my 93 SSM FD build

[prrex4ever]

Hope your back home soon, the FD is going to be looking good. I hear you about the Army thing, I gave them 23 years.

[sk8world]

I watched the video.. Sucks you hit but atleast is was not too bad..

[Brent]

Yeah, I feel very fortunate it was as minor as it was. Received my speed bleeders this morning. My new turbo blanket and fuel lab FPR from Ari at www.rx7.com/rotary performance should be here in a little bit. I guess fuel lab use to make the FPR for SX but have since branched out as well as improved the design according to Ari. My Aeromative A1000-6 has been acting up so I decided to go ahead and replace it for piece of mind and then I'll tear the old one down and find out what the issue is.

Today's list:
-Put the turbo back on the car(I hopefully have resolved the oil line issues)

-put the speed bleeders on the car and flush the system. I'm using Motul RBF600. I was actually going to replace the PFC 01's that I have on the front with Hawk DTC-60's as I figured they were getting low as Fritz had used these pads before he sold me the brakes and I have 4 track days on them and 4-5000 miles of driving on them, but they still have plenty of pad left. Rear pads are HT-10's and have a few days on them. They still have plenty of pads left.

-Change Differential Fluid. Putting Redline Shockproof oil in the rearend

-Try to get my LC-1 wideband working

-Install my fuel lab FPR

If I have any time after that, I'm going to pull my seats and start working on putting the M2 Roll Bar and Sparco Evo L in. That really needs to go in tomorrow, but the roll bar didn't come with all of the hardware, so tracking down grade 8 hardware in the sizes I need may be difficult. We'll see.

[SPICcnmFD]

Speed Bleeders are at the top of one of the best inventions ever if you are a track guy and need to bleed brakes fairly often.

[Brent]

Ditto that Chris! Kind of ironic... the only FD I have that doesn't have them is my track car... haha. I just hadn't had a chance to put them in until now since I put new brakes on all 4 corners.

BTW, there is a track day at TPGR next tuesday the 16th for $150. I'm sure you are working, but thought I'd check and see. All kinds of run time.

[SPICcnmFD]

I think I got the email about it, but yes I'm going to be at work. Are you planning on coming down?

[Brent]

I am. Should be a fun day, plus my bluegrass day next weekend was canceled. There is a possibility that the NSS event next Saturday might get canceled, if it does I'll prob. head to TGPR that day as well.

Back to work...

[SPICcnmFD]

Your doing what I did a few years ago and go to about as many days as possible. I'm trying to pay some stuff off right now and buy race car stuff, which is why I haven't done many this year.

[Brent]

Gotta make up for lost time from last year I just wish I would of had the winter to prep the car. Alright, last day to get stuff done before VIR...

[Brent]

Well, it appears I have everything buttoned up *knock on wood*. The oil lines are my biggest concern. They aren't leaking, but driving it hard on the track is alot different than the street. I think the lines will hold.

Fuel is good. Brakes are bled. Still fighting with my wideband but I'm very confident the car is running rich(famous last words). I have a new LC-1 that I may switch out just to see if the one in the car is in fact bad.

My Westco Miata battery died on me. It actually leaked gel out of the bottom corner. I called the people at GoMiata.com(where I ordered the battery) and they did a warranty request for me and had a new battery on the way. The whole conversation was maybe 3 minutes and very painless. He said it would take prob. a week to get a replacement battery. That was on Monday. Which would leave me without a battery for this weekend. The way we fabricated the rear bin when I relocated the battery, it has just enough room for the Westco. So my dad started calling some of his contacts and found that American Battery in Nashville(about an hour drive for me) had a gel battery with almost identical specs and dimensions that was reconditioned for $30! Called my brother who was working in Nashville and he said he could pick it up... awesome!! It was a full family effort... haha. I figured worst case scenerio I could bolt a battery box in the hatch and put a Optima Red Top or something in it as Mike ran the cables a little longer than they needed to be during the install. So I run to mail off some parts and when I come home UPS has delivered a box. Sure enough... it's my new Westco So now I have a $30 back up.

I'd really like to get my roll bar, seat, and harness in... but the roll bar is missing the bolts that mount the main hoop to the floor and I'm not about to try to track down grade 8 hardware at 5pm. That will happen next week. I just received my new 6 point harness a couple of hours ago as well.

I'm going to mess around with it for the rest of the night and I'll prob. leave in the morning tomorrow for VIR. Should be a really good weekend.

The last time you'll see my car wingless for a while as I'll be picking up my carbon fiber hatch and RE-A wing from Fritz tomorrow. And the 18x10 CCW's with 275's all around:



The engine bay with a new rebuild from David at Rotary Rebuild Store! Very happy with it and looking forward to seeing how it does at the track this weekend. Have a few new things in the engine bay but all the main components are the same.

New LIM... tight fit. Not really liking how it's that close to the hot side of the turbo/dp flange.

Gauges... with my LC-1 giving one of it's various error codes. My AC panel is looking rough. Need to find some time to strip the adhesive off of it.


I'll be glad to get back to VIR... they built that track for single turbo RX-7's.

[speedjunkie]

Glad to see you're having fun Brent. Good luck at VIR! I have had my FD on that track, but only for parade laps...so far. :P

[Herblenny]

Dang, If I had known about the 16th couple of weeks ago, I might of gone with you... Its bit too late for me to request a day off..

[Brent]

Been one hell of a 24 hours guys. So I finally had the engine broke in and went to go WOT and the car fell on it's face when it hit 2-3lbs of boost. It would hesitate, stumble, and sputter. I go back and check my hose diagram and everything is good. I end up spending all night going through the fuel and ignition system. I call it a night at 2am. I wake back up at 6am. David Jerome called me as soon as he woke up at 6:30am(now THAT is tech support...haha) and we brainstormed. He thought it was the engine harness. I end up pulling my new(used) one back out of the car and put my old one back in. At this point I'm thinking to myself "if this doesn't fix it... give me another 2 hours and I'll have every piece of this car out in the garage floor and for sale". haha. Well, get the wiring harness in turn onto the road hit the gas... and..... brrrrrrrrraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaappppppppppppppppppppppp pp!!!!! Man the car feels great!!! I'm running rich, but man I MISSED THAT SHIT!!! Wish you guys could of heard me yelling as I drove down the street screaming and yelling at the top of my lungs. I'm several hours late for when I wanted to leave for VIR. That's ok though... I'm in the silver car Cleaned her up, loaded her up, and heading to the track. I'll have an update in my track thread after the weekend. One more picture for good measure:

[David Jerome]

I knew it was something going on with the secondary injectors but really wasnt for sure on the harness.

Just glad you can enjoy it again, call me and update me on how the track weekend goes, I love to see pics. Especially now that you have the ccws on the car

[Brent]

Small update. The car has been doing well. 2 days at VIR, 1 day a TGPR, and 1 day at NSS




Drove at VIR on Saturday. The car really starts to feel light at around 120mph. Lucky for me, I purchased a Seibon CF hatch and a RE-Amemiya Wing from Fritz a while back and my dad and I drove up to his place Saturday evening to pick up that and some other stuff. Here is a video from RE-A testing the wing against no wing and the 99spec wing:


After driving 9 hours to VIR, driving VIR all day Saturday, going up to Fritz's and back to the hotel(about 2.5 hours each way) I was beat and too tired to put it on. We get to the track the next morning right before the driver's meeting. I come back and my dad has put the hatch on for me, that's what I'm talking about it!


Wing and hatch:



uhhh... I mean my girlfriend put it on:

The wing makes a very large difference. I was going through the first half of the track on the warm up lap and could really feel the car start to stabilize from 80mph and above. It progressively improves(obviously) with speed. I was expecting some front end lift at 120mph+ but haven't felt it yet. I'm sure it will with a little more speed. I have plans to put a splitter on the car as soon as I get some time. I also have the Rotary Extreme version of the RE-Amemiya street rear diffuser to put on. I don't think it will change anything, I just like the looks of it and I think it complements the Feed sides and the 99spec lip. Big thanks to Tim Benton for hooking me up with a really good deal on it as well: