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My First RX7 - Sexy Knights FC3S drift car
Hi, this is my first RX7. Im sure its a bit of a marmite car, but I love it. https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...df8ff43f20.jpg Ive not owned it for long, and some may already know it. It was once driven by Tomoya Suzuki from the Sexy Knight drift team in a street legal drift comp back in 2006. Theres plenty of history wrote up about this car, by people far better on a keyboard than myself, so ill skip that bit for now and share some pics. We all like pics https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...6a48827631.jpg Im going to keep the colours and decals, but im replacing the kit with a spare that came with the car, as I prefer the "cut outs" under the headlights and Ill keep the other one as a spare, using the East Bare lamps under the popup covers for now. https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...769e6dca62.jpg I bought it with no engine and gearbox. Id love to have all the brap's with a bridge ported 13b, but my mx5 turbo engine will fill the hole where a 1UZ used to be for now (once I get home to do it). I may just be temped to put a 13b in sooner rather than later. But MX5 engines are £200 and 260bhp is better than nothing. https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...e125a4a413.jpg The previous UK owner was cool guy Stavos. Who writes up cool and interesting things about performance engines on his page STAV-TECH - Home. He made a few changes since the car came to the UK in 2009. Mostly in the pursuit of saving weight. The coolest of which has to be the perspex rear window with fibreglass frame. https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...d660aa1976.jpg Also peeking through you might notice the rear mount rad..... and I might have put a special edition Status Error sun strip on the back https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...5330f43a44.jpg Other changes are in the interior. Where again, stuff has been ripped out in preference of weight reduction. A stack dash now sits in place of the old clocks and a switch/fuse panel has been mounted in the centre console. Also check out the custom titanium peddle box that utilises the original brake booster, mounted in front of the seat. This was to make space for the many mahoosive engines. Still has the original steering wheel, full of drift luck! https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...e83619d4c5.jpg https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...e059540ccc.jpg The whole shell has been spot welded on the seems, which you can just about see to the left of Smokey's whiskers. (Yes the seats are out of date haha) https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...f506a350b5.jpg I forgot the brand of suspension, but who cares... look at those meaty upside down dampers! I think.. if I remember correctly, they're from the US. https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...6079f92f68.jpg You could barely get a rizzla between the Mustang rep wheels and XYZ callipers. Hopefully soon to squeeze the lovely bell mounted discs in anger. https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...c68cb408af.jpg Thats about it from me for now. Take it easy |
Welcome to the board. :)
Looks like you jumped into the deep end, both hands and feet. Interested to see what you do with it. |
Cheers
I’ll try to contribute with some updates on the progress :icon_tup: |
New member here as well, that car is so cool :cool: love old pieces of JDM history like that!
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Happy days
Thanks man. I love it .Just put a deposite down on everything under the bonnet of a turbo 2 thats being broke for parts.
Should be running for Christmas..... if its not a lemon 🤞 |
thats cool as fuck!
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Thank you sir ✌️
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Originally Posted by sen2two
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thats cool as fuck!
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i love this car and with out it being history i would never have probably got into rx7s im hoping to build one also but mine doesn't have history(3 of them).. please please please keep this updated and i hope i see you at a track one day :)
ill be going with the sexyknights style but slightly different |
Thank you very much lads.
I've just got a 19k engine, gearbox and loom. So fingers crossed🤞 https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...b31dd040e7.jpg Time to attack the loom next 😅 |
Welcome. A piece of history you have there. A real ex-Sexy Knights car. That's incredibly cool.
I have an old scan I got somewhere of a feature on Sexy Knights, I was hoping it would have your car in it. Perhaps Tomoya is in there, but this is before he had the car. Or maybe before he went all out on that livery. Thrash Racing is making seats again if you wanted to recreate the look a little bit! (He was sponsored by them when he had that car). https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4805/3...7d7db380_c.jpg |
Welcome to the forum :)
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[QUOTE=dazed1;12319720]Welcome. A piece of history you have there. A real ex-Sexy Knights car. That's incredibly cool.
I have an old scan I got somewhere of a feature on Sexy Knights, I was hoping it would have your car in it. Perhaps Tomoya is in there, but this is before he had the car. Or maybe before he went all out on that livery. Thrash Racing is making seats again if you wanted to recreate the look a little bit! (He was sponsored by them when he had that car). Cool man, thanks. It could possibly be one of those FC's. My shell was originally red by the looks of it. I'll check the seats out, thanks. It used to have a bride recliner in the passenger side. But I've got no real urge to have it looking the same inside. I'm just keeping it as is for now. And may go with kirkey seat, if I need the head room. |
any updates on this ?
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Yeh man, I got it running! I just haven't had much time or money right now, so it's taken a bit of a back seat, hidden under a car cover. But here's a few pics and details of the progress since the last post:
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...68d983635d.jpg The wiring was a bit of a ball ache, but one wire at a time and it came together. All be it a bit slowly. https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...7bf3171b94.jpg Ended up removing 12kg of crap from the loom. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...44314dd1a9.jpg And got the dash somewhere near, for now. https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...12f9a32610.jpg Wired in a reasonably tidy fashion. https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...6c70018492.jpg Still has a way to go though. Only got engine related stuff in at the moment. https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...d84d4c9dcf.jpg Also chucked the spare kit on loosely and got the popups back in. https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...e2e2eaa4ea.jpg And ditched the rear mount rad. Which also weighed quite a bit when you weigh up the pipes, mounts and extra water. Can't remember how much though. But I could do with the extra space for track stuff as well, so win win. That's about it for now Take it easy |
Wow, this thing is super cool
Best of luck |
dorifto!
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what are you doing with the stitched up front bumper dude?
can not wait to see more |
So much wires! Drift safe
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Originally Posted by tiredhero
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what are you doing with the stitched up front bumper dude?
can not wait to see more |
On a slightly boring update note, I'm going to be saving a bit of cash up so that I can get things moving further in the new year.
Since I've got the engine running, I'd like to get a wideband hooked up, so can I see what's going on and I also need to make anexhast from the turbo back. Ideally looking to get it into a unit and treat myself to some warm spannering. Take it easy, and I'll catch you guys next year with something a bit more interesting to report. https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...d544500263.jpg |
update
Ok, so its been a while, but back in September I finally had the FC running on the road.
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...cc9e6b756d.jpg So I guess ill fill you guys in on some of the stuff that's been done... in no particular order. One of the cooler things is probably the s13 dash. fits like a glove. Only had to trim 10mm off either side. Still had enough meat for mounting with some pretty basic aluminum brackets. A bit more aluminum to mount the stack dash, spitfire/Lancaster bomber boost gauge and innovate afr. https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...4a2a6ac3ef.jpghttps://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...13754038ea.jpg The stalks are from a mk2 MX5. Mounted with a 3d printed bracket made on an ender3. https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...1fac260589.jpg Its only PLA but its been fine. Steering wheel boss engages with the auto cancel stuff for the indicators, so that's sweet. I was going to try and get everything working through toggle swatches ect, but decided that would be a ball-ache to install, use and I fancied a cleaner look. Also pulled the custom peddle box out and replaced with standard peddles. filled the hole in the floor where the servo protruded. https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...e6ef3dbc36.jpg Standard peddles give much more room for my feet as the peddle box raised the floor up about 2 inches. I'm no left foot brake king, but ill have a go and my foot was catching the column. Can put carpet down now too. https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...04e9cb9445.jpg Even cooler than the dash... https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...e9a917d579.jpg .... Are the ADVAN's ra3-DT 18x10 et19 square, with 225 40 r18 HIFLY (cheeeeep) tyres. I also managed to pick up another set of DT's in 17x9.5 et19, which ill run with a meatier trackday setup https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...71426c1eb5.jpg Which will fit something like this. Only these are 17x10 et20, so I should have the 5mm clearance I need up front. https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...708f972383.jpg Had my first go at spraying with a gun. Cheapest one I could find, linked with a 10 year old compressor that could barely do 3 passes of the bonnet before I had to wait for it to fill again. https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...10e46ca23b.jpg A decent body shop spent a week or 2 trying to match a colour in their spare time and came up with this. Viper Mica. A factory Ford Falcon F6 colour, that works pretty well on black primer. There's a bit of a colour difference but its better than a bare fiberglass bumper. https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...836010774c.jpg Was going to go oldschool with the tuning and run stuff like this HKS unit, along with some cool Apexi stuff to control the ignition and boost.... but I've decided to go for more reliability and future proofing with a MegaSquirt ms3x ecu, which is in the post. https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...a305f6c1aa.jpg That's pretty much it for now. Im probably forgetting a lot, but ill be back once I've got a solid map. I'll have a go myself and then get it up the road to my local dyno. He's never worked on rotary's either so should be fun. He's a ford cosworth man. Loves a turbo 4 banger. Soon to be converted to the braps |
Are there any new updates? Curious to know what it looks like now
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Welcome to forum
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Very cool build!! I moved your thread to the builds section as you will get more responses here and its more appropriate for your thread as of now!
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