TrackPirate FD RX7 build

[Paul.]

That's one mean looking RX7! If I'm totally honest it's not to my taste, but I wouldn't do anything to an RX7 apart from gaze at it. There's been a ton of work done and I can respect it anyway.

 

[TheDaniel]

One of my favourite threads on here, this thing is mental! Good mental

MORE UPDATES PLEASE!!

 

[EF Ian]

Nice work on the diffusers.

 

[Tr@ckpirate]

Thanks for the support guys , really do appreciate it, I've some more less exciting pictures but they are new ones regardless lol

 

[Neil_M]

A very cool car, I need a video to hear the thing

 

[Tr@ckpirate]

Us trackpirates at a few shows taking home wins, we took home best stand too

 

[Tr@ckpirate]

 

[Tr@ckpirate]

Guys if you want to follow more up to date and the nitty gritty world I live in, you can follow my build here on the group

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Or to find out what we as trackpirates are up to find out here

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We have a show and go dyno shoot out organised too for the 25th October some come down or enter a car

Everything under one roof and only £30 trade stands, prizes live DJ free spectating, if any of you guys are interested come on down, the Rex is hopefully going to be on there, don't be expecting any big power figures from it though, I've done no power building yet YET lol

 

[Tr@ckpirate]

NOW AVAILABLE
***pre-order only***

Trackpirate hoodies, if your interested again contact myself or the page, I'll stress now there is a at the most a 2 week wait, but we will be trying to start stocking them to prevent the waiting.

Www.facebook.com/trackpirate

 

[Tr@ckpirate]

Updates coming soon

 

[EF Ian]

Stop Teasing

 

[Tr@ckpirate]

Haha epic awkward moment I forgot to update haha I'll do it now lol

 

[Tr@ckpirate]

I should really update more on here lol

Well here is what it looks like when your dash falls out of your car, I justvmae the most of this time and gutted it some more

Removed all the rest of the aircon and heater stuff out too don't need any of that. Don't worry have it all covered to de most the windscreen lol

Wires galore, hate them all the we sparkey things lol

Only thing I need to do is get a spare bit of 25mm rad flexi hose to connect the two ends together which went to the matrix. Easy

So now all the crap is out I started mocking up my new dash using cardboard and a few cans of monster

Now that it's mocked up out of card, which is the best way to do this. It's time to transfer into 1mm thick ally sheet and start the cutting and bending and hoping for the best lol

See how I've marked my fold line already, always wear eye protection too when cutting this and using electric tools, my eye found the hard way when I was doing my ducting for the vmount lol

The effort that went into bending this because it was half a foot too long for the sheet bender. Almost tears lol

Now she's cut ready to chuck in the Rex

Will up load the rest in a min

 

[Tr@ckpirate]

So now the dash is temporary in place as it's still coming in and out an I need to make fixing points and some sort of edging for it so I don't slice both my legs off

The idea behind the sheet dash is to keep it simple and purly functional, it has a retro feel but with a modern twist to it. Don't need nothing fancy in a track car but still this looks the tits

Well I didn't quite stop there, I started mocking up the center consol too, main reason for this is purely to create a void beneath to house some more switches if need be so the dash area ain't cluttered to **** like a jet cockpit

This took some doing getting it right, one wrong measurement with the hole for the shifter woul of ruined the whole thing

And there she is, my ally fabrication work ready for switches and guages etc

It certainly shows off the 30mm Apache shell shifter more. Very clean lines now and very easy on the eye.

My intentions now is to fit fully switched controls, battery cut off, full defi guage set up and a dash2 display unit with the steering wheel mounted control pack for lights etc all wireless too from sumit racing technology lol

Now that's where it gets expensive and technical.

Thanks for reading happy Benji now

 

[ace275]

Love it!

 

[Tr@ckpirate]

Hahaa cracked up at that picture bud lol

Thanks

 

[EF Ian]

Great work, although I really love the RX-7 dash's and don't think I could get rid of one even on a track car.

 

[Tr@ckpirate]

Thanks, thy do look good don't get me wrong, just didn want to ruin it but putting crap all over it, going for a full digi dash set up too so the stock dash don't really cut the cheese for me for this build

 

[yasiryassin]

good work! coming along nicely. you building this for drift or circuit?

 

[Tr@ckpirate]

Circuit sprints mate, bit of time attack

 

[Artoir]

This gets better and better. Cannot wait to see it on Saturday. Got a look around it at the Antrim show, epic.

 

[Ben P]

Will that dash and console not be a major issue with glare in a track car?? Hope you plan to cover it ?

 

[TheDaniel]

It just gets more and more race car every time... It's magical.

Would love to see this beast in the (mostly)carbon fiber some day!

 

[Tr@ckpirate]

Will that dash and console not be a major issue with glare in a track car?? Hope you plan to cover it ?

Mate I've only just finished the dash lol it's not staying ally, once all the switches are in place and its not going to be cut or modified then it's ready to be sprayed flat black untill the whole car is complete then it's getting flocked. All covered bro

It just gets more and more race car every time... It's magical.

Would love to see this beast in the (mostly)carbon fiber some day!

It's a costly build I'll give it that but racecars ain't cheap, especially when your pockets ain't deep lol I'm sure you will see her someday bud

 

[moretto]

wonderful build and car. look forward to more updates