RotaHavik

Go dumpy bro.be good to see flames tho eh. Dont wanna melt the bumper tho man.hard to find now.

yep, found a dumpy, gonna look damn nice, will post a pic when it arrives :D

hope u gunna finish of the project nicely with 3inch straight exhaust no mufflers to the rear dumpy ull be loving it haha

Ok, well i've finished the exhaust sytem, will take some pics tomorrow. Took a bit of time having to tig weld it, but came out well. So now just have to hook up the tacho to the factory dash one, tidy a few other bits up, then off to PPRE for a tune on te 29th april. FINALLY!!

Finished the exhaust today, came out all good. The muffler has a 7" barrel and a 5" tip :) and i managed to turn the mixtures down with the hand controller to lean it out a bit and managed to get it started again, sounds really nice, has a nice deep purr haha
Also just gave the interior a vacuum out, passenger and back seats back in, and connected the tacho up.
Pretty much done, just gotta get it tuned

mint mate well done, i have been watching this build for a while now and am glad to see your coming to the end and can enjoy it :D

you must be stoked with it!

do let us know what power you make

good work oido
i gotta come catch up this weekend!

how much power is it making? saw it on the trailer on the way ova 2 wangas yesterday

not alot, smoked the dyno room out and oil pressed dropped away while tuning. pulled the pin and came home. pulled the motor out today and took the sump and front cover off, didnt see anything wrong with the pick-up, pump or the o-ring between the front cover and plate. Looked in the exhaust ports and saw the rear rotor was quite damp/shiny with oil, that explains the smoke.
Oil pressure... another issue somewhere.

Unhappy to say the least

where about did you get your blank fuel rail from? and also your fuel rail fitting? im in the same posistion as you were

unlucky bout the oil pressure issue, hope to see it sorted soon

umm fuel rail from some crowd in lower hutt, can't remember who, google fuel rail excursion... got all my fittings from STA in auckland.



Car is on the back-burner till the motor gets rebuilt... Probly getting a kit from the states, good selection over there... While its apart getting an extend port done.

Update soon

you mean fuel rail EXTRUSION.

i ben keeping an eye on this build, and you have done an awesome, job. impressed that no corners have been cut too. well done!

gutted about the oil pressure issue, and now means you going to rebuild.. oh well... means more HP though! hell yeah!

bridgy it is :D That's what i was planning when i started this build last year anyway haha so yea, get a seal kit, ported, rebuild, PPRE, 400hp, HELL YEA!!

OK, finally things are getting done for the rebuild. Made up some bosses to press out the old stat gear/rotor bearings and install the nice new ones. Cleaned all the housing and plates... Booked some time off work end of this month to assemble it, so early august i'll be rolling again, oh yea

Nice to hear man, got mine all booked in for september to be finished off so hoping for
some nice weather this summer!!!!!

Jimbo... WTF!? who, where and when??

Josh, good shit man! be really good to see that rolling round again :D

Jimbo stop stealing 16 year old facebook picks hahaha

Prepping the motor for assembly next week, painted the plates and housings again, wanted a change while it was apart.
All I need now is a 12a front cover and i'll be sorted.





Anyone have a good front cover for sale?

PORN

BAHAHAHA! It was meant to symbolize goodtimes now that the Oid is back on track. I just typed in 'big mouths' in google images, cos that's what I like, y'know.

Cant wait to see the donuts in your cul de sac Gianbay!

Nah Gian dosen't do skids



















BTW dude good read here http://www.rx7club.com/showthread.php?t=876479

Well, today off work, had a productive day in the shed :D Managed to get the shortblock built-up good as gold. Wasn't really too hard, just a few tricky parts, and a bit fiddly clearancing the side-seals, but the rest of it was good as gold.
Replaced all the apex seals and springs, side seals/springs, oil o-rings and springs and gas/water seals.

A few pics.

Got both the rotors prepped with o-rings installed


Housings installed with rotor sitting inplace, about to install apexs




Installing the apexs, fiddly but do-able






Middle plate installed, that was a bitch but got it sorted


Rotor number 2


Apexs and corner seals done, ready for rear end plate.


Finished product, just need a front cover (hopefully this week) and fit pick-up and sump


Mesured the end-float had 0.06mm, good as gold!

So now need to complete the engine, fit to car, connect up the dual-stage boost controller I got, then start it up and re-tune

good stuff gian... cant see much lube in there? i bet ya hangin out to get it going again!

yeaaa... new oil is nice and clear... plenty of lube in there

Good work man!

Righto, had a big day yesterday, after i found where the courier had "left" the front cover i was waiting on, i put it along with the sump onto the engine, and started piecing the enginebay back together (about the 10th time i've done this i swear!).
finished up about 4pm i think, stole the battery from the work ute, turned the key and it spluttered into life, first pop!! (this is after turning it over with no sparkys installed and no ignition hooked up to build up oil pressure first). Very happy, with the engine running with next to f-all smoke (this time) all things are looking good.
Sounds awesome with just the dump-pipe exiting by the gearbox Has a nice high oil pressure when cold (95+psi), and drops to about 60psi when idling (2000rpm at the moment).
Have been in touch with PPRE and booked a time next tuesday for a tune, hope all goes well this time!

Pic of new colour scheme, still have to wire up the boost controller on the RHS

looks tuff bro, bet you cant wait to take her out, quick question, what sort of coin have you spent besides the engine block have you spent to do the turbo conversion? just looking into it myself, cheers

fucken mean sev bud

Real nice, Its come a long long way from the orig 12a beast it once was.... new colour scheme

ok... i would love to tell you man, but, i really don't wanna write this number down, because then it becomes "real" and i dont think i could handle that fact. the last thing i need is for the mrs to find out either (head would be on the floor)
Although, i'm thinking about the entire car... for turbo conversion... maybe 4-5g? cricky, even that number is scary...

And HELL YES i'm looking forward to taking it out!!!

find the minum price and double it in somecases


looking good

Took it for a drive today, so smooth, cant get past 4500rpm yet, but damn its nice!!

Looking mean man,looks good at that height.

yea man shes looking sweet alright .

Left for Wanga's today, cracker day, off to a good start!
Unloaded, they sorted out the timing and mixtures for the idle, then we left them to it for about an hour.
Driving back past the workshop we hear this amazing loud roaring with a hint of gilly whine, and the sevs going nuts! haha
Tuned up good as gold, no horrible smoke this time either After more tuning Gareth managed to get 281hp at 10psi, very happy with that! It does start to run out of legs about 7g due to the exhaust housing being a tad small, BUT it does have full boost quite low revs at 4g, which hopefully works in my favour with the trackwork i've got in mind.
Flames everywhere, external w/gate screaming its ring out... Heaven! haha
Just gotta do about 1000kms for the run-in, then back over for some street tuning and sort out the high boost setting.



Took it for a skid round palmy this afternoon, amazing! Popped the bonnet just before putting it away and noticed the brakemaster area was, rather warm so i managed to whip up a stainless heatshield before the light disappeared, should hopefully do the job.

AWSOME!!!! well done - out cruiseing and didnt stop in to see us Juli me and aria all super keen to see it and go for a spin.

haha, at some point i'll drop by, i try to avoid driving in town too much, less chance being pulled ova way out the back of nowhere while its running-in

u should extend that shield around to protect the inlet mani too! but good shit man, u must be stoked at that power at 10psi.

i'm planning on wrapping the down-pipe soon to try and keep temps more, will tidy up the engine bay a bit more too.
Very stoaked with the hp at 10psi, bigger and better things to come :D

Went for a kane in this today holy fuck! Even got a drive! Its insane already but with another 100 odd hp with the full tune its gonna be batshit insane!