I see I see. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction! I'm going to do some reading and when I'm ready to buy wheels I'll bring it up again. I might put in more money than I originally planned for a decent pair of wheels then, since their importance seem to be a lot more in depth.

p.s. I want to rock nice wheels but the general rule when it comes to 1st or 2nd gen Japanese that live in the US usually don't have too much money to play around with. I'm a 2nd gen, while my dad is a 1st gen and barely speaks any English (came here in 1992). Exceptions to immigrants that come here rich already, contracted workers, and 3rd or 4th+ generations.

 

hey man i got a parts rx7 with a good front end and i live just 2 hours south of chicago. hit me up and maby i can help ya out with that.

 

It's been a while since I last worked on my car, let alone the abuse it goes through being a DD. Today, I just finished installing a RB collected street header to a Magnaflow XL 3 chambered muffler to my CorkSport Power Series cat back. I grew tired of how deafening the CorkSport was, so I cheaply welded together an exhaust. (Not only was the CorkSport loud but my stock exhaust system had a HUGE leak right after the manifold ) I've been thinking about adding a third muffler, most likely a straight through, behind the CorkSport silencer.

I bought a used RB collected header that had it's flange cut off and it's o2 sensor mount welded closed so I had to fabricate everything past the header including welding in an o2 sensor bung. The project took me about two days and unfortunately I did not take any photos. After installing everything, I fired her up to hear how she sounds and the tone is very interesting. It was 3am when I fired her up and it was still loud, although significantly quieter (especially inside), so I still have to do a cruise around. I'll get a video up on YouTube and post it here.

My bumper got all torn up the past year so I'll be heading towards my local salvage yards to hopefully find a donor rx7 once I can muster enough funds. My plan now is just to make this rx7 look good and have a fun DD.

 

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I got the video up.