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Newbie here on the RX7 club.com site. My RX7 was first picked up back in 1993 by a fresh out of college Doctor in medicine. I guess he felt the only way to celebrate his accomplishment was to pick up an FD fresh off the showroom floors. Years went by and the doctor quit driving the car, as he was consumed by work. In the early 2000's, the car was given to the 2nd owner, the doctors nephew. He drove it here and there but mostly remained in his garage untouched. 2013, here comes the 3rd owner. The 3rd owner purchased car thinking it was a keeper, only to sell it to me after a few years.
Once I got ahold of it, I rightfully put it through its paces on a regular basis, until a water coolant seal burst. That is where the real fun starts. Quick and to the point, Pulled and rebuilt motor. While the motor was out, it only made sense to convert the turbo system to a full non sequential setup so I wouldn't have to stress over troubleshooting a vacuum hose, etc in the event the car starts acting up. While doing so, I took the time to replace everything I might need for a future single turbo setup.....which will eventually happen once I blow through the remaining gently used 93-95 turbo sets I can find (currently on my 3rd primary turbo). The 2nd primary turbo was faulty to begin with. In my quest to get the car on track next year, a few things I want to happen include, better brake rotors, pads, stainless steel lines, aftermarket springs, moving battery out of engine bay, installing a better more efficient intercooler system and properly ducting a custom intake system to either the front air dam or the air dam where the 2nd oil cooler would be on other RX7 models.
Current setup - Mild street port, ported LIM to match engine ports, new fuel system (1050 primary, 2000 sec), FPR, new wire harness, straight pipe back to HKS Hi Flow Power exhaust, non sequential turbos, Hallman manual boost controller, ACT Heavy Duty Clutch and stock flywheel, aluminum oil pan, OMP delete, adaptronic PNP, fuel pressure/oil pressure/oil temp safeties, Innovate wideband / water temp / boost gauges, stock wheels, 225mm Toyo Proxes R1R and other random goodies. 242WHP on a mustang dyno @ 8psi(ported wastegate). Important to mention using stock air intake and intercooler :/ Have since returned boost to 10psi and removed stock airbox(mind blowing) guessing 272whp+. It's a fact that the stock intake restricts air in this setup because my primary turbo air intake tube would collapse on itself. With hard canyon carving driving, at 60 deg F ambient temps, intake air temps soar to 135 and above. Yikes. I'm told a proper intercooler setup will keep temperature increase to less than 10%. Not to mention the stock intercooler setup including piping has over a 2lb loss in boost pressure. I'm eager to see how the car responds to a large intercooler and intake ducted to front air dam of car, to remain at 10psi boost
Don't have many nice pics but here it is shortly after I purchased. It's completely stock body, and there is no intention to change it (other than wheels if 225 tires can't hold over 300whp, guessing that's what intercooler will do). 1993 VR touring, tan interior. Paint is excellent as its been garaged its whole life.
11-20-20, 05:32 PM
