A sneak peek at the car before it goes in for vinyl.
New Enkei RPF1 wheels, BN Sport type2 kit, Foresight roof wing, YoursSport wing.
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With the new LS2 running flawlessly at Taupo in standard form, I was quite happy with the car. But I had bigger plans in mind, and there was a lot of grip to take advantage of if we had a bit more power. It was time to crack open the fresh 6litre LS2 and free up some ponies.
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Put the rx7 on corner weights Wednesday night, it was already surprisingly good! Only made one slight adjustment to the front right coilover.
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Courtesy of Eastern Automotive, the RX7 is now all tuned up and ready to test this weekend at Taupo!
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Over the past few weeks we have been working hard to get my FC3S up and running. With Tristan and I working some late nights, the RX7 should be making noise this weekend for the first time in over a year! Here’s a few specs on what has been added to the 2012 rebuild -
Thanks to Mike at Eastern Automotive, we now have a Holden LS2 6litre alloy v8 slotted in the engine bay.
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You may have noticed the lack of posts to this blog over the last couple weeks, well I can tell you it isn’t due to me being lazy! We’ve been hard at work with the Silvia to get it ready and tested for the up-coming season. My deadline that I set myself was the ZeroClass track day at Taupo on September 17th. We made it in typical fashion, with only just finishing the car the night before, and I can say that the results were WELL worth the effort.
But before we get to the track day, I’ll show you through a bit of what’s happened over the last two weeks.
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The old girl Silvia is headed in to Eastern Automotive Performance Center tomorrow morning for dyno tuning. Shortly after that I’m planning to re-do the graphics at Demon Graphics. Should I stick with the same theme with stars, or should I mix it up a bit? Any ideas?
-Andrew
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Last year my Silvia was quite neglected by myself, having only one alignment, minimal servicing, and it hadn’t been on the dyno since 2009! Needless to say, it was time to give her a bit of attention.
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After we found out that the piston in our LS6 had failed, I had a couple options on my mind. Either I was going to get factory replacement pistons and rods and run it like that, or sell it and upgrade to a larger displacement motor. Unfortunately, due to time restrictions, I won’t be able to do the latter this season, and I really didn’t want to put factory items back in either.
The solution for me was simple, purchase brand new forged pistons and rods, along with a swag of other upgrades from USA. Among these items were:
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After having the rx7 painted last weekend, we got straight in to re-assembling everything. I’ve found you have to be REALLY careful with black paint, as it shows every mark if you don’t keep it clean.
Currently, the car has a 5.7 litre LS1 out of 2000 model Camaro in it. We will get it running with this setup until the new 5.7 litre LS6 race motor is fully built for the second round of D1NZ.
The car will be on display at Speedshow 2010 at ASB Showgrounds 24th & 25th July.
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