What is your question here? I will tell you that I think most big brake kits on an FB will make it slower on most race tracks. The exception in your case is when someone has added a turbo or something. My reasoning is that I may be doing something like this.

You have to realize that people really don't make rims for 4x110 FB's, and you expect them to make brakes for that? I am converting my car to 5 bolt rims with the big FC brakes. I will need custom axles for my car, but everything else I have.

If you are just talking pads or whatever, Hawk makes them, along with others. The hundreds of Spec RX7's racing all over the country with the brakes avaialble,and nobody really hd brake problems.

 

it would be nice to switch to the different axles

 

We've got baby!!! Keannan Joseph Jiro Russell was born at 7:48 this evening. Both baby and mommy are doing well. Thank goodness this is the last baby. After four births, I don't think I could take the stress of another one.

 

DAMN , Congrts to you and your family , your large family, hahahaha . Keep us up to date on how momma and new baby are doing , ?I all ready have a small baby'y gift for you guys , but with so many kids already . im probably just adding to the laundry load . I'll give you guys a few days to get situated , but I'll catch up with you next week

Congrats dude

 

Sweet! Thanks. I'm thinkin' about starting an RX-7 clothing line for my kids. Like shirts and stuff that say, "When I grow up, I want to drive my daddy's RX-7/FB/FC/FD/Red Car" with car pics. They already love to ride in it!

 

hahahah i hear ya , i had a shirt made up last year that said honda eater and had a pic of my white FC . Man did that stirr up some shot at langley , but as you know . I never back down !!! until now , I have a great wife and newborn . I need to learn to shut up more often nowadays , hahahahaha . Damn 37 yrs old and just now learning this

oh well its worth it

 

does anybody know who owns the silver tII (lisence "silver 7")and silver fd nearby the blockbuster in great bridge? j/w cuz i live right down the street

 

LOL, yeah, too true. I drove the wife to Mary Immaculate Hospital in the FD this morning. On the way home from the hospital tonight, some big *** Ford pickup wanted to play rough. I could have swerved the **** through the onramp to 64 and beat the **** out of him on the highway, but it just really wasn't the time nor PLACE to do it.

I'll be 36 in a few months. It's amazing how much more conservative I get with each new year and new child, lol.

 

It's amazing how much more conservative I get with each new year


hahahaa I like to think of it as finally getting older , but if any young ricer wants to chat i think I'll just pick up my walker and finish that conversation , hahahaha

Getting ild is a good thing , it just hurts like hell , hahaha

Va

 

Getting older is good. It allows us to watch our children grow up and hopefully, our grandchildren.

Anytime now, Cal will tell us of the joy of college tuition payments!

 

Damn yuichiror , I was just hoping to have kids , hahaha now you want me to stay around for grandkids ????????? I'm just glad to make it this long , hahah but things have changed a ton , and yes, i cant wait ofr grandkids now .

now go to bed and take care of momma

 

Hmpf.. mine is costing me more now she's out of college than when she was in.. :-/

dale

 

Congrats Yoshi, Glad everyone is doing OK

Johny

 

If it helps any, I've got an single tip RB catback on my FD......

 

Hello Everyone, I have been on vacation to Sunny Florida. I see there has been some good news around here. Congrats to Yoshi! Hello to all, Happy New Year! I know that I am late but better late than never. Florida was great but I didn't want to come back. I am seriously considering moving down there.

 

Yoshi, congrats on the baby, hope everything goes well!!!!

FWIW, on your clothing line, some of you make know that my daughter is named Shelby, and I have a Shelby GT350, and used to have a Shelby Cobra. On Shelby's first hlloween we made her a Shelby costume. It was white jumpsuit with wide blue stripes and the GT350 side stripes down both sides. We always say Shelby's first costume was as a Shelby.... (weak I know).

College tuition.... Ick.... When I get uptight about it, I think about George Samuels (guy with the 20B FC vert near DC) who is currently paying 4 college tuitions, while he works 2 full time jobs.

 

That guy is nuts. A 20B AND 4 tuitions...not a chance for me.

 

hopefull by the time i have kids and they hit colloege i will be selling the rights to my car designs for loads of cash

 

ok guys

what junk yards you all know of with a lot of first gens in them ? and maybe near va beach area......trying to get replacement wiper motor for the front controll switch for the wipers and the other one for the headlight switch the plastic has dry rooted inside them and will need to be replaced......super glue isnt going to fix them i tried lol so i need to get these asap . im game for going to a junk yard first thing monday morning!

i didnt see any in u-wrench-it = pick-n-pull whatever there name is now....

 

I dunno what Calvin has, but he and I are both parting out 2nd gens.

dale

 

hey calvin/dale

whats the largest rim width a 1st gen can handle?

i found a company that does lightweight racing wheels and they have a few styles with our bolt patterns
4x110

www.diamondracingwheels.com

 

You can go pretty wide, but with stock fenders, I would go with a 7" wide rim with 205 tires. And BTW, those rims are heavy as ****. They're made of steel. The ultralightweights will taco on the street. I've looked at these wheels, and I didn't like them.

 

diamond has been supplying spec rx-7 guys for a while now.. they can fix you up with what you need for backspaceing. 7" width will be about it.

dale

 

I beg to differ, I have bought diamond wheels before... they are lighter than many aluminum wheels I've handled.

dale

 

dale how was your exp with them?