B6ZE Turbo RX7 FC built on my driveway!

Thanks man I actually always preferred the look of FD's over the FC's, but now that I own one they have grown on me a little ^^

Thanks man, next stage should be good! And I nearly bought an mx5 myself few months ago. Insurance turned out more expensive than the fc though?! weird.

Nope!

^^ I love that photo, just got it printed to go on the wall

Thanks mate! Appreciate it

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First of all, I modified my original hydro I made ^^ Found this little katana sword in the attic and put it to good use!



Will probably end up somewhere round here, I was going to ditch the original handbrake and just make the hydro look oem-ish and build a center console around it. We'll see later on in the build



Then I decided to cut more shit out the bonnet Going to mount the vent from the bottom and fibreglass it in from the top. Will look miles better imo but first, making it fit.





Here it is, riveted back on. Edges smoothed, and etch primed, ready to go in with the fibreglass when I get some!



Started stripping the car for the making of the cage too! Slowly removing the sound deadening on these cold days, it actually makes it come off easier which is nice ^^





On to fixing some rust, finally decided to fix all the 4 arches round the car as their all looking sorry for themselves. Started at the rear, can't lie I kept bodging this arch all season and everytime a tire would delam the body filler and fibre glass was 100% flying out haha! Here's some pictures of the fixing process !














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After welding, the metal shrunk quite a bit more then I expected! Guess it's just something you learn during the process. Some arch rolling and a bit of hammering, sorted it. I just ordered new springs for the back of my HSD's as atm their fully maxed out without collars and can't go any lower. When these come, Ill bop them in and finalize the fitment before smoothing stage



Lastly, just today I had a go at modifying my own knuckles after reading a lot on forums and such. After all I sprayed them yellow and put them back on. The lock now looks really good but I'm more excited for the faster steering. Looking forward to testing it on track!





Also I had some spare frames lying around so decided to get some of my favorite pictures from last year printed



And to finish off, here's some irrelevant pictures haha!







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Thanks man! And it won't man! :/ Bit too expensive for me and I'll be doing buxton that weekend too. Although I should be down to watch on the saturday.

Thanks man

yeah man ^^ Whatever's left of them.

thanks man! Appreciate the words, thats all I'v always wanted to do with the car. Never wanted to become a lifestyler haha!

haha that's great to hear man! Thanks for that.

Thanks ! Always wanted a set of the SA3R's, really like them right now. But never know when I'll change wheels myself. ^^

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Gotta blame it on the asda manz! They fully cut my wang off when printing the picture! haha

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Bit of a quick update, started smoothing the bonnet!





Sound deadening pretty much fully out!



Got my new springs from Driftworks, moving up from 5kgf to 7kgf. To be fair, I was hoping they would get rid of my stupid amount of droop but they didn't. I must have measured something wrong but I basically ended up with the same amount of droop as before haha. Although hopefully harder springs should give less grip and handle better.

(This photo is before I had to droop the spring fully to get back to the height I desired)




Finished off my hydro, made up all the brackets and actually flipped the handle round as it does feel better in the end.



Also here's how the rear fitment looks after installing the springs, I'm not sure they still might settle a little.







Got my roll cage tubing yesterday too! Put that away for time being as there's not enough time to start fabricating it before buxton.



Put the seats back in, along with the hydro, fire extinguisher and so on. Left all the trim and carpet as that can all go in after the cage is done and interior sealed and sprayed.



Lastly I went down to Chris today to give him a hand with the little engine rebuild, hub install and so on! Schedule's a bit tight with both our cars still needing plenty of work before buxton next week! Thanks for reading !





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