Heres the latest pics of the car from today:

 

Those are custom fabbed intercooler brackets and cold air intake. Been busy this week!

 

meee likey!

 

hey all, haven't been here in a lonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnng time, lot going on with me, lost an engine, destroyed a rental car (hail storm), and lost my job in about a week back in March, been job hunting ever since, couple of interviews, still no job though. (ugh)

car is now sponsored by Vibe, Metra,Tsunami, and Varad led lighting, and picking up others as they come it seems. We're building it for SEMA in Vegas for the Metra/Vibe booth, so far I've bagged it (yes, it has arbags, still need some tweaking but it almost lays flat, I tuck rim on the front for the most part...let the flaming insue lol), we're tossing the backseat for an elaborate amp rack setup, I'll hopefully be shaving door handles soon, and having some custom paintwork done to the exterior by Cindy "Crash" Raschke, all in all the car's going to bonkers when I'm done, and I can't wait to meet Chip Foose in November.

here are some teaser pics, we're making progress slowly but surely

 

intreasting

 

wow you guys do some bad a$$ projects the most im doing is a mid-pipe right now lol I tell people in high-school and they think im like a mechanic they should see the **** you guyz do

 

Lol!! There aint nothing shabby about doing a midpipe conversion. When I took mine off, it took me like 2 hours just to get it off, it was a lot more work than I expected!!! I hated that part, it was damn happy right where it was at!!

 

lol pft my mid pipe was easy so easy it fell off !

acturaly the nuts fell off and just got realy realy loud



o my what could this be !!! it aint the greddy. phantom lets see if i can catch up to you !

 

Sweet deal man! Im wiring up gauges tomorrow then starting the tuning process. You doing injectors or are you leaving everything stock?

 

baby steps, everything stock, i took off the bhr coils (waiting on new wires, i want to get the care in a basic working order by tuesday

i have a set of upgraded injectors from mm allready i jsut need to tell him to ship them, my god its tight fit, also i havent ordered new silicon yet so... stock boost cause i know one is probably going to explode once i start it ~_~

 

I see a bad *** race in the future!! Has it been done here??? BNR vs MM turbos??

 

make sure it's on a track wink wink

 

lol, my manifold has a crack in it so it seems so i am using a friends, so i need to repair the maifold and give him that, doing water lines and such now

 

im looking at turbo kits but wont have enough money for a year or so...ive got my exhaust on just looking at putting in a flywheel, clutch, and midpipe of course.

 

instead of the turboXS exhaust take a look at the HKS Legamax, it has a slightly deeper tone

 

looking for a ture full 3in exasuht, right now i am on the stock exasuht with mid pipe, stealthy ninja with a vta bov >_>

 

Racing Beat dude. 3" all the way with 4" tips. Sounds just like stock, but better. Took car for its first real drive today! Car ran great!! Cant wait to start working on the tune. Gonna pull some logs tomorrow then see what comes out of it. BOV sounds awesome. Hard to not just lay into the throttle!! Pulls really good to 4krpm. You can hear turbo start to spool at about 3500.

 

failed, reverting to stock, the manifold cracked for some reason right when we were finnishing. I will take mine to be welded up later then ceramic coated and put off in storage while i wait for mm to finnish my turbo.

sad T_T....

 

Suck man. Where you gonna take it to get fixed?

 

no idea, but i may be waiting a while before i go turbo now, lol o ace hardware has everything!


realy ay we had two manifolds and both had a crack. mine one i didnt notice, and then my friends whos randomly cracked while installing

 

Phantom your car is looking really good. Wow.

czar, where does does the manifold crack? you can get it fixed?

You guys need to have the MM vs. BNR throwdown!!! Battle of the Titans!!!

 

have any of you guys worked with nitrous?

After I get my ingnition system and cobb access

I was going to get a nitrous set up any of you ever install?

 

never messed with nitrous, i dont like the idea of refilling tanks and using up my trunk

pm charles from BHR he is extreamly experience in messing with it and sells most of everything u will need at very good price.

he has helped me alot.

with a auto you could contact easy or what ever his screen name, he has blown a few manifolds from low rpm nitrous engagement i think.


need to find some one to reweld / braze my manifold, pos

 

Call PTP. I had them weld my BOV flange and they did an excellent job. A touch pricey but you get what you pay for. Im sure they can do it cause they make custom turbo kits. I really would give them a try.

 

And maybe try "Automotive Specialists" in Round Rock, and ask to speak with John (Long) the owner and Mazda guru. He knows the RX8 very, very, very well.

He'll be able to help, might be a little less expensive, and will do a perfect job.