Ada7\'s T-Rex

[Ada7]

Not done my own thread about my car on here so thought i\'d do one

After having my first FD for 2 years and falling in love with everything rotary i was gutted when i had to let it go so i could buy my first flat.  
But after 18 months or so i\'d got myself settled in and without one to play with i got the itch again for rx7 ownership and found this baby just begging to be bought. So here it is. Most of you will of seen this car before on here with a few previous owners.

Mazda 1999 Rx7 RB (Rex II)

Exterior
• Permaguard paint protection
• Mazdaspeed GT-C front bumper
• Veilside CII side skirts
• Abflug rear ¾ spats
• FEED offside vented headlight cover
• Rotary Extreme Scoot Style boonet with bonnet pins
• Standard ’99 spec rear wing
• Standard ’99 spec rear lights
• Rx7 number plate

Interior
• ’99 spec interior plastics
• Key’s Racing Flat type 325mm buckskin steering wheel
• HSB boss adapter
• Re-Amemiya quick shift gear knob. Red
• B&M quick shift gear stick
• Aluminium Sill covers.
• Defi Triple gauge housing. Oil temp/water temp/boost
• Blitz S-Spec boost controller
• R-Magic Power FC commander holder
• Standard early cloth seats
• Standard leather rear seats
• Safety devices rear half roll cage
• Unknown make Air vent clip on drinks can holder
• Relocate Red Top battery behind passenger seat
• Beaky

Wheels, Brakes and Suspension
• Tein super street coilover adjustable suspension
• Racing Beat uprated front and rear anti roll bars
• BBS CH alloy wheels 18x8.5
• Brembo Front callipers. Mazda standard rear brakes
• Kaaz 1.5way Differential
• Soild engine and differential mounts
• D1 Spec red wheel nuts

Engine
• ’99 spec 13B-REW engine â€" street ported @ Re:works
• Apexi Power FC ECU. Mapped @ Re:works
• Blitz SUS twin stainless steel induction filter cones
• Polished induction pipes
• Hand polished Plenum, crossover pipe, filler neck and TB
• Greddy compression Throttle elbow
• Silicone hoses. Red
• V-mount. XSpower intercooler/PWR radiator
• Cusco oil catch tank
• HKS 3” down pipe
• Racing Beat duel tip back box exhaust
• HKS ignition Amp
• Magnecor ignition leads
• Uprated fuel pressure regulator
• Uprated aluminium AST
• Custom made power steering bottle cap. Aluminium
• Re-Amemiya Oil Cap
• Re located battery to behind the passsenger seat

Pictures







First thing i wanted to do was brighten up the engiine bay a bit. So out with the Ada7 polishing stuff
And a few days later....


Then came the genuine 99 spec rear lights and Red D1 Wheel nuts



Various pictures










Was lucky enough to get it into Japanese Performance Magazine


Anyway you get the idea

Adam

[RXSpeedy]

Lovely RX, engine bay looks soo much neater with no battery there. Polishing looks very nice as well.

[gsb876]

very nice all over there Adam :cheers

[Nik da Greek]

\'tis a lovely car :yes. Even the rear seats are surprisingly comfortable :rollin. It\'s impressive how you made an already excellent car even nicer with a few touches like losing the chav lights and sorting out the engine bay and such. It\'ll be even nicer with a nice shiny new ported motor in there

[Test Drives Unlimited]

Looks a very nice car you got there Adam :cool

[Ada7]

For a while now my car has been using up coolent. No leaks have been found but after attending one show when it got very hot on the way in the engine started to only start up on one rotor so i was told that the water seals were on their way out. D\'oh!!
Maybe the 15 drag run in one day at Rotorstock didnt help to much :p
So i decided to get the engine out (with some help) and get that looked at by Era. So a day was sorted out and with Nik and Kieron we set to work

Started out looking fine to me


But with lots of this....


...plenty of this....


... and even a little...


We eventually got it looking like this...


Ahh there\'s the missing bit


Its scary when you see all your lovely parts scattered over the floor :o


So with the engine in safe gorilla like hands i set about tidying things up a little. Queue the polishing

Rear turbo pipe. This.....


... to this


Ali side step


And then got a little carried away and did the FPR a little too


Seeing as they looked a little beyond my limited skills i\'ve sent the water pump housing, alternator and power steering plate off for polishing too
So thats how it stands now.
Touched up some rusty bits and bobs in the engine bay and now trying to figure out the dark art that is single turbos.

If anyone can think of anthing else i can do while the engine is out do please say

Adam

[Nik da Greek]

Perfect opportunity to get polishing all the suspension arms

Hmmm, you seem to have caught me on a rare bad hair day :rollin

....you bought a tubby yet, dude?

[Ada7]

Would love to do all the underside (subframes and all that) but maybe not just yet.
Not got a turbo yet but will get something sorted out soon i\'m sure. You still interested in the 99s?

Adam

[Nik da Greek]

At the right price

[russellparkerx]

Leave those 99s on Adam!  Just realised how similar our builds are.  Who built yours?

[Ada7]

The 99 spec turbos are off and will be up for sale soon. Already have one potential buyer for them. Got something else to take their place
Which bit do you mean Russell?

Adam

[chrisJDM]

very nice adam looking good :Thumbsup!

[CharlieP]

99spec turbos all the way!
Good choice Nik!!!
 
Singles are for wussies

[Ada7]

The postman \'dropped\' this off at my door the other day.


And inside it had all these lovely bits


Everyone seems to do the \'can for scale\' photo so i thought i\'d do the same but this is all i had at the time :p


Plent more polsihing to be getting on with when i have some spare time

Adam

[Nik da Greek]

Wow!


































you can afford proper Heinz after buying that turbo!? I thought it\'d be Lidl\'s own brand :Giggle


Only kidding, looks great. Wish my postie brought pressies like that, all I got today was the bloody road tax reminder :mad: