Taylor4ghindman submitted a new DSM Profile :

The diamond in the rough


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Would love to see more photos and posts about the build for this car. Please update this build thread!

I tried to make the pictures full size but for some reason wouldn't allow it.

Taylor4ghindman said:

Well currently the car is down for head work its currently getting a set of FP3X cams and kiggly springs. But the plan is to run a max of 40psi and a max rpm of 8500.

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Be sure to take photos of the installations and reply here with all the progress as you build it back up.

Taylor4ghindman said:

I tried to make the pictures full size but for some reason wouldn't allow it.

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PM me with info on this - when you say it wouldn't allow it, describe what happened. I'll see about fixing the issue.

Currently the car is down to get the head done to install my FP3X cams and kiggly springs and retainers. After that tuning will commence again. The car has RX8 seats in it still need to hook up the heated seat part but that will come eventually. Made my own splash panel and inner fenders. But have lost the pictures of that process.

Very cool car.

Vegas smith said:

Very cool car.

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Thank you very much. It's a constant work in progress

Damn, I was never a huge fan of the 1gb facelift but after seeing this I think its growing on me.

I need to know more about the RX8 seat swap... That's the first swap I've seen that I immediately thought "I need that in my life"... Especially with the mention of heated seats. How did it effect headroom? (6'3" so headroom is kinda important to me..)

jinscho said:

I need to know more about the RX8 seat swap... That's the first swap I've seen that I immediately thought "I need that in my life"... Especially with the mention of heated seats. How did it effect headroom? (6'3" so headroom is kinda important to me..)

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Well in order to fit them into my 1g I had to make new seat brackets. For them to go into a 2g you cut the factory seat rails off the factory seats and then cut the mounts off the RX8 seats and weld your factory rails on the new RX8 seats and they drop right in. The 1g uses a very narrow seat track so everything has to be custom made . As far as height goes the driver seat is electric and multi adjustable so you can either lower or rise the seat. Hope that helps.