Rx2 + 700 Miles = F*cking DGRR here I come, I hope. progress threqd.

[sen2two]

My Rx2 hasn't been driven more than 5 miles since I owned it. Which has been a few years. It dosnt run right now and the front end is COMPLETELY taken apart. But I'm driving this damn thing to DGRR.

Here is my progress/build thread on the other forum. Way to many pictures to re-do it completely. Most of you here are there as well, so here's a link.

http://www.rx7club.com/old-school-ot...73-rx2-984536/

I'll update here as well from now on.

Who's caravan-ing from the Orlando or Central Florida area?

[sen2two]

Boom

[banzaitoyota]

Iam going up I26 from Aiken SC, If you come up I95 we can meet at St. George and roll together. I'll be in my Duece

[sen2two]

Awesome!

I know, since I been wanting to do this for years, that they do caravan starting from somewhere in Miami all the way up. Have you ever linked up with a large caravan before? I'm not sure how it all goes down?

[Johnny_K]

Very cool. Good luck on the build look fwd to seeing it at the meet.

[banzaitoyota]

Originally Posted by sen2two

Awesome!

I know, since I been wanting to do this for years, that they do caravan starting from somewhere in Miami all the way up. Have you ever linked up with a large caravan before? I'm not sure how it all goes down?

No, but I do not want to get involved in a herding cats situation. LOL

[sen2two]

Sneak peak of the new CF hood and new old stock front lip.

[banzaitoyota]

nice

[sen2two]

I decided to make my own velocity stacks for now. The car will eventually become turbo as I do with everything. So these are being made in a way that they will become part of the plenum later on down the road.

First I turned down the body and made a step downed portion to fit into the Weber where it had been machined by Racing Beat. Then cut the OD and length. I made them 4.500" taller than the Webers with the stepped down portion being .500".





Then I made a press die to create the air horn shape. And pressed them to shape. One got a little slanted in the press and crushed the stepped down area so I had to make another.



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[sen2two]

]Here is some test fitting the unfinished product to make sure it's all good before shaping.






And here is the finished product.

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[GySgtFrank]

Very impressive work. Way cool.

[banzaitoyota]

Nice.

[sen2two]

I made some plugs today for the now useless trailing plug holes. I basically used my spare Rx8 plugs and removed the ceramic and associated crap from the rear of the plug. Then welded a piece of sheet metal to close it up. Then finished it off in the lathe to look like an actual bolt head. For the other end I also welded it shut and finished off the end. I will make a "cooler" set in the future. But there will get the car running for now.

[sen2two]

Here's a pic of how the oil lines fit. You can see just above the lower oil cooler line I marked a spot I was going to originally mill a radius in, but it fit without having to. And above that the 180° fitting sits in its spot.





And a shot from above. I am debating on adding a brass washer to the passenger side oil cooler line that is exiting the oil cooler. It just almost a perfect strait line to the front cover line. It's less noticeable in person. But this picture bothers me enough to make it perfectly strait....lol

[sen2two]

And one final shot of the stacks installed in there finished state. I took a scotch brite pad to the inside and radius the edge of the bell mouth on the lathe with a file. They look much more professional with those two minor touches.