Just bough a Black 1988 RX7 GXL last month. I'm new to the whole rotary build up, but I have a friend who is willing to help me out.

This is what I do know about the car

Black exterior, gray interior, "DID" have a 13B-RE in it, ACT 6 puck TII 5speed trans, TII lsd differential, stock 5 lug, TII drive shaft, stock wheels, custom made lobster/dolphin tail exhaust (don't really know for sure?) one spot of rust in the right rear fender (size of a pea, but can't even see it), there is more but I can't really remember. (Sorry if the pictures look bad)

 

That is the perfect shell in my opinion. Its a light s4, you have an lsd, and the paint looks decent.

get an engine/engine management sys and replace the DTSS bushing. and looks like you'll be set.

So what engine are you planning on using btw?

 

some more pictures.

 

Plan on dropping in a 13B-REW, a friend of mine is selling it to me.

 

Sweet! then that works out great.

 

keep the s4 tails!

 

looks really clean. good luck with the REW.

 

I really appreciate the comments and thank you very much, I will try to document everything done to the car.

 

very clean and keep the tire/wheel combo ...once you drop in the 13brew surprise everyone at the track when you roll in stock trim and whooping cars all day

 

clean car now just finish the T2 swap.

 

It has been 5 years and I believe it is time for an update.

Here are the current "To Do List" of parts:

-MazdaSpeed aluminum antennae piece
-Adkins Rotary thermal pellet
-FD oil pressure regulator
-Mishimoto 160degree thermostat
-New water pump
-ARP extended studs wheel studs 1.5"
-NGK Spark Plugs
-Lucky 7 fabricated control arms and camber arm along with delrin bushings for the rear end.
-Clutch Master 725 twin disc clutch
-RisingRPM primary and secondary fuel rail




Pictures of the current set up:



















Some not so detailed interior pics let alone blurry:

 

One last photo to end the interior for right now:



Engine Bay:







Late night photo session with Peter Dang and Rodrigo Pino:













Here is a photo of the rx7 in the shadows and myself with my friends Evo IX:

 

Great job! Back to life.

 

Can we see pictures of the cluster light up? Prefer at night.

 

Some paint on that nose and some nice clean FTP's would make it look complete. I love it. Clean build.

 

what he said, i was thinking of doing something similar, that looks niceeeeee

 

Pics coming right up

 

Top left digital gauge is: Fuel in PSI, to the right of that is my Boost in PSI, right below that one is my Exhaust Gas Temp gauge (EGT) in Fahrenheit and to the left of that is my Oil pressure in PSI. The most obvious one is the Autometer Tach and unfortunately you can't see my shift light due to the car just being keyed on. The other gauge that is right next to my tachometer is my digital MPH gauge with Odometer.



Here is my idiot cluster: Left gauge has Water temp in Fahrenheit, Voltage in the middle and Fuel amount in percentage to the right.



Blurry pic of everything glowin blue.





^ Key taken out of the ignition cylinder but having the daytime running light on, only the tach displays.

Here is with the lights on in the garage (Pics Below):















Most of the pics are blurry and hazy, lens was dirty, I am lazy and it is -12 degrees out side with my garage being around 20-30 degrees Fahrenheit.

Hope you enjoy the pics.

 

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! i wanted to do that with a small screen to the right of the tach to display gps or whatever from a car pc. i think you just motivated me to work on it lol

 

damn that **** is clean!

please tell me how you got them gauges up?

 

Wow. the gauges are very impressive! Really brings the interior into a more modern era