Sept 16th, 2012 - Little bit more update...

Took some time getting the transmission painted and such.. Some color scheme.





and becoming a master of taping



Also, plugged the oil metering hole



and another angle of the painted diff..

 

Sept 19th, 2012 Updates from past 3 days..

I had the rotor hats made for the Disc Brakes Australia rotors and got them refinished in similar black.







Cleaned up and repainted the RZ calipers.



I also replaced the diff bushings with Powerflex bushings.

 

Somebody's been busy lately

 

Beautiful steering rack, who makes it? and is it a direct fitment?

 

Like i mentioned before on FB, if you're ever in town (LA), hit me up! Don't mind showing you around. :P

What's the FEED TRUNK ? trying to visualize where this would go?

 

wow Phil. i spent about 1 hour reading through most of the pages and i'm still didn't catch up.

i always thought you wrapped your FEED FRONT fenders but it turns out, Shine created a ONE OFF hybrid Fiberglass/CF piece for you? Impressive.

 

It goes in the spare tire area in the trunk and serves as a very cool storage unit. Will look like crap in Phil's car though, so I offer to take it off his hands and install it in my beater

Phil, what is the ETA on the build?

 

david I got a spare sitting on a shelf if you are interested.

 

LOL.

Mark...you still haven't had that installed in the carbon car yet??

 

The one I had on my MB is a wrap.. to help with rock chips.. but this one is a special one made by Shine.. by my request.

ETA is in 5 weeks

 

I'm digging that color scheme, very cool.

 

Looks nice, thanks for the thread!

 

Thanks! I like it too.. I'm going to paint my 13B-RE/REW like this too..

Thanks for reading!


Sept. 25th, 2012 Update...

Couple of updates... I got my Takata Harness today.. Actually it was shipped to my paint and body guy vs. to my home... and I could could of gotten it 2 week earlier..



Takata came up with new design... and color. Hope it will take some time for people to fake this..



And testing on my bride seats..






And refinished my pedals and added discontinued widefoot, heal toe pedal.

 

ohh, i like the new design on the takata's. but they're only 4 point ?

 

I believe they have other than 4 point. I got the 4 point because it was street legal belt and I don't think I'm going to ever need more... But we shall see

 

Those are rad..... How much did they run you? I'm guessing those are FIA approved till 2014/15? I'm looking into the crow harnesses as well but can't go wrong with takata =-)

 

manny, not sure what you're budget for seatbelts are but I've had both takatas and crows. the crows were a lot more comfortable then the takatas. just recently though i installed a set of schroth nybrid II in my miata. These are by far the best feeling 6 point harness I have every experienced. They are easy to put on and adjust and take off too.

Schroth Racing Harnesses

the lower lap belts are made of a softer 2" webbing which makes it easier to adjust then 3". Also the adjustment straps have plastic rods in them for easy of grabbing and tightening yourself in. you can specify wrap around for the top two and clip in for the sides and 6th points.

 

These are FIA approved. Mainly for small timer like me that does track days and drive it on the road and be road legal.

If you are looking for FIA approved (usually not street legal), you would have to go with their camlock system.

Also, My seats are FIA approved and another reason, I went with these (Drift III).

 

Correction.. I just realized I said the black Takatas are FIA approved but I actually meant to say, "These are NOT FIA approved".


Sept. 30th, 2012

I'm debating about the interior and test fit the Takata Harness on the Spirit R Recaros.

Let me know what you prefer?








Also, got my VS-XX refinished/powder coated and put new Toyo T1-Sport tires. I've heard great things about these and can't wait to test them out.


**They are not going on this 3 rotor project car**

 

I personally don't like the use of a 4-5 point harness on the recaro's. Pretty much just from the point of looks, you spent a butt load of money on the seats because of how nice they look, and you're going to end up covering half the seats with seat belt straps.

If you're going to be using the car on the track and you can also hide the harnesses for street driving then that's cool. Otherwise if it's just going to be a street car I would prefer to use the original belt.

 

well made point, zeroG.... I have considered all those points and this car wouldnt be much of a street car when its done.

 

Phil, everything is coming together nicely

I'll be curious to see how you like those new Toyos.

Re: the harnesses/seats, be careful with the SRs under any serious cornering...... mine really flexed alot and I could tell that eventually they would crack. Someone has posted pictures of his set cracked at the base from road racing. For the street I'm sure they're fine though.

 

Yup, that someone was me... cracked the seat near the rail bracket mounting hole on the shell. Bottom mount flexes way to much under high G corners. For a serious track car a side mount race seat is a must... keep Spirit R's for street/show.

Here are the pics of my cracked RZ's ---> https://www.rx7club.com/west-sale-wa...-rails-979142/

 

Car's coming along! Marco's sent me a few pics here and there but this is the first time I've seen ur built thread. very nice.

 

Thanks Rich! and good advice!

Hmm.. that's not good. I'll keep that in mind.

COOL! Thanks man!


more updates...


Oct 4th, 2012

Past couple of days, I decided to strip off my spare RZ hub assemblies and fix up the rotor back plates and such.





Fronts fixed and degreased... Test fitted the new DBA rotors.. Shaved some metals so DBA rotors can freely spin.



Rears fixed and degreased



My good friend Bryan from BNR Supercars is going to let me use his cabinet to blast the rust and such off so I can get the prettied up today.


Also, I received some goodies from Turbonetics.



Their GT-K 1050!!!!