1974 RX-4 turbo build
 

Pick up this beautiful car from papsmagu back in early Dec last year.
She has tons of work thats already been completed by the previous owner... redone interior, complete suspension overhaul, aftermarket brakes and rims
I enjoyed it for several months and then decided to install a REW that I had for my first gen in the 4. I was also on a time crunch as I was trying to have the swap up in running for DGRR 2017 in April.

When I picked her up.
Bridgeport 13b

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more updates coming soon....

Saw this car at DGRR and its beautiful. Very tasteful mods from the previous owner and you.

^thanks for the kind words.

More info of the car.... like I said previous owner already did a great job with her...


Interior
1. Stock Interior in really good condition – all redone. Black vinyl with yellow stitching
2. Stock seats
3. All gauges work – except the stock water temp guage.
4. The car does have an aftermarket temp guage and oil pressure guage. They are mounted just below the steering wheel. No holes were cut, can be easily removed if required.
5. Nardi Steering Wheel and Nardi shifter
6. Stock radio is not connected. Have speakers and wires but nothing is connected

Drive Train
1. Tranny and clutch seems stock
2. Rear end was swapped for a GSLSE with disk brakes – Aerospace Brakes (Cross drilled and slotted)
3. Custom SSR Longchamps 16x8 ET 0 up front 16x9.5 ET -6 rear. Wheels have step up lips
4. Brand new tires
5. Acbron Coil overs up front with camber adjustment

Exterior
1. Car looks to have original condition. Has plenty of blemishes but overall its in decent shape.
2. Rare front valance and rear spoiler
3. All Trim is there. Nothing missing.

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Awesome ride!!! I wish we could have got some pics of our cars together at DGRR ... maybe next year

Thank bro

Loved your RX-2, looks so clean!!! Well definitely have to get some photos together next year.

One of the first things needed was to upgrade stock master cylinder.
It was not up to task with the upgraded brakes. I searched online and saw TurboDave used a Wilwood master cylinder on some of his old school builds so I bought one and had great results. This unit has a bigger bore ... stock is like 5/16 and this unit is 1" if i remember correctly. Thanks turbodave for sharing your findings.

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Once I decided I was going REW, I purchased a Borg Warner 8374iwg. I picked this turbo because I had it on my REW swapped RX-8 and really enjoyed how it spooled and internal wastegate and bov.
I purchased the turbo through Addicted Performance which had the best price and fast shipping... I had the 8374iwg in my hand within one week... excellent service!

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Pulled the carb and header and installed the rew lim so I could mock up the turbo location that I wanted.

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I positioned the turbo and made a jig with the flanges.... I'm no welder but it was strong enough to be shipped to Gleaseman so he could make me one of his sweet manifolds.

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Couple more pics, these flanges were used for mockup only, they were from a cheap old manifold.

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lots of room for activities :)


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My manifold came back from Gleaseman and it's a beauty!

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Turbo and manifold meet...

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Thx bro!

Found this in an old Hot Rod Mag
 

Thought i would Share

Sweet bro! thanks for sharing!
I rotated and posted :)

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The ecu im using is the Adaptronic 440 Select that I originally bought for my turbo gsl-se build.
I sent the harness out to Angel Motorsports to build me a custom harness for the RX-4.

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I also started mocking up the downpipe, im still using the bridgeport engine for mock up.

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The wastegate canister looks to close to the fender in the pic but there is plenty of room.
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Very cool Stephen! great build so keeping an eye on this.

Thx man!

Awesome! I can't wait to start on my REW Turbo build on the truck! :)

Thx bro!
I love the work that you're doing in your repu.
The rewire and those gauges are sweet!

Pics are gone.. THX for nothing Photobucket !!! smh

WTH I can see the pics again? Thought I was going to have to upload them from another site.
Anyone know what's going on with photo bucket?

Not much going on with it.... I upgraded to the Adaptronic M1200 ecu and waiting it to come in.
I do post more updates of the 4 on instagram, user name is annastephen2002
Steve