Aaron Cake

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The purpose of this thread is to allow all members to show off their major 2nd gen related projects in one easy to find place. The aim is to keep a current thread of all running projects organized and in one spot. Not only will this show off some of the excellent work being done here, but it will provide a common thread to which to refer to when looking for ideas or when the "what can I do to my car?" question come up. There are so many great project threads but they all disappear eventually as new topics take their place. It's a shame that they are not archived somewhere, which is why I made this thread.

The projects in this thread have been submitted by the members of this forum. If you would like to have your project included here or have an update to an existing project, please send a private message to Aaron Cake. If you have any updates to a project that is posted here, send a PM and this thread will be updated.

This thread is for major long term projects. For example, a full TII swap into an NA would qualify, while bolting on an exhaust would not. Now if that exhaust was fabricated from scratch and documented, that would be a major project. A picture of a custom made cold air intake is not a major project, but a thread containing good pictures and description of that intake being constructed is, especially if it is part of a larger design (ie. standalone, porting, etc.). Standalone installs are a major project. Installing a Greddy (or any "bolt in") intercooler kit is not unless it is part of a greater whole. Good pictures and documentation is the key and what makes these project threads really interesting reading. See what I'm getting at? Some leeway will be made for those first projects that everyone is so proud of but we don't need 10 pages of exhaust installs.

The projects linked here are in alphabetical order.

$100T2
LS1. T-04. LS1. T-04. After a lot of internal debate, shopping around for prices on various things, and checking availability of LS1s in Rhode Island (hint: there are none), and finding a nice priced T-04 kit in the FS section which came with an HKS turbo manifold, big front mount IC, turbo timer, blow off valve and some other stuff, I decided to go with the turbo...
My $600T2 project

1987mazdarx7
Body work, rust repair, smoothing
Brett's Mazda

88t2romad
GT35R, microtech LT-10s, KG fuel system, www.turblown.net manifold/DP/lines and plenty of other stuff. This is on my 88 TII.

My buildup progress

Aaron Cake
Project Tina
A continuing project that started as one of the first turbo-NA builds in winter of 2001 and has continued on to include: bridgeported engine, Microtech LT-8s EMS, custom everything including an upper intake, fabricated exhaust, new fuel system and much, much more. In progress now is a turbo upgrade and interior restoration.
The original turbo-NA thread
Final Pictures and Status of NA Turbo Install
Stripping and pulling the engine, engine disassembly
My Winter Project
Painting the engine bay, cleaning and prepping the engine, porting the irons/housings, painting the engine and starting to shave the lower intake of all emissions stuff.
Finally! Pictures and Status Of My Turbo-NA-Bridgeport
Assembly of the 6 port high compression bridgeport engine. Also lower intake emissions removal and shaving.
Pics and Status Of My Turbo-NA-Bridgeport Engine Build
Porting the intake manifold and turbo wastegate, wiring the battery relocation, some minor rust repair, engine mockup and oil pan modifications for turbo oil drain.
Progress Of My Turbo/NA/Bridgeport Project (Project Tina)
Engine and transmission installation, undercoating with POR-15, creating the new wiring harness, building a battery box.
Pics and Status Of My Turbo-NA-Bridgeport Project (Project Tina)
Building an upper intake manifold from scratch and fabricating coolant pipes.
Latest Pics and Status Of My Turbo-NA-Bridgeport Project (Project Tina)
Building the fuel system, oil cooler lines, coolant pipes, and exhaust system. Also installing the upper intake, making the metering oil lines and installing the driveshaft.
Midsummer Update On My Turbo NA Bridgeport Project
Fabrication of the intercooler, intercooler piping, gauge installation, some wiring and the first startup on the new setup (video included)
It Runs! Pics and Vids Of My Turbo-NA-Bridgeport Project
Looming and wrapping the wiring harness, coolant overflow bottle, radiator panel, fabricating a turbo manifold to mount the GT4088R
Early Summer 2007 Pics/Updates On My Turbo-NA Bridgeport Project
Finishing the turbo manifold, fabricating downpipe and midpipe, turbo oiling and water system, wastegate setup, videos of the car starting and on the track
Big Turbo Time! Midsummer 2007 Pics/Update On My Turbo-NA Bridgeport Project
Replacing the shocks and springs, making a custom 4 piston 4 lug brake setup, replacing the interior and wiring up the SPAL FAN-PWM
August 2008 Pics and Updates On My Turbo NA Bridgeport Project
A small update where I finish up the interior and fabricate a rear strut bar.
Fall 2008 Update on My Turbo-NA Bridgeport Project

a_drift
Hi guys here is my new seven. A red 91 coupe with only 80k miles on the body. The motor has blown coolant seals but the motor in my blk car only has 6k or 7K miles on it. This car is an auto so I'm gonna do the five speed swap. It's pretty much gutted except for the front carpet, dash, door panels, and a passenger seat. The body is nice and straight though it just needs a paint job, but I got that covered. I plan on doing a cutsom wideboy. It's gonna be pretty mild, jus something to fit bigger rims inside there. Pretty much I'm bringing everything over from my 89 GTU to this 91 coupe. My GTU has fram damage from a drifting accident that happened in december. I can still beat on it and I still do. In fact I hid the damage pretty well. But I can't wait to get started on this thing. Here are some pics of it. This is only the beginning and I will record it's steps using this blog.
Blog: 91 coupe drift/time attack build up

antnicuk
My Project 2nd Gen Multi Purpose Toy
I wanted a car that I could use for Drag Racing, Drifting, Circuit events and of course street use. I have achieved this and I have done everything myself. Its been a huge learning curve as i'm not a mechanic. Everything has been done on a budget and although this thread is just for a new engine, over the last 2 years I have also done the following:
Polybushed completely
Big brakes
Uprated Sway Bars
Coil Overs
Water injection
Uprated (rubber) Engine, Gearbox & Diff Mounts
Home Built exhaust and pipe work
all the engine porting and rebuilds myself
It runs a Power FC for an FD with a modified loom.

My New Engine Rebuild/Porting Thread with Piccys

BlueTII
Here is a link to our 91 Turbo vert project. It started as a straight forward conversion, but ended up as a single turbo, streetported 13B-RE cosmo with an FD Apexi Power FC...
Banzai Racing 1991 S5 Convertible TII Conversion

Chaotic_FC
I bought this car for 900 dollars off craigslist, knowing that it was modified, but had blown an apex seal on the rear rotor. The guy told me that it had just been rebuilt, but was made to race, and blew its seal. I had just had my old (crappy) car impounded, so i got it and decided i would buy seals and rebuild my motor.
https://www.rx7club.com/2nd-generation-non-technical-pictures-198/my-6-port-turbo-rebuild-715602/#post7661183

classicauto
Photos of build up/paint job. Classicauto Custom front end, Rotary Dynamics rebuild, GT3574, Haltech, meth injection. So much fun, so little time.
https://www.rx7club.com/forum/showthread.php?t=727353

cpubugs
Bessie? Another NA to Turbo II JDM conversion
Bought the car for 400 bucks, Bought the motor and tranny for 800 from japan. Currently stripping down the interior and the engine bay. Focusing on the engine bay so I can get my motor in. Any advise is appreciated. be brutally honest, I'm not a pansy I can handle the truth. I am teachable! Lots of pics on my site.
Project Site
My Official Project Thread

Digi7ech
Project Daily Drifter
Turning Wild to Mild. Taking a Aftermarket EMS/Big turbo TII with missing parts and building it into a back up daily driver which can handle lots of track time. Here's how to use a stock ecu/turbo system and have reliable fun.
Project Daily Drifter


drewl
Full Race Car Build Up
Engine removal, stripping the interior
Part 1: Getting Started
Seam welding, roll cage building
Part 2: The Chassis
Sunroof and hole deletion, body kit, wide body, paint
Part 3: The Body
Assembing the engine
Part 4: The Engine


gxl87turbo
My 10AE build
My 10ae project (PICS)

jm85rx7
Let the process begin

Juiceh
Buildup: 91 Vert, A-spec 500R + lots more

kungfuroy
Rebuilding leaky s4 Oil Metering Pump
For those that opt to keep and fix their leaking s4 omp. Pictures and part numbers included
Rebuilding leaky s4 Oil Metering Pump

lax-rotor
Cerberus Project
Frame up restoration of a 1986 GXL and soon with a turbo conversion as well other modifications.
Cerberus Project: Restoration and Upgrade

LOW IMPEDANCE
Turbo upgrades, body mods and paint, custom intercooler and exhaust setup.
UPDATE: Low Impedance's Turbo Rotary Epic


Mutaku - Rotary Powa!
Project RX-7 GXL-T
Goal to have a 300HP+ car with electronic goodies and presentation as if the car came from factory that way.
Main Build Thread


Nick86
Cold Air Box
This project describes how I went about designing, fabricating and installing an Aluminum Cold Air Intake that includes a shielded box ducted to the outside.
https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...0&page=5&pp=15

Tail Light Lens Repair
The following project was never meant to be a permanent fix, but I got such positive feedback that I will include it here even though I don't consider it a "Major Project". It describes how I fixed a broken Tail Light Lens with a Plastic waterbottle.
https://www.rx7club.com/2nd-generation-specific-1986-1992-17/how-i-fixed-my-s5-tail-light-lens-616274/

Nismo Convert86
Motor Rebuild, and Gauge install
Rebuilding my engine, New Koyo Rad, All new VDO gauges to monitor engine conditions, Doing all the work at my buddies shop, over the last two and a half months.
otor Rebuild, and Gauge install

NMJ87T2
The new style!
I have begun the preparations for my new motor today. I am having Arizona Rotay Rockets(www.azrr.com) build me a new streetport motor for my FC.
The motor is going to be built with: S5 side and rotor housings. I got a set of used S5 side housings with the rear housing being the reinforced one(same casting as the 13BRE). I am using new rotor housings for the build. I am going to be running S4 rotors. The E-shaft is a new Renesis shaft(0.6lb lighter than the 13B one). The stationary gears are from an FD with 10 window bearings. I am going with a FD flywheel due to it being stronger as well. Other new parts will consist of the oil pump, water pump, and oil pan.
The rotating mass is going to be balanced. The side housings will be resurfaced and ported. The rotor housings are going to be cnc ported(for an identical port).
AZRR is building a custom exhaust manifold. It is going to be a tubular manifold built from 321SS and the flanges are going to be 1/2" mild steel. It is going to be coated by Polydyn. Attached to it will be 44mm Tial wastegate(open dump). The turbo I am going with is a custom built Garrett T04s(60-1). The turbine housing is also going to be coated like the manifold.
The fuel system incorporates a Walbro 255lph pump, 720cc primaries in a stock rail, 1680cc secondaries in a custom built rail, and a SARD rising rate fpr.
I will be running an ACT unsprung 6 puck clutch with their high performance pressure plate, Corksport SS oil cooler lines and ss clutch line and cooling panel, Mazdaspeed motor and tranny mounts, Koyo radiator, Flexalite 150 electric fan(2800 cfm), custom fmic(24x12x3), 3" aluminum piping, GReddy tb elbow, and an Apexi twin chamber bov.
I am relocating the battery to the drivers side rear bin. I have chosen the Optime red top 24/37 for the battery. All of the accessories are going to be powered through a Painless Wiring curcuit isolator.
As far as the engine management goes I am using a Haltek E6K with the flying lead harness.
This is going to be a daily driven 400+ horsepower FC. I will update this thread as progress is made.
The new style!

Omixeo
Project Dori Dori.
My project is pretty much a restoration project turned into drift project. I just finished getting all the pictures up for a visual timeline. Im going to do a few pictoral writeups as well.
1989 Mazda RX7 GTUs - Project Dori Dori

papiogxl
Project Fireball
The fire
Vacuum 6 port activation

RX-Heven
Original turbo swap in my vert
Upgraded oil cooler install
Custom widebody conversion
Custom rollbar for my vert that allows normal operation of the top

SideWayzGTU
Bridgeported Na13b. I putting it through a full refresh where I'm going redo the whole engine bay/ repaint/and swap interior. All before DGRR!
SideWayzGTU Full Build/Refresh

sinoeun
My fc build.
some pics of my fc project

smokie
Project Smokie Jr
Well its been 381 days (1 year 2 weeks and 2days) since my car was taking from me by some punks jealous of my car and no it wasnt in the greatest fashion but it was nice with some nice 17" rims on it that made it stand out and what they did was took 3 of the rims they snatched out a aftermarket tape deck without the face plate and broke my vents. Since then its been 1 year and 1 1/2 weeks since i drove it and in august of this year 06 i finaly started Project Smokie Jr. Its an 86 gxl non turbo with no power windows no power steering just a basic model that was giving to me by my youth pastor who was the only owner that keep it up in good shape. He didnt have time to work on it and knew that me and one of the minister in my church (who has 3 of them and builds them from the ground up and sells them) would love to have it as my project/street car. So now that the project is complete as far as the motor is concerned I want to shwo some before pics of what it looks like when i got it back with the old motor.
Project Smokie Jr


SMonty
I made a fiberglass dashboard cause I like smooth curves
f/g dash board


spot_skater
spot_skater's TII build + haltech
Will be an ongoing thread, full of text, links of ideas/instructions I've used (IE www.fc3spro.com > tech section > wastegate porting) and the work I'll be doing.
My TII build


stevej88na
Various Projects
Cellphone Display
I've always wanted a real-time readout of all kinds of sensors. This project ended up going a bit further. Basically, a small cellphone LCD displays sensor outputs, like RPM, various temperatures, battery voltage, AFR, etc. as well as acting as a logging stopwatch for driving events (lap times), and being able to log sensor data as well. A serial port allows lap times and sensor data to be downloaded to a computer for analysis. This is a work in progress.
Main Project Link
Project Thread

Electronic Aux and VDI Actuation
This project's goal was to open and close the VDI port, and possibly auxiliary intake ports in the future, without having an air pump of any kind, stock or aftermarket. The final system uses a solenoid along with some circuitry to detect engine RPM and give the solenoid enough kick to get the job done.
Main Project Link
S5 UIM on S4 Engine Block link
Project Thread

Vane AFM to Hot-Wire MAF
The S4 AFM has some major issues. One is the flapper limits orientation to horizontal, but even then, hard cornering can cause incorrect airflow readings. Another is the bulky size, and possible air restriction. This project replaces the S4 N/A vane AFM with a hot-wire MAF. This is a work in progress.
Main Project Link
Project Thread


stylEmon
RX-7 Expirience
Building an RX-7. I bought my first RX when I was 17. Sold it at 20 and regret it ever since. Just bought my second one in Feb 06. It supposedly had 5k on a rebuild, but that must've been done by a feild rat. I had issues with the car since I bought it and suspected bad workmanship from the get go. I like to tinker and can handle replacing injectors and wiring pumps and gauges, but am no mechanic, So, a good friend of mine, and owner of Turblown Eng, is doing the work. I provide the money and beer to keep him happy! I've learned TONS already and decided to blog my progress.
The RX-7 Experience
Tried to post the blog here on the club, but the images are finicky...
Progress on the 7


trinimazdax
heres a few pics of my progect partially completed, its a 91 coupe with a j spec street ported turbo II , microtech lt8s , holset turbo , front mount intercooler , walbro 255 , greddy type rs blow off valve , 38mm waste gate , full turbo II drive train and a few other goodies just cant remember off the top of my head , next step over the winter is body work and a sweet custom roll cage ill keep u guys updadted through out the winter.
a few pics of my car


Tyblat
I am currently in the process of Turbo charging my S4 N/A engine. the log is a work in progress, and will be updated as I perform the work.

It's being written for anyone to be able to understand, and requires very little to no fabrication for this project.
Turbo N/A project log


vipers
Body kit and paint, complete engine rebuild with bridgeport, EMS installation, many other touches including paint and chrome and aftermarket tach in stock cluster.
1st Link Is My Car Through Its Stages...Its Not Up To Date Though
2nd Link Is A Thread To The Parts I Used For My Half Bridged T70 Turbo Motor
3rd Link Is A Blog Of The Engine Build
4th Link Is Yet Another Build Blog
5" Tach In A Stock Instrument Cluster
Engine First Firing Up
Another Video Of My Car, This Time At Sevenstock, And Pegging Redline A Few Times

The projects in this thread have been submitted by the members of this forum. If you would like to have your project included here or have an update to an existing project, please send a private message to Aaron Cake. If you have any updates to a project that is posted here, send a PM and this thread will be updated.