hey guys

well its been about 3 years that i've had my FD now
first the reason why i bought this car is because when i saw it for the first time, 1995 on south beach, i fell in love with the car

take your pick...the lines, the big tach in the center of dash, the pop up lights, etc... they all started a life long relationship with this car, then when i got my license, the hunt started

i found my car on, go figure, miami beach in november of 2008 and heres what she looked like, it was the cleanest one i've ever seen

bone stock besides the wheels and an aluminum AST

67k miles (body and motor) original grand touring SSM with black interior and glass sunroof

 

-wheels
-99 spec lip
-more low!

working with a 3 piece wheel company the first thing for me was take care of the 2 things left on that list to make the car look perfect

so first things first...got me a 99 spec lip and some Racing Beat lowering springs (definitely the best lowering springs for the car)

then she looked like this

 

once the lip and stance was set...the next thing was the exhaust system

heat wrapped down pipe and mid-pipe

HKS Carbon Ti Catback

 

then came the day

the one that we all know is coming but none of us want to believe is coming

yup...roxy needed a rebuild...water seal went bad

and the best part was it blew on the way to a Mazda meet out here in So.Fla

so my reaction was documented...

 

so here we go on the rebuild

picked me up a Rotary Aviation complete rebuild kit with RA 2mm seals

 

 

also picked up a spec clutch while the tranny was out

 

then i started the install of my V-Mount from forum member Eternal

heres the car on the way to the shop to get the piping welded



and heres with the it all welded up and ready to go

 

next came all the heat wrapping to keep Roxy's intake temps nice and low

 

during the build time of the car i picked up a set of Tein Basic coilovers, i had them on the car for about 500 miles....then i found a set of Tein Flex Coilovers with the EDFC package

 

then came all the fun modding

-White Wood 13" wheel
-Greddy e01 boost controller
-SuperPro Complete bushing kit
-Mazdaspeed Weighted Shift ****
-Engine Torque Dampener

 

then i invested in what i've drooled over in all the magazine cars, in all the cars at the track, and in the spirit of all that is JDM love

Bride Seats

 

another sad sad sad day for me...Roxy about to go 6 figures

 

I have to say the V-Mount is probably one of the best things i ever invested in

heres what my temp looks like at about 96 degrees ambient temp...stuck in 5pm summer traffic at a dead stop for about 30 min. on the way home

 

so after 3 years of working on her...heres how she sits now

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and finally!!!!

i get to take out those shoddy stock twins

butttt i love having twins so i figured the only proper thing for me to do is to go with a full twin turbo upgrade

so after a week of waiting, this is what showed up at my house, another present for Roxy

Twin Greddy TD05h-18g
Twin Greddy/Tial Wastegates

 

heres some pics of what the setup will look like

this is RX72NR's setup and my inspiration

should be starting on the build next week

 

so as theres more movement on the twin turbo build i'll keep adding pics

comments are more than welcome

hope you guys enjoy it so far!!

 

Your FD is very, very tasteful. Keep it up!

 

thanks guys

im on the hedge about the plenum

now sure how i want to design it...i've been doing alot of research and seen some great results from ITBs inside a sealed box...sort of like how BMW has it in their V10 from the M5...looks like this:

 

It looks like someone ripped of C3P0's arm and tossed it into your engine bay.

 

lolol^^^

 

I'm in love with that setup

 

For natural aspiration you want to have the runners like the BMW design but for forced induction having the runners inside the plenum is not ideal. You either have very short runners or non at all inside the plenum.

This is a more ideal design plenum for forced induction

 

thats exactly what i was thinking it should look like

then those 4 runners lead down to 4 ITBs...what do you guys think, would it be beneficial to run ITBs or to just stick with 1 large throttle body?