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^^^ BEAUTIFUL! :yes

Here\'s mine, for now :Thumbs-up

New diffuser sets the car off perfectly dude!

Article on farmofminds of my car is out now... enjoy:

Car\'s looking spotless as usual!

Here are a couple of mine before it came off the road last year.

Photo whoring time again

In regards to running with the decat, if you are still running a standard downpipe (which I would suspect you are), then you really only need to tweak the map when you fit the decat.  

The stock fuel system should be fine with this level of modification, I\'m running a cat-back, decat, induction kit and GReddy elbow and don\'t see more than 80% injector duty with no mods to my fuel system and running 0.8bar boost.  Any more boost then it would be advisable to add a higher flow fuel pump.

As for specialists in the Kent area, I\'m afraid there isn\'t much choice (as I\'ve found when a previous FD blew up at my parents in Dover), mapping wise the likes of Jaydee and Blitzboy (contactable on here or FDUK) are in London along with Jason (Super7), a little more further a field you have Hayward Rotary near Newbury who rebuilt and looked after my previous RX7 and REWorx in Portsmouth who have mapped my current RX7.

Recent (ish) ones of mine...

UK models have always been easier and cheaper to insure than imports.

Your chances of finding a UK model are not particularly good, only 120 were officially brought into the country by Mazda and that number is far outweighed by the number of Japanese imports and that\'s before you start thinking about how many of those 120 are still in existence.

Dunno mate, reckon you\'ve spent almost as much over the life of the car!
 
I agree with you on the project thread though. I stopped bothering with mine on here because the mojority of people who were bothered about reading about my car were already on FDUK and there didn\'t feel like I was reaching a different audience by posting here. Maybe my fault for posting in the members only section, but that could be something for the team here to consider, having a projects section available to all forum members...
 
Thanks for the comments on my car though mate, I do sometimes think that while it has been fairly well modified in terms of exterior/interior, the fact that it\'s lacking anything special in the engine department would tend to put off magazines from featuring it.
 
Still, not wanting to miss an opportunity to show it off... :wiggle
 

I want to register my vote for Nik\'s car.  I think the effort that Nik has put into is particularly noteworthy :yes
 
It\'s definitely a story worth telling, even if it is a bit painful for Nik to tell haha.

Anothing big thanks to everyone involved in making this years Rotorstock another great day.  Whilst the wedding celebration added a new and very special twist to the day, it was still great to see such a great turnout of cars from all corners of the rotary world.
 
A huge thanks also to Gary and Di for letting me be a part of their big day, and also to those that voted for my car.  I was very surprised to arrive back at the stand having put up my tent to be given a trophy by Lisa.  Highly unexpected!

on the subject of the end tanks, pointless. why arent they flowed to the bottom of the core? you may as well cut it off where the end tanks finish.

This was my first thought when I looked at the photograph.  The bottom corners are just going to be full of stagnant air, which would effectively reduce the efficiency of the intercooler as your frontal area is no longer being completely utilised to cool the charge that\'s passing though.  
 
Admittedly it\'s hard to get full useage of the area due to the charge needing to be turned by 90 degrees to enter the core, but I would have thought you could get the majority of that out of the way by having full length end tanks?

You could do that, I know I\'d .... it up if I did! :flamed

Clearly Sir, you haven\'t looked very hard at all!
 
All the best:
 
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Mazda-RX7-FD3S-RE-Amemiya-Carbon-Pro-Canards-/130540257387?pt=UK_CarsParts_Vehicles_CarParts_SM&hash=item1e64ce406b#ht_500wt_1338

Those are meant for the 2005 N1 bumper and won\'t fit on the 2001 version unless you install the additional undertray at the same time.
 
Since I think Matt has the 2001 bumper I imagine he is after the canards that don\'t require the undertray, and I\'m afraid I\'ve not seen them for sale for quite some time.
 
Perhaps it would be worth a quick email to someone like Miguel at Neweraparts as he\'s been very helpful to me in finding out what is still available in Japan.  If you\'re after copies, I\'m not sure that you\'ll be able to find anything other than the Pro Canards that have already been posted.

Hopefully no-one\'s noticed.... :rolleyes:

Is this the wrong time to announce I\'m putting a 2ltr Audi diesel in mine? :Thumbs-up
 
Good luck to the original poster, no engine conversion is an easy task, and neither is wading through the arguments such engine conversions cause on this site :Ladys-man

My \'97 is just shy of 320 at the flywheel with the following modifications:
 
Blitz intake
GReddy elbow
decat
Kakimoto back box
Power FC ECU
 
The car is mapped to 0.8bar and rarely goes beyond 80% injector duty.  Temps on the road stay very stable, though I expect on the track this could become a problem.
 
The GReddy elbow is probably not giving much benefit power wise (was already on the car), but really this is the bare minimum needed to get the kind of power you want.