Prôdigy2nd

iTrader: (3)

So this is my baby, bought her just over a month ago. She is the start to what I hope to be a very long and abusive (both ways) relationship...

By the way, Her name is Ruby...

One, because it matches the color (somewhat)
Two, she will turn into an expensive display of affection...


I do not plan on her being my only Rx-7 but for now, she will be piloting my Rotary love boat solo


plans for her

Street car
with the odd track day
more power based (as most North American vehicles are)
hopefully around 400hp at the wheels once I'm "done" with the engine mods, as much as this car will be for street use,(for now) I do not plan on leaving out very important things, such as brakes, suspiension, drive train, comfortable interior, etc...


Down the Road I hope to pick up either a FC (I love the classic 80's look that scream Transformers) and turn it into a track beast..



this is currently what she looks like













that is how she sits right now....

I bought a bunch of used parts, so over the next while this thread will mostly consist of the odd and slow (on a budget) update of her build up

Most of the parts were purchased either on this forum, or other rotary related forums...


such things purchased so far

Petit AST (installed)
Petit Boost gauge
Blitz intake (want to get apexi)
HKS downpipe (just got in the mail)
Mid pipe (cat free, one of the wonders of living in Alberta, no emissions or inspections)
MazdaSpeed Cat back (came installed)
Power FC, and Commander
Turbo Timer
BNR stage 3's (first generation, bought from Phil)
Efini Y pipe
90mm Hella High beams (for use in a sleepy eye modification, later on this year)
Stainless Steel Brake Lines
Greddy FMIC (need to be cleaned up, and some charge pipes made)
New rad hoses from Ray @ Malloy (all 14 of them)
Koyo "N" flow Rad
Greddy Pullies
"dudemaaan" Fast acting AIT sensor
BBS LM's in silver 17x8 front and 17x9 rear (offset not perfect, but works for first set of rims)
I have a few things on order from shineauto, so few body alterations are in the works


only three of those are installed, the Rest are either on their way, or sitting in my room...


Currently the car sits 750kms away (450 miles) from where at live, she is taking up space at my parrents house



Tiny bit of History (might as well be a life story)


2004
Since hearing about the Rotary I was interested in it, this idea of a engine without any pistons just made me smile for some reason

I started looking around, and finding out more information about this "wankel" engine that Mazda holds so dear to it corporate heart...

2005-2007
I joined rx7club.com, realizing if I could sift through some of the massive amounts of information on the car, and have a somewhat clear understanding of what I was getting into, this would be a good thing...


this year I spent many, many hours and free evenings glued to my computer, searching, researching, information pictures, whatever I could find...

Since I did not have an Rx-7 I became somewhat obsessed with them in general...

example.... I had so much time on my hands, that on my other computer I have well over 15,000 pictures of cars...

all categorized by manufacturer, Model, sub model, color, etc...

Of those estimated 15,000 picstures over 7000 of them are in the folder labeled "Mazda"

I even went as far as to save pictures of cars that I liked, or gave me ideas on how I wanted mine to look, what I thought worked, etc...

over the next 2 years I just spent my time on 7club, hanging out in the 3rd gen section, forum, listening, learning taking so much info in..

it was at this time that I was looking at importing a 1992 JDM FD, sadly my bank account did not match up with my dream of owning a Rx-7 so the dream was put on hold... but never forgotten..


fast forward almost 3 years later, despite the recent economic issues the world may be having, my personal finances seemed to be doing quite well, even though I had recently bought a great DD (1999 Integra GS, every option) I wanted to spend some of my hard earned money on something, so I started spending little bit here and there on my car, nothing huge, I knew my car was going to be nothing more then just a DD so just put some small stuff on it, Headlights, Stereo, intake, nothing big buy any means...
I took it to the track once or twice last year, a semi local carting track that allows for a few days a year for cars

I beat the snot out of it, killed my wheel bearings (they only had 65,000 miles on them) but had a ton of fun....


So i knew I needed to start looking for a car that I would be able to spend money on... and not just throw it away later from high milage...

I kept my eye open most of the summer, fall begining of winter...

I found this car (exactly as it is in the pictures above)
and knew it was a good by...

now JDM FD's up here 2 years ago went for anywhere from $8000 CDN to $14,000 CDN depending on condition... :redface1:

but that was 2 years ago....

So I set a price in my mind that I was willing to spend, and low balled the seller, much to my surprise, he accepted, and I was now the Owner of a nearly bone stock (except for turbo time and cat back) FD :auto:

thus began my sending spree of the extra money I had in my bank account (its empty now )

I bought all these parts, while only being able to drive it after going on a 6-7 hour road trip every weekend too see her, At this point I had only driven her maybe an hour total...

BUT.... she did have a coolant leak.... the previous owner knew about it... so he informed me about it... It was somewhat of a pain to find...

I did however, find it this last weekend.... as it was a long weekend up here, I spent the entire valentines day with my significant other (my car)

I took her out for a good 2 hour cruise, finally able to stretch her legs for once...




this will be the running log of modifications done to the car, as well as a comment area (good or bad is welcome)

I would not be posting this up if I did not care about what other people think..

to what extend do I care, well I care about some peoples opinions more then others... but all are welcome to comment..

Keep in mind, I am doing most of this on the weekends, with very little time to work with, and I like to work at a slower pace, as to not destroy, or damage things unintentionally

Enjoy


Jon.

Prôdigy2nd

iTrader: (3)

The leak

I was able to find the leak, after pressure testing it a few different times, at different temperatures (the coolant)

and found this



the rad was leaking, but it was so hard to find because the coolant would rarly make it to the ground...

It was leaking out of the rad onto the AC condenser, onto the under tray, then the ground, most times just ending up on the condenser or the tray....

So the new Koyo, hoses, and clamps are going on in 2 weeks times...(providing they all get delivered in time)

I would rather do the whole thing once, then cheap out and just band aid the problem... for my car right now this will be over kill... by a large margin, but why spend money twice. get the right parts the first times, and enjoy them now and later..

so, providing that it all goes smoothly (I know most people have fitment issues with the Koyo's) It will be running nice a smooth again with an overkill (for the moment) cooling system


J.