NICE job Joe. I'm happy to see the progress thus far and will look forward to It even more when I see that bad boy In person!

*laugh* on the spolier. It really Is a strange coincidence how the spoiler went back on your FC. I personally couldn't look past the Kamanari one I have.

I'd be Interested In seeing some pics of your duct work you mentioned previously. If they are to no avail than I'll see them In person.

I'm about 80% done on my FC, just so you know.

 

man thats beautiful... not a fan of the lights but I respect them from the hard work you put into it..sorry for my .02 cents

anyhow A+++ If only I could do some **** like that. It must be an enormous sense of accomplishment. Keep it up FTW!!

 

Well I'm back from 10 days away and over 6,000kms behind the wheel. As far as my car was concrened it ran absolutely flawlessly from the shop to Deal's Gap, through the dragon at 10psi, out of Tenesse down the rest of US129.........


Then I ran into a minor problem outside Trenton FL. Its a very small issue though, one thats exactly 2mm thick. I was passing a truck leisurely and dipped into boost a little bit. At about 6psi and 4,000rpm roughly 50% throttle I felt a minor hesitation/blip as i shifted up. Thought nothing of it and I spotted for Ian as he passed the truck. Further down the road I noticed the difference in EGT's front vs. rear and I let the car idle.

Found less vaccum at idle and that sickening lope only a blown or bridged engine should exude.

I contemplated every option being that I was 3,000 kms from home with a blown (but still running/idling) engine. Transport (expensive and takes too long) sellign the car to the closest and highest bidder (for about 0.0000000000002 seconds) or finding the closest shop with a brain and taking this thing out.

Ian hopped on the net at the hotel we parked at and found a nice list of shops in FL. Maztech in Tampa was about our closest option. The thread listed "Holton Automotive" (view info here: https://www.rx7club.com/showthread.p...24#post8116424 ) but we found Maztech in Tampa to be much more fitting.

So, tuesday morning we drove the car from the hotel we towed it to down the street from Maztech, pulled the engine, had it torn down before we ate lunch, cleaned/clearanced and assembled by 4:30. Then we left and returned 7am wednesday and re-installed it. I was driving down I-4 to Daytona with Ian by 11:30am wednesday.

Can't say enough about the help we got from Jeff and Rocket at Maztech and for their accomidation/letting Ian and I use their shop.

So we continued onwards only having a minor issue with a ground for my electric fan popping a fuse. We could have still made the Keys if we booked it down the highways but we opted to leisurely make our way through the country taking only backroads from Daytona.

We cruised up the A1A along the coast as far as possible, rode a ferry in FL, drove some wild bridges in Georgia on 17, took 601 through SC, and did a WHACK of mountain driving in virginia, west virgina and PA. Tonnes of crazy roads up there.

I'm going to start uploading some of the choice pics in here and I'll youtube the video's shortly also.

 

Our cabin with the 7's and GTR


Morning view from the porch at our cabin


My FC in the groudns for the car show (won runner up/3rd place something)


Dreg100's FD with its awesome shoes.


From a lookout stop on the dragon. Lots of neat cars in this pic

 

IAN's 10thAE somewhere between in Georgia monday morning...


A sweet little photo shoot spot we found just south of the FL state line.


Just after "the incident" we're loading it onto a AAA truck and towing to Tampa.


Enroute to Tampa. This leg of the journey my car crushed Ian's in fuel economy


Here's where they slept in Tampa. From this viewpoint I realized while drinking my 4th (??) beer that I had no other option but to rebuild the engine. I was wearing a rotary sweater at the time and realized that there's no way this car will ever beat me...there was no way any rotary engine would at that point. I just had to fix it.

 

Shortly after arrival at Maztech we ripped into it hot and heavy. Rocket is on the left, Ian on the right. This was at about 10:00AM


Myself on the left, and owner Jeff on the right.


Its open, and still warm. Very little blow by past the ends of the side seals, very even combustion. Extremely well put together engine by Rotary Dynamics.


Me - "Wull, thar's yur problem rite thar!!!""


Engine re-stacked at 4:30pm the same day.


Here we are the following morning just leaving Maztech with both FC's.

 

"Back in the saddle again"


High tide in Daytona prevented us from getting some beach shots there.


Another photoshoot along the coast.


Up the A1A....


Our hotel in Daytona, just checkign out some things in the morning.

 

Cruising the backroads....



More scenic photo shoots.



#Finally made it on the sand in Flagler Beach.



My FC getting its toes sandy.



The pair of TII's sun bathing



Crazy Georgia bridges....

 

Had to take a picture of this because its such a rare site. An FC at the gas station lol



A single lane mountain pass chip/tar road we found. It was the 738 through Jefferson National park.



Another 738 shot:



One more of the 738 to illustrate the steepness of this road.



Here's a great example of the roads we drove from FL to PA.

 

awesome.

 

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Video of the 717, a road that lead us to the 738 pictured above. This road also wound through Jefferson National Park. There was hardley another soul on this road and thats good because as you see in the video there's alot of one lane bridges!!!

EDIT: lol, just remembered about half way through the video i touched the grassy shoulder with my rear tire just in case you're wonerding what that @oops@ was lol

 

Just some more fun shots while some of the other youtube videos upload.



This was the night we stayed in Daytona, a good shot of a pair and a pair lol


Ian's 10thAE in my rear view onthe A1A


On Daytona Beach strip


One of the 75 bazillion bridges we crossed in FL. This one was a drawbridge....


Another angle of the speed sign photo shoot

 

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Here's the startup video of the rebuild at Maztech. Don't judge the sound just yet, this was with a massive vac leak and the throttle set screw cranked in so it wouldn't shut off....

 

Nice and smokey

thewird

 

nice build up. good to see people still willing to spend money on FCs

 

Marco - yeah she smoked a little that round Much better after a couple miles though

Thanks for the comments!! I don't mind sinking in some bread when I'm getting something for my money, labour, sweat and blood. This year has given me more in return already then the past three combined

 

Here's another video of getting off the ferry in FL.

The guy who guides you on to the ship and off the ship is in the video, he was hilairious. Guy loves his job a little too much lol

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Here's a video of driving the 738. I believe i botched the youtube description so just ignore it.

 

Awesome write up. It was a blast and I would do it again in a heart beat. Never had so many awesome/incredible roads to cruise on.

I did enjoy driving your car . You can take my car for a rip after the tuning weekend next weekend.

Until next year...............

Ian

 

Thanks Ian!

Here is a video I made for Juiceh to show the sound of the beast while driving:

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A shot of the road trip's aftermath:



And one more glamour shot for good measure



Now, this friday we'll be dyno'ing and tuning the car as BDC is coming up from Texas for a tuning week here. I fully expect to see over 400whp out of the setup so stay tuned for some dyno sheets and hopefully a non-eventful day

 

what happened to the motor

Your description/picture isn't clear!

I'm glad you got it fixed!

 

popped an apex seal on the front rotor. Chipped a corner of it where it meets the small corner piece.

No damage to the housing (luckily) and the rotor was also fine. Not sure exactly what happened, but I found some questionable things on the trailing coil (light corrosion on the T1 post) and also found my plugs are telling me my front rotor is lean.

I believe I'm rounding the corner on the issue though. One more plug reading before the dyno pulls will confirm if the lean condition is from my injectors or not as I've switched them front-rear.

EDIT: conditions it popped under were between 4-5Krpm, 6psi 50% throttle........water injection hadn't come on at that point either.

 

man i read all the pages and i must say i give you mad props bro, hands down you have big ***** doing all that driving ---rebuilding--- driving some more

nice bro keep the thread updated

 

Aviator Glasses FTMFW.

 

nice car and setup sorry or the down fall but lad you got it back up with no damages