

~T.J.

 

yeah our server just switched last week and a few people have been unable to view the page. some isp's here, and lots of aussy ones and out of country ones dont refresh dns servers very often so your isp is tryin to look at that link at our old server. goto your command prompt (run cmd or dos prompt either way) and type in "ipconfig /flushdns" and hit enter. should work if youre in win2k or xp. if not on those OS's let us know and someone with some exp with older stuff can help i bet

yes ben that was you drivin in the pics lol

the linkage was made with brass rod from home depot im pretty sure. still gotta ask him about the omp lines and tint too, dont worry i didnt forget ........ yet

gamble

 

Ok great. Thanks man .

~T.J.

 

i love the way the side views are on the fenders. i want to do that with my car. but i dont think the stock mirrors will look right. those ones have a long neck on them. they look bad *** though.

nice car.

 

well since this car is a 77 I am sure they made it at least a couple years before 78.

 

Any news on my questions yet?

~T.J.

 

Wow I love that car, white SA's are my favorite. Some one needs to go to Japan and pickup some fender mounted mirrors from the junkyards there, because they look awesome.