Happy day for me, our Nardi Deep Corn steering wheel came in today. I spent months searching for a Mazda Speed Miata steering wheel with no luck. So, we decided to go with the Nardi since it has the red stitching and it looks much more modern than the stock wheel.

It is slowly coming all together. :)

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/u...x7build063.jpg

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mind posting a link as to where you got that beauty from?

Why thank you, I also think it is beautiful :).

I had done quite a lot of research to find the best pricing. I knew I wanted to go with the NRG parts so this combo deal was the way to go.

http://www.weaksauceparts.com/store/home.php?cat=1930

I built the brackets for the new oil cooler and fan today. Went with a Setrab 25 row and SPAL 7.5" low profile fan. I used a 5$ strip of aluminum from Ace hardware, a hacksaw, and a hand riveter. It would have been nice to have a bending brake, but I was able to bend by hand using a vice as long as the bend was perpedicular to the strip.

I'm only going with a single oil cooler for now as I want to minimize plumbing and potential failure points/leaks. Plus, I'd like to keep the other side of the bumper open for a potential cold air intake if I can find a way to get a duct from there to the engine bay.

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hey Joff,

Aluminum, as well as steel has a grain structure just like wood. You want to be sure to bend perpendicular to the grain. You can picture wood if you bend parallel to the grain, metal will also tend to fracture. Bar stock has grains running longitudinally so it looks correct in you picture.

Hi Jesse and Lynn! The 7 is looking good.

Progress looks great guys!

I see ID injectors :D I'm ordering a set of 725/2000 myself for my twin turbo Cosmo. I'm very excited to use them as well as new coils.

What are you guys running for engine management and coils?

What are you doing with your cute little baby turbo's, are they up for adoption?

Good to know! I would have bent it at an angle if I could, I guess its good I wasn't able.


Is ID what YawPower turned into? I'm running 4x 780cc and 2x 480cc injectors on a PowerFC. Using stock coils with the HKS Twinpower.

Haven't really thought about what to do with the twins. I suppose I'll try and sell them-- how much do you think they're worth?

Give Brian "special pricing" Like $2000 LOL

From what I know YawPower still exists, they just produce the Injector Dynamics injectors. With such small primaries she outta be pretty easy to get to idle REALLY well depending on the ports. I've got to shoot Paul an email and order my 725/2000 combo. Unlike you FD guys, I can't make use of 6 injectors easily......... wait, I'm an FD guy now too :rofl:

Depends on what kind of condition they're in. Are the blades all intact? Any seeping oil, smoke, cracks in the mani's etc etc. PM me if you want to sell them, I may be looking for a pair of cartridges.

Kev, the price on my injectors for you just went up 100 fold

Lol, I have 1680's and 750's, Lotsa Fuel little buddy!!

Just got this in from Shine. This is actually our second one. The first one had a slight chip in it but Ken stood by his product and sent us another one. After holding this up to the back of the car, I am sure Jesse is not looking forward to putting this on the car. Seems like it is going to be very difficult.

Don't mind the posers.

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Sweet!

Hey, I have the same furniture you have.

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Well, there is a novel idea, having a clear couch so that you can actually sit in them. If I had turned the camera up a bit you would have seen all the car body and parts all over the furniture.
We not only share great taste in cars and furniture, but also art. I LOVE Carol Griggs. We have a few of her pieces in the house.

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/u...build004-1.jpg

And since we are already totally off topic, thought I would add these pics. Tim, RCCAZ1 just celebrated a birthday. I won't say how old he is (OLD!!), but I loved his cake. Whomever made it included so many details. Check it out.

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Nice belt buckle Stever.

Since Jesse was not all that excited about all the girlie stuff going on in his car thread, I figured I would get it back on topic. The rest of our red stitch goodies just came in from RHDJapan today.

Here is a little sneak peak of our interior with some of the dyed plastics.

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/u...build007-2.jpg

This interior is going to be so damn Sexy!!

Wow oh man Jesse and Lynn your not playing fair....Now I have to step up my fd projec:o11: great build......I what Bubba :o10: Bubba and sister should stay at a the shop we will dog proof it...

Hahaha keep up the nice build

progress is looking good.

We need more pics!!!! And newer pics. James has a suprise for eveyone as well, but I'm not gonna spoil it! So please, post up some new progress shots, OK?

loving this build.... keep it up!

We unfortunately have taken a lot of time off from the build, lack of motivation I guess combined with the 115 degree weather. But, I did finally get the taillights painted. Jesse has plans to make special LED lights, but that will be a future job.

Followed the instructions from this website
http://www.jsott.com/rx-7/lights/index.html

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I don't want to say how many hours it took me to line the damn circles up. They better look amazing on the car after all this work.

Here is some of Jesse's handy work with Carbon/Kevlar. We purchased the coil relocating kit from AZ Rotary Rockets and Jesse reworked the top part that shows in the engine bay. I think it looks incredible, should really look sharp in the blacked out engine bay.

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/u...x7build081.jpg

The plan was originally to have the FD done for 7Stock this year. But, it is going to be 8Stock for us instead. We will be representing the Pettit Supercharged 8's this year.

Some pics of how the FD is sitting now.

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Did RHDJapan redo the leather on your steering wheel?

Nice !

I look forward to seeing this one done. It is going to be sweet. I also recently saw a supercharged 8 at Road Atlanta. That is a nice set-up as well. Have fun at "8stock"

Dave

The only parts from RHDJapan in that picture are the shift knob and the brake lever. The steering wheel is a new Nardi Deep Corn.

Jesse has put a lot of time into redoing all the wire harnesses. He went through the main one, I guess the engine one and with 4 pages of schematics went through every single wire and ripped out ones we did not need, replaced bad wires, redid connections if needed and then wrapped them all up with new nylon braided sheath to make them look pretty.:)

He also relocated the battery to the rear passenger bin. I can't believe how tiny that battery is. I'll be getting him good jumper cables for Christmas because I bet he is going to have to use them a lot with that battery.

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A while back we had some different engine parts powder coated. The place did a great job. If anyone in the Phoenix area is looking for a good powder coater, I would recommend Glendale Powder Coat. Great company, fast and quality work.

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Well, that is all for now. Thank you everyone for your kind words.

Wow, great build so far. I'm eager to see it finished!

Some pics of how the FD is sitting now.

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/u...ff/Dogs015.jpg

Looking good guys. Wow, super high quality build. Love the attention to detail. Had to laugh at the camping lantern in the rear hatch area. Hard to see sometimes in those areas, plus 2-4 am is about the only time to work when you're not burning up in the garage. ;)

good stuff

Nothing too special, but since the trunk has been torn apart, I decided to clean up and paint the vinyls. I used the Duplicolor Bumper Coating and it is almost an identical match to the original color, just cleaner and better. In the pic, the left side has been painted and the right side is yet to be done.

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Jesse is getting a little obsessive about this car, down to the washers matching the engine bay color theme, black and red.

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We dropped off the bins and all the stuff behind the seats to the upholstery shop to see about getting them wrapped in leather with red stitching. Hopefully it won't be too expensive (laugh). Will post up pics if we get them done.

Build is coming along nicely, looking good.

Great work, i hope i'm able to build my FC to the same standards :)

SUBSCRIBED!

Well, got the estimate for wrapping the back bin pieces in leather and even thought we both really wanted it, it is not happening. They want over $4000 to wrap the four pieces, the bins, divider and the two side speaker panels. Wow! I would rather put that money into some R-Magic headlights.

The newest thing Jesse is adding to the FD to-do list is repainting the engine bay. I agree that it needs to be done, but he wants to paint it black. He fell head over heals for that winning yellow FD at 7Stock and his engine bay was painted black. While I think it looked great for his car, his paint was not an original color, while we are keeping ours the original CW.

What do you guys think, repaint it white or go all out and black it out?

Here is a pic of the engine bay Jesse is getting the idea from

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/u...238ed0e3_o.jpg

+1 to keeping it white.

Im with Duffman on this one... although the black on yellow looks superb, I would eep his white....

awesome build though, i might be stealing some of your ideas in the future...

J.

Keep it white and let's get this sucka put together. I need to have you guys back on the street cruising with me!! :) BTW, seeing the pics of that yellow car's engine bay again just reminds me of how unbelieveable his attention to detail was. For those who didn't see the car, it was hands down the best FD I've ever seen. Small attention to detail was OVER THE TOP! Simply spectacular!!

So, what are you saying Tim......the RX8 is chopped liver?!!??

Are we not cool enough to roll with you and your FD when we are in the RX8?!?!!




Just Kidding :tongue1:



I have tried to tear Jesse away from his vacuum and vacuum bag experimenting so that we can focus this weekend on dismantling the engine bay and maybe getting it painted. Keep your fingers crossed that I can keep him on task. These darn engineers are so difficult to work with. :lol:

We did not get to painting the engine bay this last weekend, but you will never even notice the yellowing paint once Jesse's new project is done and in there. Here is a little sneak peak of his newest project.

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He had to clean up the PFS SMIC air duct by redoing some fiberglass sections and bondoing some imperfections. He spent over 4 hours wet sanding it last night and should be done with it in the next couple of days. This project looks incredible! Will post up some more pics once he has it finished.

It is all done (maybe)

Some stages through the process

After the 7th and final coat of resin

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/u...x7build105.jpg

After 4 hours of course sanding

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/u...x7build113.jpg

After another 4 hours of wet sanding to make it shiny and pretty. Up against the SMIC.

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/u...x7build115.jpg

In place in the engine bay

http://i660.photobucket.com/albums/u...x7build127.jpg

Jesse is not totally satisfied with the outcome. He may apply more coats of resin and start the sanding process all over again to make the shine a little deeper. Either way, he put a lot of hard work into it and it looks amazing.

Looks good to me!

Willing to take lessons any time.