Rollineuro
Go Kart Champion
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As many know, my GTI has been parted out and is for sale in stockish form. I reached the end of the mod road with the Fap and decided there was nothing else that I would like done to it other than changing out wheels periodically. Anyways here is my newest addition to the crew, a 93 Mazda RX7 with an LS1/t56 swap.
I bought the car in fall from my buddy who did the ls swap on it. It is a super clean body, and mechanically flawless. Essentially, there was nothing that needed to be done other than drive the piss out of it and have fun, but that wasn't good enough for me. I want to get into road course racing this spring, so the overall goal is to have a car that is track oriented, but still a road car. Lets get on to the pictures.
The swap was done using a Hinson Supercars swap kit which ran about $5k + engine, trans, ecu, etc after being nicely accessorized. The engine and trans are from a donor 99 Firehawk that had about 60k miles.
The wheels I had on it originally were a totally custom set of Work VS-XX in 18x9.5et14 and 18x10.5et10ish, and were custom machined for sandwich mounting of the faces (the bolts no longer go through the faces) and step-lipped.
I drove the car around for a little while as it was, and then got the itch to mod it to my liking a little more. I am a pretty big guy at 6'4 260 and the FD is a fucking tiny machine. Seeing how the goal of the build is to be able to track this car competitively, I am ultimately gonna need to wear a helmet in this car. My head is in the sunroof cavity as it is, so I decided I needed to order a bucket seat to lower me down in the car a little. Upon further research, there are only a select few seats that fit in the FD to begin with, and then only a handful fit in XL sizing. After thought, I decided to order aluminum door panels from Bubbletech Inc. with pull straps. These panels were kind of pricey, but they do free up a couple of inches on each side for the seat, so I had to do it.
I still need to be able to enjoy the car from the inside, so the bare aluminum wouldn't do. Here they are after I spent some time and wrapped them in black suede.
The doors looked the part, but the rest of the interior was still stock and kinda lame, so I got a suede 330mm Sparco wheel. The wheel not only looks great, but it frees up some knee room for me as well. The seats at this point are the sought after suede R1 seats that were swapped in previous to my ownership.
At this point I was getting tired of the vsxx and the tiny tires I had to run on them (215/40 on the front 9.5s), so I sold them and got a set of my dream wheels in very rare sizing. These are 17x9et10 and 18x10et10 concave Volk Te37's, dat OG double staggered setup. The tires are r comp 265s on the back and 245s up front.
At this point it was getting cold and wet out, and on top of that the aggressive wheels and somewhat fat tires made the car undrivable. Into the garage she went for a couple months. During this time, I started amassing parts for the upcoming race season. On top of being a track monster, I want this car to break necks on the street lol, so I bought some rather obnoxious parts. Among these parts are 25mm feed front fenders, some mazdaspeed sideskirts, a 70 inch carbon gt wing, a spec-s front bumper, hotwaterlabs HID headlights ($1000 :eyebulge. I'll get into the build and pics in the next post. :thumbsup:
I bought the car in fall from my buddy who did the ls swap on it. It is a super clean body, and mechanically flawless. Essentially, there was nothing that needed to be done other than drive the piss out of it and have fun, but that wasn't good enough for me. I want to get into road course racing this spring, so the overall goal is to have a car that is track oriented, but still a road car. Lets get on to the pictures.
The swap was done using a Hinson Supercars swap kit which ran about $5k + engine, trans, ecu, etc after being nicely accessorized. The engine and trans are from a donor 99 Firehawk that had about 60k miles.
The wheels I had on it originally were a totally custom set of Work VS-XX in 18x9.5et14 and 18x10.5et10ish, and were custom machined for sandwich mounting of the faces (the bolts no longer go through the faces) and step-lipped.
I drove the car around for a little while as it was, and then got the itch to mod it to my liking a little more. I am a pretty big guy at 6'4 260 and the FD is a fucking tiny machine. Seeing how the goal of the build is to be able to track this car competitively, I am ultimately gonna need to wear a helmet in this car. My head is in the sunroof cavity as it is, so I decided I needed to order a bucket seat to lower me down in the car a little. Upon further research, there are only a select few seats that fit in the FD to begin with, and then only a handful fit in XL sizing. After thought, I decided to order aluminum door panels from Bubbletech Inc. with pull straps. These panels were kind of pricey, but they do free up a couple of inches on each side for the seat, so I had to do it.
I still need to be able to enjoy the car from the inside, so the bare aluminum wouldn't do. Here they are after I spent some time and wrapped them in black suede.
The doors looked the part, but the rest of the interior was still stock and kinda lame, so I got a suede 330mm Sparco wheel. The wheel not only looks great, but it frees up some knee room for me as well. The seats at this point are the sought after suede R1 seats that were swapped in previous to my ownership.
At this point I was getting tired of the vsxx and the tiny tires I had to run on them (215/40 on the front 9.5s), so I sold them and got a set of my dream wheels in very rare sizing. These are 17x9et10 and 18x10et10 concave Volk Te37's, dat OG double staggered setup. The tires are r comp 265s on the back and 245s up front.
At this point it was getting cold and wet out, and on top of that the aggressive wheels and somewhat fat tires made the car undrivable. Into the garage she went for a couple months. During this time, I started amassing parts for the upcoming race season. On top of being a track monster, I want this car to break necks on the street lol, so I bought some rather obnoxious parts. Among these parts are 25mm feed front fenders, some mazdaspeed sideskirts, a 70 inch carbon gt wing, a spec-s front bumper, hotwaterlabs HID headlights ($1000 :eyebulge. I'll get into the build and pics in the next post. :thumbsup:
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