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





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.









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.




Aero Fitted




Got it running sweet

 

To continue on, 3 weeks before 2012 Matsuri I painted it, did a whole lot of this again.








https://vimeo.com/51302427

 

So start of 2013 I decided to do new diff gears. I installed some 4.77's and fitted a fixed back bride.



I had alot of issues with the diff, calipers seized on me and kept binding.




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.



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.












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!

 

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!

 

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)



I bought these but recently sold them (I kept caps and covers, super rare)

14x6 +20 14x6.5 +15 Impul AERO cover mesh.



Riverside Riverge 14x6 +15



I bought these last night

Impul Pro Mesh suit Impul AERO cover 14x7 +7 14x7.5 +1

 

Havent done much, this arrived yesterday



annnnnnnnnd I bought these -

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

^ 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 -



And bought these, NOS with caps and original valves

 

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.

 

Skidding tuesday, excited.

 

Whao. This things amazing.

 

Also, Spaghetti Arms

 

aww man this makes me want my FB back!!

 

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.


























Videos:

 

Im also in these 2 videos -


https://vimeo.com/76921584