Project FD RX-7

[Goodspeed]

So one of the major issues these cars face as they age are electrical gremlins - true of any car, but the rotary can and will absolutely bake the main engine harness into a total hair-pulling mess.  After 2+ decades, mine had visibly seen better days, so to be safe rather than sorry I ordered a new OEM harness that will be wrapped in DEI Fire Sleeve to ensure there'll be no gremlins in this car's future for a long, long time:







The plan is to pair this with a suite of new relays, solenoids, ignition coils, battery wiring, etc...basically whatever I can get my hands on, to bring as much of the rest of electrical system up to code as well.

...picking up where I left off in the above post, I just received the complement to the new engine harness - a new charging harness for the right-side of the bay.  These are hard to come by in the states, and my parts contact (Mazda parts god Ray Crowe) said it might land from Japan by the end of March - it was here in about 8 days!  He's the real MVP in all this, super glad to have his help.  This'll be paired with new battery mounting parts to totally revamp that section of the bay.  Seen here with a bit of extra wiring and one of the new relays that came with the shipment.





I was also maximally-pumped to get back my Greddy intercooler kit from Ward at 3B Kustomz in Richmond.  This kit was in serious need of rejuvenation and he did a frankly amazing job polishing it all up to look better than new; the turbo Y-pipe and some of the piping was powdercoated by Detective Coatings there in Richmond as well.  I decided that a gloss black will look really good against the red and silver of the rest of the bay, and I plan to powdercoat a bunch of other stuff including the intake manifold a nice OEM satin silver like the Y-pipe here:







Can't wait to see that whole system installed.  I should have an update before long with the Fikse wheels being reconditioned - stopped in the other day and saw some progress being made and it shouldn't be long now before they're done.  I elected to switch things up to go with a different finish so fingers crossed it looks as good in person as it does in my head, we'll see - onward to spring and more t00ning!