11-01-2006, 02:42 AM | #1 |
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Silverfc88's RX7
I joined the military later that year. After Basic training and Tech School I get my first set of orders. It was to Yokota AB, Japan. I was nervous at first. I've been over seas before but I didn't know what to expect since this time I was going there alone and I didn't know anybody. I was there a few months and I had to buy a car. Getting around and going to work by foot sucked! So I bought a 93 Honda Integra from someone that was leaving to go back to the states. I got it cheap and it was a great car. Well driving back from Roppongi around 6 in the morning partying all night. I fall alseep on the highway and ended up hitting the concrete median destroying the body on the drivers side and screwing up the front alignment. I sold the car that week because I didn't want to deal with it. A month later I bought my first RX7. It was a clean black 1991 Savanna model with 16inch Volk wheels. I paid $1,200 for it at the Base's Lemon lot and it looks like it sat there for a few months. What a change from the Integra!! This thing had way more power and handled better and I was able to kick the rear out when I wanted to. It was just a fun car.. I only had a couple of months left in Japan and I was making plans to ship it back to the states. Well plans change like always. Me and a couple of my buddies used to go up to the mountains near Okutama Lake and watch the racers go up and down the mountain and even participate ourselves. Well on one of the nights I was up there trying to drift. I was making a sweeping right powering over pushing through the corner with the front wheels in counter steer. Somehow, I don't know what I did, the rear wheels caught traction and sent me shooting left into the guard rail. The front end is crushed in and I broke a control arm. The only thing left really holding the passenger tire was the steering and strut. I sold the motor and some other parts to local guys and kept what I could from it. I move back to the states and I get stationed to Cannon AFB, NM in good old Clovis. I start to look for a turbo model FC to start over, but I could not find one for the life of me. So I buy a N/A FC and I played with that for awhile. Then one day I see this Silver FC on the Singaporian Air Force side of base and it was a turbo! I pull up next to it and I put a sign on it saying that if he ever wants to sell I will buy it from him. About 8 months later I get a call and its the guy with the Silver FC. He says he is going back to Singapore and he needs to sell it within the month. The next week I pick it up and pay cash. . It was the same month that I had my daughter. February. Pic was in Colorado. We get orders to Mcguire AFB, NJ. We drive from New Mexico to New Jersey in the month of August 2002 in 2 RX7's and neither with A/C. Malaya was just a few months old. We moved in with Allie's parents for a couple of months until we could find our own place. I'm driving to work in my silver FC and I'm on 95 north just cruising up doing about 80. I look to my right and I see this mustang merging unto the highway. I look into the rear veiw and he his coming up on me fast. So I drop it into fourth and punch it. I started pulling on him, put it 5th and still pulling from him. I look back and he is way back, look foward again and I hear a pop then I loose all power. No power steering no nothing. I start to slow down and take my exit and pull over to the side of the road. Pop the hood and the first thing I see is the nipple coming from the compressor housing to the wategate had popped off. Tried to start it and it starts with a little effort but it sounds like ****. Like an old train or something, chug chug chug kinda sound. Get it towed back to the house and I let it sit there. That same week someone decides to steal it. I'm about to fall asleep and I hear a car start and rev to all hell, I jumped up when I relize it was my car. I run downstairs with my gun and I hear them peeling away. I go around the corner and I can see them going down the street and take a right. I run back inside grabbed my keys to the other 7 and went hauling after them. I took the right and stopped at the next intersection. I asked some kids sitting in the corner if they have seen a silver car just like this one driving by. They point left, I look over and there is this Blue Dodge Neon with a BIG I think yellow SUPERSTREET sticker on the trunk sitting there in the middle of the road with its marker lights on. So I turn left slowly and the Neon starts to go down the street. I follow it through another intersection and I watch it park and all of the people get out. I look around and I don't see my car. So I circle around and one of them is on the phone. So this time I go in a different direction and I go further down the street. I'm going down and all of a sudden I see my car just sitting there! I hurry back home and drop Allie off to get some help to get the car back home. I hurry back and the car is still there. I'm sitting there for what I think was about 15 minutes and this truck goes driving by real slow playing hip hop. I look in the back and it had tow arms attached to it! I'm wondering if they had planned on towing my car away. Which I think they where. I got my car back that night.. A few months later I drop another motor into it and its been running great! Took me about 2 and a half days to do it. More to come.....
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11-01-2006, 02:44 AM | #2 |
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Current mod list:
__Battery / Charging / Wiring__ 3rd gen RX7 100amp alt. 8 gauge from alt to battery Banzai Racing alt double pulley Deka ETX14 mini battery __Body__ 89-91 tail lights S5 Moldings ShineAutoProject Front bumper Sideskirts Rear bumper caps RE Amemiya mirrors H4 conversion headlights JDM Flash to pass lenses Amber LED's in front lights RE Amemiya hood vent cap __Brakes__ Mazdatrix ABS removal kit Mazdatrix stainless lines Hawk HPS front and rear pads __Cooling__ Koyo rad Fluidyne Therm-HX oil cooler with -10an lines Rad plate Hayden fan on Taurus shroud 85 amp solenoid and 50 amp fuse Samco blue radiator hoses Downpipe wrapped and turbo blanket __Drivetrain__ 9 lb flywheel ACT heavy duty pressure plate Clutchnet street disk Mazdaracing short shifter Redline MT90 lube in Tranny Stainless clutch hose MMR solid Motor Tranny Subframe Tokico Clutch slave + master cylinders Kaaz 1.5way solid diff __ECU__ Rtek Version 2.1 with palm Zire 71 __Electronics__ Greddy Bspec II boost controller HKS turbo timer Premier Head Unit Soundstream RUB555 Soundstream SPL-50G front speakers Pioneer rear speakers Elemental Designs 13Kv.2 Sub __Engine__ Series 4 Jspec stock ports Oil Metering Pump removed Premix 2 cycle oil Rats nest removed __Exhaust__ Modified Corksport downpipe and midpipe 80mm Ssautochrome dual exhaust 80mm pipe to two 2 ˝ pipes __Fuel__ Greddy 2x720cc Delphi 2x1000cc injectors Walbro re-wired 10 gauge Aeromotive FPR 13109 -6 AN fittings and lines __Gauges__ Autometer Oil pressure Oil temp Water temp Fuel pressure Volt PLX M-300 wideband RE Amemiya 80mm boost Summit Fuel pressure on FPR __Ignition __ NGK BUR9EQ x4 Jacobs FC1000 CDI MSD wires __Intake__ K&N filter Cover to protect it from water Turbo inlet duct __Interior__ 4 gauges mounted on the glove box cover 89-91 stereo surround Custom rear tower covers Lonza horn button Nardi steering wheel Redlinegoods Shift and emergencey boots Pedals, brand unknown RAZO drift spec shift knob (heavy) Recaro seat rails Recaro Speed seats with blue stitching Wedge engineering seat brackets CG lock NRG Slim steering wheel quick release SRR Steering wheel 30mm extension __Suspension__ BC Racing BR Coilovers Corksport strut bar set Cusco lower arm bar Cusco pillar bars K2rd rear camber bar Pinion Snubber Suspenion Techniques rear sway bar Racing Beat DTSS Eliminator Rear poly bushings __Tires / Wheels__ (SUMMER) 235/40r17 front Dunlop Potenza Z1 Star Spec 245/40r17 rear Bridgestone RE-01R Advan Siena Gen 1 Wheels 17X8 35offset 5.5mm spacers 17X9 40offset 16mm spacers (WINTER) BBS 16x7 20mm offset 205/55 Blizzaks (Track) Mickey Thompson ET Streets 255/50R16 On stock wheels __Turbo__ HKS cast manifold MP T-60 .96 T4 Vband outlet 38mm Tial wastegate Greddy FMIC V-Spec HKS blow off valve Stainless Braided -3AN oil feed line __Weight Reduction__ A/C, power steering, emissions, heat shields, and other stuff
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jerry i didnt know you were born into jdmness haha.
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11-01-2006, 07:26 AM | #4 |
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Reminds me of my 1987 RX. It was an N/A but it was such a well balanced car. Looks exactly the same except I hade the five spoke wheels. I had a million stories with that thing… two motors… a transmission… argh. But I loved that thing – it was the car that got me into the performance segment.
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11-01-2006, 08:16 AM | #5 |
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You were in the AF to? Glad to see a another member
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11-01-2006, 01:55 PM | #9 | ||
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I loved that car also. I swear that car handled better than the current car that I have now even with the better suspension pieces on the turbo. I think it had something to do with having less power and I was able to power through corners without the rear end coming around. But it doesn't matter now that car was stolen a couple years back in Moorsetown at the Pepboys across the street from the mall. I miss that car... Thanks man! Hopefully you get to see it when it gets painted. Quote:
I'm going to go for this look. Bumper: Skirts and rear aero gaurds: I'm basically going for the look of the white car. I even have the same mirrors already and the same hood scoop cap as the top red car. I can't wait!!
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11-01-2006, 02:20 PM | #10 |
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I'm still in. There is a bunch of Military on here.
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11-01-2006, 02:47 PM | #11 |
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I got a little sad when I first saw "bodykit", but that looks awesome. I can't wait to see it.
I just noticed its a s4...Are your body moldings painted? Also, more pics please.
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11-01-2006, 03:03 PM | #12 |
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bro if you need an alarm let me know I will hook you up I hate to hear stores of a rx7 being taken away
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11-01-2006, 06:38 PM | #13 | |
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Yes the body mouldings that I have now are painted ,but I already have the s5 mouldings, turn signals and the S5 rear bumper is on the way. I got the front bumper in today. So only waiting on the sideskirts and rear aero gaurds. Thanks for the offer. I have an alarm now, but I also have other "measures" in place. If I want to upgrade I'll give you a ring.
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11-01-2006, 06:48 PM | #14 |
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Jerry I always wanted to see a pic of the black FC, looks good! I have never seen those volks before. Your cars stories are very interesting
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01-27-2007, 09:27 AM | #15 |
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Body kit on. I wanted to test fit the body kit to see how the fit is and to make sure I can get in and out of my driveway without messing up the kit. Which I already cracked the bumper the second day it was on, but I already fixed it with some glass and resin. Sanded it down and painted over it. You can't even tell I cracked it unless you look in the back.
Will be going to paint soon. Maybe early Feb. Edit: Why doesn't the first pic show up?
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01-27-2007, 09:27 AM | #16 |
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01-27-2007, 09:30 AM | #17 |
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Looks like crap right now. Oh well, I can't wait until the car is painted and in one color.
Oh and Hurry up warm weather! I need to put my wheels back on!
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