EDIT 17/11/20: Ugh fucking web hackers destroying my thread. I'll try and piece back together what I had saved for future reference. Sorry if it doesn't make sense and for the missing posts I'm patching together what I can
I’ve been meaning to write this up for a while but any spare time I had was donated to the build. So now I’m stuck on a plane and already watched Deadpool twice so figured I’d do this. Update: Didn’t finish it back then so I’m having another go. Update 2: Ok third go now and it’s about 6 months after the first attempt. Same long haul shit flight pretty much so anyway here we go. If shit doesn’t seem like it’s in order that’s because it’s not completely and I started this build almost 2.5 years ago.
I swore I wouldn’t own a cross purpose car after my last one which was registered and sucked at being a street car and sucked at racing too. I want a dedicated track car so there are no difficult decisions or compromises to be made every time I want to make a modification. Plus driving on the roads in Australia without losing your licence is about as risky as sharing a crack needle in Africa so having a big HP street car was not what I wanted.
Then at some point I decided that past Luke was wrong and I can totally make it work this time. Dick. So the theory is procure one of my hero cars, an FD3S RX7, because I’ve always wanted one however I can’t speak rotary. So I then remove the unwanted bits (anything with oil) and then plug in an LS because it’s proven, simple, relatively un-stressed and doesn’t completely destroy the chassis balance (TBC). Some brief research suggested not a huge weight increase over stock, fitting kits available, and been done quite a bit before in the USA so lots of information out there. I like having something different but I’m too time poor to pioneer something from scratch and make my own conversion bits. So in the end I would have a compromise car that would not be the quickest in any area but should be plenty fast enough on the track to be enjoyable while still being a well behaved street car despite the obvious entry-egress issues.
So I picked the car up from Rotorhead16 on here back in about May 2016 with a pretty sad motor. The car itself is a MY2000, Series 8, Version V, Type RS and it is very clean and genuine low-ish kms (90k). The Type RS is a pretty cool variant (there are fifty billion special edition FDs- see Bab’s thread) because it comes with larger brakes, higher power turbos, twin oil coolers, 4.3 diff ratio (up from 4.1), different box (taller fifth) to account for the diff ratio- ie a bunch of functional stuff as opposed to trim pieces. This particular car also came with aftermarket bits that were either good to keep or sell- Apexi PFC, Trust intercooler, SMB/HKS exhaust, AST, Cusco coilovers, and 2 sets of rims- fancy Work Meister 18s and my personal favourite- Rays Gram Lights 17s. I envisage the car having a bit of side wall and a bit of ride height to go with the donkey V8 muscle.
So the deal was done, Josh wound the coilovers up a bit for transport and it was trucked up from Canberra to Brisbane after much rooting around with Ceva’s retarded logistics.
First thing to do was take the bits out I don’t want and sell them.
This thing
That thing
These things
I’ve been meaning to write this up for a while but any spare time I had was donated to the build. So now I’m stuck on a plane and already watched Deadpool twice so figured I’d do this. Update: Didn’t finish it back then so I’m having another go. Update 2: Ok third go now and it’s about 6 months after the first attempt. Same long haul shit flight pretty much so anyway here we go. If shit doesn’t seem like it’s in order that’s because it’s not completely and I started this build almost 2.5 years ago.
I swore I wouldn’t own a cross purpose car after my last one which was registered and sucked at being a street car and sucked at racing too. I want a dedicated track car so there are no difficult decisions or compromises to be made every time I want to make a modification. Plus driving on the roads in Australia without losing your licence is about as risky as sharing a crack needle in Africa so having a big HP street car was not what I wanted.
Then at some point I decided that past Luke was wrong and I can totally make it work this time. Dick. So the theory is procure one of my hero cars, an FD3S RX7, because I’ve always wanted one however I can’t speak rotary. So I then remove the unwanted bits (anything with oil) and then plug in an LS because it’s proven, simple, relatively un-stressed and doesn’t completely destroy the chassis balance (TBC). Some brief research suggested not a huge weight increase over stock, fitting kits available, and been done quite a bit before in the USA so lots of information out there. I like having something different but I’m too time poor to pioneer something from scratch and make my own conversion bits. So in the end I would have a compromise car that would not be the quickest in any area but should be plenty fast enough on the track to be enjoyable while still being a well behaved street car despite the obvious entry-egress issues.
So I picked the car up from Rotorhead16 on here back in about May 2016 with a pretty sad motor. The car itself is a MY2000, Series 8, Version V, Type RS and it is very clean and genuine low-ish kms (90k). The Type RS is a pretty cool variant (there are fifty billion special edition FDs- see Bab’s thread) because it comes with larger brakes, higher power turbos, twin oil coolers, 4.3 diff ratio (up from 4.1), different box (taller fifth) to account for the diff ratio- ie a bunch of functional stuff as opposed to trim pieces. This particular car also came with aftermarket bits that were either good to keep or sell- Apexi PFC, Trust intercooler, SMB/HKS exhaust, AST, Cusco coilovers, and 2 sets of rims- fancy Work Meister 18s and my personal favourite- Rays Gram Lights 17s. I envisage the car having a bit of side wall and a bit of ride height to go with the donkey V8 muscle.
So the deal was done, Josh wound the coilovers up a bit for transport and it was trucked up from Canberra to Brisbane after much rooting around with Ceva’s retarded logistics.
First thing to do was take the bits out I don’t want and sell them.
This thing
That thing
These things
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