The oil pressure sensor was leftover as unfinished business after I picked up the car from Marcus back in June. The factory Mazda oil pressure sensor was removed and we thought we could plug in the OEM GM sensor instead, but the ECU’s harness lacked such a connection. The next alternative was to run an […]

With the stereo surround and shifter console pieces filled in and prepped, attention was turned back to the gauge fascia. This is where the money making happens. Picking up from before, more sanding and smoothing… and scribing: Cutout made: More filler and smoothing: Wrinkle finish applied: Painted grey with the new AiM MXG dash mocked […]

More finishing work continues on the trim pieces. Ultra-thin coat of pinhole filler: Blocked down with 180-Grit: A texture coating and then blocked down again for referencing: One more time to get it perfectly straight: Final texture coat, waiting on the color topcoat now: It is nice to witness all of the shavings and fillings […]

At long last, I’m back with an update. Over the past couple of years, I’ve been able to maintain a high cadence in terms of modifications and progress. Things are now culminating to a finale by way of brute productivity and will. I no longer have the time nor the facilities these days to continue […]

I dropped the RX-7 back to Marcus Fry Racing Enterprises to tackle the aforementioned adjustments and bug fixes, and get the running condition to be perfect. In a twist of irony, you can start to feel complacent after undertaking a large project like the LS3 swap… the initial motivation starts to wane. However, all the […]

With the tune, the way the car pulls now is even more savage than before. Granted, power and torque was abundant right from the beginning, but the tune really helped translate that power into an even more linear scope. This is one of the reasons why I am just not a turbo guy (aside from […]

Once the roll bar was installed last Winter, the car sat in the garage for months. It is now Spring and I finally had the chance to action a lingering item on the list: the tune. The car drove around fine, but the power deliverability was noticeably off with the added long-tube headers and intake. […]

Overdue update, since all of this was conducted over the Winter of last year and completed a few months ago. Samberg Performance makes more than just the subframe parts for the RX-7 V8 conversions, they also make their own roll bar. The Auto Power Race roll bar I had installed in the car a couple […]

A combination of laziness and a lack of free time these days is restricting my flow of updates. The frequency of posts have dramatically decreased over the last couple of years as I have steadily become busier with other aspects of life. I will still try to keep things going, but I foresee that these […]

I’ve been gradually driving the car around and putting it through its paces. There are a few more details that need to be finished up before I can deem the swap to be finalized. Namely, a tune is mandatory. When temperatures are cold or the engine is not fully warm, it has the tendency to […]

The Shine FEED Type II spoiler that has been on the car for the past 2 years served its use well, but it is time to expand towards bolder directions. Since I had the ’99 front bumper installed for the third time, I decided to maintain a congruency at the rear as well with a ’99 […]

Attempts were made to re-bleed the clutch but its behavior started to become increasingly erratic. Instead of having the clutch pedal gradually fall to the floor, it would randomly fall to the floor and then come back up. The usual pattern was no longer observable, which disproved the theory of an air bubble expanding with […]