|
|
|
| Welcome to Swifty's Garage. We hope you enjoy your visit. You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free. Thank You, The Swifty's Garage Team Join our community! If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features. |
| All that real car stuff | |
|---|---|
| Tweet Topic Started: Oct 11 2009, 07:24 PM (404 Views) | |
| jedimario | Oct 11 2009, 07:24 PM Post #1 |
|
RAWR
|
Since I am skimping out on the die-cast for real cars, I figured I'd at least show you guys what I've been up to this weekend Here's a little thing I wrote up about the work we've been doing on our club's car:Here at Clemson University, I am active with the Clemson Sports Car Club. The club owns an '84 RX-7, and this weekend a few friends and I did some work on it. Just thought I'd share for the heck of it if anyone cares for these things. We've got most of the interior out (done this weekend), some special airbox, muffler delete, and some suspension mods I think. The car has been around a while and I don't think anyone knows exactly what's in it anymore. No power steering, thing is a beast. Anyway, here's some pics. We like our tape way too much :mbiggrin: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() All the crap we took out this weekend: ![]() ![]() And the result: ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ^Not as loud as you might think It's good to have this thing up and running; apparently it sat dormant for a few years before I started attending Clemson. Two years ago me and a couple of friends swapped the engine in it, but nothing else was done until about a month ago. Since then it's gotten a new carb, the brakes have been re-done (someone left them a mess), and a few other things that I'm not sure of. |
![]() |
|
| 69Stang | Oct 12 2009, 09:43 AM Post #2 |
|
Station Wagon
|
OK, now THAT is freakin awesome! Thanks for the pics, what class will it run? Heres mine...
|
![]() |
|
| 69Stang | Oct 12 2009, 09:44 AM Post #3 |
|
Station Wagon
|
How much weight do you think you guys got out of that thing? |
![]() |
|
| jedimario | Oct 12 2009, 11:22 AM Post #4 |
|
RAWR
|
We've probably gotten 40-50 pounds between the interior and the muffler...none of that stuff except the muffler was terribly heavy. And I have no idea what class it'd be in, we usually put it in its own class at our autocrosses. |
![]() |
|
| james_autos | Oct 12 2009, 03:38 PM Post #5 |
![]()
Minivan
|
Wow, a university with a sports car club! I don't know of any over here that have sports car clubs. Anyway, looks like it'll be good fun to drive. My MGB has no power steering and for such a small car, it's a lot harder to drive than it looks, but no less fun! |
![]() |
|
| harlans toys | Oct 16 2009, 09:16 PM Post #6 |
|
matchbox
|
what engine size is that mazda 2.5 litre? v6? |
![]() |
|
| jedimario | Oct 20 2009, 04:43 PM Post #7 |
|
RAWR
|
Harlan, it's 1.2 liters of magical spinning triangle fury
|
![]() |
|
| Swifty | Oct 21 2009, 01:46 AM Post #8 |
![]()
The Mustang II is a Mustang too!
|
Rotary FTW! Looks good- for a "Thunderbird".
|
![]() |
|
| 1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous) | |
| « Previous Topic · Free Parking: Off Topic · Next Topic » |
| Track Topic · E-mail Topic |
1:58 PM Jul 11
|




Here's a little thing I wrote up about the work we've been doing on our club's car:

















1:58 PM Jul 11