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Old 08-03-2012, 10:30 AM
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Default Turbo 5.3 RX-7 First Start Up!

Finally! The time came yesterday to fire the car up. I have a few things to button up before beginning to road tune it.

1990 Mazda RX-7 - 99% street car
Granny's 8.8" solid rear (Strange spool, Aerospace brakes, Strange coilovers, etc.)
1.80 PowerGlide with Midwest 3200 stall
4 point roll bar
Full interior, no heat/AC/PS/radio (who needs that ****!?)
2,750LBs
275 drag radials

Stock L33
LS6 cam
ARP head bolts
LS9 head gaskets
Patriot dual springs
Comp Cams pushrods
LS6 intake

80lb injectors
E85
Twin Walbros

Turbonetics TC76 (65mm F1 turbine wheel, .96A/R)
Turbosmart 48mm WG
Turbosmart 50mm BOV














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Looks and sounds amazing sir!
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Man makes me wish I kept my RX-7 and swapped it like this! Awesome car man!
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Nice! How much psi yiu hoing with
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Thanks guys. I am going to be running 15PSI.
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Gorgeous car.
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dude you did a ******* incredible job, it looks stock.
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VERY nice!
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Are you running a muffler of some sort? My open down pipe sounds like **** and I don't really feel like running the exhaust all the way to the back of the car.
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Really cool, but can you run your exhaust like that on the street?
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Originally Posted by chiaj144
Are you running a muffler of some sort? My open down pipe sounds like **** and I don't really feel like running the exhaust all the way to the back of the car.
Just the turbo. It isn't nearly as loud as the video makes it sound... that's the iPhone for you.

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Really cool, but can you run your exhaust like that on the street?
Thanks - and I guess legally no but police up in these parts are pretty cool with stuff like this so long as you're not obnoxious about it you're fine. Then again, with the hood on it will otherwise appear like any other "jap trap" as they call them so maybe I'll get hassled a little bit. Oh well I guess. I don't drive like an idiot on public roads anyways so they don't have any other reasons to pull me over.
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I drive mine and have driven some other cars with downpipe setups just like this with no issues!
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Originally Posted by BottleFedZ346
I drive mine and have driven some other cars with downpipe setups just like this with no issues!
Yeah I love the sound personally. But then again, I'm 22 so I probably have a higher tolerance for that then most people



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