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Bens build: going pro-am
Shall I start at the beginning? I was born. I grew up. Then the seven came into my life. The seven has a soul but it doesn’t believe itself to be a man or woman, so it has always felt right to call it “seven”. Seven came into my life near the end of the summer 2006. It was a progressive step I had been wanting to take for some time into a rwd vehicle, and my fascination with rotaries and my room mate having a cream puff example of a Series 5 Turbo II I bought it, and have put it to hard use since the first day I had the keys. First night was drag racing, within a week I was at my first drift event when JTP told me I picked a terrible car to start drifting. I asked him why and he response was lack of steering angle and dtss.
https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...e/Seven002.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...corolla057.jpg So first mod was to remove that, and before the next event at english town it was done, I thought it changed it a lot in turns but I still sucked hard. Think about it I was a poser (I realize this now) who had just jumped from a 120hp ford probe, to a true 200hp sports car. It wasn’t the cars fault I had just made a huge leap. So moved back to va and lets just say I didn’t have the cash or confidence to hit the track, so I started rallying my daily driver 323 gtx and taking the seven out for auto-x and mountain action. learned a lot but eventually I wrecked on my way up to summit into a boulder destroying the bumper, fender, wheel, lca, subframe, and tie rod. So I rebuilt it on a budget with a shitty cf hood, super now inner tie rods, urethane control bushings, and other used parts. https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...e/DSC_1858.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...e/DSC_2014.jpg again I moved to NC to support my girl friend (currently wife) through radiology school. So the seven was neglected mostly, I did gather up a used set of 17’s and racing beat rev II exhaust. Eventually I found Streetwise drift and started drifting with those guys. they brought my confidence up enough to start doing the track drifting when I moved back to va. https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...fb8b122706.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...d8a9e053bb.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l.../random037.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...e/P3070002.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...e/DSCF0262.jpg |
Well first thing I did at summit was smash my car into a wall at roughly 60. I entered big bend, which is third gear sweeper, and lost it due to inexperience and the rain I suppose. So destroyed the left side when I went backwards and caught the tire wall. The front left hit first trying to finish the 360 rotation and once that grabbed it pulled the rest of my left side in. With a few minutes, a few cigarettes, and a quick ambulance rest I was rolling the damaged fenders away from my brand new 5Zigens and getting the glass out of my seat and I was back on track. Despite a bent tie rod and torn plug wire insulations I continued to battle in the rain and took first overall. Trailer’d my wreck home feeling proud of the carnage.
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https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...n/P6060159.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...n/P6060154.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...n/P6060160.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...n/P6060161.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...n/P6060162.jpg http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/galle...bum=186&pos=18 http://www.wreckedmagazine.com/galle...bum=186&pos=12 Sorry I don’t feel the body is finished enough to take any photos myself. Still needs better fitment, moar low, and some swirl marks touched up. While I was out with my paint guy getting dinner with his family, his step son/my best friend texted me saying, ranzo was looking to get rid of his half bridge setup. So a month later I am driving down to memphis to score this engine, trans, harness, and Power fc for what I consider a song. So currently the motor has been pulled and swapped into my vert as a daily, and the coupe is currently at my Fabricators shop where I have stripped the engine bay, stitched weld, painted, and reassembled some of the bay. The motor is currently bolted in place. Pictures soon The motor Internally has, RA apex seals, Atkins solid Corners, Mazda side seals and all Mazda springs. 9.4 NA rotors. 60-1 turbo china turbo which is being replaced by a garret bb chra and the housing will be swapped over, 48mm wastegate bolted on a greddy t4 manifold. Mazdaspeed mounts hold this puppy down. Once its running I am looking to have the tuning refined and aiming for 400. Stay tuned for more progress very soon, and please any helpful criticism as this is my first build so I am learning as it goes on. |
Where is the pro-am cage?
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love the color
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*cough* sooooo um....who's black car is back there?
About time you made a thread on here. |
cage is happening this winter i dont have enough time between events to take the time i want to do it properly so this winter it will get torn down inside. thanks i feel like a bit of a poser since i stole the color from another seven i feel in love with. i bet you can guess who!
as for the other seven. thats my vert i just did the turboII swap in. |
the seven was so purtty and mint before you went drifting with it : ( Have fun
EDIT: sell me that red or black stock lip if you still have it. haha |
forgot to mention up there the motor is a half bridge, with 1680 secondaries and 550 primary
i would sell you the lip if i had it, it lost its life in the first wreck. i loved that lip |
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alittle stitch welding and engine bay painting and whatnot. had a bitch of a time setting up the welder so it didnt burn or monkey booger. but penetration is not a problem thats for sure.(thats what she said)
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ditch that muffler for grips, and get a trumpet exhaust.
youre losing so much power by running that shit....when i went straightpipe and gutted my cannister out my shit started spinning through 3rd straightlining.... |
i am considering making a "test pipe" if you will. however i expect this motor to make close to 400whp so i dont think spinning through third will be a problem but i will try it both ways for sure.
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Sweet. I love Pro-Am builds, Subscribed. Are you doing your own cage?
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well yes and no. I will be doing as much as i can to help with my fabricator (who is also named ben strangely) as he is doing it for free and i am learning. So yes i will be assisting in the whole process
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small update,got my turbo on and the exhaust mostly fab'd. will need to have a exhaust shop bend the piping from the muffler i have located in the center of the car to the rear. the new turbo is a good bit larger thatn the old one for sure. no other real updates besides my radiator should be in tomorrow so maybe this weekend the car will be running. then i am in need of a good tuner
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oh an learned to tig weld on mild steel pretty well. i let the pro do my stainless exhaust stuff for now
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Cool. Which turbo is that? It looks similar to my t04z.
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Those rear fenders... geez.
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^ dont get it
Its a garrett T4 frame 60-1 ball bearing unit. .70 ar compressor housing 4" inlet .96 ar turbine housing p trim turbine wheel. it kinda make my other 60-1 look silly. almost alittle worried about spool time |
^^ He was probably just talking about the original damage. that was cleaned up with the over fenders. The rear fenders look good.
Is the motor a stock port? Well the Garrett T4 60-1, I'm guessing a T04S, is a good turbo and should spool fast. It will spool slower than a gt35r, but it will also make more power at 15psi than the gt35r. So you lose a little spool time in exchange for more power. The plus side to a T04s is that they're tested and reliable. If you have porting done on the motor it will spool very quickly. |
half bridge port with n/a rotors.
i get it yeah, those fenders got smashed then rolled |
where did you get that turbo? i need that exact one for my 20b build.
also your spool time is probably going to suck edit: oh and is it oil and watercooled? |
yes oil and water cooled all BB are for my knowledge. I got this particular one from ATPturbo.com but if you go to aptuning (i think) then its like 200 bucks cheaper on sale right now. but you dont get as many turbine housing options. so look at them both. i guess we will find out this weekend (fingers crossed) how it goes, just depends on the old tune for the old turbo and any gremlins in my path.
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Originally Posted by 4WDrift
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^ dont get it
Its a garrett T4 frame 60-1 ball bearing unit. .70 ar compressor housing 4" inlet .96 ar turbine housing p trim turbine wheel. it kinda make my other 60-1 look silly. almost alittle worried about spool time |
still not quite there yet but made alot of progress, i forsee some cranking this friday as i have a surprise holiday. anyways got the piping routed and welded, intercooler brackets fab'd and welded in place, oil cooler bracket/front end brace welded in place (removed the original tube), Welded a bung in the downpipe for wideband o2 sensor and heat wrapped it, rerouted power steering lines around pump for intercooler piping, rerouted several brake lines to delete abs and move proportioning valve down a bit for the piping as well, put gaskets on the turbo mounted coolant fittings and ran lines from the existing water pump outlets, and mounted the throttle cable.
https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...t/P9260431.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...t/P9260433.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...t/P9260420.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...t/P9260419.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...t/P9260444.jpg On the list of things left to do Fab some brackets up for my 1 one year anniversary present https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...t/P9260440.jpg fab brackets for radiator and work out the piping situation, make a flange for the oil inlet for the turbo, pick fan and install, add shrouding for all coolers, check spacing for battery and decide wether to go with a miata battery or relocate in vechile and where at in the vechile, reassemble and add fluids i believe, then to the exhaust shop to have the rest of my piping bent and some tuning. |
other random pictures i thought i would throw up.
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If I remember correctly your seat brackets have to be FIA approved as does your seat. So idk if fabing seat brackets Will be beneficial for proam.
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interesting thought, i will have to double check on that. Plus side i found a set of recaro brackets mad cheap so who knows what i will do
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looks promising, love the colour, looking forward to cage pics
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Great build man
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Originally Posted by FelixIsGod29X
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the seven was so purtty and mint before you went drifting with it
But the transformation its going through is better! Great build, digging the color:icon_tup: |
Agreed with the car being mint before i got my hands on it but thats just how life is. knowing what i know now i would have kept it mint and picked up a na coupe shell to build, but shits gone now might as well finish it off.
Long over due for a update, i have just been slammed working on this thing a few hours a night or sometimes only a handful of minutes just to find out i left the part at my house thats a half hour away or the tool i need is locked up at my shop. so hold on for updates this weekend. |
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alright so i have been busy as hell for a bit now, but if you watched the video you would see it has gotten running. since then i have relocated the battery offically to the passenger storage bin, installed E-fan (which needed a good bit of trimming, thank you band saw), installed msd to leading ignition coil (bad idea) re assembled body work, installed datalogit and went for a drive.
Shit was running pretty rough, popping and bucking, so i assumed a poor tune on the pfc. took it up to dyno in pa at Speedone (formerly kd Rotary) and dynoed it and had it tuned only to find that my narrow range tps was shorting and causing the other malfunction. So everytime your gave it boost it would think you where going into decel mode and cut the injectors. band aided that piece and got off somewhat solid dyno pulls, but when looking at the graph you see a ton of ignition breakup. Dave says to take off the msd. I did and the breakup got better but not done. Apparently my coil is cooked from the msd malfunctioning. only put down 281whp 250wtq but without the ignition breakup its 320-350 at 14psi. So hks twin power, tps, coil all on order, and a dyno is booked for saturday so if the ignition breakup is gone then i am drifting on sunday at summit point. pictures are on their way |
or if your super interested this is my thread i post more often in
http://www.slidewaysonline.com/Forum...t=206&start=40 |
So its been i while i know however shits moving along progressively now and i feel the need to update. I think i left off with this build thread with the motor in and running. Well i went to KDR rotary in pa and had it tuned. Made alittle over 300whp at 14psi which is rather dissapointing. However it had a nasty amount of breakup as soon as boost comes on. The tuner said it was Ignition and that my coil got fried by my MSD. And on top of that i had something wrong with my tps. The car would go into decel mode when you would give it more than 1/3 throttle.After pulling the intake to double check wires and wiring from them to the ecm we found out they worked so the tps is fried SOOOO i ordered a used TPS , grabbed the coil out of my turbo vert, and ordered an HKS twin power at my tuners recommendation.
Well friday comes and i have been tied up after work and just got the duct work figured out and made for the new rad/intercooler combo, and my HKS twin power wired up. So simple i just through on and adjusted the new tps, then go into my work on saturday and throw on new tires and drive up carefully about an hour to a dyno to check for this Ignition breakup. WHich sounds pretty easy... WRONG! Friday gets screwed up by some random cause and i can't pick up the car till late. Well its not really possible to drive a halfbridge port with a 3 inch exhaust dumping 2 feet behinde the turbo, through a neighborhood and not get your fabricator get a nasty call. so its saturday morning and TPS didnt fix anything i start adjusting and looking at the throttle body differences between this engine (which if you remember is used) finally after double checking resistance values for the wires to the tps i say F it and i am gonna replace them. Get some shity overlays done and start the car, take it for a test drive and the thing is tearing ass. So i run to work and get tires on, end up being 3 hours late for my dyno appointment and take the first run. Turns up 20 more whp but still breaking up. Try adding grounds and triple checking my plug wires no change. I get mad and go home dissapointed. Later on i get pissed, but decide my track day tomorrow is still on. Well i blow a dowel pin land from detonation and lose almost all of my oil on one run, and along with it my motivation for a month. So just got the car back from Being caged by Alexander fabrication https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...e/IMG_4002.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...e/IMG_4001.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...e/IMG_3998.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...e/IMG_3997.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...e/IMG_3995.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...e/IMG_3993.jpg https://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l...e/IMG_3991.jpg |
So in those pictures it is in its current location which is back at Ben Fumkashimas shop where i did the rest of the fab. Then jon came by and helped remove the windshield.
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nice looking cage, My only question is why did you decide to mount the cage front legs in front of the dash instead of going through it? I have been trying to decide which I want to do on my build.
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i didnt actually, when i update with the dash installed you'll see the go right through the middle of the dash.
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Originally Posted by 4WDrift
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i didnt actually, when i update with the dash installed you'll see the go right through the middle of the dash.
Just a tip -to get my dash in I had to remove the skin from the metal support that has the 2 bolts by each door... there are a few screws under the glovebox and behind the gauge cluster then it comes off. down bars: http://mirodrift.com/wp-content/gall...1/imgp1777.jpg |
yeah i cut too much off of my dash skin. I will know for next time...
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Originally Posted by 4WDrift
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yeah i cut too much off of my dash skin. I will know for next time...
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AH I see now, Looks good, cant wait to see it with the dash back in
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Some more stuff thats going on. Added some Gussets to the cage at A pillar, B pillar, and to the roof
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Wives working on RX7s = Win
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i was super hyped
then i saw the gussets... |
yeah my builder is kinda old school, since he is doing this all free of charge i decided to roll with it. I personally wanted the full plate with dimple holes. whatever thou its functional
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yea no doubt. you could always add them
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