I've always wanted to use an RX7 for racing, although starting with trackdays seems to be the best first step. I originally planned to use my black S3, Sylvester, as a track car, so I did the 13B conversion, and managed a couple of trackdays in it, although never really converted it to a track car, it has full interior, soft suspension etc. I saw this yellow car come up for sale which looked to be much closer to a track car, so rather than strip apart my black car and molest another of these rare cars, I thought I'd get this one which already has been stripped out! I can't feel bad about stripping one of these into a track car when someone else already did it haha.
This car was originally built by Dwayne at silverfern performance, he used it for some trackdays, but then his friend drove it and blew it up and it sat in his workshop. Then a guy called chris, who was a customer of Dwayne's with an FC, saw the car in the workshop, and bought it, and got Dwayne to bring it back to life, so it got a fresh rebuilt 12A half bridge, with weber 48 IDA. Chris didn't even get the car finished running in, he discovered a fuel leak and stopped driving it. He then made a move to Spain and sold up.
I bought the car, I called it top cat (got to have a silly cartoon name
). I suspected the fuel leak was a rusty fuel tank, so I bought a NOS fuel tank, pulled the old one out, realised it was just the sender gasket leaking! I fitted it with the leak fixed, but then I ended up not doing much else with the car for a long time. My excuse is I had a busy year last year buying my first house and renovating it, also I go to Uni part time, and was busy with work too, I went to the manufacturing plant in the Philippines for the company I work for. Oh and I was silly and bought a 1990 Nissan Skyline haha, and I daily drove my black car for quite a bit of last year too so at least I did some driving!
Anyway I should have a bit more time to spend on this car now the house is finished.
I plan to race this car, I am aiming to run it in the Classic Sports Car Club's "Future Classics" championship which is for 70s and 80s cars. So I have started pulling it apart to be able to get a roll cage made. I want to get a welded in T45 roll cage which will meet MSA circuit racing regs, possibly FIA homologated.
For some reason the steering shaft dissapeared down inside the column, so I can't grip it well to pull it out and I can't get a steering wheel back on to turn the wheels
pictures. Thanks for that.