Ksnew's Fd3s build

[ksneww]

Hey guys, I've had a build thread going on in a local forum for a little while now, but havnt posted on here yet, So here we go.

First off, I'd like to say, I bought the car back in December, 2010 already swapped, so I don't take credit for doing the swap.

How it was when I first bought it
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Specs:

-1998 Camaro SS LS1 w. T56 6speed (working OBDII port)
-ECU Serviced - removed VATS, two o2's... little stuff
-Granny Speed Shop Subframe
-Granny Speed Shop Transmission Crossmember
-Granny Speed Shop Torque Arm
-Granny Speed Shop Engine Mounts
-Granny Speed Shop Driveshaft
-RPS Stage 3 Clutch
-CYN-R-G Segmented Flywheel
-Wilwood 7/8ths Master Cylinder
-Hinson Super Cars Master Cylinder Adapter
-JTR Long Tube headers
-3" Off road Y Pipe w. V-bands
-3" HKS Hi-Power Cat-back
-G.E.T. Coilovers
- Other little stuff.

The day after I brought it home, I went up to Atlanta to pick up a set of wheels for her, and the day after that a friend and I started on getting the fitment right.

Rolling the fenders so I could fit my new wheels
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Wheels/specs : WedsSport SA70 17x9+20 18x10+18
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Couple fitment pics

Front fitment was just ok
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Rear fitment was money
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Basically, It stayed this way, with little changes, for about a year.

Well, after about a year, I got bored of the car, changed a few things up. (most of the work was done in the dark after work, so I don't have many pictures of the work :/ sorry.)

I changed a few things up with the motor, along with the body.

Motor wise, with the help of friends, we did a heads/cam swap.

New motor specs:

Heads: TSP PRC Stage 2.5 Heads
Cam: TSP MS3
Intake manifold: BBK SSI Ported and polished. The mouth was ported to 92mm to accommodate for the throttle body, and the runners were ported to match the ports of the heads
Throttle Body: PTM 92mm

I had to get a custom adapter made as well for the throttle body to work. The throttle body was 4 bolt, and the intake was 3. so i took it to a local machine shop, and had a .5" spacer/adapter made.
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Engine Bay pic: (messy, it was still a work in progress at the time)
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Well, long story short, The car is finally ready to be tuned, we start tuning it, and fry the 98 pcm, which if you dont have any experience with gm engine control, suck in short.

Instead of buying another 98 pcm, I searched a ls1 forum for a nice 99-02 pcm and decided to re-pin my harness once I find one. After about a month of searching, I found a really nice 2002 pcm, and buy it. So the fun began. (again, no pics, sorry guys) So I started to re-pin my harness, which is about 200(?) wires. It took me about a month to do, working on it off and on.

[ksneww]

Along with the engine, I'm changing up a few things with the body and the suspension as well.

Here's a couple pictures of the progress:

The first thing I bought was this origin style rear bumper, i figured i'm going to cut it up anyways, so no point in buying the real thing.

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Then I traded a re-amemiya style rear diffuser I had for a set of 50mm origin over fenders. The bumper, and over fenders didnt clear each other, so I began cutting them up to make them fit together.

First cut
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second cut
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finished result after doing some fiberglass work and adding some body filler.

http://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/s566/ksnew1992/bt20_zps7432e9bb.jpg

I did the same for my side skirts as well.
http://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/s566/ksnew1992/bt16_zps4655cc38.jpg

http://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/s566/ksnew1992/bt18_zps9e078623.jpg

[ksneww]

Traded my stock hood for a shine spec gt hood a few days ago, pretty excited about this considering it was local, and I've been wanting one for a while.

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Ordered my gauges, but couldnt find a gauge pod I liked, so i built one myself out of pvc elbows. nothing to brag about by any means, but it turned out looking ok, so I decided it was worth posting...
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Gauges are STRI oil pressure, oil temp, coolant temp, and AEM uego wideband

[ksneww]

Picked up some modded knuckles

Stock vs. moded.
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I ended up getting super now tie rod ends, and pbm inner tie rod spacers as well. still debating if i should do inner tie rods and extended control arms, or just wait.

Got some work done by Andy at RaceFAB.. gotta say I'm very happy with his work.

Hand brake mounting bracket
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Dual brake caliper setup
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[ksneww]

Picked up some supporting mods for my previously listed mods.
-Katech rod bolts
-Improved racing oil pan baffle
-Improved racing oil cooler adapter w/thermostat
-Ls2 Timing chain
-Super now outter tie rod ends
-Pbm tie rod spacers

improved racing oil pan baffle and oil cooler adapter. (I decided just to go with a fc oil cooler, I would imagine it will be more than enough, but please correct me if im wrong)

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new diff bushings. (super pro? i dont remember)
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Katech rod bolts
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ls7 lifters
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cometic head gaskets
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arp head bolts
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ls2 timing chain
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Well long story short... We go to add all the supporting mods, pull the motor, pull the heads to put the ls7 lifters in, and noticed some things not right. pulled the pan (for the first time) and noticed the motor showed a lot of wear as if it had a lot of miles on it. So we decided to tear down the motor and do a complete rebuild.

Sent the heads, block, and crank to the machine shop to have work done to them. nothing extensive, just re-surfacing everything, and re-honing the block.

[Got Insulin?]

The PVC elbow pods are kind of ingenious, I dig 'em for a homebrew sort of set-up.

[ksneww]

As far as the rest of the wide body, here's the progress so far.

Finishing up the side skirts (still not 100% done)
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Picked up a set of origin front fenders
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http://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/s566/ksnew1992/bt43_zps0140933d.jpg
(nvm the temp brackets for the oil cooler. just needed to get measurements for the an lines)
http://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/s566/ksnew1992/bt31_zps5eaa62d2.jpg
Also cut my quarter pannels. trying something a little different from the traditional fold up and weld technique.
http://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/s566/ksnew1992/bt35_zps54fd8515.jpg
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Starting to come together
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[ksneww]

Recently bought a sexy style tail light cover. Pretty excited about this, been looking for one for a while, and they're pretty hard to come by.
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[ksneww]

Other misc. stuff... one of my headlight motors burned out, so I decided to make pop ups into fixed lights.
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Still gotta finish building the buckets and mounting tabs.

and lastly, I recently picked up an oem style roof wing from shine.

Decided to shave the tear drop.
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[ksneww]

Tossed around the idea of vortex generators. still undecided. I'm going to have to do more things to make the aero more aggressive if I do...
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If i do end up doing them, im also going to chop my bumper and build a diffuser, along with a couple of other things with the aero.

the last few months the car has been at a stand still. but i should start up working on it again soon, so i'll be sure to keep it updated once i start messing around with this turd again.

As of right now, the motor is out of the car and torn down to the bare block, and has been machined along with the crank and the heads. I still have to buy pistons, main, and rod bearings, main bolts, new valves, and some other misc. items before its time to drop the motor back in. The wide body just needs a couple more things before its ready for paint.

[ksneww]

The PVC elbow pods are kind of ingenious, I dig 'em for a homebrew sort of set-up.

Thanks, I'm surprised how many positive things people have said about the gauge pod. I've also had some people flaming over it too though haha. I don't really care personally, they cost me less than $15 to build including the pvc, glue, and paint, and they don't look bad, and work perfectly fine.

I just took a thick piece of plastic (I actually cut up an old s13 dash i had laying around for the piece of plastic lol) and made a base plate, popped out the speaker/speaker cover there in the center, and that's how i mounted them.

I think im going to order some shades from prosport to give all the gauges a uniform look since the aem has a different face.

[FaLKoN240]

Your work is bad ass. I'm digging the changes you've made to it already.

LOVE that tail light cover!!!

[Dolph_KYAS13]

As much as I think a stock bodied FD is perfect, I do like the DIY approach to this build. Its nice to see someone using their brain and making/ modding parts rather than buying all parts from a catalogue.

[ksneww]

Your work is bad ass. I'm digging the changes you've made to it already.

LOVE that tail light cover!!!

Well thank you! starting out, I had no clue how to do any kind of fiberglass work, and had minimal experience with body work.. I'm actually getting pretty good at it now lol. I'm not building a show car quality car, but it's looking pretty damn good over all.. Especially considering more than likely it's all going to get smashed up anyways. Can't wait to get it all one color again. And i couldnt be happier about finding that tail light cover.. I've been looking for one even before I decided to go widebody. Two years later, I finally have one!

As much as I think a stock bodied FD is perfect, I do like the DIY approach to this build. Its nice to see someone using their brain and making/ modding parts rather than buying all parts from a catalogue.

Thanks! Yeah, that was my thing, I wanted a more aggressive look, but I got tired of seeing the same feed or burnout wide body, so I used bits and pieces from different ones and made it all flow. It's starting to shape up nicely! After I finish the body work and get it painted, I'll just need aggressive wheels.

[FaLKoN240]

Damn maybe I should learn how to fiberglass shit...

[ksneww]

lol, i watched like two youtube tutorials and then went for it

[boost cruising]

nice FD where did you get that gauge pod set up

[ksneww]

nice FD where did you get that gauge pod set up

Thanks, I made it out of pvc elbows and some scrap plastic I had laying around the house

[hillclimb240sx]

this thing is going to be awesome when its done

[510erv]

loving this build

[ksneww]

this thing is going to be awesome when its done

Thanks man, it's been down for a while now, I cant wait to get this thing back out at the track.


loving this build

Thanks! I've been working on it pretty hard. I'm just trying to do something a little different than what you typically see, but still look good at the same time haha

[bc.]

I am hating what you did to the body of this car. It was so good before, this isn't a dime a dozen pos like a 240sx, but you turned it into one. I was willing to stomach the LS swap, since it looked like it was done legit, but man, you ruined a perfectly good FD.

The end result may turn out cool in a rat-rod/death race kind of way, but damn, why didn't you start with something less fresh...... rant over.

[ksneww]

I am hating what you did to the body of this car. It was so good before, this isn't a dime a dozen pos like a 240sx, but you turned it into one. I was willing to stomach the LS swap, since it looked like it was done legit, but man, you ruined a perfectly good FD.

The end result may turn out cool in a rat-rod/death race kind of way, but damn, why didn't you start with something less fresh...... rant over.

Honestly the car wasn't all that great. The swap was clean but that's the only thing it really had going for it. The chassis had nearly 200k on it, it was originally red, and was painted black with single stage paint from o'rileys, all the jams were rattle canned satin black and were chipping so you saw all the red when you opened the doors...It took good pictures I guess, but in person the body/paint wasn't all that great. I understand where you're coming from, but the chassis it's self wasn't anything spectacular to begin with. Don't get me wrong, she ain't going to be a show car when I'm done with her, but she'll look pretty damn mean... In the end, either way it would have gotten smashed up anyways so why not look good doing it.. Plus fiberglass repair is easy stuff

[snow hawk]

Beautiful car man! You're making me miss my FD now... :naw: I love that tail light cover, it looks dope! keep up the build man, I'm curious to see where your own style bodywork goes. Sub'd for sure!

[FaLKoN240]

I am hating what you did to the body of this car. It was so good before, this isn't a dime a dozen pos like a 240sx, but you turned it into one. I was willing to stomach the LS swap, since it looked like it was done legit, but man, you ruined a perfectly good FD.

The end result may turn out cool in a rat-rod/death race kind of way, but damn, why didn't you start with something less fresh...... rant over.

Oh man, there's always someone that "knows how to build your car better than you do."

Get outta here. Looks good.

[ksneww]

Beautiful car man! You're making me miss my FD now... :naw: I love that tail light cover, it looks dope! keep up the build man, I'm curious to see where your own style bodywork goes. Sub'd for sure!

I'm interested to see where the bodywork goes too hahahaha

[ksneww]

Oh man, there's always someone that "knows how to build your car better than you do."

Get outta here. Looks good.

Yeah, I've learned since I started this build. I have noticed it's kind of one of those you either love it or hate it builds though.

[soundboy]

Nice mods. Glad to see its a DIY project

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[ksneww]

Nice mods. Glad to see its a DIY project

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Thanks..I was going to try to finish up my head lights today, but the rain had other plans -__-... I need to make room for this turd in the garage

[bc.]

Honestly the car wasn't all that great. The swap was clean but that's the only thing it really had going for it. The chassis had nearly 200k on it, it was originally red, and was painted black with single stage paint from o'rileys, all the jams were rattle canned satin black and were chipping so you saw all the red when you opened the doors...It took good pictures I guess, but in person the body/paint wasn't all that great. I understand where you're coming from, but the chassis it's self wasn't anything spectacular to begin with. Don't get me wrong, she ain't going to be a show car when I'm done with her, but she'll look pretty damn mean... In the end, either way it would have gotten smashed up anyways so why not look good doing it.. Plus fiberglass repair is easy stuff
Ah, I didn't realize it was in such tough shape. I will withhold my judgment for the end result, good luck on your build sir!

[SupaDoopa]

Please don't do the vortex generators. You'll lose all the sleekness you have going right now with nice, fluent lines.

[ksneww]

yeah, if i do them, its going to be with less, and they're not going to just be flat pieces. i just did that to sort of give me an idea of the over all look. still undecided on them

[Royal_T]

Great build so far.. Going to look mean

[ksneww]

Great build so far.. Going to look mean

Thanks, progress right now is pretty slow, not going to lie, but I'm starting to get motivated to start working on it again... i just want to go fast again.

[ksneww]

Started to weld up my quarter panels.... even though it was raining and my car's outside right now. i'll post pics of the progress when i have a chance to

[ksneww]

Made my head light bucket templates, and cut out the sheet metal for them today... Couldn't get my hands on a 110 welder today before it started to rain, so we didn't get them finished yet. Didn't really take any pictures since we were trying to knock it out, and beat the rain.
(for some reason wal-mart only had hot pink card stock, found that odd)
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[ksneww]

Nearly finished one of my headlights today. I actually remembered to take a few pictures for the build thread too! lol.

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Rough idea of what it'll look like when it's finished.... Still have a few more things to do before it's done though.
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[ksneww]

Nearly everything is mounted... Still need to attach the side skirt and rear bumper to the over fenders where they meet, and still have to figure out a better way to mount my tail light cover other than double sided tape. Already wanting to change up the side skirts some, and I'm not feeling the front bumper anymore at all. Going to get a version select V2 when the opportunity arises. In the mean time, time to start prepping the car for paint!
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[soundboy]

I'm also not feeling the front bumper and the front lights. I like the kit however

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[ksneww]

http://carbonfiberhoods.com/media/import/versionselect/large/versionselect_167-fb_04.jpg

This is the bumper i'm going to end up going with. My main focus is getting the car running again though now. and maybe make it all one color.

[IIIXziuR]

Pretty cool stuff so far. I wish I had a sweet FD

[ksneww]

Thanks, it still has a long ways to go though. I'm not building it to be a show car, but I still want it to look somewhat good.

[surge s14]

Mean FD bro bro

[ksneww]

quick shoop of the car all one color on vx110's a buddy of mine did lol
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[ksneww]

Decided to ditch the green and go battleship gray for now.. I'm sure I'll end up re-painting it some other color shortly after it's running again, but this will do for now. the only pieces I had prepped were my roof wing, and tail light cover... Going to prep my hood for paint this afternoon and spray it tomorrow after work.

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[ksneww]

Painted my hood this evening. It got darker quicker than I intended it to, luckily I finished before it was too dark to paint. However, it was too dark to really take a good picture. https://sphotos-b-iad.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/1174759_562522233784030_1630610692_n.jpg

[ksneww]

Made a little progress on the car sunday.

Welded, ground, and filled the holes from the stock wing, and painted a few more pieces.

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Primer
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end result along with a couple more pieces I painted.. I may go back and redo my hatch. theres a couple streaks in it. hopefully I can sand them out, if not I'll tape it all up and redo it.
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[alexander240]

AMAZING!!! what paint did you use?

[7x13]

Good things going on in this thread.

[ksneww]

AMAZING!!! what paint did you use?

Thanks! For the base, it's just a cheap gray I found at lowes. Still have to clear over everything when it's all said and done.

Good things going on in this thread.

Thank you, it's been a long long build, but it's slowly starting to take shape!

Painted my rear bumper today. and played around with ideas where to mount my diff cooler. I think I figured out where I want to put it.

Still have to zip tie my bumper and side skirts to my over fenders.
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Decided the location of my diff cooler, now I have to box my bumper support so there is a nice cubbyhole for the cooler to sit inside, then have to build ducting up to it. and get the lines made and pump wired up and mounted as well.

(its just shoved in there in the pic to get an idea of the size and location of the cooler)
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[ksneww]

yes or no?
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[7x13]

NO. :|
(mgslngth_)

[ksneww]

Yeah, i'm kind of on the fence with them.
more pictures.
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the only reason i'm debating them is because of the lip on the tail light cover. it kind of ties in to me

[FaLKoN240]

Roof wing? Yes. Vortex generators? No.

[ksneww]

Yeah, I'm kind of on the fence with them. I'm wanting to do splitters and canards too. And i'm going to build a diffuser for it as well, so it may tie in better

[ksneww]

weeee picked up some bearings for the beater 5.3 i'm going to throw together to get the car back up and running again. In the mean time, It's time to do it big on the ls1.
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Still debating if I really want to get the block honed, and re-ring it as well, or if i'm just going to get the crank polished and call it a day, and start building this turd.

[ksneww]

It's starting to look like a car again
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[ksneww]

Cleaned up some parts today. My fingertips are pretty much raw now. Also fixed the threads where my intake manifold bolts down on my heads.
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[ksneww]

A buddy of mine and myself decided to go in half on building a blast cabinet to use for a sodium bicarbonate blaster. Only took about an hour total to build, and was pretty cheap to make over all. I can't wait to use this thing tomorrow! It's not complete in the picture, still need to attach long gloves to the arm holes, filter the intake port, and hook up the shop-vac to the exhaust port, then put the lid on it, and seal the lid.
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[ksneww]

Home made soda blaster doing work!
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[heychris]

Link to home made soda blaster?

Ch

Sent using XT912 M

[ksneww]

Link to home made soda blaster?

Ch

Sent using XT912 M

I didnt make a write up for it. It's pretty simple, build a cabinet with a clear container, use an intake and exhaust port, hook up a vacuum to it to knock the baking soda out of the cabinet that is flying around, and then do this with an air chuck. I put it in a big tupperwear container, it worked well, but needs two people to operate it. one to spray and one to make sure the tube is feeding properly. you dont want to just shove it into the soda because it'll clog up... think of it like snorting up baking soda, just take some off the top.
http://www.aircooledtech.com/tools-on-the-cheap/soda_blaster/6.JPG


I'll post more pictures of our actual cabinet/setup tomorrow

[Corbic]

Another one bites the dust!

http://carsmedia.ign.com/cars/image/article/712/712399/the-fast-and-the-furious-tokyo-drift-car-of-the-day-veilside-rx-7-20060613025718361.jpg

[ksneww]

I haven't made a ton of progress on the rx7 lately.. I've been slaving away on another project the past few weeks. Hopefully I'll have the time next weekend to assemble my motor for the rx7 though, so there should be pics/updates coming soon.

I did decide that the gray was too plain looking though. Going to try something out and see how it looks. Here's a pic of the new color
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Hopefully it turns out looking good.

[ksneww]

let me sum up the last few weeks.
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[conrad_s13.5]

your passed few weeks are cool than mine...lol

[ksneww]

I'll get better pictures on my day off.
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[atvrider647]

Sad to see an FD get ruined....

[double zero]

but wait, those tires are the wrong size!!

[ksneww]

lol it's sitting high because the other side of the car has s14 wheels on it and both had flat tires lol. Just needed something to put the car on while I went to go trade my sa70's. I would have put all 4 on but I didn't get home until ~5:00 and had to go buy a new 4 way since mine went missing.... since yesterday -____-... I'll get more pictures of it in better light later this week when I have time.

[FaLKoN240]

Sad to see an FD get ruined....

Where's your cool car?

Build something before you talk shit about his.

[ksneww]

Where's your cool car?

Build something before you talk shit about his.


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[ksneww]

Grabbed some better pictures with both the 18's in the rear.
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[greddy2die]

good shit Kyle

[ksneww]

Miles?

msglength.

[AFSil80]

This thing run yet?

I ain't on FB anymore, so I gotta bust your balls somehow.

[greddy2die]

yeah its Miles

[ksneww]

lol I thought so. I should have it down there for fd next year finally. lol. I think it's been broken, or down for every event down there so far. I picked up an engine stand tonight, so i'm hoping to have the motor built this weekend.

[AFSil80]

Pffft, I'd just drop a junkyard 5.3 in there for the time being while you get the other engine ready.

[ksneww]

Pffft, I'd just drop a junkyard 5.3 in there for the time being while you get the other engine ready.

Peter! good to hear from ya man! Thought you fell off the face of the earth.

That's a good plan and all, BUTTTTTT I'm already building the ls1 ;)
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Put the short block together last night, Just have to clay the pistons to make sure everything clears, and my head gaskets are thick enough, and put the accessories on

[sleepyS14se]

OP, Where in GA are you? I am in Macon Ga!!

[ksneww]

OP, Where in GA are you? I am in Macon Ga!!

I live in the middle Georgia area as well.

[Black R]

Nice, hopefully we'll see this beast at some local events soon.

[ksneww]

Nice, hopefully we'll see this beast at some local events soon.

That's the plan. I'm no not building it just to look pretty

[sleepyS14se]

I live in the middle Georgia area as well.


Nice, I am in Macon over here at Butler Auto supply (next to farmers market)

I have only even seen one other rx7 like yours at the chik fil a on zebulon. I beleive his motor went poop.

I do not participate in any meets due to the youngsters being hostile and most of em just start problems. PM me man. Know of any good meets with older/mature people lol.


i had no idea such a bad ass build could take place in such a dismal town such as macon/ WR :bowdown: to you sir!

[AFSil80]

Yeah, I've gone under the radar for awhile now. Trying to focus on getting school finished. Sold my 240, bought a muscle car to build in the meantime.

I heard through the grapevine you had some hiccups with some of the local LSx "experts". I hope it all works out for ya, man.

[ksneww]

Yeah, I've gone under the radar for awhile now. Trying to focus on getting school finished. Sold my 240, bought a muscle car to build in the meantime.

I heard through the grapevine you had some hiccups with some of the local LSx "experts". I hope it all works out for ya, man.

Yeah man, I heard. I'm surprised! I never thought you would ever sell that thing!
and yeah... took a biiiiigggg hit there. Almost ended up parting out the car when all of that happened, but I have everything straightened out for the most part now, so it is what it is.

[AFSil80]

Hah, I never thought I'd get away from it either. I just got sick of having a car with no end goal in sight. But, I enjoyed it and had a buncha fun with it so I'm at peace with it.

[Russ]

This thing run yet?


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[AFSil80]

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Hahahaha, I miss you buddy.

[ksneww]

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Hahahaha don't worry Russ, it'll be running around the 1st of the year

[t's!]

I love what youve done with the car! not everyones cup of tea but who said Lipton was the choice of drink amongst men???

[sleepyS14se]

would like to see this in person, no such cars exist in macon that i know about lol.

[ksneww]

Thanks man, seems like more people like it than don't. And lol once I get it up and running, I'll meet up with you somewhere man

[sleepyS14se]

are you IN macon or WR?

[maces13]

Wow sick build man. A rx7 with an ls1, its like strapping a rocket to a shoe box ! Haha sweeeet

[ksneww]

haha thanks man, it should be pretty stout. I'd guess It'll make somewhere in the neighborhood of 450-500whp when it's all said and done


DUN DUN DUNNNN

off to the machine shop to get the pistons fly cut.
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[Black R]

What are the specs on the wheels?

[ksneww]

18x10-3/18x12-1 I'm running a 25mm spacer in the rear So effectively 18x12-26 rear. probably going to run a 10-15mm spacer up front so the inner barrel will clear my lca

[ksneww]

Threw the front fenders and wheels on just to snap some pictures of it. Once the motor is in, it will fit pretty good. Lowered the back a little bit more too.

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[Hatemy7]

i love the wheels but wow this car is destroyed.

[sleepyS14se]

^ seriously man?

he bought the car with a LS already in it.... The car was already highly modified to begin with, he is building the car to his personal liking....whats the problem with that??


YO kyle, your wheels make me wanna do bad things...to the wheels. hottness. LOL

Can't wait to see this baby run!!!

[FaLKoN240]

^ seriously man?

he bought the car with a LS already in it.... The car was already highly modified to begin with, he is building the car to his personal liking....whats the problem with that??


YO kyle, your wheels make me wanna do bad things...to the wheels. hottness. LOL

Can't wait to see this baby run!!!

Everyone builds their cars wrong man. Come on.

[sleepyS14se]

Everyone builds their cars wrong man. Come on.


yeah yeah you're right...lol


Everyone always acts like they own the car and have the say-so over how it should be in their eyes..


I have been conversating with the OP being he is in the same city as me and it seems like he has really got his shit together. Props to the OP being 20 years old and having such a badass ride.

[maces13]

i love the wheels but wow this car is destroyed.

I swear every time you post its talking shit about someone's build that is actually good. Exausting.

[blueshark123]

yeah yeah you're right...lol


Everyone always acts like they own the car and have the say-so over how it should be in their eyes..


I have been conversating with the OP being he is in the same city as me and it seems like he has really got his shit together. Props to the OP being 20 years old and having such a badass ride.


Such a badass ride bro zip ties and all, can I join the nut-swinging crew you are in?

[ksneww]

Eh, nothing wrong with zip ties as long as the car is actually being used. Like I said before, it's no show car lol...The side skirts are fucked though, not going to try to deny that. I have a plan for them, Im just focusing on getting the car all one color and running first though.

[lunarbomb]

i really like this car. no accounting for taste i guess.

[AFSil80]

I just hope your fiberglass skills have improved since those pics I saw on FB, haha.

[sleepyS14se]

Did you get the pistons fly cut yet?

[ksneww]

I just hope your fiberglass skills have improved since those pics I saw on FB, haha.

Hahaha yeah, they've gotten better since I started on the back bumper. I haven't done a ton of fiberglass work lately though. Pretty much done with it thankfully. I have something In mind I may try, and if I do end up doing it, I'll be learning how to make molds, and be doing a lot of fiberglass work.

Did you get the pistons fly cut yet?
Not yet, Dropping the motor off at the machine shop today to get them cut

[sleepyS14se]

Hahaha yeah, they've gotten better since I started on the back bumper. I haven't done a ton of fiberglass work lately though. Pretty much done with it thankfully. I have something In mind I may try, and if I do end up doing it, I'll be learning how to make molds, and be doing a lot of fiberglass work.


Not yet, Dropping the motor off at the machine shop today to get them cut

who's cuttin them for ya?


does your dad have a red older ferrari? random ? but a guy just came to my work in an old ferrari LOL

[ksneww]

Mr. Sam out in ft. valley and nope.

[sleepyS14se]

oh ok cool just wondering...

guy and his son pulled up here in like a 89 or 90 model testarossa and the damn thing looked brand new....He had his rich ass prep son with him thought it may have been you! lol jkjk man :D

[ksneww]

lol hardly.

[sleepyS14se]

lol glad it wasn't you

[ksneww]

Just bought this guy. not a big purchase, and nothing that's going to make the car run, but it'll help a ton since it'll bring the wheel closer to my chest and away from my legs more. fd's aren't tall guy friendly :/
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[ksneww]

got the last of the major parts I need to get the car running again. Just need a few an lines now, and I should be good to go.

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[sleepyS14se]

i still is or be waitin to see dis thang run!


hurry up and git-r-done lol

[juvi22003]

coming along nicely, good choice going with the weds kranze bazreia

[ksneww]

lol i'm working on it brett. and thanks, it's getting there slowly.

wanted to work on the car, but the weather didn't really let me work on anything, so I cut my dash and started to get ready to mount my guage pod.
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still have to do some minor trimming here and there, but overall I really, really like it.

[sleepyS14se]

lookin good man!

keep up the good work.

[conrad_s13.5]

who needs passengers anyway,. you should put all 4 of those gauges above the glovebox
....digg the progress

[ksneww]

who needs passengers anyway,. you should put all 4 of those gauges above the glovebox
....digg the progress

lol i'm keeping the gauges on the top of the dash where they are. they're my important ones. the other three gauges aren't going to be as important, just good to know kinda thing so it's ok if they're out of my line of sight while driving.

mounted the gauge pod tonight. still have to do some trimming behind the dash before I can finish it and mount all the gauges.
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[sleepyS14se]

hurry up lol

[Bumpkin203]

Get that thing running man, really want to see a clip of this thing. Keep it up dude!

[sleepyS14se]

kyle someone (maybe myself) needs to put some fire under your ass to get this thing running!!! lol jk man just pumped to see it run!

I know your doing all you can man... This weather the past few days has been so cold i can hardly do anything.

[ksneww]

eh, I'm pretty much at a stand still until my pistons are done getting cut. I called Mr. Sam today and they haven't made it to my stuff yet. So really It's just a waiting game right now.

[ksneww]

Made some progress on the motor, but nothing really wroth going into depth about. on another note, got my 945Garage head light buckets today!

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[ksneww]

Still waiting on the thicker head gaskets to come in... In the mean time, I've been passing time by playing with my 945 garage headlight buckets. I made a couple alterations to them. I like it, I think I'm going to roll with it. It's something a little different from what you usually see.
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[Twat]

God that FD is sick!

[ksneww]

Thanks man. I'm debating what color I want to paint it again lol. Can't decide between black, or a dark metallic green.

[Twat]

I've seen this metallic green Supra around my house so I'd say green, but then again, you can never go wrong with black.

[ehhhregartless]

Looks inspired by R-Magic. What optics do you plan on using?

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[ksneww]

lol I was trying to do something different from rmajic actually. they're 945garage buckets I added onto. Personally I don't think they look anything alike, but I guess there's only so much you can do with that style bucket. I bought 40w 4.000 lumen led's to put behind them.

Got the car out in the driveway and snapped a couple pics.. lowered it a little more too.
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[ksneww]

Ordered a few more parts for the car today. Messed with the head light buckets a little more today too. they're almost ready for paint. just need to peel the plastidip off and fix a couple spots where it's low.

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[sleepyS14se]

looking good man,

whats the status on the engine ?

[ksneww]

It's more or less good to go. just need to do a couple small things like bolt the heads on, and the oil pick up tube and the oil pan... and all of the accessories

[sleepyS14se]

I was in wr yesterday. Then again idk where you live lol, I was gonna come by and check it out

[ksneww]

lol it's not worth checking out right now, trust me.


Diff brace came in yesterday. Got my coilovers in today. pretty happy with everything overall. Can't wait to get the new coilovers on the car.
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I've been under the hood of the poopra the last couple days as well. I think it's finally running right
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[ksneww]

put my tie rod spacers on this evening and lowered the car in the front since I got new coilovers and will have to play with them anyways to get the fitment I want when I get the motor back in it.
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[sleepyS14se]

what is this supra you are referring to...

[ksneww]

it was going to be my dd but i sold it lol.

been off of here for a while. here are some recent pics of things that have happened.

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Still havent actually mounted the headlight buckets, they're just kinda propped up in place, that's why they're not gaped right.
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[510erv]

Car is looking dope

[ksneww]

Thanks man!

Decided to make my other gauge pod less ghetto. Still haven't finished it, but here's the progress so far.
First I used expandable foam and shaped it back to the contour of the dash. Then I used spray adhesive and put a piece of fleece down to start the base of the gauge pod.
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Then cut off the excess.
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Applied resin
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started shaping it once dried
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cut out the shape of the gauge pod, and fiberglassed it in.
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Just been shaping it the past day or so, hopefully I'll get it finished on my day off. then time to wrap it, or paint it, still haven't decided which to do.
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[conrad_s13.5]

looks damn good man,. if i had the patience to try my hand at that,. id prolly redo every bit of my car...lol

should wrap it with something close to the factory dash-like material

[ksneww]

Thanks man, it's getting where I want it to be, slowly but surely.

[ksneww]

Back from the dead. here's some update pictures. enjoy.
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Pretty much sums up every day I try to work on the car.
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got the motor back from the machine shop, assembled it the rest of the way and threw it in the car.
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started actually mounting the headlight covers. Still need to finish prepping them for paint.
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and this is how it sits as of today. Got the headers in, which was kind of a pain in the ass. Had to drop the subframe to get the headers to go in place. Just need to do a bunch of little stuff now and it'll be ready for a tune.
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[ksneww]

well, harness is plugged in, ready to go, drained the old gas, double checked the pin out from where I re-pinned the harness, and plugged in the pcm. as long as all goes as planned, I should be starting this turd up for the first time in nearly two years! https://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xap1/t1.0-9/10455836_691070197595899_4771888340190484588_n.jpg

[ksuberk54]

Looks great man!

[ehhhregartless]

Awesomeness, I know the feeling. You don't have too far to go before it's rippin in all areas

[Royal_T]

Looking good.. Love this thing

[ksneww]

Thanks man. Got the car to fire up a couple of days ago! sent my pcm off to the tuner to have a base map put on it. Ordered an abs delete kit as well to free up some room around the firewall and to get rid of that big bulky pump

[ksneww]

well, now just need to get the rest of the car up to par and able to drive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaqEXNwfyWA

[ksneww]

refinished and started rebuilding my brakes yesterday. Got the fronts rebuilt, then got distracted and went and played disc golf with friends lol. over all they turned out ok.
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[ksneww]

Finished up the abs delete kit that my buddy makes today! There's so much room for activities now!
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[Black R]

Nooo!

I luv abs!

[ksneww]

lol I wasn't using it anyways. my tire ate through the abs harness a long time ago. not to mention I can't use the rear sensors with my dual brake caliper setup.

the car was stuuuuuupid loud straight piped (go figure) since it's a street car I decided to quieten it up a bit. Pretty happy with the results overall.
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[FaLKoN240]

Fucking... Genius...

[GSXRJJordan]

So much of your build and this thread reminds me of doing my widebody FD a few years ago haha, and seeing your fenders and Trash Talk sticker of course reminds me of Jaime's blue car.

I didn't see specs on the engine rebuild, but I'm guessing you milled some off the heads and kept the MS3, great LS1 cam. That BBK manifold is garbage though (flows just OK and heat soaks like mad, you're better off with a 2001-2002 F-body/LS6 manifold or a used FAST90/92 setup), and you need to get your intake out from behind those fans. I've got something like 5 LSx-swapped FD's at the shop at any given time and those are super typical problems that drop power after you've been driving a bit and generally suck.

Putting resonators in the blastpipes is awesome haha. I used to run a pair of the SLP 14" long 3" straight through resonators and the car was still too loud... now I've got more than double the power and run two of the Aero 3" bullet mufflers and it's way too loud to drive without earplugs for more than a lap around the block.

Dash mods are cool, exterior style is rad, really pumped to see this thing go together.

[ksneww]

Thanks guys, overall I'm happy with how it sounds. I think the neighbors think it's still too loud, but fuck em lol.


Specs are rebuilt stock motor, ported and shimmed ls2 oil pump, all new bearings, re-ringed and honed, polished crank to clean it up a little. milled the block .010 just to clean up the deck some. Arp main studs, katach rod bolts, arp head bolts, commetic hg's Tsp prc stage 2.5 heads (the 5.3 ones) ms3, ported and polished bbk ssi, 92mm tb, and 85mm maf.

I agree that the bbk isn't the best intake in the world, but I got a good deal on it so I figured I'd run it over a stock ls1 intake. I'm also going to build an actual intake one of these days before I get the tune finalized. Probably going to pie cut some 3" stainless and run it under the headlight bucket.

Ended up deleting the cable hand brake mechanism on the hydro hand brake calipers. I'll still have my cable mechanism on the factory brakes so I can still use the factory hand brake to park the car or whatever. Hopefully they still work fine lol. I don't see why they wouldn't. I guess I'll find out soon enough.
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[Russ]

so there's where all my spare wheels went

you're welcome

[AFSil80]

so there's where all my spare wheels went

you're welcome

:/

msglgth

[ksneww]

Back from the dead. I finally got my shit together and got the car running and stopping under it's own power today. Here's a couple of pictures of it out of the driveway for once.
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[ruler]

The RX7 with Cankles

[ksneww]

The RX7 with Cankles

lmao mark


-msglngth

[DanielS14]

your exhaust.... genius!!!


loooooove this car man

[ksneww]

thanks man. Drove the car to work today and I didn't die. That was cool.
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[anothersr20]

I think I just fell in love with your car..

[2jz350z]

you going to build a bash bar/skid plate for that radiator sir? build looks fun usually not a fan of v8s but its hard going hard with rotary. keep it up

[slammed_fc]

its not hard to go all out with rotary...

[ksneww]

once I get around to it yeah I'll build a skid plate for it. I'm having issues with my factory chassis harness right now. about to rip everything out of it and just rewire the whole car.

[ksneww]

Back from the dead. a friend and myself rewired the chassis and it's up and going again. here's a few pictures.

Here's the finalized engine harness panel.
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as you can see, we went with breakers instead of fuses and used gm weather pack connectors to make the panel somewhat easy to remove for maintenance or any other need. As far as the body harness goes we still have a lot of work but it's roughly wired. Everything works and I can drive it but we need to go back and finalize everything and make a panel similar to the engine side.

got the steering components all sorted out and whatnot. Got the car to finally align right and was able to get 6.5* of camber out of it.
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also another friend and myself painted the car. prepped it, blocked it, primed it and sprayed it all in roughly 8 hours. Since we were busy trying to get it knocked out I didn't snag very many pictures of the car while prepping/painting it.
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End result.
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Got an alignment and stuff.
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then drove the car, with realitively no run time on it up to TN/NC to deals gap for DGRR.
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and this is how it sits now.
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overall, I'm very happy with how the car acted. There's a few things I need to go back and fix/change but for the most part it's pretty solid. I still have to get the car caged but for now I'm going to enjoy it and drive it some for a change. It's been down nearly 3 1/2 years total so I'm itching to put some miles on it again.

[laurentj23]

Which engine shop you go to to get your ls refreshed?

[ksneww]

Which engine shop you go to to get your ls refreshed?

I rebuilt it myself with the help of a couple friends

[ksneww]

Back from the dead again.

Drove the car around and worked more minor bugs out and then went ahead and installed my two way and built a custom cradle/brace as well for the diff.

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Pressed out the old worn diff bushings and replaced them with sikky solid bushings.

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the beginnings of the cradle. I wanted to support as much of the casing as possible since fd casings are known for splitting. I also brought the cradle up where it braced the diff mount its self in the narrowest point to help prevent it from breaking in the future.

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Finished product (for now) still gotta go back and add beefier arms to actually brace it to the chassis but in the mean time I'm just using my current aftermarket brace.
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It seems to be working. I've been pretty hard on the car and it hasn't broke yet lol. I'm also running drive shaft shop axles now so hopefully I won't break anymore axles.

[ksneww]

apart from building the diff I haven't made too many changes to the car lately. I did buy a set of adjustable trailing arms so now I will have fully adjustable rear camber.
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Here's a few shots of the car as it sits from the past couple of months. I don't have many pics of how the car looks since it's been painted on here yet.

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Still haven't had the time or money to go to an event and really shake down the car yet. There's an event coming up next month I may try to make it to just to see how the car does.

The next big plan for the car in the near future is to start on the cage.