1992 Mazda RX7 Type-R

1992 Mazda RX7 Type-R

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xjay1337

15,966 posts

117 months

Thursday 3rd December 2015
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Yay RX7 build.

like it.

Rogue86

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2,008 posts

144 months

Monday 14th December 2015
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Little bit more progress with the front bumper taking shape and the wings/bonnet/pop-ups ready for paint:







Bit of preliminary paint to make sure all the shaping is correct:







Blitz exhaust on, obviously needs a bit of elbow grease as its used:



So the million dollar question...will it be ready for Christmas?

Rogue86

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2,008 posts

144 months

Thursday 17th December 2015
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Getting close to the Christmas deadline now so I'm fairly worried it will be next year before I get her back now. Still a lot to do and only a few working days left. frown

How the rear looks with the diffuser/exhaust. Spoiler paint keeps reacting so it hasnt been re-fitted yet. I could do with spacing the rear wheels for now as well.



99-spec front on. Really, really happy with the work they've done on this to get the fitment spot on. Looks OEM now, a far cry from how it looked when it was first offered up. Not happy with the number plate itself though so that will be getting changed.


stephen300o

15,464 posts

227 months

Friday 18th December 2015
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Lovely shaped car, always like these. Though the rotors are a pain in the arse, it makes a change from yet another LS1 swap.

Aside: Other than it rhyming what is so fraudulent about halfords?

DMN

2,982 posts

138 months

Friday 18th December 2015
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Like the look of the car, but that rear diffuser does look like it sits a little low to me. Is it just the angle of the photo? I'd be worried about it hitting road as the suspension moves.

dapprman

2,309 posts

266 months

Friday 18th December 2015
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When I see this I remember why i've struggled to sell mine - part of me does not want to let it go thoguh in my case the FD3 is a weekend car really and even before my slipped disk the ride/seats were a bit hard.

Hope you do get it back before X-Mas.

seefarr

1,459 posts

185 months

Friday 18th December 2015
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I love (sc)rotarys having grown up in Australia in a non-V8 environment and that is essentially my perfect car. I might go for slightly bigger porting (for the comedy brarbrarbrar idle) but still very jealous.

Well done and keep at it!

C7 JFW

1,205 posts

218 months

Friday 18th December 2015
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LOVE threads like this!

Good looking car, I bet it's awesome to drive - keep going. Thanks for sharing.

Rogue86

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2,008 posts

144 months

Friday 18th December 2015
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Thanks for the kind words guys!

DMN said:
Like the look of the car, but that rear diffuser does look like it sits a little low to me. Is it just the angle of the photo? I'd be worried about it hitting road as the suspension moves.
I think it's the angle of the car to be honest, without the engine in the car has some serious rake going on at the moment. It does sit low but hopefully it shouldn't be an issue.

seefarr said:
I might go for slightly bigger porting (for the comedy brarbrarbrar idle) but still very jealous.
It was very tempting, but ultimately I want this car to be as driveable and reliable as possible. My ultimate aim with the car is to drive it through Europe and onto Majorca so I can photograph it in the mountains there. So it has to work!

Oh and thanks PH for this!


Edited by Rogue86 on Friday 18th December 21:23

lee_fr200

5,475 posts

189 months

Friday 18th December 2015
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Always wanted one of these never got round to it, lovely car mate I hope when she's fixed you can enjoy her

K14A

236 posts

109 months

Saturday 19th December 2015
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Looks lovely, great to see you keeping it alive. Would love to build a 3 rotor one day. smile

KeiranM235i

3 posts

107 months

Saturday 19th December 2015
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Good work on the RX7, always loved these.

Any more photos of the mx5, looks stunning!

Rogue86

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2,008 posts

144 months

Saturday 19th December 2015
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KeiranM235i said:
Any more photos of the mx5, looks stunning!
Thanks, although the last time I drove her she ended up looking like this unfortunately, after someone behind me got a bit giddy at the traffic lights and set off before anyone else in the queue did:



Fairly predictably even though the damage was light she was written off for it. On a better day she looked like this, though these were taken before I removed the windscreen sticker fitted by the previous owner and fitted the FEED-style side-steps:




There was nothing particularly ground-breaking about the car to be honest, she was essentially a copy of a car I built in 2006ish. At that time they were only the second set of Sportmaxx wheels in the UK and I was determined to make them fit. Since then though it's been a well-travelled path over here. I don't think many people really understood that I built the car because I liked it, not for other people to like. My first car got a lot of criticism for the wheels being daft, then all these years later my silver car got criticism for the wheels not being an original idea. I guess you can't win on the internet! But it was fantastic to drive and I loved how it looked.

This was my old car, I loved it more than I am capable of loving another human being:


Unfortunately, in my only ever crash (and on a test drive when I was selling it...) I stacked that one spectacularly into a lamp-post after the car swapped ends on me and I opened my pocket of talent to find it empty.


I love MX5s though. In fact in the whole time I've been driving I think I've always had either an MX5 or MK1 MR2 as a daily driver. I've only just broken that trend by buying an Ignis Sport instead as I need the money for the RX7. A decision I'm really happy with because it's a car that just does everything well. I think the main reason I love the RX7 so much is because it basically feels like a grown up MX5. A few of my friends have had Supras and while I adore them, as someone used to small two-seaters they feel huge and ungainly. But the RX7 feels absolutely tiny, has excellent all-round visibility and the noise it makes frankly does funny things to my trousers. It feels how I imagine a 300bhp MX5 would feel if it was built by a manufacturer. In fact the only thing that becomes a nuisance is the thickness of the doors which make it difficult to get out of the car no matter how big the parking space is!

Anyway, back to the silver car, I p/x'd the car onto the rebuild bill for the RX7 so she has since been restored/resprayed and now looks like this (the RX3 is his also):






Probably not the path I would have gone down in terms of paint, but it's been done very well and the cut-wing at the front looks sublime. These guys are also sorting the bodywork out on my RX and I've got to say the finish from what I have seen so far has been superb. I also kept a few bits from this car and the Bride seat will be going into the RX. The rest of the bits are still sat in my garage so I should probably get around to shifting those!


Edited by Rogue86 on Saturday 19th December 15:17

danllama

5,728 posts

141 months

Saturday 19th December 2015
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Excellent, all of it smile

Can't wait to see it finished!

Nik da Greek

2,503 posts

149 months

Saturday 19th December 2015
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Is that Steve Garbutt's RX3 in the background there? Awesome job he's done on that

Rogue86

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2,008 posts

144 months

Sunday 20th December 2015
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Nik da Greek said:
Is that Steve Garbutt's RX3 in the background there? Awesome job he's done on that
It is and you're right - one of my favourite cars of any kind in the UK right now!

RoadRunner220

940 posts

192 months

Sunday 20th December 2015
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I've always had a soft spot for RX7's, I think they still look good now and haven't aged at all.

Good luck, I can't wait to see it finished.

LaurasOtherHalf

21,429 posts

195 months

Sunday 20th December 2015
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Absolutely love these cars OP, a bonafide future classic if ever there was one.

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Rogue86

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2,008 posts

144 months

Monday 11th January 2016
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Well, I found out why the Christmas deadline was never made...





So now I'm waiting for the garage to fix that panel gap. My Apexi PFC has also stopped working and at the moment the engine isn't receiving fuel properly. All in all, the car is no-where near ready.





At least the engine is in though:



Spoiler still not painted/fitted.



So while I own an RX7, I'm driving this around rolleyes






Nik da Greek

2,503 posts

149 months

Monday 11th January 2016
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Sad times, Spontaneous Apexi Sudden Death Syndrome frown They do have a nasty habit of that, one of the (many) reasons I binned mine. I hope it's just a glitch, but fear the worst