arkady151

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So the prequel to this is that about 5 years ago when I was 19. I bought an 88 rx7 convertible as a project car for $750. I spent the next 8 months, redoing the whole car and swapping in the whole turboII drivetrain, fixed rust, spend hours and hours on it and had over 10k into in that period of 8 months. That turd was a total money pit but I learned a lot. I basically went from just changing oil to doing just about everything, wiring, rust repair, I literally took that car apart and put it back together and it actually ran lol. Long story short, I got into some bad business and some family financial and health issues. When everything started to turn sour and I needed money quick and there was 10k of new parts sitting in the garage,so I had to part the car out.

It sat for a while without a drivetrain. At which point I got bored and decided that I should ls1 swap it once I got my finances in check. So I stripped it again and in order to do a total restoration on it. Which obviously required mucho monies and time, so that kind of went nowhere and the car, or basically a shell with just about nothing in it sat on jack stands in the garage for another 2 years.

During that point I had another NA coupe that I also sold,


and my modded LGT


that I also got bored with and sold and then bought the 335i which now I am also bored with and want to sell lol.



I ended up finally selling the shell and then junking it a few months ago. It was hard to let go because of the sentimental value it had, not some gay omgg i love my carr mannn but I literally spent hundreds of hours of blood,sweat and beers on it before I even got to drive it. And the worst part was that I never got to finish it or get all the kinks worked out. The worst **** in the *** was that when it was running and driving it would cut out above 5k for no apparent reason. What I found out was that after I parted out the car and sold the motor to a friend that I had an s4 motor thus it used low imp injectors, so I bought low imp 720cc injectors. What I found out later was that the car had an 88 and half motor in it which mazda switched to high imp injectors. The only reason the car didnt run right was because of that and all it would have taken was a 50 cent resistor to fix. *blow my brains out *

So about 2 months ago, I decided the bimmer bores me and I want another 7 lemon. I wanted to get a nice minty 1st gen rx7 and give the old school japanese car treatment, low, wide og wheels, fender mirrors , etc and just keep it simple. I had a bunch of 2nd gen parts still laying around so I sold a lot of them. And as luck would have it, searching through the forum one day I stumbled on this, my current project. It was a t2 swapped convertible, it was newer, but it was black on black, it had similar mods on it but it was a west coast car thus less chance of rust. It was was basically my car, the car I had and had to part out. Baby jesus gave me a second chance lol. So I sold a bunch of bmw rice, got my monies together and had it shipped over from Utah.Too bad I just sold all my 2nd gen stuff , failsauce.

1990 black on black rx7 vert
S4 TII swap- motor/drivetrain/rear
Tokico blues/ Tanabe GF210s
Racingbeat turboback
SS brakelines
Rollbar
Spent most of its life in Cali, so this is probably the cleanest rx7 I've ever seen underneath lol.

Here are the sellers pics, I bought the car without the 17's on it, it came on painted stock bbs vert wheels.

arkady151

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Home next to the other turbo lemon.

arkady151

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Please excuse the ****ty phone pics, camera was dead

Got it up on the lift, changed the rear pads, changed the oil, installed the oil pedestal.


Fixed the trunk release and the trunk latch



Removed all the extra system wiring.


Removed


Interior all cleaned out, swapped the center console, cleaned up the carpets, swapped seats with less crappier seats. Installed the gauge pod with 2 gauges.

Removed the stock airbox


Cheapo filter intake with sweet home made braket.


Ripped out the interior again to install the headunit


All done

arkady151

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Prosport gauges and pedestal, oil temp, oil pressure, fuel pressure, water temp and boost. Boost and oil already installed, waiting on center pod to install the rest.



Oil pan brace kit, converts the stock pan from just nuts to longer studs and nuts


Racingbeat oil pan baffle


Working fuel pump sender


Alpine headunit


Mazdaspeed motor, trans and diff mount. New exhaust hangers, new fuel filter

Broadway mirror, which will hopefully let me see better as the roll bar blocks a lot lol.

TPS adjuster tester, to fix the jumpy idle


Personal Grinta 350 blue suede and red stich


NRG quick release hub

clutch slave and ss line


Planning to install as soon as I can get more lift time.

arkady151

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Things to do soon:
1 Oil pan leaks a bit, install baffle, install oil pan brace kit.
2 Install clutch slave, check clutch master, bleed clutch
3 One rear caliper seems to not be bleeding properly, replace that , bleed brakes again, they feel pretty crappy now.
4 Install steering wheel and hub, still waiting on a jdm tight Feed shift ****.
5. Swap out front strut, top bolt is mangled, keeping the Tokico blues and tanabe springs on for now. The car sits with a finger gap all around, Id rather save the money for VSXXs then waste it on coils.
6 Install all the mounts, get the car aligned, it needs it decently bad.
7 Adjust the idle, replace the fuel sender and have a working fuel gauge, still need to find out why the speedo doesent work.
8 Do basic maintenance, plugs and wires.

Within the next month:
1 Buy matching shift boot, handbrake and armrest, redo parts of the door in suede, install my speakers in it. Sound deaden and insulate the interior, go through the dash and fix anything cracked and insulate that to make sure it doesent rattle anymore.

2 Get an rtek chipped ecu, already have 720cc secondaries, get a walbro, changed out the dp from a 2.5 to 3 and get a matching presilencer. Buying an fmic of a friend and doing a full stainless steel fuel systen. Car should make around 230ish on the stock turbo.



3 Was going to have the car painted in the spring but after some claybarring and some rubbing compound the paint came out decently as most of it was sun fading. I'm going to buy a nice buffer and go at it, I really think I can save it and hold off on repainting it.

4. Looking for a stock set of turbo seats, will probably keep those for a while or splurge on either sparcos, carbeaus or brides. Really want something comfy though , being 6'3 its pretty tight in the car, definitely would like to sit lower.

Spring plans
1 Redo the subframe and diff bushings and all the other rubber stuff thats left, get adjustable arms and everything else needed. Probably do coils

2 Wheels, work meisters s1s or Work VSXXs probably 17s as I dont want to a kit on this. Planning to keep the car decently stock body, unless I stumble on a really nicely wide set of either wheels, at which point I'll do over fenders to fit them.

3. Swap out the injectors, clean up the engine bay, remove all the uncessary emissions crap. I'm getting polished manifolds from a friend, so have a nice engine bay. Get rid of the clutch fan, get a nice polished koyo, etc.

Then put this on, 60-1 , make 350whp and just enjoy the **** out of it.

Spirit-RE

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Great work!

sharingan 19

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A well thought out plan, and the resources to accomplish it....a rare combination indeed.

Rotorbizle

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You got some niceness going on there. Im honestly a bit jealous cause youre doing some things to your vert that i plan to do to mine lol. Well i guess i cant be too jealous cause i just got it two weeks ago haha. Ne-ways, good luck with the build. I'll keep checking your post for updates..........

elmayimbe4eva27

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Niceeeeee!

airquin23

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Dope. good luck with the rest!

arkady151

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Thanks brosefs.


More rice came in, nothing installed yet because the cold weather blows and having no garage blows even more.

Maintenance rice

720cc secondaries

cusco front strut bar

Innovate MTX wideband

jduani

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Nice Arkady ^_^... i need to make a thread for mine.... especially with josh's motor being swapped in... Keep up the good work! well be at Southampton light soon

arkady151

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Finally the weather cleared up a bit last week, got a chance to do some ricin'.

First some new rice


Key


Red spin ****


jdm tite keychain

Feed Heavyweight ****




Cf pod to fit 3 52mm gauges





Exhaust off




Boxes of rice


Sublink about to be removed

arkady151

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Struts disconnected



Sublink disconnected




Diff being jacked up


Wheels off


Brake lines unclipped for more play


Endlinks unbolted



Subframe mounts removed


Counterweight off


Broken diff mount about to be removed


Turd mount removed

arkady151

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Ready to install the new Mazdaspeed diff mount


Old tranny mounts coming out






Putting it all together


New mazdaspeed tranny mounts installed



Installed NRG Hub, NRG quick release, Personal 350mm wheel and Feed ****


Still need to trim the panels around it as they dont clear with the new hub.


Cusco front strut bar installed


Need to clean up the engine bay when I'm doing the stainless steel fuel system and injectors and crap.

Thats it for now.

Next up will be motor mounts, oil pan brace and baffle. 3in DP and Presilencer, 720cc secondaries, rtek 1.7 and a walbro.

Then the rest of the gauges, redo the door panels and get matching redline goods shift boot, armrest and handbrake boot.

FCvert253

that thing is sick.
your bmw is hard though

SpitfireEMT

Sweet rollbar. That car is gonna be very nice. Good work so far.

arkady151

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Removing all the stock emissions and extra vaccum lines and sensors, polished manifolds, fmic, fuel system, bigger 720cc secondaries, rtek chip , new hood



New hood


Stock hood off


Ridin' dirty


Last time an rx7 in my hands looked like this it went to the scrapyard lol


fmic


bumper , bumper support , under panels and fender liners off


Intake off


Moving away the power steering cooler and other crap thats in the way


Windshield washer bottle and other crap out


Routing the piping while keeping the battery and power steering is a bitch


All the stock intake , fuel and vaccum crap that needs to come off


Stock bov off

arkady151

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Turbo inlet and all the turbo vacuum crap off.


Baby spooler


Starting to take off the intake mani and bac valve


Tb coupler off


Bac valve off


Intake mani coming off


Intake mani off

arkady151

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The stock vacuum rack that needs to come out and all the fuel lines , coolant hoses and other crap that needs to be removed to get to it


Secondary fuel rail coming off



Working on the passenger side hole for the fmic piping


Secondary fuel rail off


Secondaries out


Mocking up the pipe from the turbo


All the crap off the stock fuel rail.


All the secondary fuel rail stuff off


Working on the primary fuel rail


Primary fuel injectors off.


All the stock fuel stuff off


Cleaning up all the coolant and fuel lol

arkady151

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Had to remove the oil filler neck to get to the rest of the crap


All the rest of the vaccum rack, so much **** and all the crappy wiring the thats needs to be cleaned up later.


Knock sensor solenoid. The only thing that stays


More crazy vacuum line ****


Finally out, probably the biggest bitch to do with the motor in the car.


Fmic and piping all mocked up, need to cut a few and get a few more couplers but its all figured out and fits with the battery and the power steering.





The battery and the power steering pump, the 2 biggest bitches, will probably rub like a motha****a

arkady151

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Passenger side piping


Mocked up polished manis, bling blang


Bling blang


Fuel return line off


Fuel in line with fuel filter off


Passenger side piping


Knock sensor vac lines redone


Knock sensor lines redone and ran back


Cleaned up the manifold vac lines


New injector clips soldered on, which ended up having to be removed because they didnt clear the fuel rail lol


Primary fuel rail going on


Primary fuel rail going on

arkady151

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Primary fuel rail going on


Primary fuel rail installed


Primary fuel rail and stock 550cc injectors installed


Secondary fuel rail with 720ccs going on


Cleaned up the return line of the frp,literally took forever to clean up the end of the AN line.


Both the return and the inlet of the fuel system mounted, too bad theres no place to put the frp since all the plug wires, the steering rack, the oil filters and pedastal and oil senders and the rest of the **** is all on one side.


Polished TB mounted up


Greddy TB elbow and the rest of the piping cut and mounted.

arkady151

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Made it fit with the ****ing battery and the powersteering.


Turbo Inlet mounted up


All thats left is the bov


After everything was done, car would not start lol, ended up being that the coils need to be grounded to the body as we moved the primary coil because of the fmic piping. Plugged it back in and she started right up , but all the excess fuel didnt burn off, so now with the car off, it was smoking hookah outta the tail pipes.


hookah smoke


hookah smoke


All done for the night, need to check the primary rail for a leak , remount the primary coil elsewhere, put the bumper and everything back, install chipped ecu and up the boooost.

arkady151

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All done, got everything buttoned up , put back together, jumpy idle is finally fixed main culprit being a dicked tps sensor

Got to keep my foglights too


Fmic sits behind the bumper beam, no cutting of the bumper beam





Halman MBC


Changing the oil filter is going to suck ***.


Bling blang








All done for now. Have a few little kinks to go over. I think one of the primary injectors is leaking as the seems to flood out but will start right up as soon as you give it a little gas.

Probably will get an oil filter relocation kit as the passenger side of the car is a rats nest with all the crap there now and no ways to clean it up.

Install the bigger 3in DP and presilencer, install the wideband, get an safc, do a basic tune.

Swap the front struts out as they are dicked with new lowering strut tops, that will make the car sit even , 1 finger gap all around.

Interior , suede some stuff, insulate/sound deaden everything, swap in the new seats after I dye them. Install newer speakers.

Buy wheels, most likely Work VSXXs , get new bumpers, paint those and the hood.

And it will be where I want it to be for the spring, decided to hold off on the bigger turbo and stuff as all the other areas of the car still need to be updated/restored/renewed.