Turbo vert is dead... Long live the RE Base!

[reese.leblanc]

Long story short, I get rid of the vert body I had since it had cancer that I didn't want to deal with, as well as a few other issues. Not to be without a project for long, I picked up a base model that a friend had owned years ago. The car started life as a maroon on maroon 4 lug. Prior to my owning it, it had had a 5 lug suspension installed.

Currently, the car has the following mods completed:

Engine/Driveline
Stock 13B-RE using FC3S.org mounts
Haltech E6K
60-1 turbo .70 front and .84 divided hot side
Custom divided manifold designed by Elliot @ Turblown
Twin 44mm Tial wastegates
Custom V mount intercooler setup using:
Godspeed intercooler
Shook Motorsports radiator
50mm Tial BOV
3" exhaust with Magnaflow resonator and Flowmaster muffler
550/1600cc injectors
Walbro fuel pump

Body/Wheels/Styling
B-Wave front bumper with custom lighting
TII side skirts
Rotary Extreme diffuser
Shine Sexy Style Hood
RE Amemiya AW7 wheels

The car is currently being painted by a buddy of mine. We're doing Azure Brilliance Mica (Infini IV color paint code VQ). Here are a couple of shots of the RX-8 shift knob painted as a test swatch.




More pics of where I started from and how I got where I am coming soon!

Reese