Are you able to mount the drivers seat in the stock location with that pedal box? What model is it? Just started a similar project ... about 12 months (on my timing) behind you. Thanks

Nice job, keep up the good work! What did you make the sunroof replacement panel out of? How is it held in place? Any close up pics? I'm looking to get rid of my roof and trying to get some ideas. tia-Garrett

gut welded tabs all the way around the top about 3 inches apart. then the plexiglass rest on there and is bolted. looks like a glass sinroof when bolted.

Your project is amazing. It must be really nice to have a body-in-white to work with. I'd love to strip mine down completely and have a clean slate to work on.

P-Port Housings are done!
 

Here are the pics of the Housings finished with the P-Port sleeve installed and ported along with the exaust port timing done and matched to a Factory Mazda Race Housing. Templates Priovided By CLR Motorsports. As far as progress. the side plates have been lapped and painted as well and all that needs to be done now is some clearance grinding on the rx8 rotors and some other mods and this engine is ready for Stacking. According to the engine bulider (CLR Motorsports) this may be finished by Early January 2007.
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Now THAT is what I call an intake port! Damn :drool1:

AHHH! Photo bucket is blocked at work, hopefully I can get a wireless connection tonight so I can see the pics.

I could fit my hand thru those ports it'll have to idle at like 2 grand right. I've heard some people have peri ported street cars. SIck man

You're not kiddin', that's some crazy shit, haha. BEAUTIFUL!

BEAUTIFUL! he's gonna go deaf

mad skills!

Looks like your going all out on this project, it looks great.

The car and workmanship are unbelievable....GREAT JOB, keep it up!!!

This has to be one of the cleanest builds Ive seen in a long time

FInally got to look at the pics last night, your car is turning out to be, amazing!

Mounted Monster Radiator and 2 Oil Coolers
 

I finally got the car to my friends shop Yesterday and after a full days work, finished mounting the Radiator and 2 oil coolers. There is a Local Race Series that will be held here at Homestead that will start with the first race on May 17th. Im shooting to have the car done by then. Monday i will be completing the brake lines and mounting the Brake fluid Resiviors.

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Oh and if anyone is interested, here is the website to the new Homestead Series.
http://www.farausa.com/home2.htm

Nice work, looks really slick.

What kind of oil coolers did you use? Was it a complete kit or did you fabricate the brackets and lines yourself? I'm trying to figure out which route to take. Thanks in advance.

Your car looks amazing :).

Where are you going to pull cold air? Hood vent?

-ch

as for the oil coolers, they are 2x 34 row oil coolers from earls. My friend makes the brackets and will hang them up, i will run the plumbing for them. we will design an airdam to completly catch all the air up the center and then it will escape up through the hood. if you go back to previous posts you will see pics of the hood im using. For now i dont think we will design anything for the oil coolers for catching air.

I'm not sure your oil coolers are big enough, HAHAHA. The build looks great. I'm honestly jealous.

Ah, what I meant was: where are you going to pull cold air for the engine intake? May I suggest something like this:

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They run restrictor plates, but you get the idea. Brake duct hose that runs to the front of the car. Also, you can see they use an air/water oil cooler behind the main radiator. Pretty slick.

-ch

Very trick engine bay. I also noticed the oil cooler.

Those oil coolers might be overkill or maybe I'm just jealous lol ;)

really nice project.

LOL! Overkill can easilly be fixed with some tape. Its not enough oil cooler that can be a major issue.

Great job so far... You need to change the name of your thread to, 94 RX-7 ROLLER COASTER Project Begins... ;) Six Flags is gonna have to pay you to give people rides in that thing... Keep the pics coming...

Amazing! Excellent work. There is some true craftsmanship here. Best of luck to ya in the upcoming season. Keep us updated on how everything comes together. And thankyou for sharing your build with all of us. Really, it's inspiration to all.

John

Could you let me know a little more about this FARAUSA series that you are running in. Im local and might be interested. I went to the website you posted, but it seems hard to find anything other than pictures of the directors rides.

They are having the secong meet about the series this sunday at the opa-locka Kart track. I think it may be around 3.00pm. Im not sure yet

OK! Here we go!! Lots of progress...
 

Been working on this thing three times a week for about 9 hours at a time after regular work. We must have over 180 hours into this since we started and there are 2 of us.
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very nice. who did that radiator?

the radiator was custom made by some race shop. paid 260.00 shipped for dual pass. then we mounted it.

amazing project! keep us updated

found a link to this thread in the 3rd gen section, awsome work. :icon_tup:

Here We Go! New Updates
 

Electronics Box Plate Finished
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And for the biggest Progress of all!! 13bPP engine Stacked!!
 

Its taken a long time of Tideous labor hours and work by both CLR Motorsports (Carlos Lopez) and I to bring this motor to reality. Plans are to have this motor on the engine dyno for break in by next Tuesday!!
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Very cool!!!!

Have any guess what car this is gonna weigh in at?

Question: those plates look like a 12A w/ the seal groves on the rotor housings rather than on the end-irons. What's up with that? :)

Looks absolutely beautiful, btw.

-bill

really sweet! anymore progress?

wow, that's worth the time.....great work man....i wanna see the final build process...

i wonder what this motor is capable of without those tiny restrictors in the way...

Thats how the 12a's are . They switched the other way around for the 13bs.

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And side not.

This is looking awesome !!! . Hope you get a video while shes on the dyno

Can you post more pictures of the Radiator setup.

Thanks

Ummm, yeah, and this is a 13B-pp engine, not a 12A. At least according to the earlier postings in this thread as well as markings on those rotor housings shown above.

I was just wondering the story on why they were were reversed, was he using 12A irons and where he got the 13B housings with the grooves in them.

Where am I confused? All the 13B irons I have worked on have the grooves in them and flat sides on the rotor housings.

-bill

They are GSL-SE Housings. For the Rear Iron plate, we just double up the water jacket seal and use a new and a used o-ring for the outer seal. Works Fine. Carlos Uses it all the time.

Ahhh, GSL-SE housings. That makes sense. All the 13B blocks I've seen have been S4 or later.

Thanks for the clarification. You learn something new everyday! :D

-bill