Restoring and Building My Dream Rx-7 - 1994 CW Rx-7 Touring

idkiliketurbos — Wed, 06 May 2026 01:52:41 GMT

Hello, and welcome to my build thread for my 1994 Mazda Rx-7 Touring. I just wanted to start with a little bit of an intro to kick things off. As with most kids born in the 90�s, I have always idolized and have been into modified cars since I was a kid. The FD Rx-7 was always my favorite 90�s Japanese car, and I even had one painted on my wall as a kid! As I got older, I sorta always figured it would be the unobtainable car that I would always dream of owning one day.

A few years ago, I actually had the opportunity to rescue another white 94 Rx-7 from a local garage find that I stumbled upon. Because of the condition of the body of the car, I decided to part ways with the car later that year, but I always wanted another FD in better condition. Once I was in the position to do so, I set out to find the right car that would be the base for everything I wanted the car to be.

Then, the car I ended up buying was listed for sale on Bring a Trailer, and it was located just over an hour away from me. White with an all black interior and a 5-speed manul transmission; I was very interested. Better yet, the auction was ending on my birthday, so this seemed to be the stars aligning. I ended up going to check over the car in person, and the seller ended up having a lift that I was able to put the car on to really get a good idea of what I was looking at. He even told me that if I won the auction, he�d deliver it to my house in his enclosed trailer, which was a really nice gesture.

After winning the auction, the seller brought the car up to my house and I was able to get it tucked in the garage for the winter. Overall, the car was in great shape for a 1994 with 83k miles on it. The exterior has its fair share of misc dings and a few scratches, but all of the paint is original aside from the passenger mirror and the front bumper cover. The interior is in fantastic condition and is all black, which was a HUGE plus for me, as I would�ve wanted to convert a tan interior car. The car started up and seemed to run perfectly fine, but I was aware that the secondary turbo wasn�t working as intended. This wasn�t a huge deal to me as I knew I was going to refresh the rats nest and solenoids.

My overall vision for the car isn�t going to be anything crazy or different from what others are doing, just a really nice car that really enhances what Mazda originally built. But first, I�m going to start with general Rx-7 maintenance and fixing anything that needs attention on the car.

Once the weather warmed up a bit in Wisconsin, I took the car around my neighborhood for a quick drive just to get a rough feel for the car since I had never driven it before. Overall, the car feels very solid and just needs some typical attention like the rats nest refresh, a pillowball in the rear making some noise, and some squeaky brakes from sitting.

From there, I started with getting everything pulled from under the upper intake manifold to start replacing all of the rock-hard vacuum lines, broken solenoids, and deleting the fuel pulsation dampener. As expected, nothing under the intake manifold had ever been replaced, and many of the plastic nipples broke off of the solenoids while trying to carefully disassemble everything. I got some solenoids and other misc parts ordered from Ray Crowe and I was able to get everything put back together.

On the first drive, I noticed I STILL wasn�t getting any secondary turbo boost kicking in. After doing some general troubleshooting, I realized that I accidentally had two vacuum lines mixed up, and the pressure chamber wasn�t connected to the correct port on the solenoid rack. Once I sorted that out, the turbos worked great!

I spent a bit of time addressing the squeaking brakes and the small clunk in the rear end. The front brakes came apart very easily, and everything was very dry so I cleaned everything up and greased everything that needed grease. Fortunately, this is all that the brakes needed. The rear clunking appears to be one of the pillowballs on the right rear toe arm. I�ll address this at some point in the future, but will likely just replace all of the rear pillowballs as all of them appear to be original.

1993 r1

Cream Papa — Mon, 04 May 2026 00:02:47 GMT

Just recently picked up this 1993 Vintage Red R1

Interior is in good condition but some stuff definitely needs replacing

For now my goal is to get it back to its original state and then kind of go from there

This one�s my second RX-7 (First one here) so I�m excited to take what I�ve learned from owning my FC and apply it here!

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Restoring and Building My Dream Rx-7 - 1994 CW Rx-7 Touring

1993 r1