Chad
03-12-06, 12:24 PM
http://www.onthenet.com.au/~ccroft/929/929.jpg
Hey all, okay, the 929, it is a 1986 model, bought new from Mazda by my grandma originally. Then my granded got it and then my dad, now me.
I was silly enough to think it would one day be an amazing performance car and have since then continued (very slowly) to make it more "performancey"
http://www.onthenet.com.au/~ccroft/929.html
I haven't finished writing about everything in the car, I guess I will jsut give you a run down of what has been done to it in simple terms:
Engine:
Stock series 5 rx7 13b turbo and 5 speed manual gearboc (car was a 4 cylinder auto originally)
It has an interncooler and an alloy radiator to
Haltech E6k seems to work fine.
Interior:
not much, two sparco seats that originalyl came out of the Coffin rx2 and a autotechnica steering wheel and some speco gauges. If you are buying gauges, the speco ones are fine in daylight, their lighting at night is carp though.
Other bits: new fuel system and bigger brakes on custom hubs and caliper brackets etc... 300mm supra front discs on the front, series r5 rx7 front calipers on the front, the rear has rx7 series 5 front discs and series 5 rear calipers. I had teh front discs cryo treated too, but haven;t had the chance to try them out either. Tokico illumino suspension with adjustable height cooil overs on the front and some adjustable height ones on the rear. It has a 3 inch exhaust with cat and resonator and a big muffler (8in diameter and nearly 3 feet long) so the car is pretty quiet.
It has actually run, it has done a low 14 at over a hundred mph, was a little fun on the skidpan, but it would have been anyway with the 25 yr old tyre I had on the back.
Gunna:
this is where I am bragging about what will happen:
I have 1000cc injectors on the shelf ready to go in as well as picking up my tial 44mm wastegate either tomorrow or tuesday. Also Mr Turbo is rebuilding the t04b I have for it, it will get a hks 66mm front wheel and .70 front cover, dual bearing billet core and a general rebuild and clean up which I should be able to pick up tomorrow as well (tomorrow being monday the 4/12/06). Also have the exhaust manifold being organised for once it the car comes out of the brake shop, it is also in the brake shop a tht emoment, getting all the calipers and master cylinder rebuilt and the braided brake lines made up. Pads will be ds2500 on the front by ferodo and ebc greens on the rear. Would like to put a cage in it to, have some harnesses there too, but they are second hand and ar elikely out of date now anyway (don't harneses have a 5 yr life or something?)
Differential:
Okay, no one really knows anything about them, so with the brakes, I had to get most adapters custom made as no one could tell us what to do, thanks to Adrian brook for helping with that. For the Diff, that is a special case as well. We got a hilux diff given to us a while back, this may be a replacement...sounds pretty silly though as the car currently has independant rear suspenion, but I am worried about strength and reliability in the future....
The car was sort of worked on by me, little by little, but mostly by mates and my brother, this week is the first time it has been in a workshop for work, so finally work will get done on it quickly!!!! I am not sure if I can remember how many people have had a physical hand in helping with it, as well as the number of people I have talked to for help as well....lots! So i have to take lots of people for joy rides when it gets finished....one day.
I hope to take it to a few track days in the near future and try and keep up with my brothers PRB clubman....hopeful I know!
Hey all, okay, the 929, it is a 1986 model, bought new from Mazda by my grandma originally. Then my granded got it and then my dad, now me.
I was silly enough to think it would one day be an amazing performance car and have since then continued (very slowly) to make it more "performancey"
http://www.onthenet.com.au/~ccroft/929.html
I haven't finished writing about everything in the car, I guess I will jsut give you a run down of what has been done to it in simple terms:
Engine:
Stock series 5 rx7 13b turbo and 5 speed manual gearboc (car was a 4 cylinder auto originally)
It has an interncooler and an alloy radiator to
Haltech E6k seems to work fine.
Interior:
not much, two sparco seats that originalyl came out of the Coffin rx2 and a autotechnica steering wheel and some speco gauges. If you are buying gauges, the speco ones are fine in daylight, their lighting at night is carp though.
Other bits: new fuel system and bigger brakes on custom hubs and caliper brackets etc... 300mm supra front discs on the front, series r5 rx7 front calipers on the front, the rear has rx7 series 5 front discs and series 5 rear calipers. I had teh front discs cryo treated too, but haven;t had the chance to try them out either. Tokico illumino suspension with adjustable height cooil overs on the front and some adjustable height ones on the rear. It has a 3 inch exhaust with cat and resonator and a big muffler (8in diameter and nearly 3 feet long) so the car is pretty quiet.
It has actually run, it has done a low 14 at over a hundred mph, was a little fun on the skidpan, but it would have been anyway with the 25 yr old tyre I had on the back.
Gunna:
this is where I am bragging about what will happen:
I have 1000cc injectors on the shelf ready to go in as well as picking up my tial 44mm wastegate either tomorrow or tuesday. Also Mr Turbo is rebuilding the t04b I have for it, it will get a hks 66mm front wheel and .70 front cover, dual bearing billet core and a general rebuild and clean up which I should be able to pick up tomorrow as well (tomorrow being monday the 4/12/06). Also have the exhaust manifold being organised for once it the car comes out of the brake shop, it is also in the brake shop a tht emoment, getting all the calipers and master cylinder rebuilt and the braided brake lines made up. Pads will be ds2500 on the front by ferodo and ebc greens on the rear. Would like to put a cage in it to, have some harnesses there too, but they are second hand and ar elikely out of date now anyway (don't harneses have a 5 yr life or something?)
Differential:
Okay, no one really knows anything about them, so with the brakes, I had to get most adapters custom made as no one could tell us what to do, thanks to Adrian brook for helping with that. For the Diff, that is a special case as well. We got a hilux diff given to us a while back, this may be a replacement...sounds pretty silly though as the car currently has independant rear suspenion, but I am worried about strength and reliability in the future....
The car was sort of worked on by me, little by little, but mostly by mates and my brother, this week is the first time it has been in a workshop for work, so finally work will get done on it quickly!!!! I am not sure if I can remember how many people have had a physical hand in helping with it, as well as the number of people I have talked to for help as well....lots! So i have to take lots of people for joy rides when it gets finished....one day.
I hope to take it to a few track days in the near future and try and keep up with my brothers PRB clubman....hopeful I know!