Power Upgrade, Supporting Mods?

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It'll handle 300 all day. It's the extra torque of the turbo that slowly kills it.

Clutch type (my personal preference) or Torsen will go in there.

See here for LSD diffs:

http://www.rx7fb.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=1757
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KiwiDave wrote:
gt_james wrote:. Koni AW11 MR2 front dampers drop into stock strut tubes .
Correction , it's AW11 MR2 rear dampers that fit into stock strut tubes

http://www.rx7fb.com/viewtopic.php?f=8& ... =20#p27789
I know, I meant they fit our fronts.
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As far as handling, there are things that can be done to help the rear, like softening the upper bushes, and using loads of grease and locknuts to allow the inner race of the bushing to rotate. The roll centre has to be corrected by fabricating a new watts link or panhard rod.

There are some drawbacks to the FC subframe. the FC has very different chassis rails so putting an FC subframe in an FB adds a huge increase in ride height, or if lowered awful bump steer.
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gt_james wrote:As far as handling, there are things that can be done to help the rear, like softening the upper bushes, and using loads of grease and locknuts to allow the inner race of the bushing to rotate. The roll centre has to be corrected by fabricating a new watts link or panhard rod.

There are some drawbacks to the FC subframe. the FC has very different chassis rails so putting an FC subframe in an FB adds a huge increase in ride height, or if lowered awful bump steer.
I think I'd probably avoid an FC swap, so would be looking at what was available for the FB's

In terms of roll centre adjusters, would something like this be the ticket:
https://technotoytuning.com/mazda/fb/ro ... st-gen-rx7

Also, there is a panhard conversion kit:
https://technotoytuning.com/mazda/fb/pa ... n-safb-rx7

Sorry to keep bringing up Techno Toy, but its just as they seems to have all the products in one place... They have a lot of products, but I'm not too sure what they all do!
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TVRS3 wrote:
gt_james wrote:As far as handling, there are things that can be done to help the rear, like softening the upper bushes, and using loads of grease and locknuts to allow the inner race of the bushing to rotate. The roll centre has to be corrected by fabricating a new watts link or panhard rod.

There are some drawbacks to the FC subframe. the FC has very different chassis rails so putting an FC subframe in an FB adds a huge increase in ride height, or if lowered awful bump steer.
I think I'd probably avoid an FC swap, so would be looking at what was available for the FB's

In terms of roll centre adjusters, would something like this be the ticket:
https://technotoytuning.com/mazda/fb/ro ... st-gen-rx7

Also, there is a panhard conversion kit:
https://technotoytuning.com/mazda/fb/pa ... n-safb-rx7

Sorry to keep bringing up Techno Toy, but its just as they seems to have all the products in one place... They have a lot of products, but I'm not too sure what they all do!
Those RCAs are for the front suspension. The rear roll centre is a bigger issue and much harder to correct. Most T3 stuff is very good, but I would avoid those panhard bars, It's not particularly well designed, and I've seen shock brackets snapped because they aren't designed for lateral load and are already under engineered.
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Re: Power Upgrade, Supporting Mods?

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TOOL wrote:Have you seen this stuff?

http://www.msfracingcomponents.com.au/m ... omponents/
Thanks for that - a lot of ways to spend there. I love it!
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