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[xIceHoundx]

Hey everyone just got up on RCC so here I am. Little bit about myself: Im 26 years old and a combat medic in the US Army. Enough about me, onto my car: I own a 93 Mazda RX7 touring model thats currently getting built. I had purchased this vehicle while I was deployed in Afghanistan with the plan to have a build done with quality parts instead of getting ahold of other peoples projects and having to undo things to make my own progress. I purchased this RX7 with minimal mods, just very minor pieces, and with a fresh rebuild on the engine, got home from deployment a month and a half ago, and put in orders for all my parts.




Parts list going into the car:
Suspension
Work Equip wheels 18x9.5 +22/18x10.5 +18
w/ reverse lip barrels, faced will be powder coated gloss white with polished lips
Stance GR+Pro coilovers
PowerFlex Polyurathane bushings
Racing pillow balls

Brakes
Hawk HP+ front pads
Hawk HP+ rear pads

Engine
Block off plates
OMP adaptor plate
Oil filter sandwich adaptor plate
SakeBomb Garage map sensor bracket

Exhaust System
RX7store resonated midpipe
HKS Hi Power catback exhaust

Forced Induction
GTX35R turbo kit
RX7store V-mount
Greddy elbow
Tial BOV

Cooling
Samco coolant hoses
used coolant overflow tank

Auxillery Injection
Aquamist HFS3v2
w/ Aquamist RX7 summer
Howerton Engineering 2 Gallon water/meth tank
w/ Red LED
w/ cooling fan
Howerton Engineering 2 quart tank

Fuel
CJ Motorsport Stage 1 complete fuel rail
w/ Aeromotive FPR
w/ ID 850cc/2000cc injectors
Walbro 400LPN in-tank fuel pump

Electrical
HKS Twin Power ignition amp
GM 3 bar map sensor
Apexi Power FC with commander
Apexi limited edition black AVCR boost controller
Defi Advance CR control unit
Defi Advance CR boost 52mm black
Defi Advance CR water temp 52mm black
Defi Advance CR oil temp 52mm black
Defi Advance CR oil pressure 52mm black
NGK AFX wideband

Interior
Autometer Apillar triple pod
Level Zero Motorsports Black delrin shift knob
L & R used window motor assemblies

Exterior
SakeBomb Garage HID projector headlights

picture of the car in shop, start of the build

[FC Zach]

Welcome to the forum, beautiful car!

[xIceHoundx]

Thanks, it will be even more beautiful next month when the build is done, im aiming for around 500rwhp on stock ports with pump gas and 50/50 water/meth with this new setup on high boost

[speedjunkie]

Welcome! It looks great! You should come along with us to DGRR as we come through your area. That would be a good shakedown for the car lol. I just got back from deployment about a month ago myself. But I'm AF, so it's more like a vacation for me LOL. Welcome back!

[xIceHoundx]

Id love to roll out for DGRR i'll see if I can make that possible.

finally making a bit of progress. Turns out Apexi was behind quite a bit on making their boost control kits for the Apexi PFC so I went ahead and purchased a limited black Apexi AVCR electronic boost controller new from a shop. Ordered up some graphite exhaust port gaskets up and some oem throttle body gasket, throttle body o-ring, lower intake gasket, and upper intake plenum gasket from Atkins Rotary waiting on these to arrive to get more work done on the car but weve got most of the stuff off the car thats getting changed up.

[xIceHoundx]

Hey guys it's been a bit sorry didn't keep up with periodic updates but been busy. Here's some pictures of the car all put together all that's left now is tuning.

[speedjunkie]

Damn that looks good. Nice work!

[xIceHoundx]

Thanks I'd love to lower it more and get a better stance out of it but my driveway is brutal it has a big raise that comes to a point then drops back down the goes back up again all in a small stretch but eventually I'll drop it down more when I get away from the current place

[GySgtFrank]

Very nice. I take it low rider hydraulics is out of the question?

[xIceHoundx]

No air ride suspension it would add too much weight and take up even more space as throw off weight distribution that Mazda did so well at distributing on this chassis. I'm a soldier in the army and will be moving to Germany to a new duty assignment soon and plan to get this FD on nurburgring and stuff

[GySgtFrank]

Just kidding with you. Nurburgring, I'm jealous, the only time I got to spend in Europe was when the C5 broke down for four days in Spain, they wouldn't even let us off base. I've heard that's a mandatory stop for car guys if they ever get to Germany. Keep us posted when you get over there.

[speedjunkie]

Originally Posted by xIceHoundx

Thanks I'd love to lower it more and get a better stance out of it but my driveway is brutal it has a big raise that comes to a point then drops back down the goes back up again all in a small stretch but eventually I'll drop it down more when I get away from the current place

I know what you mean. I'm lucky enough to have two driveways and I have to come in at as much of an angle as possible in the second driveway and drive across the yard to the other driveway and I STILL scrape lol.

I'm jealous of Nurburgring too. Have you checked into mod laws in Germany? I'd love to PCS there but I always heard they are strict about mods on cars, and things like the wheels can't poke out past the fenders. If all that isn't true I might try to come over too lol.

This FD is looking great though, good work.

[xIceHoundx]

You know I've heard the same sort of things about strict mod laws in Germany but I've spoken with friends who have been or currently are out there and they say most of it is no problem. I am a bit worried about if they will have anything to say about my wheel fitment and how it pokes out but I've got my stock wheels and if I gotta I'll just put them on for initial inspection to pass then go swap them back after

[speedjunkie]

Sounds like an awesome plan haha. I hope you can get it out there on the ring.

[xIceHoundx]

Haha yea if I can ever get this thing on the street. There's been so many setbacks and delays trying to get everything straight, we had it on the dyno last friday(for the who knows how manyth time) and looks like we got all the little bugs out it pulls strong nice smooth power band but we are maxing out the clutch and it's slipping like crazy at 330whp 280wtq, so I've got an ACT 6 pick extreme clutch on the way so I should hopefully be back on the dyno this weekend and making my planned 450rwhp. Then I'll take some proper pictures of the car cleaned up