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What is the engine mount configuration? Looks like you are running a fabricated cross member that bolts to the FB frame rails?
Usually guys run an early timing cover but this looks good.
Also I like your cardboard box + sharpie To Do list. Had the exact same thing haha.
Ya haha I was making a list in my phone but I like it more on paper. And yes I have a second cross member that mounts the motor using fd rx7 mounts off the rear iron. This means that I can retain the stock oil pan instead of trying to track down a gsl se pan. It also makes the shifter on the t2 trans line up perfectly with the stock shifter hole in the car because the new cross member can be mounted wherever is best. The only downside to this method is that the engine sticks up above the hood line about half an inch but with my vented hood it isn’t a problem for clearance. A stock would would need to be trimmed to fit the upper intake manifold of the re.
Sooo I haven’t been very good at posting lately but I have gotten a whole lot accomplished. I think to make it quicker I’ll give just a list of all the parts that went back onto the motor since I last posted. First I have to post some pictures though.
A few parts are missing in the final picture as I hadn’t received my rad hoses or my second fan yet. They are on now but I don’t have a more recent picture of the engine bay. So I guess I’ll list all the parts and if anyone has any questions about anything feel free to ask.
Electronics
Haltech 13b rew stand-alone harness
Haltech platinum sport 1000 ecu
Aem water temp sensor
Aem water temp guage
Aem wideband guage and sensor. I think it’s a Bosch sensor
Aem truboost guage and map sensor
Aem truboost 3 port electronic boost controller
Apexi oil pressure sensor
Apexi tach
Fuel
An fuel lines
Walbro lift pump
Epman racing fuel filter
Radium surge tank
Aem high flow 320lph pump
Trickflow fuel filter
Aem rising rate fuel pressure regulator
Radium fuel pulse damper
Kg parts billet fuel rails, primary and secondary
Injector Dynamics 1000cc primary injectors
Bosch 1680 secondary injectors
Turbo System
Stainless tubular exhaust manifold
Tial 44mm wastegate with screamer pipe
Turbonetics “Benita” turbo 78mm
Mishimoto intercooler
Turbonetics raptor blow off valve
Greddy compression elbow
Rotary works 90mm throttle body
3 inch stainless turbo back exhaust
Exotic speed 4inch titanium “fart can”
Other motor parts
Entire fd rx7 front dress, front cover, alternator and water pump
Exotic speed alternator and water pump pulley
Awesome work so far. You've done a great job so far bringing it back to life.
When I saw it for sale I knew it would be a gold mine of awesome parts!!
What kind of rad shroud is there?
I actually moved the rad more forward and tilted it slightly for more clearance so right now I have nothing for a shroud. Probably going to make something out of abs plastic or carbon.
dash flocking come up really well, what brand and kit did you use?
coolers look tough, what front bar are you going to use for airflow?
I love the look of no front bumper cover but I know I’ll get pulled over in seconds not running one so I have a cheap extreme dimensions gp1 that I’m going to run to hopefully not attract all the police attention in the city. The flocking was a kit made by flock it and I just picked it up at a local lee valley tools. It was like 70 dollars and I had enough to do the dash, shifter surround, a pillar plastics and the top of the door plastics. I still have lots of fibres left but not any glue.
Well I’ve been pretty terrible at posting lately. Right about a month after I made my last post on here the perfect storm happened to where the car went into longterm storage due to some unfortunate circumstances. I’ll try to keep this quick so it’s not boring to read.
Since the last post I got it fired up on the 13b re, it ran well and sounded nasty until it just stopped. Car hadn’t even been broken in yet, and compression was not looking good. The rear rotor had dropped to 70psi which was no good obviously. Took the motor back out and took it apart for a second time. I assumed I had maybe dropped a spring or something but everything looked good. Rotors are pretty beat up but talking to a mechanic from Derwin performance in Quebec reassured me that they should be fine. I was starting to get discouraged and couldn’t figure out what was wrong. A couple days later while I was cleaning everything I found a crack in the rotor itself and a crack near the dowel on the rear iron. So after finding this I looked at the price of a new motor, new parts or maybe a used motor, but it was just too much money for me at the time since I had dumped so much money already into the car.
I had a show I wanted to hit in the beginning of summer with the car, and this left me about a month to figure out how to get the car working in time. I figured the cheapest simplest way would be to just get a 6 port na motor and toss that in real quick. I found an 86 fc that a tree had fallen on the roof of, but the motor had a “fresh rebuild” and it ran very nice with good compression. I bought that car, parted it out, so I got the motor for essentially nothing and threw the na in with a racing beat header and my Haltech paired with my t2 trans. I got the car fired up pretty quickly after a couple small hiccups with fuel stuff because my system was made for a 600hp turbo rotary and now I had a stock na 6 port. I pulled the 5th and 6th port sleeves out of the motor and tuned it so that it idled like a bridge. I had a couple days before I had to pack up for the show when my rad decided to airlock itself and not allow any coolant to pass through it. I couldn’t run the car for more then like 3 mins before it started to overheat. There was no chance I was getting a new cooling setup in time so I missed the show. This was the beginning of starting to hate the car. I tossed a stock fc rad in and fixed the overheating, but it didn’t fix the fact that it was painfully slow and insanely loud. It was a straight pipe off the aftermarket header and was so loud I was afraid to drive anywhere because I didn’t want to get pulled over and forced into another safety because it barely passed the first time as it doesn’t have seatbelts, or a heater or an e brake. It’s just harnesses and apparently those are a no go for a safety.
While this was all happening my daily started to have some issues, so I put the car at the back of my garage and started saving money to eventually fix the car. In this same time I drove an s2000. That was a car I’ve always been interested in and after driving one I just had to have one. So fall 2019 I bought an ap1 s2000 with low km and in amazing shape.
That pretty much brings us up to current times, the s2k is amazing and that’s for sure going to be a forever car. The rx7 is still in my garage after being torn wether I really wanted to sell or not, I figured that I would advertise it for super high and if someone paid that I’d take it but if not I’d keep the car. I ended up parting a lot of stuff out, basically all that remains is the rolling shell. I kept all the parts that made it cool like the body stuff and the t3 stuff but motor and drivetrain is gone and all my electronics and stuff is gone also.
So now that I have time again, and I’ve had lots of time to think of the direction I want to go with this car, I’ve decided that I’m officially back and going to dig the car out again and tear it down and build it from the ground up. I will start to post updates as I get things done on the car and will try to be active again now that I’m in a better spot for building stuff and have no deadline which makes building no fun. Plus the knowledge I now have and all the tools I’ve acquired over the last year.
So expect to see some massive changes with the car as I tear it down and get it ready for its new motor and drivetrain. Goals are for a car I can reliably drive whenever I want, something with a nicer interior that’s a little less racecar then I had before, a radio, a car that will pass safety no problem, and 600+hp. I won’t mention motor but it’s going to be different and for sure not a v8. I’m probably going to get a lot of hate for the engine swap but Im kinda over rotaries. The new motor will rev just as high as a rotary anyways.
Ill post a pic or two of my s2k for now, and then in about 2-3 weeks I’m going to start in on the tear down and planning process. I’ve just got to finish up the s2k before I start this lol.
02-21-19, 12:04 PM
