December 23, 2005

As of November 5, 2005, I was carless. To make the story short, I was driving in my RX-8 when my back end lost control. I could not regain control, I cut across three lanes and then slamming into the center divider. I flipped on my passenger side, and then my roof where I slid for a while. After all was done, my car was totalled and the 8 was gone. (Check my 8's cardomain page to see pictures and detailed story)

After heavily considering a 350z, I decided to stay in the rotary family and get a RX-7. It took me about a month or so of searching to find a nice looking and clean RX-7 inside and out. After doing research on www.rx7club.com I finally found a 7 locally here being sold by Jason (BlueRex on the forums) and fell inlove with it. After about a week or two of talking to Jason and giving it a test drive, we agree'd to a price and I had a new car :-)

Here is all the mods that the car came with. I didn't want a 7 that was highly modified because of engine reliability, Jason had mods that were conservative in keeping everything reliable, this 7 was clean inside and out.

MODS

-Power/Drivetrain-

*Greddy Intakes
*PFS Intercooler
*HKS Mild Steel DP
*Racing Beat Dual Tip Exhaust
*RPS Performance clutch (street disc with a sport pressure plate)
*Unorthodox Racing Underdrive Pulleys, anodized blue

-Cooling-

*M2 Radiator
*Aluminum AST

-Guages/Electronics-

*Greddy Profec B spec ii in a custom akiratdk din plate
*Greddy turbo timer
*Blitz boost guage in a RE-A steering column pod
*White faced gauges, reverse glow with dead needles

-Suspension/Misc-

*51R Battery Tray
*Ebay Torque Brace
*Ebay Strut Tower Bar
*Tokico Struts
*SO-3 Pole Position tires w/80% tread
*HKS blowoff valve
*Fan switch mod
*California Car Cover, custom fit cover

-Exterior/Appearance-

*Efini emblems
*Painted R1 lip
*Feed headlight cover
*Intake piping, UIM, battery tie downs, and AST have been powder coated wrinkle black
*Glossy black interior panels
*RE-Amemiya replica carbonfiber tail light cover
*Custom license plate frame �I love my zoom! zoom!�

I couldn't get very good pictures of the car because it has been crappy weather and it was raining, but here is the car after just going into the garage. Enjoy!

Pictures of the exterior of the car

Pictures of the interior of the car

Picture of the engine bay