Scary when you think about it... I don't care what anyone says I feel a car is much more enjoyable when you did all the work on it with your bare hands. On top of that you save TONS of money at the same time!

 

Yep, to me, that is the whole point of the project. You lucked out and found a good body already done, now you can spend more on the rest of the upgrades, and doing one hell of a fine I might add.

 

thats y i wanna rebuild my engine, i wanna fire that baby up and feel happy i did it, nice work by the way trochoid.

 

Thanks, there is a great deal of satisfaction doing it with one's own hands, even moreso when it's successful and admired. The looks and thumbs up I get driving it around is a great ego boost. Should be even more fun after the TII swap.

 

what made u want to do the engine paint geen and grey??im not hating, i love the two colors.

 

It was the 2nd engine and powdercoating. The green is a candy teal.

 

o thats cool, i dont know what i wanna do for mine, but youve given me some ideas.i love ur car trochoid, it makes me want to do more

 

Ooh , can't wait for that. Good luck. Oh ya, you should post some videos of your 7. I've necer seen any.

 

Amazing car.

 

This amazes me even more, especially considering my second thoughts about even rebuilding the Nikki! Very admirable T.

 

Needs wider rims and tires

 

15X9 and 15X10s are coming, that big enough for you?

 

Hi my name is shayne, i am looking for 12a block that has been rebuild.

 

That's nice.

 

lol I was hoping I'd see some updates on this, only to find this out.

on a positive note he is atleast using the search button. lol

 

Wow, thats a hell of alot of work into such a little car ahha,

gotta give credit where credits due, for shore.

but as for looks, i think its wayyyyy overated, a little tooo much for my likings,

but thats just my opinion, dont mean sh*t

unreal job tho man.

 

Ques? do you have your oil meter connected to your manifold?

 

Trochoid, man you gotta drop that car about 2 more inches.
But looks it does look like sex.

 

looks like a hella badass spaceship,
ahah nice work dude.

 

Hey Dan nice shiny paint job. would love to see more pics of it.

BTW that right rear tire thread pattern is facing the wrong way...

-Rich

 

Dayummm Luiml, that is one sweet looking ride. You have more pics of that?

-Rich

 

rich^ dan threw the tires under the car to show us what it would look like. I fyou look at the left rear wheel, theres no wheels.

 

Heres a link with more about my car. I should really update the thread with more pictures.

https://www.rx7club.com/1st-generation-specific-1979-1985-18/parts-really-coming-together-widebody-project-update-575526/

I still haven't mounted the rear tires because i'm getting a 8.8" setup out back, then figuring out what i'm going to do for rear brakes. Then taking custom measurements to get the rear rims to fit the best they can.

I should also mention that Luiml parted out his car the only good thing that came out of that is I got alot of his parts for my car. But its truely a shame, his car really inspired me with my build.

 

I love it.

I remember when those widebody kits came out. I had a 260z in highschool, and half my time in class was spent drooling over the Bob Sharp Z catalog, wishing I could afford to rebody my sad looking Z.

One weekend riding in a friend's Roadrunner we saw an RX-7 with a real similar look to yours, only it was blue with gold mesh wheels. It was loud, low and mean looking. I pointed it out, and my friend tried to get up next to it to see if he would race. We finally got next to him, and both slowed to about 10 mph. My friend had the near stock 383 (headers, rejet for the avs, electronic ign, open element air cleaner) in his RR at the time, but we figured it could handle this car. We were wrong. Both cars spun, the RR jumped maybe a car length after 2nd gear, then the 7 reeled us in and passed us, putting maybe half a car on us by the end.

We pulled along side, I congratulated him, asked what engine he had. When he told me "70 cubic inches", I was pretty impressed. My buddy didn't believe him, figured he had to have nitrous/turbo/nuclear gerbils.

This was 1986, that '68 RR ran high 13's with that 383 on street tires. I guess from that point on I had respect for rotaries, but lack of knowledge of them and peer pressure of all my mopar buddies kept me from trying one.

 

LOL, thanks for those memories. I grew up in Lincoln and had 71 383 Road Runner. Never did go up against a rotary with it but beat most every other RR in town, until I pulled up next to a built GTX 6-Pack one day.