Building My Dinosaur Roach
 

The odyssey of building my Dinosaur Roach...

Ok then, have fun!

Are you going to do like your name implies and throw a turbo in it?

It has been an interesting 2+ year odyssey with this car so far Jeff..

This is just documentation... Just be patient and follow along....

As long as you've enjoyed the car throughout the journey. :)

This attached pics in this post was B4 the car was sent out to the 1st bodyshop to be repaired..

This was not a ride of enjoyment.. This as been an ODYSSEY! ...I owned this car for 2+ years and had only bought and drove this car just 1 TIME. July 9-11, 2013 - ...B4 it was "wrecked"???



The pics posted here was what the car looks like once \i got it back from the 1st bodyshop with the additional damage to the front Left bumper header panel and fender..

BUT, After waiting for over a year for the car to be repaired and with no work done to the car I picked. Then I discovered that while in the bodyshop, the car suffer a 2nd mishap and was now also damaged in the front as is evidenced by the removal if the headlight and turn signals...

I then had the car taken to a 2nd bodyshop to have the repairs to the rear quarter panel done.

...AND Being that it was no longer a real original unblemished 1978 RHD Rx7 anymore.. came to the conclusion that I may as well build the car with one of my spare engines that I had laying around for years.

So, I started taking some measurements and rumaging around for whatever parts that I had laying around.

I started repairing the seams that was damaged B4 send the car off to the 2nd bodyshop, as it seems to me like all these bodyshops do, is bitch up the car and cover over whatever is not immediately visible to the casual observer... Then charge a lot of money for repair when nothing significant was really worked on...


I began cutting away all the gnarled up metal and closing up the damaged area.

Its easier to go find the project status update on the link below....

https://www.facebook.com/koonta.kinte.9

Enjoy...

Nice, another widebody. Sucks that there are so many crooked body shops out there. I also had bad experience with a painter with a previous project but luckily was able to get another shop to finish it. No Facebook for me so I guess no updates for me to read.

That FB page is open, so should not need a FB accnt to see the pics.

but then again... I am no expert on FB or Rx7club.com either...

maybe it's just me but that link does not take me to any facebook page about rx7.

Looks like some porn advertising under contact information. I'm not a fan of FB either and I'm a web developer. This is a RX-7 site, FB is not.

? don't know how to post the update as pics inline..

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Building the rotors.. corner seals, side seal and apex seal clearanced.

Power steering is a must. Working on trying to keep the A/C, but not a done deal as yet.

Wheel are the 15X7.5 front and 15X10 rear Weld Racing.

I see a 20B. Nice. :)

Engine and spare FD engine built as my backup for now, until I get around to building my 2nd 3-rotor 20B spare engine. Had a Turbo II gearbox modified (shorter shifter extension housing) in order to allow the gearstick to be placed in the original position with the longer 20B engine.

Now to focus on the wrecked car..

Turbo and spare turbos selection... small one goes on the 13B larger on goes on the 20B... Yes, V-Band on everything, ofcourse.

More views of the carnage... I had to stitch that rear quarter back together... Next its suspension selection and wheel selection... and mods to the rear end. Gold wheel on rear is 18"X9" 5 lugs and it fits up under the fender/wheel wells without touching.

Started selecting wheel combinations Weld racing 15X10 aluminum polished... Conquest TSI 16X9.. 16 X9 with a different offset and then began dropping the '85GSL-SE front subframe & rear end, along with the Racing beat Presilencers...

rebuild rear diff. installed Strange engineering coilovers on rear end. adjustable lower trailing links on rear and Moser Engineering 5 lug axles. Turbo II rear brakes for now. Turbo II front subframe coilovers and Turbo II front brakes ---for now.. Larger radiator....

Started taking some front wheel measurements... Silver wheels is 17X9.5" up front.... it fits as you can see... with Turbo II brakes too. 235 40 17 tires.. for those who want to know. Gold wheel is 18X 8.5 with 225 40 18 tires.

Began closing off the repaired carnage(damaged) of the right rear wheel well.

Relocated the battery above the gas tank behind the rear seat..(old spare tire location).

16X8.5 (black) wheels on front and put the car away for a few months.. Time to hit the road again... Gots some flying 2 doo...