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still have to adjust valvetrain and check piston to valve clearance, but she's coming together.

Let me know if you'd like the spec's / goodies. It's going in an SA build

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Looks cool! But why is intake manifold painted black? Is it not aluminum?!

What's it going in?

1980 SA is what it's in. almost ready to start it up....damn it's taken a long time

the intake is aluminum, just painted black

Looks good. I'll be looking for future updates.

she lives!

Nice!

Awesome. So rewarding to hear it run.

Any chance you have some pictures that show the radiator mounting? I have the granny's kit and wish he included some pictures in his instructions.

IM me your number and i will text whatever pics you like. PIA putting everything on photobucket

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Want make this out of vinyl and put it on my RX7

Awesome! Doing all the homework to get my swap planned! What transmission are you running? Whats the horse power?

T5 5 speed from 90 camaro. It's the only one with overdrive. very hard to find. probably would go with T56 if I did it a second time. Should get 375-425 hp. It's 10.5:1 compression.

sounds great, how is the body work going?

the major body work is finished

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I laid down a few 50-100 feet drag marks barely getting on it. yeah, posi works and limited slip kicked in when she squiggled a little. couldn't be happier!

oh and the tingling in the video is just the speedo cable dragging

Nice work, I hope I can do a proper test of my car next weekend, need to do the exhaust this week

Also how are you holding your door cards in? reusing the plastic snaps?

I made the door panels, just copied the old ones.

I am using the metal clips that came with mine.... I think some have plastic, but mine are metal. The rubber grommets that go into the holes on the metal part of the door are useless now, and probably pretty hard to find. I'll probably just put some electrical tape around the metal clip so there's no creaking or anything. hopefully you can picture what i'm saying.

also just ordered the seat covers from racing beat and matching material for the doors. will also cover the kick plates i made which go down by your feet. getting there.....

That makes sense, I am going to make some for my car but was thinking I may have to do rivets or something, doesnt seem like the 4 attachment points would be enough

oh, forgot. that's exaclt what I am using ti attach the top metal piece to the composite/wood (whatever it is) door piece..... rivets! I lined em all up, drilled the holes and just soaked the top metal piece in vinegar water and cleaned and painted it. it's not in the picture, but yeah, I am using rivets.

that intake would have saved me 500 in hood shit..lol!

Do you have pictures of your exhaust routing?

I'll try to take some pics of the exhaust, but it's just 2 1/2 flex pipe into a collector, then silencer, over the axle with flex pipe and to the muffler. my 1st stop is the muffler shop when i put the tag on it to get get them to solidify things under there. the flex hangs a bit low for my taste.

yeah, but the engine was built for that intake, which is a single plane. I also had to put 1/8 inch plates under the engine carriage to drop it just another hair.. it's that close.

I see, it sounds great, I'm working on a side exit set up for my car

Sounds great , Im also curious about exhaust, Was considering side exit too.

looks great

Allright folks. I suck at thread, but I'm gonna post whats on my phone and hopefully a quick description. As it stand It's almost done, some assembly required lol. (put interior door panels back on, real glass, final coat of paint)

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rx7...aa49272c46.jpg
She's almost ready.... nah, just F'in with ya! Sebring 2017 and the 600HP 4 cyl

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Here's about how she looks now

https://www.rx7club.com/build-thread...nning-1043323/

That is a link to my initial thread, future posts will be in this thread

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front wheel, caliper, RB springs. 5 lug etc

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This is a photo from the front underside showing the 3" hole cut to feed the intake. I filter can be seen in above photo as well in the wheel well, but will be covered when I put the final plastic assemblies back in the wheel well. It's the same on bothe side. I over did it a bit with cold air intake as this is S. FL and this thing is hard to cool at 10.5:1

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seats I recovered myself with kit. you'll also notice new kick panels by the foot area. made those from fiberglass and covered
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shifter final install. looks stock :-)
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stereo, yeah dash might get a makeover later
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meh, getting there....dirty but getting there
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getting those speakers in takes some work. and I made those door panels.
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rear speakers installed. 1000 watts. one amp under each seat. one for subs, one for 6x9s and 6.5's in front

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2 1/2 into collector and silencer into 3.5 then to single muffler. I will take to the exhaust shop and have them finish it as it's all flex pipe now. i will need to go to 3" where it goes over rear axle as I can't find anyone near me who can bend 3.5. Will probably drop down to 2 1/4 from headers to collector as well
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looking forward view

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rear view

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yeah, I know paint is crap, but it's primer, i'll clean it up and it'll be matte black anyway HOW ABOUT THAT FRIGGIN SPOILER. If anyone had any idea the amount of time it took me to make from scratch, they'd slap me. but I LOVE IT!!!!
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took doors off to paint the jams, came out pretty good.

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Tranny on the ground showing where I cut and modified it for hydraulic clutch
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Installing photo from under car before final cover plate put on
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another of one of the cold air intakes before putting on lower front valence

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Short throw Shifter with bump stops. Can't afford to miss shifts or miss 3rd with a t5 and a good amount of HP
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One from the other thread. My A/C bracket I made. much like the spoiler and brakes, this was a MAJOR piece of work to make IMO given hood clearance and header clearance and just getting it to fit! (they don't make these on ebay LOL they're all low or high moun t etc.) The A/C worked on dismantling, so a new compressor and let the A/C guy do all the rest of the hookup!

It's almost done. and can follow up on this thread and pics with more detail if answers are needed.

My thread making abilty sucks almost as bad as my photo categorization ability on my phone and how those pictures end up in space and how to get em back lol

My video work suck too, but my daughter wants a youtube page, so she can teach me :-)

Hope you enjoy, and hit me with questions as I am in final assembly mode (it'll always be work) so I can hit the car scene with my daughter and mabe Moroso a time or two to see what she'll do without beating too hard. I expect 12's, maybe high 11's on street tires. I've had it on the road, and it is WICKED, and I MEAN WICKED fast getting on it from 2nd through 4th. I think 1st might be useless, but we'll see. I had a friend come for a ride, and I felt so bad afterward cause I swear he almost had a heart attack looking for O $hit handles when I jumped on it. All I could say was WTF did you expect when you got in this thing? :-)

Here's a parting video or two for now as the old one's are gone-see video ability. hehe..

I relocated the battery as you can see, and I removed the electric light motors and such which left empty space behind the headlights. It's about a 6x6 squareish area. I ordered aluminum brackets from granny's that will hold thge healights up when I use them-they bolt to a 10mm stud thats already on the car, probably for the light motors. So I have to manually lift the healight and put support on and wingnut, but the supports are small and fit in glove compartment. From there I drilled a 3" hole right in the middle of the 6x6ish area. I put a flange (think like a 3' flange you might use to put your clothes dryer line too) on the top side, and then one on the bottom side. I mounted the air filter to the lower lip and it just fits in there literally 1/4 inch max clearing the lower valence. The top lip you attach to the intake side. Here's a pic example from the web of the mount. Oh, and I don't know that I would relocate the battery again, as it's a PITA and a 3" intake is plenty, duals is overkill, but what did I know. Might be good for the passenger side though.

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nice job! Are you 5 lug front and rear? These cars are stupid fast. My car is around 2500 lbs right now with 17x9 wheels

yeah, 5 lug on the rear as well. I made the conversion plates, see my link to other thread. https://www.rx7club.com/build-thread...1043323/page2/

84 gsl SE rear end with mosler axles posi works great I went with 16" rims. I haven't weighed it, but it should be 2500 tops as it's base model with no power windows, sunroof etc. and i will have no rear tire, no power headlight motors, power steering etc. I think 2350 was stock.

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Just found this on computer.......better picture of radiator and cooling fans. It has 3 pushers. One is behind the 2 you can see and is mounted directly to the radiator. It's like a 10" which is all there is room for above the frame support. It didn't do enought so I got 2 more (the ones you see) and made a mounting plate.
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This shows the fan shroud I made. I cut away portions on the sides since making this photo as it was very tight around the fan and I think impeding airflow to some extent. The top is definitely still so I don't lose a hand from the fan.