Esser's LS3 Powered FD3S RX-7 R1

Esser

working on the video!

I was able to wash the car for the first time in a year. It moved out under its own power, very promising. Clutch grabbed great, but I lost brake pedal pressure. I think my master cylinder is just bad, it grabbed a little then went to floor like it blew out a seal, got a new one on the way. Bunch of pics in the decent weather! The paint still has zero miles on it, shines up great.

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zeeder

Looks awesome!

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Zack
FI catback, HFC, and Start Button - Z1 Intake - Nismo S-Tune Spoiler - PasswordJDM V2 Shift Knob

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Zingston

Esser

Thanks for the compliments all!

First drive was a success, thoughts so far:

I have never driven an FD until the other day when i first drove mine haha. The seating position is very nice, I am 6'1" and sit comfortably, but thankful I'm not any taller. The steering wheel angle cannot be adjusted, and it does not telescope. It just happens to be in about a perfect spot when the seat is in an upright "drivers" position. Visibility over the front of the car is fantastic, view of the road and the size of the front of the car is very clear, the hood slopes down nicely to help achieve this. It makes the front of the vette seem like a boat with it's looonnngggg hood and front bumper.

I ended up replacing the master cylinder after the first one failed. I bled every corner and they feel amazing now, very grabby. Running Hawk HP pads. The clutch is a twin disk, and has similar clutch feel to my EM1 civic. Very light pedal, will be nice for the long trips through town. Clutch master cylinder is from an 80's landcruiser - very robust.

One of my more favorite things about the car so far are the speedhut gauges, the programmable features and ease of adjustment is very nice. All gauges function and have warning lights that can be adjusted. The look of the gauges make the car feel very "complete".

The only item I ave left to work on, which I will be tackling this weekend, is the exhaust. I have been driving around with small pipe extensions off the headers, brutally loud. I drove it down the street and filled up the tank for the first time, very exciting!

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Jayhovah

Me from 20 years ago is absolutely freaking out over this build.

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Redglare

wow what a build, #jawdrop

I bet ripping through gears in that thing will give a huge catecholamine rush....

curb weight of an s2000, power of a vette, I wouldn't be surprised if you ever decided to sell it on bring a trailer u'd def get at least 40-60k for this clean of a build.

Rusty

Love the build. I installed the SpeedHut gauges in my Z. I love them too.

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Esser

Not sure if I would be able to part ways with the amount work gone into it!

Tackled the exhaust this week. Got it up on a buddy's lift and worked for about 20 hours to get this fabbed up, lots of work!




The setup is as follows:

JTR 1-3/4" headers
3" Y-Pipe into a vibrant merge into 3.5"
Borla XR1 3.5"
Then at the end there will be an Apexi muffler

Here is the progress so far



Here is Luis the welding Guru at work:







That was about all we had time to complete. Hopefully next weekend we can knock out the muffler tail section. Goal is to make it less than 103db at 50 ft, which is what most tracks require.

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Esser

Rear section of exhaust finally completed.













Still trying to track down some small gremlins to get it driving correctly.

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Esser

Had a semi nice day out and detailed the engine bay. It started raining moments after finishing, I should have some good video made once the weather gets nice out. It seems this winter has been drawn out a couple months too long!

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ZontheRocks

Looks absolutely spectacular!

jchammond

Nice Read w/Quality Workmanship!

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Nixin

Wow!!! Absolutely phenomenal car.

Esser

I finally got into my appointment at the tuner. I drove the car around for about 100 miles to get things broke in, changed oil, then headed to the dyno tune!

It put down 382hp, which is right in line with what most stock LS3's do on the dyno. More importantly it drives perfect, even with the aggressive RXT clutch. Torque is everywhere!









working on uploading the dyno vid

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