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Project Le Mon Racekor!
Well my brother and a few of my best friends have decided to build a LeMon/Chump Car racekor! lol :lol: I just purchased this beauty right here!
1979 Mazda RX7 from Rene over at RMS here in SoCal. I know this is probably not the type of builds you guys are use to seeing around here :lol: But it's something we have always wanted to do. And I never really wanted to do it unless we did it with an RX7. Light plus well balance and more then enough power from a 12A/13B, plus a little LSD in the rear and I couldn't ask for a better car! :) https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net...76224798_n.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net...49777356_n.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net...92066591_n.jpg https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos...23284084_n.jpg https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos...34052431_n.jpg https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos...72336442_n.jpg https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos...50802993_n.jpg The plan is to completely gut, and strip the car of everything except the essentials. So that means everything including old wire harness is going...a SCCA/Chump Car spec cage will get built for it. I plan on giving it a rattle can silver paint job and swapping in a healthy 12A or 13B whatever I can find down the line. I am also leaning towards the Toyota rear end. My brother and I are avid Rock Crawlers so I am confortable with fabbing and I am almost an expert with toy rear ends! :D I have a few laying around with different gear sets. https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos..._3601998_o.jpg I still need to find a 1st Gen 5 speed for tranny duties and address the front struts/brakes...should be a fun project!! |
Looks fun. One of my buddies and I are building a 1993 BMW 325i ($300 runner!) for LeMons. It was a really sharp car when we got it (black over black leather), it just needs a head gasket (we'll do the swap, and sell off the interior to offset the cost of parts). Have fun!
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This'll be good, im subbed.
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Nice!! I notice a lot of those BMWs in these series!! But this should provide us with a lot of entertainment value as well. :)
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Got the powerplant for the car... :) Just need to find a 1st gen tranny, GSL-SE rear end, and a GSL-SE Flywheel
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got some updates!!
Got the car stripped today...it was a pain in the ass getting in there and removing all the shit but looking at it now and knowing we are actually doing this is pretty cool!!! Can't wait to have the cage done... https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos...85033418_n.jpg https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos...23323753_n.jpg https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos...01443641_n.jpg https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos...31946895_n.jpg https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos...06037000_n.jpg https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos...51657613_n.jpg https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos...01972723_n.jpg |
And the idea is to get it to look something along the lines of this! :lol:
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I have the GSL-SE tranny and flywheel, I live in AZ, let me know if you stil need them.
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Hmmmm...wonder what the shipping will set me back. Any idea?
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shipping < 5 hour driving and meeting cool peeps
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bump
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Originally Posted by Keeble
(Post 11150845)
shipping < 5 hour driving and meeting cool peeps
I need to win the lotto! :lol: |
Originally Posted by SiRMarlon
(Post 11151081)
I need to win the lotto! :lol:
You ain't the only one bo! :nod: Car's looking gutted. Break/remake :D |
Picking up the car today after work and taking it to RMS here in LA so he can build the cage for it. :D Pretty excited as this is a big step!!
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Car is officially at Rene's shop getting the cage built...this is the cage that is going to be built for the car! :D
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Do you mind me asking how much that cage is gonna cost you?
I was recently thinking about turning my rx-7 into a cheap an nasty little track car but decided it would be better to part it out and make some money rather than spend it but i'd still love to know what the expenses are with these chump cars because i saw on the chump car website the cars aren't meant to be worth more than $500 otherwise they get position penalties. |
Originally Posted by jozeyrx7
(Post 11152369)
Do you mind me asking how much that cage is gonna cost you?
I was recently thinking about turning my rx-7 into a cheap an nasty little track car but decided it would be better to part it out and make some money rather than spend it but i'd still love to know what the expenses are with these chump cars because i saw on the chump car website the cars aren't meant to be worth more than $500 otherwise they get position penalties. as for the tires they can't be slicks or professional racing tires...they have to be DOT approved street tires. Any performance mods you will get penalized with additional laps to your race. Which you can buy back with $ which all goes to charity :D |
That would be awesome! good luck with it all
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Originally Posted by jozeyrx7
(Post 11153003)
That would be awesome! good luck with it all
14" x 9" 4x110 with some sticky Falken Azenis... https://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos...63485511_n.jpg |
Did some work on the car... We sprayed everything down with some simple green in the morning and we let it sit for a while after that we headed off to the carwash to power wash the interior and get all cleaned out for some paint.
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...91284801_n.jpg https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...17336369_n.jpg https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...15944814_n.jpg https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...56377500_n.jpg We then air dryed the sucker! LOL!! We drove around on the freeway, headed to Pasadena for some breakfast burritos @ Lucky Boys and then drove home. By the time we got home the car was dry :D https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...46982035_n.jpg https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...95027666_n.jpg https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...50041317_n.jpg I then busted out the cans of primer and we got the whole interior primered out... https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...94807820_n.jpg https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...04056566_n.jpg https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...34902086_n.jpg https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...39937373_n.jpg |
I then busted out the white paint and painted just the cage portion...
https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...14335379_n.jpg https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...29841031_n.jpg https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...25771938_n.jpg https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...12514151_n.jpg https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphot...44053778_n.jpg Gonna finish the rest of the interior tomorrow...then it's on the engine bay for the same. Engine bay and interior will be white...rest of the car will be silver! :D |
damn, thats a nice looking cage! this is turning out pretty badass pretty fast.
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Originally Posted by highnitro12187
(Post 11157249)
damn, thats a nice looking cage! this is turning out pretty badass pretty fast.
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Cool project. We have been running an 83 RX-7 with a 5.0 and autopower bolt in cage. We are swapping all that over into a 79 with a real cage.
The rotary will run out but I will tell you that there are some seriously fast cars running in Chump. At Daytona last month we were running 143 mph on the banking and there were a couple hitting about 150. I included a couple pics of our car from Daytona. One at the Start Finish and another before the race next to my old truck and our neighboring paddock with a V8 Volvo. Good luck with the project! http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...18108760_n.jpg http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-...19297150_n.jpg |
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