Ellie - From Japan to the UK - my project.
12-31-10, 06:33 PM
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SiH... Great build. The white exterior with no wing really emphasizes the pure design of the FD and makes me take another look all over again. (Deja Vu never looked so good.) Understand the wheel ***** thing, but really liked the white-wheel-monochrome-80's kind of look the first photos had. Maybe have some made with white centers and aluminum lips or paint the LM's if its not sacrilege? Love the white and black -- Panda -- engine. Not important at all, but just never got hot with purple. As I watched you keep changing the pieces, I crossed my fingers that it would all came out blue-anodized, but you went the other way. Very nice work. Tasty.
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01-01-11, 02:53 AM
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Cheers dude 
I wanted to go wrinkle black but couldn't find anyone to do it 
The Satin isn't exactly as I wanted it but seems to work ok when all put together. The rail is lovely - Kev at BilletBitz over here does some stunning work.
Understand the wheel ***** thing, but really liked the white-wheel-monochrome-80's kind of look the first photos had. Maybe have some made with white centers and aluminum lips or paint the LM's if its not sacrilege?
House is currently on the market though and one of the main wants for the next place is a garage!
Can you get more detailed specs on the bbs wheels? And tires? They sit amazing
Front: 17x9.5 et25, wearing a 225/45 Toyo R888
Rear: 17x9.5 et25. However, I've reverse mounted the lips on the barrels, so they now sit at roughly an et12, but with a 3mm spacer. Tyres are 235/40 Dunlop D01j's.
Yup, they're narrow stretched tyres, but they fit the 'look' I love - any loss of grip from tyre width is hopefully balanced out by running the track spec tyres - they're super grippy!
And more pics of the blonde
You too, random internet man
Not done much of late at all unfortunately - We've had heavy snow and freezing weather over here, and the car being outside and me having terrible circulation in my fingers isn't really conducive to lots of work being done. Plus the whole Christmas thing!
Car is currently on the road again, and to do list stands at:
- Re route brake lines to relocate further from the wastegate outlets - too close for comfort:
- Add in brake bias adjuster for the rear
- Remake turbo lines in PTFE (not happy with the rubber braided coolant ones)
- Hide FPR at bottom of the firewall
- Install under car swirl pot (being finished at the moment)
- wrap manifold
- sort a new air filter - the current K&N was only temporary, and is way too small
- Hide clutch line inside car
- Possibly acquire an SSQV and get a flange welded somewhere discreet.
- Repaint the inside of the boot, and install some decent sound deadening in the car.
- get my friend to move the Lambda sensor on the downpipe to somewhere more discreet, and weld another boss on for a wideband (future proofing!)
That's all for the mo!
I'll grab some photos at some point of where it is now, if it ever stops raining.
01-01-11, 02:45 PM
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she's a beauty! keep it up! and understanding wives are great aren't they. i remember one time i was porting my wastegate on the kitchen table with my dremel at 11 at night, got metal shavings everywhere, she even cleaned it up for me then helped me install the turbos the next day gotta love er'
gotta love er'
01-01-11, 06:56 PM
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Well i dont know how it is over there but if i did something like that around my area, with that kind of house setup, i can be sure the car will be gone the next morning lol
I was always fond of the UK lifestyle. Idk, every show i watch, or the news you guys always seem happy lol. Plus the accent and your women. I love when girls speak with the british accent. Drives me crazy lol
Sure - they are:
Front: 17x9.5 et25, wearing a 225/45 Toyo R888
Rear: 17x9.5 et25. However, I've reverse mounted the lips on the barrels, so they now sit at roughly an et12, but with a 3mm spacer. Tyres are 235/40 Dunlop D01j's.
Yup, they're narrow stretched tyres, but they fit the 'look' I love - any loss of grip from tyre width is hopefully balanced out by running the track spec tyres - they're super grippy!
Front: 17x9.5 et25, wearing a 225/45 Toyo R888
Rear: 17x9.5 et25. However, I've reverse mounted the lips on the barrels, so they now sit at roughly an et12, but with a 3mm spacer. Tyres are 235/40 Dunlop D01j's.
Yup, they're narrow stretched tyres, but they fit the 'look' I love - any loss of grip from tyre width is hopefully balanced out by running the track spec tyres - they're super grippy!
Reason me asking is because im going with a 9.5 rear wheel with a +15 offset but im gonna run a 255 tire. Just wanted an idea of how it would look in the rear. But its gonna be 18".
Hehe, my wife isn't really the exhibitionist type, so no
01-10-11, 02:30 PM
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Cheers guys
1QWIK7 - yup, it's about et9 on the rear - I'll measure it properly some time
You'll need a small flare with a +15 and a 255
So I haven't really done much of late, due to the festive season, lack of garage, terrible circulation in my decrepit 29 year old hands (yay, thanks years of falling off bikes) and abundance of this.
Anyways, bit warmer of late, so I got a bit ricer-tastic.
For the brakes I've shamelessly taken Ben Lewis's idea - no non ABS/Split circuit for the FD, so one port to the front LH caliper, the other one to the front RH and tee'd to the rear. Got a Wilwood bias valve to go in there to sort that out.
I'm not happy with the lower line, may do it again at some point.
And dicked about with the clutch a bit, but not very happy with that at all
Line going through the cabin - sorted out the stuff underneath so just need to run it inside now.
If I could find somewhere to recreate these in SS, I'd do that, but I can't. I don't want to risk ruining the awesome flarer that Ross (Sloth) has lent me.
Swirl pot on the way when Craig@Dyno Torque has time between building awesome race cars, downpipe being modded by an awesome friend, and FPR relocated to somewhere silly, but it was too dark for photos of that by the time I'd jacked the car up.
Oh, and real men don't have garages and floodlights, real men lie on their back in the peeing rain and use one of these.
I did as well. Hasn't helped, I'm still most definitely non man-like.
1QWIK7 - yup, it's about et9 on the rear - I'll measure it properly some time
You'll need a small flare with a +15 and a 255
So I haven't really done much of late, due to the festive season, lack of garage, terrible circulation in my decrepit 29 year old hands (yay, thanks years of falling off bikes) and abundance of this.
Anyways, bit warmer of late, so I got a bit ricer-tastic.
For the brakes I've shamelessly taken Ben Lewis's idea - no non ABS/Split circuit for the FD, so one port to the front LH caliper, the other one to the front RH and tee'd to the rear. Got a Wilwood bias valve to go in there to sort that out.
I'm not happy with the lower line, may do it again at some point.
And dicked about with the clutch a bit, but not very happy with that at all
Line going through the cabin - sorted out the stuff underneath so just need to run it inside now.
If I could find somewhere to recreate these in SS, I'd do that, but I can't. I don't want to risk ruining the awesome flarer that Ross (Sloth) has lent me.
Swirl pot on the way when Craig@Dyno Torque has time between building awesome race cars, downpipe being modded by an awesome friend, and FPR relocated to somewhere silly, but it was too dark for photos of that by the time I'd jacked the car up.
Oh, and real men don't have garages and floodlights, real men lie on their back in the peeing rain and use one of these.
I did as well. Hasn't helped, I'm still most definitely non man-like.
01-11-11, 12:58 PM
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There are plenty of decent RX-7s in the UK. What your definition of "properly" is depends on whether you will like all of them though.
There are less FDs in the UK than in the US, so the absolute number of superb examples is less eventhough the percentage comapred to the US is about the same.
There are less FDs in the UK than in the US, so the absolute number of superb examples is less eventhough the percentage comapred to the US is about the same.
01-11-11, 02:31 PM
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There are plenty of decent RX-7s in the UK. What your definition of "properly" is depends on whether you will like all of them though.
There are less FDs in the UK than in the US, so the absolute number of superb examples is less eventhough the percentage comapred to the US is about the same.
There are less FDs in the UK than in the US, so the absolute number of superb examples is less eventhough the percentage comapred to the US is about the same.
As I said earlier, there are some epic, epic FD's in the UK - it's just there are less of them.
Check out FDUK/MazdaRotaryClub and some of the build threads on there, and pick up some mags like Banzai if you can get hold of them - the likes of Matt Wiltshire, Marco, Craig Taylor, Colum, James Willday, Ross@Dragon, Pip@WGT, Mark Nash, Bramble, Lee Mills, Max, Lee Myers, Freddy, Mark Fawkes, Rob Blackshaw, Steve Garrett, Kash, etc etc (to name but a few, there are sh!tloads more that I've not put down) all have incredible cars that eclipse my build. Seriously worth checking out the UK scene - we're more than just the odd muppet with a stock car trying to make out he's some sort of record breaking hero.
We Track, Drag, Drift, street drive, daily, and weekend warrior our cars just like you guys do - big international hugs, atlantic chums
01-22-11, 05:36 AM
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There are plenty of decent RX-7s in the UK. What your definition of "properly" is depends on whether you will like all of them though.
There are less FDs in the UK than in the US, so the absolute number of superb examples is less eventhough the percentage comapred to the US is about the same.
There are less FDs in the UK than in the US, so the absolute number of superb examples is less eventhough the percentage comapred to the US is about the same.
01-22-11, 01:43 PM
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Still, de nada, everyone's entitled to an opinion, no matter how narrow-minded and unsubstantiated it actually is and I won't foul up Simon's thread any further on you