I bought this car between my junior and sonior highschool year.

It is a 1988 Mazda RX7 Convertible.

It has a stock 4.10 rear diff and 4 piston front calipers.

It was already custom painted, lowered, and hood-gutted.

It was purchased without the rotary. I prefer cylinder engines.

I selected the VG30DETT with a five speed as a sutible replacement.

I'll start from the beginning.

My friend invited me over to see his red 240sx (visible on the edge of the frame)

I saw the RX7 just sitting there and took this with my phone.

My 1967 Custom 500 can be seen in the background.

At this point I didn't know anything about it.

I didnk know about the lowering kit, big calipers, neons, guages, or even that it was a rear-wheel-drive.

I already wanted it.

It was staring at the transmition tunnel when I realized that it was read wheel drive for the first time.

I bought it and went to work on it

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I traded him the stock BBS rims for a set of American Racing dual-5 lug pattern 17x7.5" Aluminum rims

The tires needed to be replaced though.

I selected Yokohama Parada Spec-2

205 45 ZR 17

They work very well.

I also went ahead and replaced all the suspension bushings with polyurathane.

I bought the set from Energy Suspension.

Grant steering wheel

Too bad my guages were out when I took this

I ordered the engine from Bestofjdm.com

I found the Godspeed intercoolers on ebay.

3" thick Bar & plate

Seen here with my size 13 feet.

Heres what I got so far

Fluidyne Radiator

Still a work in progress. I need a smaller brake booster and an oil filter relocation kit still. I dont have any current pictures of my pipes.

You can see my Z behind