well u see, my 7 doesnt run yet, and i got my license suspended for 6 months so ive been just buying random *** parts that i find for cheap and slapping them on. I got a engine on lock just havent picked it up haha. So yea its just so when i start driving it it will be super easy.
~TDR

 

It's funny you mention that because there's a bit of a story there. Corksport sells this intake in an almost identical form. I saw it a few months ago before the motor was even built and I was like "I want that!" It's about $150 I think. Kinda high buuut it was pretty and came with a nice flange and everything.

A friend of mine who worked at a fab shop in Wilson NC said that the shop was closing and he had a little free reign of making any little parts and things I might want, before the equipment was sold, free of charge! wOOt! So I was showing him photos of the Corksport intake.

The flange for the intake was the coolest part. They took the stock plastic elbow and put it on a machine that looked like a giant HP Scanner, then a CNC machine cut it out of a plate of scrap aluminum in about 2 minutes and even drilled the holes. The intake is made out of 4" aluminum tubing, just like intercooler piping, but they had this stuff in 20' lengths.

I wanted to be different and have it mandrel bent but they could not find the 4" die for the machine! So, we cut it in angles just like the Corksport one. Finding that adapting coupler for the AFM was hard and I wanted blue ones but I couldn't find any. So, I basically got the Corksport intake for nothing. But it's not the Corksport intake. Weird, huh? In retrospect, I wish we had done several smaller angles there with many welds. It's kind of the new look on some of the newer Japanese Intercooler set ups it seems.

But if you like it, you can find it at Corksport's website and I think theres has nipple underneath for some vacuum line for direct fitment for a stock motor.

 

I couldn't get a clear idea by just looking at it, but will that Mazda Trix firewall brace work around a stock TII IC?
i assume it would, but i figured i might aswell ask.

 

TCS sportline:

 

do the powered bymax coilover' top mounts come offset like that? pretty nice

love the wiper motor cover lol

 

anyone has pics with a fmic installed?

 

You get what you pay for. The companies that actually test their products (R&D), whether its on the road or track, makes a difference. I got the cusco on the front and will be purchasing the cusco for the rear and front/lower aswell.

 

this is an old picture of my corksport strut bar.

 

+1 for me front and rear corksport bars

 

i have the rears but no pics yet

 

I'm going with a tannabe strut bar. The best looking strut bar in my opinion.

Here's a pic, not my car but one of my buddie's.

 

i made my own

 

^^

 

Agreed with Turbo II Rotor - Function > Form. Period That and Ebay generally = cheap crap.

Nice job Furb. Digging the machining work

I built my own too. Even wrote up a how to - https://www.rx7club.com/fabrication-250/fc-strut-tower-firewall-bar-engine-torque-brace-774746/

 

I see messy wiring....get those old pix off of here.

 

thnx!
this is also my second strutbar i made, first one was made out of steel, this one full Aluminium.
i was in the process of building another one and also included an engine damper into it, but i now have the FD UIM and TB, and i think this is not going to fit...
will see how things turn out

yours looks badass!

 

that strut bar looks good and the write up is awesome

 

Im using a Tanabe got off ebay.

 

Is this a knock off, or is it just cheaper on Ebay?

 

CP Racing front strut bar:



My own rear strut bar:

 

are you being redundant?

 

Egay Front and Rear. And it works.

 

I'm sure all of them work...it's just "how good". Even if you get the ebay ones, their going to work. If you get the better ones, their probably going to work better.

 

Aaron, is that original carpeting? If not how'd you do that? I'd like to make something like that for my car except with the backseats.

 

It's an ACC replacement carpet.