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Craig's Project JDM FD3S UK Style

Hi all Great site with lots of info

I found this site from pete @ RICERACING great guy from all his info and input

thought it was time to get my project thread started over here :)

Also if anyone has any time please come over to the best FD club in the UK

www.fduk.org

You have to prove you own a Fd before you become a full member but all the Uk best rotary guys are on here and it would be great to see some of you over there.

On to me

I'm Craig from Manchester owner of www.topgearstockport.com cheap plug lol
I'm a custom exhaust manufacture and build every thing in house from uk sourced stainless custom boxes and silences built to spec and tig welded no nasty migs lol

Me with m3 system :)
http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...t/9893afd6.jpg

Im coming over to Oz in feb 2012 and would love to meet other Fd owners

We arrive in Brisbane on the 13th of feb

and are driving to sydney till the 23rd and fly over to perth till the 10th of march

so if anyone wants to show a UK Fd owner around let me know guys

And to my cars

Some may remember my old type r from the forum which I sold last year :(

http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...t/e53bad1f.jpg

Build started 2010 DEC

Last last year I found my current Rex for real good money. She needed a bit of work doing but had full history and a rebuilt motor from hurley

Since then I've done the following work to her

Clutch
Brakes overhaul
Hks coilovers
Aircon delete
ABS delete
Air pump delete
Full turbo back 3" system
S4 Apexi PFC
Simple rats nest
Wire tuck
Battery in the boot
A bit of paint here and there lol

Here's a few pics
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My goal is to be single turbo by summer time :)

Here is what i still need my wish list lol

V mount
Fuel system with pot
New wheels prob rotas again as we get good deals on them
Turbo not sure which yet my goal is 400+
Manifold which I think I will be making
Wastegate
Boost controller
Some seat rails for my brides :)
Compression tube

Then I will move onto the body after something wide but not daft looking lol but this is going to be next winter so not to arsed at the mo

a little update

i hated the old white 3 spoke wheels so a call to rarerims was in order :)

i had one gtr in stock so i only needed three more which was cool.

i ended going with a 9.5x18 all round using a 235/40/18 front and 245/40/18 rear anyway heres some pics :)

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Hi all little up date

Fitted my new arc airbox with new filters from pipercross

I was concerned about how close the bottom air filter was to the alloy radiator.

so I made a ram air duct from glassfibre and plumbed it in the front bumper :)

Now I have an air tight seal around the bottom filter :)

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Hi guys

My wideband came this week so I got to work making up a pod for the gauges.

This time I've made a twin pod for both my boost gauge and my new innovate mtx wideband

Here's a few pics anyway

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Also I'm still on the look out for a datalogit if anyone has one they don't want.

Cheers

Craig

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nice photo so i thought i would stick on my thread

When we was bleeding the brakes we found that the master cylinder had a fair amount of movement so I start making up a brace

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Had to make a new pod last night as I sold my lastone to a member on here

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Ben a while so I thought a little update was in order

The KSports are working a treat and I'm very happy with them :)

Onto my new takata 3" Belts

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I also found some time to work on the dolphin exhaust it's now on

And by god it's a different car now

I've nor done a DB test yet but I'm guessing it's way under 100db and that's without a cat or midbox

Once I'm happy with the system I will start making these for customers price will be around £250inc vat but + shipping

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Can have the tail burnt or plain :)

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And last of all not FD related but was a top system to make

Cummins 8.7ltr hx40 engine 4" system

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We made this on sat outside as we couldn't get the big fduker inside

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Well I got my hand in my pocket again and bought myself a trust cooler :)

And spent the rest of the night fitting it

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Big thanks goes out to Henning for getting the cooler out to me in the most well packed home made box in the world :) lol cheers mate

Now I'm just waiting on my greddy elbow to turn up and my riat air temp sensor and that's a job done

Well this weeks not been fun I found a major fuel leak on the primary injectors so off comes the upper manifold again lol

The seals where well fduked but a good friend has got some off pip for me which I'm hoping to fit tomorrow.

While I was there I've started to relocate the coils off the top of the engine

Ive also secured the simple rats nests alot better anyway here's a few pics

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Well now the exhaust has bedded in I tested it with my iPhone app and at idle it was 90-91db which is Fduking top :)

And ive now started on the body work :)

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Oh and I had to show you my friends engine

Half Bridge running HKS TO4Z

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So wish mine looked like that lol

I seemed to have re posted the same coil photos lol

Managed to get a little done tonight

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And my new GT spoiler :) I'm not going to be using the legs that came with it, I want to have the legs coming up from the rear bumper real GT style more to come on this :)

http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...d/ebd13c74.jpg

Does anyone have a photo of the rear panel of the rx7 with the bumper removed I've forgot how it looks under there now

Started moving more stuff for my future plans

First of all the front washer bottle has gone and I'm now using the rear bottle for my front washers

I've also direct wired my coils :) and moved the smaller engine fuse box into the car.

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Ive also now got rid of the diagnostic port :)

Ordered my secondary injector rail now from Dale at DM-Motorsport

What's the best way to go guys with the injectors I was thinking id2000s but 1680s seem so more common an it's what my friend Jake runs in his.

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Here's jakes and mine first time they have met awwww

The engine is stock ports

My spec will be

Garrett T04r .70 cold and .70 hot
Turbosmart hypergate 45
Manifold will be made by me
DM motorsports fuel rail
Id2000 injectors or Bosch 1680s
Turbosmart 1200 FPR
Innovate wideband mtx and datalogic
Maybe twin EGT gauges if I find a good deal on a pair one for each port
STD 550 primary's
Bosch 044 pump
3.5" downpipe into 3" downpipeback system
Trust stock mount cooler
Direct wired coils
Direct wired fuel pump
Air intake temp sensor upgrade and now in Intercooler cold pipe

Maybe water injection

I could swear I've seen these before, maybe it was on another forum. I love the dolphin tail exhaust and the gauge cluster for the center, so awesome.

That's pretty awesome. I wish i had time to do stuff like that.

Thanks guys i did start a thread in the newbe part of the forum but i never updated it so i started a new thread here.

Next week i hope to start on my new steering pump set up:)

Looks awesome man!

I'm fairly certain I've seen this before, I don't know if it was on here or over on FDUK though.

As for the V-Mounts. I've got the RE:worx bit fitted on mine and I absolutely love it!

It seems like you're one hell of a fabricator, so I'm guessing you'll probably just make your own. If you are going for somebody elses kit though... I'd def take theirs over something like Dragon's.

Cheers mate you have the best bumper out there :)

Yup, thanks Craig =)

I actually picked it up when I was posted in England (E. Anglia, Huntingdon to be exact), I forget who I got it from.. I'd have to pop over to FDUK and check my old PM's.

I'll tell ya what... I miss the beer and I miss the birds =P

Wow! great work. I love the exhaust work you have done. Do you have any videos of how it sounds?

Cheers guys :)

Tonight we started on the power steering move to electric pump

I sourced the pump rack wiring for just 30 quid WIN

Anyway here's some pics from tonight

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Well guys I finished the install of the Saxo power steering pump tonight.

Had a local company to fab the small high pressure hose

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I'm well happy with the results

The engine bay is starting to look very clean and tidy

Driving the car feels good strong the only diffrance I would say is the steering is a touch heavy but I like that

That's me for this week

Cheers

Craig

Nice build. Love the exhaust work.

How much for an exhaust?!

Pm for details and price :)

What electric P/S pump is that?

It's from a saxo / 106

Well update time guys

Not much been going on the Rex as I've been mega busy

But I did get my tial wastegate today :)

http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/c...t/8ff4c134.jpg

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I'm getting there the parts are building up :)