I'm glad my RX8 is left hand drive because of how the exhaust is routed... be sure to put something like DEI Gold Reflect on the underside of that panel where the exhaust is routed and insulate the interior side of those panels. After a session on track I reached over to that side of the transmission tunnel to see how hot it really was, and burned the living **** out of the tips of my index and middle fingers. I'm almost positive that it will start to melt a fiberglass seat if placed too close to the tunnel without some sort of insulation. I don't recommend driving a right hand drive car with no interior without at least a 3 layer fire suit so you have some insulation from the heat as well.

Since it's for Pro7 races I would also look into getting a cool suit and run NACA ducts off the rear side windows for driver cooling.


Progress looks good so far man, keep it up and keep the updates coming in! Especially interested in the wire removal since that is something I've yet to tackle in my car.

 

ill keep a look out for that dei gold. I'm decimally going top run a nasa vent in the rear window. the plan we have come up with is to run a pipe with holes in it and run it along the tunnel to blue air along it. we will also all a louvre panel or air scoop to force air down the tunnel.

as for the wiring after i did the research on what can be removed it was easy but time consuming. i followed each wire back to the fuse box then removed it. i could/may remove a bit more and unplug from behind the fuses


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of topic. is it possible to edit posts using the mobile app? my stupid word predict changed my post


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Awesome RX-8, hows the build going?
Did you end up rewiring everything?

 

I am up to the stage where I need to put the cage in,
We plan to start that next weekend. I have the kit now we just need to notch and weld it in.

All I did was cut the un needed wires. I left the rest so no need to re wire.
removed all
Seat belts wires/ sensors/ coputer
AV system
Sat nav
Airbag

 

A few pics of the progress

More pics can be found on the facebook page i set up to document the build and generate some intrest for the class.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...26596210776429

 

In regards to your latest photo of fb what is it?

 

Sorry I dont understand?
The pats in the pic?

 

this

 

Rain ligh, steering wheel quick release and 4 naca ducts

 

check out the gave book page for pics of the car with the cage in it. it is now having the interior painted.

I'm looking at getting a new clutch and flywheel. current thinking is a quatermaster 7.1/4 single plate and use a rx8 a automatic flex plate with customer flywheel centre (green brothers ultralight ). how does this sound?


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can any one help me out. i am having a flex plate / clutch insert made as my flywheel as it Is much lighter than a flywheel. i will need to get some bolts to bolt it to the counter weight. how far does the thread need to go into the counter weight?


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With a bit of research and some help from Barry at MRP I have put together a flywheel and clutch that is much better performing at a lower cost than those that you can buy off the shelf.
The flywheel is machine form billet and is just big enough to fit the 7.25’ Quartermaster Rally V drive clutch. Starting is taken care of by a FD rx7 flex plate

 

keen to know if you have the 2 oil coolers or just the one, and if it has one do you plan on upgrading the system,

mine is NZ new type S 2004 and just has the one oil cooler and im very worried about using it for the odd fun track day as even with 2 oil coolers on the later models the oil is temp is hard to keep down from what ive read

 

my car came with two oil coolers. in told that this must have been a optional extra because the other 4 rx8 race cars in the club only have a single oil cooler


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oo ok so are they just running the stock single cooler then? or do you know if they have larger units?

 

I know one is running a after market twin set up. Don't know about the others.
Best thing to do is get a oil temp gauge and keep an eye on it.

 

I got my clutch and flywheel back today.
This is the first time I have had them side by side.
I'm hoping the flex plate fits inside the rx8 bell housing as it sits 7.5mm closet to the gearbox assuming the counterweight bolts back as far as the original flywheel.

 

A quick update

I have the new clutch and flywheel set up in the car. I had to make my own thrust bearing as the old one was crap and the 7.25" clutch works better with a smaller bearing face.

 

Good stuff Explode, I was wondering,seeing the difference in the height of the ring gears, will the manual starter have enough of teeth on the ring gear to engage properly ?

 

the starter motor doesn't fit any more. we had to space it out. currently I'm using 7.8mm worth of washers and it works. we will measure it up this weekend and have a spacer plate made that gives the max tooth contact. i have been told a auto stayer may work but have never measurers one.


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Had a look at this car recently - that clutch setup is amazing ! Never seen an 8 free rev like that before .

 

Do you have a vid (with good sound quality) of that single side dumpy exhaust?

 

I have a vid from my cell phone taken when we first installed it. but it was taken from inside the work shop. it sounds crap in the cell phone vid. after i have rewired the car I'll try get a good quality vid and post it on face book


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Ive got a vid of me reving the car from inside. Sounds crap on the vid as I took in on my phone again.
Ill try and post it up online later