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Well since my VW is pretty much done and I have done everything in iit I wanted to do as far as goals I wanted something else to play with this summer and started looking for an Mazda FC shell. Well As I was looking Hoblick posted up hae had one for sae with a V8 swap already in it. I got one hell of a deal but I had to promise him that one minor detail would happen this summer to it.......
This is How she sits since buying it at the beginning of winter in 08.
N/A 1987 Mazda RX7
Car came turn key,with
Stock 5.0L H.O. conversion out of a 1991 Mustang
T-5 World trans
Oil Pressure
Temp sensor
Car has been thru 2-3 people I have found out and even found pics of the engine going in for the first time....
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It will stay with me for a while hopefully and I plan on pushing this car to its limits...
Why did I choose this path?
Easy. I knew nothing about V8's or the ford world. I kept up to par with Ls1;s and knew what not to race but to me the 5Liter motor is pretty intresting little motor to beable to support 500hp and not skip a beat. This is a new learnig process for me and I am trying to do most of the work myself in order to know and have more knowledge then just sending it off to a shop to have them turn a wrench, Id rather my self be responisible and I'll be the only one to blame if something fucks up.
Now dont get me wrong here but I already needed help on my brakes, Hell we beat on them for 2 days with no luck and they maxed out a 10,000lb press... thats out of my league as far as tools so i took it to will at 614 streets and he hooked it up. tuning will be done by Lasota and thats about it. I might even try to do some welding myself...
Live and learn.
Brakes
Since then I have gotten it a five lug conversion with TII brakes all around and the Ebrake was fixed by "614 streets" He also had to help me and get the rotors off of the Aluminum hubs witch were a pain in the ass altogether. So in all the car has a completely new calipers all the way around with rotors and pads.
Thats it so far. and here are some pics.