Well thought id throw my build thread in here since it doesnt get much attention in the other forum and its purely my track car for drifting so This my rx7 sr'd truck that im currently building and here is its build thread! Hope u guys enjoy




Alright so it all started when i had this blue sr'd hatch right here below! Learned how to drift in it pretty much and one day at EVD i hit the 3/8ths wall. Had some broken suspension pieces a broken core support and various other things..



It was fully fixable, but i was getting tired of having 240's as that one was my 3rd one in 2 years. So pulled the SR, sold the good stuff, and sold the shell. Ended up getting a really good deal on a 88 Rx7 Fc that was setup with custom mounts for sr, coils, bolt in cage, Keezers old sr driveshaft, and his welded diff. Here is how it looked the day i got it

 

And in about a week i started getting to work on it. Got the sr in and bolted in which was harder then i thought lol as the engine just felt awkward getting in there but after half a day it was in! Well the easy part was done lol






And also was bored and put the cage in, a steering wheel, and shift ****

 

Then came the time to get my intercooler, piping, radiator, and electric fans all sorted sorted out. I ended up getting a xs power intercooler that would work with my setup and used a stock rx7 radiator along with some FAL dual electric fans from my old s13.




And then off to the shop BOSS Innovations to get my swap looking more clean, tucked, wired, and all ready to run!

 

Got the car back from BOSS and it was perfect! Swap was cleaned up to look amazing and everything was running good although my t25 was on its way out lol. They had re-ran my fuel lines above the tranny so that they werent running so close to the turbo mani and above the engine, did a full wire tuck, did a custom hard intake, did a custom fuse box in the engine bar, made custom brackets for everything, and even mounted the ecu in the glove compartment! Needless to say it was pretty baller!



So the next weekend i took it out for a evd event! Did drift school/Open Drift and my instructor was actually Kory Keezer which was pretty cool. Had some fun at evd but by 9pm that night 10 hours of drifting had caught up with me and i blew my little t25 haha! Had tons of fun though and actually was able to drive home and get on the hunt for a turbo.

 

Alright so next step was picking up a turbo and some aero. I actually ended up getting another t-25 from a friend for $50 so i threw that on as well as picking up a turbo manifold too. Also picked up Kory Keezers old aero off his SR fc which seemed suiting to me, which were Origin Front and Gp sports sides.

 

Well started doing a truck conversion since my current hatch wouldnt lock cause the cable was broken and the key hole in back was too and it was getting stupid annoying to crawl in the back through my cage too latch it.. so off it came!



So after the hatch was off i ended up removing all unnecessary crap.. carpets, latches, broken cables, and plastics. I went and bought some outdoor rubber matting for the truck bed and cut it out to fit and a big thing of sheet metal to start some fab work! Also got bored and painted my cage white lol Then took to it to a meet.

 

Next step was to cut the top of the strut towers off and start fabbing up the sheet metal to work until...... ROD KNOCK! Did some spirited driving the night before and ended up with a rod knock.. I mean i knew it was inevitable. Had the motor for about a year and had daily drove it in my 240, went to 5 events in all, and beat the living crap out of it the whole time lol. So i was proud that it had lasted this long anyways! So on to get the go fast parts!

 

So on to the rebuild now! Pulled the engine and started pulling it all apart and low and behold i found out why my motor got the rod knock... Broken oil pickup was the culprit.. Sucked cause it was such a small part that did it, but not too bad since I had a reason to fully build my motor

 

Got all my rebuild parts in and block with crank was sent to pacific engines for machine work. Getting a hone, bore .20 over, hot tank, and have my crank balanced. Also ended up getting all the rebuild parts ordered. So my bottom end will be something like this:

Wiesco 86.5 mm pistons
Eagle forged rods
Arp rod bolts
Arp main bolts
Arp head studs
Acl main and rod bearings
New oil pickup
All new seals
New timing chain kit

 

Alright so got around to fully gutting my car and getting rid of all the nasty carpet and dry icing it up to get rid of the sound deadening stuff. Stuff came off easy as hell with the dry ice and became pretty fun too when a hammer was involved lol


And after it was all gone.. stuff seriously weighed a good amount by how heavy my shop vac became lol


Now my original plan was to paint it red like the car but after laying some primer down i actually liked the gray color and it just so happened that i had 2 cans of dark grey gloss paint.. So painted it and really liked how it turned out!

 

And then i got my bottom end back and it was all nice, clean, and fancy. So with some help from my friends we got the whole rotatiing assembly, pistons, bearings, and rods in. And the next day i spent the better half of the day putting most of the pieces back on.

 

Well got it completely back together and ready to put in.

 

Well picked up a cheap isis manifold for a good deal before i dropped my motor in and then came the fun 3 hour task of putting this motor in. The motor sits so far back in the fc that its pretty damn difficult to get it in, but with some friends and alot of time we did it without any big problems. Just alot of picking the motor up and down to get it to fit on the mounts.

 

Well got the engine mostly back together and most of the harness on besides the injector plugs. Turns out since my old setup was tucked. The wires were cut and made to fit only the stock intake manifold so when i went to plug them in 2 of them were too short.. LOL so had to figure out how to lengthen those wires as well as figure out how to make a new cold pipe for this manifold and a new throttle cable bracket.

 

Alright so got the motor started and running and even drove down the street a bit lol. Car is running a little rough though which im sure is cause of the numerous boost leaks i most likely have lol. Also after getting it running and idling on its own found out my HKS bov was broken:/ the diaprham inside broke off its mounting piece so now im running no BOV.

 

most likely going to going back to having a hatch after seeing this fc with a foresight wing. That ish goes hard!

 

And now im currently deployed to the middle east. Buut i have people at my shop back home doing some work on the fc while they break the motor in. Turns out my old corroded wiring harness was just garbage so got a buddy taking it out replacing it with nice wiring specialties one. Also purchased cheap bov to throw on there cause of the broken one and in the process of trying to sell my current cage since ill have a nicer fd one welded in when i get back.

 

nice build dude....really glad your putting the glass back on. truck fc's are cool but i'm more of the fan with the glass.

 

ya im all about being different hence the car, and having a bed makes it soooo much easier to put tires,jacks, and pit stuff back there. but that look is too goood to pass up

 

Also reallly thinking of doing a front mount.. but everyone keeps tellin me not too lol

 

If you do a front mount you'll have to make longer intercooler pipes. Longer intercooler pipes mean more lag. The set up you have is great. I would only go front mount once you get a bigger turbo. Also you running spacers on the GTR wheels?

 

its not a truck if all you did was take out the glass. imo.

cool car. I once thought about doing an sr.

 

no i was gonna do a full truck conversion around january, but thats when my motor blew and i deployed in april. So i had to get my motor rebuilt before i left and it sucked up all my money lol. But without a hatch there was no such things as blind spots! haha

 

Ya ill be running a gt2871 on my future setup. And no spacers for the gtr wheels while i had my tein coils. fd wheels and z32 wheels all required spacers up front to clear though. I now have only z32 wheels on there but have been thinking of picking up some MB battles in bronze

 

And here is how it sits today. Now its on stock suspension and a set of z32 spares i had lying around. Sold my Tein coils and going to be purchasing some stance coils before my deploymwnt ends!