I live in South Africa, RX7s are very rare here and with our terrible exchange rate, importing all the goodies you guys get is crazy expensive but still fun and as you all know, highly addictive.

I have owned a few scoobies in the past and I did enjoy modifying them but def not as much as the RX7. I love the fact that there is always something to do and I get to work on it myself rather then sending it in for customizing.

So here is my picture thread from just before it left japan, when it arrived (in a terrible state!) till now.

Pics sent from Japan:











I'll Take it!!!!!

 

7 months later!!! It arrives, the delay is mainly because of the parts I ordered taking long to source and a burnout kit which I landed up selling anyway because it was the wrong one.

I get the call, lets go pick up the car. When I get there, the car doesn't look as good as when it left Japan but Im still on a high!

What happened to the shiny paint in the first pics







Man it looks terrible but when I start her, the hair on the back of my neck stands on end.

What a beautiful sound!!!!

 

On inspecting the car further, I find that it is fitted with:

HKS High Power exhaust
HKS dual Intakes
Tanabe Sustec suspension
Final Speed semi forged rims
Border front bumper

Parts I brought through were:

PFC
Cusco front & rear struts
HPI engine torque Damper
Momo Race wheel
Re Amemiya shifter
99 spec tails
Burnout bodykit

pics to follow.....

 

thanks god you bought some different tail lights those things were not hittin on much.

 

After some cleaning:

 

With the carbon hood:

 

My Parts:

 

in some angles, the front bumper seems to be a shade brighter than the rest of the car..... especially compared to the drivers front fender and headlight covers

Congrats on the car tho, looks good

 

Motor is in for Street port at the moment. Im still waiting for my intercooler, mishimoto radiator and injectors.

Will keep anyone who is interested updated.

 

Thanks man, the red is very hard to get right when you try to match it. I had the bumper repaired and resprayed. I am going to have to send the car for a complete respray to get it completely even.

 

VERY nice build! Looks like your on a roll. Paint shades look good to me after the repairs.

 

Fitted my diffuser today. Its was alot of hard work but alot of fun too...

 

First I love your diffuser, this might be a dumb question but what kind of clearance does that thing have as far as hard lauches like say at a drag strip. is the diffuser at risk of being damaged if the car squats.

 

The Diffuser is very low on my car. Hard launches are not really a problem if you have a stiffer aftermarket suspension which I have, the rear hardly squats at all in my case. If you were on a stock suspension, then your clearance will be much higher and therefore no scraping either.

 

u need a wide band instead of that narrowband autometer one. nice build though!

 

Which diffuser is that? Cost? Available at?

 

Who did u get all these parts through? Also got a GT35R for my 7 now too! Cant wait to get it together again

 

I don't really plan on tuning my car with this narrow band, my tuner has a wide band that he uses. The narrow band is more for a little piece of mind then tuning.

 

The diffuser was brought in over a year ago from Japan as a sample but I have no idea from which company. The guy who brought it in just never fitted it or got any orders for any more at the time.

 

I got alot of parts imported through Jerry at ImportParts. The turbo & wastegate ware brought in for a scooby but I managed to grab it before anyone else could get to it. Im still looking for a nice intercooler like yours though. Let me know if you know where I can get one.

 

Does Rx7store.net still have V-Mounts ?, if they do, I'd say that's your best bet...

 

Ya I'd def say if you planning on doing track days often, go V-mount, worth the extra cash for being able to go flat out all day long without overheating and having low A/Temps too. But a big standard mount IC is plenty good for the street.

 

rotary extreme has v-mount

 

They landed today from Japan. They are such great quality and I think they compliment the shape of the FD 100%

 

the fd is looking really good bro, good job. that diffuser is really clean. do you have more pics of the engine bay?