I finally retired in January 7th 2020, and moved from Tacoma Washington to Maricopa Arizona. I can now take 8 years worth of searching and buying FB RX-7 Competition parts from USA, Japan, Australia and England and start my RestroMod project build. First and foremost I spent absolutely ridiculous money acquiring all of the items below, and I will be the first to admit it. It's more of a retirement automotive engineering project for me. I located a rust free solid 1983 Mazda RX-7 GSL out of a collection in Eugene Oregon with under 60,000 original miles.

I have a Race Products 4.5 bolt full floater rearend with AP racing directional vented floating brake disc with radial mounted 2 pot AP Racing brakes. Race products light weight axles with MSF magnesium 4.44 R&P Torsen LSD Carrier. Its a full adjustable 3 link rear suspension with ride height adjustable rear coil springs triple adjustable race shocks.
The front is a MSF large bearing aluminum 4.5 hubs with large floating vented disc and radial mounted AP Racing 4-pot brake with twin master cylinders and cockpit adjustable brake bias bar. Also an adjustable front coil spring with triple adjustable race shocks and Nascar style front swaybar. I use KC Raceware fully adjustable tubular front lower control arms and tension rods. Adjustable camber plates and triangulated shock tower brace.
My motor is the hybrid all alumuim street ported 48mm Carb Dry Sump 13B at the Mazdatrix booth at SevenStock built by KyleMohan Racing with a SDJ header and 3'" exhaust, attached to a Mazdaspeed Close ratio 5 speed gearbox with alumuim flywheel and MazdaComp oil cooler and large 3 core alumuim radiator. It's built for reliability and not all out HP.....HP Figures pending but built close to EP spec. I have a converted 15 to 1 power steering box. VOLKS TE37 15" wheels with BF Goodrich G-Force mounted. I have a few rare cosmetic pieces, but I plan on keeping the interior and most of the exterior as stock as possible.

Seating is my biggest issue, I am 73" 265 and finding high end quality seats for linebackers size folks to fit into FB shell is no easy task LOL!

I apologize in advance for any and all typo's.....I am 61 years old Mazda enthusiast and went for the Old School FB versus the FD and/or RX-8. Brothers, take care and stay safe and may we all pass each other some day on the road.

 

Sounds awesome,hope to see pics of your build in progress.

 

Subbed... Go luck with your build!!

 

In for pics awesome parts.

That engine sounds very serious....

 

I was toward the end of my career, and the only way to increase your monthly retirement pension was to work overtime (OT), which I was highly unmotivated to do. So I device a way to inspire myself. I would look at each OT assignment as an opportunity to purchase high end pieces for my RX-7 project.

So about the engine: Kyle Mohan and Dave Lemon of Mazdatrix both were against my desire to build a old school traditional aspirated street ported engine. They both said they could build me a tubro motor for a 1/3 the cost and produce 300+ HP easy. But I am not just about speed as I could buy any modern sport car and beat my RX-7 in top end speed. I requested the highest level street ported normally aspirated build.....so it is a light weight hybrid of Street Ported alumuim housings/RX-8 Eshaft/High Compression Rotors/ exotic Metal surface treatment/Ported Match Intake/Rare SDJ 13B Race header....How I intend to take it to another level is through Ultra Close Ratio gearing in my transmission and 4.44 R&P.

 

if nothing else, it will be a lot of fun!