FunWheelDrive's Dark Horse FC RX7 Build

[FunWheelDrive]

Originally posted by ekguy
I usually hate non rotor swaps in rx7's...But somehow this seems to maintain the idea behind the 7, which is a light car, light engine, good balance.

I'm really digging the direction you went with this!!!

edited to add...

Christ is that ever a clean body on that car. I haven't seen many fc's in this condition...

Thanks man! I have the car running pretty solid at 20psi and seems to be holding it pretty good. These 2.3Ls love boost. Probably cause the 8 valve head makes like 80rwhp till boost hits.

The pictures make the car look good, the body has some issues but she's in good shape.

[FunWheelDrive]

Well sort of a sad day. I sold the RX8 project and have the LS1 forsale. I picked up something that I've been looking for. I used to have a bunch of DSM's back in highschool and always liked them. Found this GEM of a 1G. It has 52,000 original kilometres on it. One owner, Mitsubishi big brake upgrade, Koni suspension, Sparco seats, suspension techniques sway bars. Pretty well everything has been touched or upgraded. It did come with a set of aftermarket rims and tires. The tires on the factory rims are the OEM tires from 1991.







As for the engine it makes 575awhp on English's racing tune and dyno. I've had it for two weeks now and can say it was a properly well built and well taken care of DSM.

[relyt92]

That talon looks clean, always wanted one of those in highschool. Probably a good thing I didn't get one then though.

[Shlade]

Can't say I was expecting you to say 575awhp.... That's awesome. Such a sleeper

[FunWheelDrive]

That's what I love about talons, just by looking at one you have no idea if it makes 100hp, 600hp. Or even runs at all.

I haven't tried race fuel (not sure If I will for awhile) but on pump gas it makes 450awhp which moves it pretty good.

Mods List:
Buschur racing short block
Stage 4 head
TRE transmission
New OEM mitsu transfercase
FP3065 turbo
Kelford 272 cams

[Maxx Mazda]

Very impressive

[ekguy]

Rowdy!!!

[FunWheelDrive]

Back to working on the FC. I was trying to figure out a boost / lag issue. The car made good boost when there was a lot of load on the engine. Struggled to make more than 10psi of boost tho. I decided to look at the turbo and BINGO. I bought the turbo off a guy from Kijiji awhile ago and looks like it's no good.




That's a 35thou feeler gauge. Luckily my buddy's dad has the same turbo Holset HE341 sitting on his shelf. I got a wicked deal on it and just finished putting it on. This is the difference in what the compressor wheel looks like.



The car now makes wicked boost! It still about the same spool time but once boost comes on it builds fast!!

Also.. talon picture.

[A3GTiVR6SC]

Nice choice of cars man!! Sub'd
I just recently bought a LHD FD3S to swap as well... Just looking for a doner car at the moment.

[Gman.45]

Great RX7 build. I had an 87 Rx7 when I first moved to Calgary in 1993, it was a fantastic car, I was lucky to get it with an almost new rotory with only 5k km on it.

Very jealous, I would love to have an Rx like this one right now.

Nice Talon too.

[Redlined_8000]

That Talon is the best sleeper ive ever seen. Dam that is one hell of a find!

[revelations]

Man my first car was 1G TSI FWD, what a LEMON but what a CAR !!

I now have a 2G Eclipse FWD Spyder .... DSM win !!

[FunWheelDrive]

Originally posted by Gman.45
Great RX7 build. I had an 87 Rx7 when I first moved to Calgary in 1993, it was a fantastic car, I was lucky to get it with an almost new rotory with only 5k km on it.

Very jealous, I would love to have an Rx like this one right now.

Nice Talon too.

Thanks man! As fun as the Talon is, I actually prefer to drive the RX7 around.

So Plasti-dip went onsale at Auto Value last week. 11 bucks a can! The Talon came with a set of aftermarket rims, I figured they'd look much better black.

Before

After


How they look on the car.



I also plasti-dipped the rear wing on my FC. Huge difference from faded black!