Mazda RX7 Fd3 New Build*

Alright lads. picked up an rx7 fd3 full rolling shell a few weeks ago off rick weldon on here. planing on doing a bit of work on it over the next while.

originally planned on putting a 1jz in to it...but not a whole pile of info about 1jz conversions around.
would like to drop a 13b or 20b and looking into 1uz into it too. but im still un decided yet.

will get cracking on body work and interior until i am 100% set on an engine for her.
plans for body are:
Sexy style aero bumper or 99spec oem bumper
standard oem back bumper with diffuser
18x10.5 white work emotion xd-9s

here are some pictures of it as it sits minus the garson wheels.....

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heres a grade sheet i got with it.
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oh yes! this will be amazing! needs a massive wing :D

Sexy sexy car, love it... x2 on the big wing

Looks wicked man! Kind of like it with no wing :p

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Originally Posted by PeterT

oh yes! this will be amazing! needs a massive wing :D

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long build...but have a few ideas in line for it. BGW FTW. cant wait to get a look at those wings.

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Originally Posted by jonnyrb

Sexy sexy car, love it... x2 on the big wing

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thanks man. yeah...liking the BGW idea. always been a fan of them. PeterT is in the process of making a few so im gonna hold out and get a look at them.

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Originally Posted by shay

Looks wicked man! Kind of like it with no wing :p

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thanks lad. yeah looks sleek looking without it. but im changing the look slightly and i think it would suit better.

Best of luck with it lad that woz always mint when rick had it if ur going 13b r 20b give me r irishrotory a shout good info onit

Do you have the VeilSide front bumper that was on this? PM me a price if you're interested in selling it. My friend is looking for one at the minute.

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Originally Posted by snowyrx7

Best of luck with it lad that woz always mint when rick had it if ur going 13b r 20b give me r irishrotory a shout good info onit

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tanx man....no updates on this yet. have an engine sourced...but trying to get cash to buy it. 13b will be goin back into her. im on irish rotory :) AndrewB is my name on it :)

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Originally Posted by OneEighty Mark

Do you have the VeilSide front bumper that was on this? PM me a price if you're interested in selling it. My friend is looking for one at the minute.

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pmd there

Thanks man passed on your number to him!

That's a serious looking car. Very nice indeed

alright lads...long time since iv updated this. not really much happend since.

boght a set of 18inch work vs-xx of brendanfd3s hes a memeber on here.
working out what size dishes are needed to fill them 50mm arches.. so i just flipped the barrels to the front to see...
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then the centres and barrels went to eastcoast alloys to be acid dipped to remove all old paint....
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this is the color they will be going..(sepang bronze metallic)
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picked up a rare attain bumper and got rid of the fast and furious style veilside d1 front bumper i got with the car.
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the carbon bonnet was feeling a little bit sorry for itself, it was going misty and had cracks all over. so i sent it to get painted along with the attain bumper
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got a local lad to paint them. he currently has my vs-xx aswell...getting them re painted in bmw sepang bronze. anyone in the louth meath, monaghan area i highly reccomend him if yous are lookin for stuff painted. im then off to jdm distro to get some whopper dishes for the wheels.

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Awesome!

That is sooo class. The Re-Amemiya bonnet is just the best. Those rims are going to set it off perfect.

Love that car should be good finished

Nice. :)

thanks for all the comments lads..will try get a bit more done to it as soon as i can. after bodywork and wheels are done il be building a 13b rotary with single turbo conversion....

Love them in red. Can those barrels JDM Distro sell be used on any wheel??

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Originally Posted by pole drift

Love them in red. Can those barrels JDM Distro sell be used on any wheel??

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yeah man, iv been onto JDMDistro about a set of step lips for them...they are basicly universal blank lips and they have to drill the studs to fit from the centres of my vsxx on a cnc machine.

absolutely love it amazing what a car those alloys will make it

Such a cool car this rx7, Love what you did with the bonnet, lovely touch. i think you should defo make this a 13b single turbo.

Good work

Thanks man. yeah the bonnet was a last minute decision...was going all red. happy enough with the outcome. 13b is on the cards. only thing holding me back is that theirs not alot of info about rotarys in ireland. will get her up and going some day.

Small update.....not alot done with this in the last while. just saving like fook..... in too minds to just import something cheerful from japan for a few drift days during the summer months or pump a few pound into this yoke and get an engine conversion done. torn on both ideas.....

got the Vs-xx's i picked up of Brendanfd3s sprayed in BMW Sepang Bronze and barrells done in gloss black. will be getting dishes sorted out on these soon as. torn on painting the dishes gloss black when i do get them sorted...(pics are only barrells sitting on front of the centres)
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also picked up a fixed back Recaro with sidemounts of keith weldon from his 180sx... have a matching Recaro Speed recliner for the passo side.
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anyone on here know where id get a cheap but new set of wheel bolts, need 160 of them for my works. think they are an unusual and hard to get hold of size. and dont fancy paying 600euro odd from work for them.

nice job on the wheels dude, I'll have them back now :)

Wheels are the right job!

Thanks lads! Brendan, no hope of me making that journey back to cork ha. Originally bought the wheels for the womans accord. but on the way home i taught, fuck it il keep them for my own yoke. was unsure of a colour for ages. was going to paint them a metallic teal green at one stage. thank fuck i didnt. will be painting the bay in the same bronze. and plan on putting a bolt in cage in it somewhere along the line and it will also be going the same bronze colour.

Small update, im not so good in these areas. just basicly to lazy to keep a build thread going. not got too much in the lines of work. holding back to the winter months to get the engine dropped in. in the mean time i purchased this r33 for very handy money considering what they are selling for at the minute. going to driver it over the summer and have a bit of fun in it before it comes to the end of its life as it will be the organ doner for my rx7. i will be pulling the rb25 lump out and dropping it into the rx7 towords the end of this year. i bought it as a full car to save the hastle of sourcing bits all over the country to convert my rx7, and it was the ideal car to buy. engine wisxe it was good, body wise it had seen better days, shock tops were starting to rot, and it had got 1 of them 800yoyo spray jobs, its covered in orange peel and overspray.

here she is...

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came with cheepo brides that were turning my back to shit on the journey home from cork. i needed to get rid of them. (NOTE THAT DRIFTOO STEERING WHEEL lol it was also shit...)
on the up side, the cheapo seats were bolted to genuine bride rails.
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had a small, basic spec engine. was told it had metal head gasket but other than that was standard. went to view it turned out it had alot of things the owner never told me about..
alloy rad and shroud with external fan
front mount intercooler
apexi induction pipe and filter
forge bov
brand new walbro 255 pump that wasnt fitted
gtr coilpacks
screamer elbow
downpipe
full exhaust system
cusco 2 way
turbo timer
and a brand new clutch disc for good mesure.

got home and opend the boot to aload of standard parts like turbo elbow and downpipe. pulled all out and found this gem, a genuine nardi wheel. unfortunatly got scratched because it was sitting at the bottom of the boot under all the other parts. still puzzeling me why it was at the bottom of the boot, and the cheapo drifto wheel was actually in the car.
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got onto mike fitz aswell about a dmac wing, told me they were flat out, gave me a date that hed have the wing and boom, turned up at my door that as expected, very helpful lads to deal with. and the wing blade is great quality. and its massive :P.
will be getting legs done up for it with a local crowd that do water jet cutting. want it to look like a BCL wing.
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got onto dave in JDMdistro about injectors for rb25, and purchased some Nismo 555cc's on a rail with Nismo fuel pressure regulator
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also got a z32 turbo ecu off Jay Rockett at DI-Motorsport, will be going to richard bradley to get it mapped on nistune when iv picked up all i need for the rb25.
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heres a pic of the fleet, the work horse audi a4, the organ doner skyline r33 and the drifto project rx7 fd3, funny thing is i dont even like red that much.
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Tis gonna be a cool car in fairness, the wing is mega mate :)

I know the last 4 owners of the skyline it's a grand car nearly bought it myself bout 2 months ago but hadn't the cash. There is a metal head gasket and new valve stem oil seals and all the valves reground and the screamer elbo and rad about 4000 miles before you got it I'd say. The nardi was on it dunno why he took it off ha 20mm spacers all round aswell I think. Best of luck with it anyways lad and the rx7 too.

thanks lads.....slow process, but 3 cars is eating up my funds every week. has got to the point i wanted to sell all i had and give up. i had a crazy notion to sell the rx7 a few weeks ago. but i came back to reality and kept it. thanks for the info on the skyline tomsheen, it genuinly has a good engine in it, shell not so good tho. the lad i boght it off was sound as a pound too. corect has autobahn spacers all round.

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thanks lads.....slow process, but 3 cars is eating up my funds every week. has got to the point i wanted to sell all i had and give up. i had a crazy notion to sell the rx7 a few weeks ago. but i came back to reality and kept it. thanks for the info on the skyline tomsheen, it genuinly has a good engine in it, shell not so good tho. the lad i boght it off was sound as a pound too. corect has autobahn spacers all round.

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Ya Steve's sound out he's busy out with work so he barely drove it over the year he had it. timing belt and waterpump done with all that too. Keep up the good work anyways lad glad ya didn't sell up.

Fucking hell I love this thread, always plenty to read. Nice find with the extras in the Skyline, RX7 is going to be fantastic when finished

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Originally Posted by tomsheen

Ya Steve's sound out he's busy out with work so he barely drove it over the year he had it. timing belt and waterpump done with all that too. Keep up the good work anyways lad glad ya didn't sell up.

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yeah man, he told me he hadnt got much time to drive it. spot on dude..i had a look into it, all new belts.

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Fucking hell I love this thread, always plenty to read. Nice find with the extras in the Skyline, RX7 is going to be fantastic when finished

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thanks dude, i must find more time to get the thread going, will get another update soon enough, sourcing dishes for the vs-xx still.

JDM Distro have the dishes mate, can you pm a price on the blade ?

im going to contact them during the week. they said theyd have them due in around may, so didnt want to hastle them any more ha. will do dude.

Have you tried here for dishes?

http://www.felgenfuchs.de/

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Originally Posted by Spartacus

Have you tried here for dishes?

http://www.felgenfuchs.de/

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yeah dude, sent him an email before with no reply. wheelflip in th states got back to me with a few options. and prices you couldnt realy beat. may have dishes soon :D

This is gona be ape!! Just needs carbon everywhere!

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This is gona be ape!! Just needs carbon everywhere!

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thanks dude. slow process. id love to put carbon bits and pieces on it. bonnet was carbon, but had it painted as it went misty in corners. currently looking for carbon ganadors at the minute.

Sweet passionate love to be made to this rx7 :p Looking swweeeeeeeet!