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'83 SA22C Lowdown Drift Car.
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Hey dudes,
i've already got a build thread in the 1st gen section but figured only 1st gen owners would really see it, this way if guys have questions with 1st gens I can share my knowledge. I'll keep it sweet and short for the moment. It started life as a badly beaten, stock RX7, one rebuild on the motor and I used it as a street car until the laws over here started to crack down. As it sat looking like this it had - Stock 12a w/ exhaust Dodgy weld yourself front coilovers with bilstein inserts / cut rear springs Hydraulic handbrake Stripped interior Bride brix II seat 13x7 +10 ROH Centerlines Cut lock stops http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5131/...b96ef9b5_b.jpg http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6197/...18e80e_b_d.jpg I've had a few drift cars prior to this but this was no doubt the one with the lowest power output and poorly setup, too low suspension. Regardless, we had a Drift Matsuri at Queensland raceway so I paid, entered and did alot of this for 24 hours. https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6106...e2692475_z.jpg https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6114...19ea6a2f_z.jpg https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6230...b0609942_z.jpg https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6233...9baf6c53_b.jpg https://farm7.static.flickr.com/6239...40f7d33d_b.jpg http://www.downtofoto.com.au/Cars/Ma...018edit1-L.jpg http://www.downtofoto.com.au/Cars/Ma...831edit1-L.jpg 2nd run in skid pan for the weekend Too cut a long story short, for a good 8 months I had major carb problems and couldn't pin point the issue, turned out to be the small filters in the carb were blocked. In the meantime though I got new wheels and some aero - 14 7j 0off Work CR01 1 piece, original, not reproduction CR01R. http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7220/7...fb766ff3_z.jpg Aero Fitted https://i399.photobucket.com/albums/...e/DSC_9054.jpg Attachment 668808 Got it running sweet |
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So start of 2013 I decided to do new diff gears. I installed some 4.77's and fitted a fixed back bride.
https://fbcdn-sphotos-h-a.akamaihd.n...44467051_n.jpg I had alot of issues with the diff, calipers seized on me and kept binding. https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...59456210_n.jpg Now I'm going to cut this real short. 4 months ago I purchased another 1st gen fitted with a 13B Turbo, S4 Turbo gearbox, hilux diff, custom tailshaft and megasquirt ECU. Put it all into my shell and enjoyed all of the win. https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...33192987_n.jpg This is where I'm at now, I have a few small things to do until I head out to track again but it's closer then ever. https://i399.photobucket.com/albums/...ps1a7e04d6.jpg Attachment 668806 Attachment 668807 https://i399.photobucket.com/albums/...ps7ee7e547.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...56856838_n.jpg So the spec list as of now - S4 FC3S 13B Turbo Motor/Gearbox Megasquirt II ECU T04E Turbo .61 Rear housing Tial V60 60mm wastegate 3" exhaust turbo back, no mufflers, twin 2" straight pipes out the rear Custom 4" tailshaft Hilux diff, shortened, re-splined, drilled to 4x114.3, Supra disk conversion AE86 poweredbymax coilovers - FC3S Top hats up the front R31 Front hubs/stub axles/Brakes 14 7j +4 w/ 20mm bolt on spacer and 14 8j -8 165/60/14 federal FD1's Bride Zeta II Drivers seat Takata harness Bride Brix II Passenger seat Autometer - water temp, oil press, oil temp, liquid filled boost, tacho innovate wideband 02 360mm Nardi Classic Probably more but thats the run down for the moment. Thanks dudes! |
Ill do a dump of videos here, this is just what I have for the time being, oldest to newest.
https://vimeo.com/33895253 https://vimeo.com/44189045 Note in this video, 0 Oil pressure lol https://vimeo.com/48650061 |
Oh damn those last pictures are money... Looks so good!
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Mad probs on making a FB for one look good and also able to get sideways. Ive seen them try but u got it down!
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Cheers dudes.
I have a problem with collecting wheels, almost a hoarding issue. Now i've converted to 114.3, I'm slowing rebuilding my collection of 80's wheels. At the moment I have - 14x7 +1 and 14x8 -8 Impul Pro Mesh (seen on the car) https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...91907958_o.jpg I bought these but recently sold them (I kept caps and covers, super rare) 14x6 +20 14x6.5 +15 Impul AERO cover mesh. https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.n...15456227_n.jpg Riverside Riverge 14x6 +15 https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...17745952_n.jpg I bought these last night Impul Pro Mesh suit Impul AERO cover 14x7 +7 14x7.5 +1 http://auctions.c.yimg.jp/img367.auc...um1ka47770.jpg |
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Havent done much, this arrived yesterday http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...pscac935e4.jpg annnnnnnnnd I bought these - https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.n...49022472_n.jpg |
Still need to tune but got my tial V60 fitted. |
lkooking good and side ways ,,, o yes I like keep it up and keep posting video/pic , thanks
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https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...38292306_n.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...15010316_n.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...29401853_n.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.n...33638920_n.jpg I'm happy with it as it sits, only thing I need to do is fit new front bumper and get some new fog lights. This is the final height it will sit at, not as low as I had hoped but any lower and it's not really driveable. |
those Riverge wheels are hotness. Im a little jelly tat you live all the way in Aussie land
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Its not bad down here haha.
Here's an incar video of a wet pan at the start of the year. and here's a test drive with the 13bt, 1st and 2nd gear, it's super bumpy. |
Its not bad down here haha.
Here's an incar video of a wet pan at the start of the year. and here's a test drive with the 13bt, 1st and 2nd gear, it's super bumpy. |
Missed a link
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This car is hard, I like how you stuck with one particular chassis and just mastered it. Kept it going and stayed loyal to the SA. That's dope.
I have similar plans for my FC once I get it wrapped up and running by this October. |
Awesome thread sweet car...kinda jealous. I really want those IMPUL , been thinking about buying the knockoff version
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^ wont look the same because these are 14's and Rota/Axis/China are all 15's and bigger, and are 1 piece, not 2/3.
went and got a wheel alignment - https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...82552196_n.jpg And bought these, NOS with caps and original valves https://fbcdn-sphotos-b-a.akamaihd.n...12854109_n.jpg |
Okay, little write up.
First off, thank you to all the dudes who came out for moral support/pit crew tonight, you're the best, I love you guys and I appreciate it alot. Night started off pretty average when the wideband started playing up. We decided to pull it out and re calibrate it. Bingo, it worked! We headed over to pan, Ian fiddled with his laptop and worked on the accel enrichments. Headed onto pan with autotune running, sounded like a bag of dicks at first but started to clear up. Felt really nice to slide, power was great. About 2 minutes Ian quickly points out that my temp gauge has sky rocketed so we quickly duck off driving around the carpark doing cool down laps. Ended up hitting 130 degrees and just wouldn't come down, stalled on me, wouldn't start, someone yelled no compression then it started. 13bt won this round Went back to the pits, let it cool down for ages, topped up the coolant, started it, wideband was playing up again. This time we just left it, it skidded fine as it was and we headed onto big track. First lap was sketchy, thought I was going to plow the wall on T3 but saved it. Grabbed 3rd around T6 and it did it with ease. Temps shot up severely again and by this stage we had no bonnet on, ran back to pits, boiled over, shot overflow lid off and was firing steam and water everywhere. We let it cool again and started filling it with coolant, was still hot and was just pumping out the most disgusting water I have ever laid my eyes on. At this point, we removed the Tstat, gutted it, Ian, Zach, Lachlan and Neil made a new gasket out of a manilla folder I had in the car. It also melted the vac line for the gate so had to fix that aswell. With everything back together we headed back out, by this time it was around 9:00 and was the final runs, we got 2 runs in, 1st run was BADASS. Ended into T3 in 3rd, handbrake, dumped 3rd and skidded soooo easy, managed to hold it together for the whole track and pumped out a solid run. Felt really nice to drive, no issues with suspension or driveline so thats a huge plus I suppose. Got one video of it on Pan for the first run, we were running auto tune just starting on the fuel map. I know Lachlan has some photos or something as well. so pretty much - Replace Radiator Genuine Thermostat MAYBE spal fan check wiring (earths mainly for the moment) Replace gate line with something more durable/heatproof Here's a video of pan, only footage we got. |
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Whao. This things amazing.
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aww man this makes me want my FB back!!
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Best weekend I have had to date.
Matsuri 2013, IT WAS SO WILD. Car drove so damn well. Drove on saturday for around 11 hours without a single hiccup, so many fist pumps and hand signals to cool dudes! it was the greatest weekend I have seriously ever ever had. We had friends fly up from the down south to come up so was badass. Running around 5/6psi of boost now with a Front mount and it's plenty enough power. Still slow enough to have to clutch kick, but enough power to get up on limiter in 3rd gear. Car steered fantastic, coilovers are awesome (even though it's stupidly stiff). I lost all my rear aero after tearing it off from blowing a tire and put a big hole in my underspoiler from it dragging everywhere (yeah, im that low LOL). Anyway, he's a big dump of photos and videos. Attachment 658700 Attachment 658701 Attachment 658702 Attachment 658703 Attachment 658704 Attachment 658705 Attachment 658706 https://i399.photobucket.com/albums/...ps444c4e64.jpg Attachment 658707 https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...38507148_o.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.n...89079308_n.jpg Attachment 756129 Videos: |
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This car is totally rad. Love the whole look of the car and your tear it up in it too. Nice work.
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A hat tip to you sir. You have done what many said they were going to do. Easily one of the best reads on this site.
All I ever see is fc builds, and they are dope. 1st gens is just more of a passionate build! |
can you put up detailed set up on your front suspension by any chance? We have a pretty hard time with the 1st gen suspension options in the states.
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this is so cool, my view of the first gen has changed completely, jealous of your tracks too!
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^ I'm in the same boat. This thread makes me want to pick up an fb more so than ever.
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nice i love it
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awesome thread... all I have to say is your a bad ass. awesome car, awesome tracks and awesome driving, and awesome this and that. :icon_tup:
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Been a while.
Broke the 13bt so got rid of it and went back to N/A. 12A Bridgeport, 50mm Injection perfection throttles Megasquirt ECU OMP Delete 2" primaries to diff, 2 1/4 under diff to a muffler to twin 2" stainless pipes 4.9 Welded diff. Been out once since the conversion and it drives really well. Swapped out the innovate wideband for a AEM and really prefer it. Still have some tuning to sort out but we got it pretty decent in the minimal time we tuned it for. Friend has a lot of datalogs so should help us out. https://scontent-b-lax.xx.fbcdn.net/...37855771_n.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-a-a.akamaihd.n...18196848_n.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-e-a.akamaihd.n...42581052_n.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...96647241_n.jpg |
Where'd you get the "ROTARY POWER" vinyl on the spoiler? Looks great
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that thing is freaking awesome
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Sticker on the wing is custom made, I had it made in the Factory mazda REPU font aswell but this had a cool 90's vibe.
Cant see much but here it is on track while a SR20 Powered navara blows a head trying to keep up haha. |
Engine setup looks awsome. How's it compare so far to the turbo?
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Now I've done a fair bit of driving with it you can't really compare the two. The turbo motor was alot stronger at low to mid rpm but tapered off alot and was dropping off power at around 7500rpm, alot this had to do with the turbo choice I made. It was great for drivability as I was pretty much on full boost by 2800/3000rpm.
The N/A BP lacks the mid range power/torque but when you start revving it, it's unreal. I have limiter set at 9000rpm at this stage and it sits on it pretty often. I've always driven my motors hard and this one is no exception. I'm running the toyota hilux diff with 4.9 gears and just a Series 4 RX7 turbo box. The ratios in the gearbox are abit average for the setup, I would love a closer ratio box but Im learning to drive with it as it is. I wouldn't opt back to the turbo setup personally as I love the challenge of trying to drive the car around the track, picking your lines properly to make a corner well. Its fantastic to drive, revs super quickly with the throttle setup and all around is a better setup (for me anyway). https://scontent-a-sjc.xx.fbcdn.net/...2d&oe=540CBDE1 https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.n...ee9b4c55eada72 https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.n...76687933_n.jpg http://www.boostnetwork.com.au/datab...e_16171027.jpg http://www.boostnetwork.com.au/datab...e_16171040.jpg |
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Fantastic project mate. Always wondered if going with a 13b na for drifting wouldnt be too hard. Guess i'll go that way when my turbo blows
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This thing is only a 12a now and it awesome! Thanks man!
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This shit is AWESOME. :icon_tup::icon_tup::icon_tup::icon_tup:
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Originally Posted by Harley
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This thing is only a 12a now and it awesome! Thanks man!
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Long time no see.
Done another track day since matsuri, I lowered it more and found the rear end bind is really starting to cause issues now. Before I go full steam ahead with equal length 4 link we are going to try some adjustable upper arms and adjust the pinion angle as it is way out of whack at the moment. Recently got some wider rear wheels, 14 8j -2 SSR XR4's, looks so much better with a bigger rear rather then matching sizes all around. My new hood finally arrived aswell and I have just sent it off for paint. Got myself a random steering wheel from Japan painted beige with pearl/sparkles all through it and a shifter extension made with an adapter to 10x1.25. Attachment 630931 http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/p...pssninsm8t.jpg Attachment 630932 |
I love your car. Its fuckin awesome man
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Damn i love that rotary sound flirting with redline. Awesome man, keep it coming, gotta find some motivation to finish mine !!
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Nooooooooo!!
Seriously. What happened? Its fully stripped, parts going to another shell? |
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