BN Sports Blister Kitted RX7 (Daily) by Kruizer

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Another small update :

GTR Style Intake Plenum arrived from Garage-D :

ACL Race Bearings and Trust Washers arrived from the states, posted them up to Gripfab :

And I decided to clean off my wheel polishing workbench :

So she is all powerhosed down and ready for 6 cylinders, should be going up to Gripfab next week as the RX8 is coming home

6-5-2013

Pulled the S13 shell out of the driveway, RX7 out of the garage and got them ready for their trip to Gripfab last night :

Should be seeing more of the RX7 come the end of July middle of August, plan is to rebuild the engine, fit it and get her going. So now off she goes :

In the meantime looks whats back in the driveway to keep me busy

6-25-2013

So the rebuild is well under way, a fully forged RB25, what do you think

6-27-2013

Agreed but straight 6 will do for now

Small engine update, said while it was all apart may as well freshen up the engine so the block has gone black and the covers super white, looking forward to seeing her finished now  May polish up the turbo housing now too.

10-15-2013

Well I haven't posted an updated on the RX7 in quiet a while so I thought it best to check in  Realistically it has been issue after issue with the build but these are the joys of going custom. As you all know the bearings were in sh*t so the freshly built engine had to be rebuilt. As the piping wouldn't allow the bonnet to close I went for the GTR style intake plenum which has brought along its on problems as it faces the throttle body directly into the back of the light motor but there is a fix being worked.

What took a while to figure out was the placement of the engine and we learned that the RB25 sump just wouldn't cut it regardless of how it could be modified so Brendan S. sourced an RB30 sump however it was too deep and would hit the road so that had to be modified also, arrrgggghhhh.... 

So yesterday the engine bay got a fresh lick of paint and now it should be going back together, its been a long journey but getting all the mechanical side of things sorted first was key and we're on the home stretch. All this would not have been possible without the aid of Gripfab so massive shout out to John, Brendan and Bryan, cheers lads for converting not only the RX7 but the RX8 and sure we've a KP61 to go at yet  

More updates to follow over the next week or two. Tis good to be on the way back with this one, it will be the weekend bus after all

10-19-2013

Cheers dude, not far off...

Bit of an update :

Nice and snug against the bulkhead :

Turbo manifold has to be modified as the turbo sits too high :

But she looks at home in the new white bay, mock up rockers on to keep the white ones clean for now...

Intake plenum had to be chopped and modified as it pointed into the back of the headlight, adapter is being made up now for the throttle body as we'll be keeping all the piping 3"...

Top mounts for the rad and intercooler are made, next up the bottom, hence the wood

More next week

So John dropped the bonnet and cut it so it would close, first run looked like this :

So that wasn't going to work, the only way around it was to chop the exhaust manifold in multiple places and basically make it work better, John did an awesome job cause I still wanted a bit of turbo to say hello So this is where we are at, I was going to build a hump into the bonnet but I may just polish the housing and tidy up the cut line, getting excited now to see her done