Kevin Doe

The time has come to think about another project car, so I'm listing up my immaculate RX-7. I really love the car, but I enjoy building cars so I'm already thinking about what my next project will be. The car is extremely well done, no shortcuts whatsoever. I take pride in doing good work and making things right the first time, even if its a part nobody will ever see. Its a visceral experience driving the car, and probably best explained as violent when driven hard. I'm not pressed to sell all, so low offers will not be considered whatsoever. If it sells great, if not, then I'll continue to enjoy it.

1993 RX-7 Touring Model
35,500 miles on car.
20,000 miles on engine/trans
12,000 miles on rear end

Interior
Original tan leather seats.
Seats bottoms were professionally modified to accept a 5-pt harness.
Roll bar with permanent door bars, Soft vinyl covers with padding on door bars.
Optima RedTop battery in passenger side rear bin.
5 point harnesses for both seats.

Exterior
Monetgo Blue factory paint Some paint chips, but nothing unexpected for 35,500 miles, other than that paint is in great condition.
99 Spec front lip
All else stock

Engine - 487 hp, 435 ft-lbs of torque at the wheels
2004 Pontiac GTO LS1. 14k miles verified by original odometer at time of swap. Currently engine has 20k miles.
Texas Speed (PRC) 5.3l, stage 2.5 heads, milled to 59cc chambers, for 11:1 compression.
Flycut pistons for proper valve clearance.
Texas Speed Magic Stick 4 camshaft (MS4). All associated valve train parts also upgraded as listed below.
Chromoly pushrods, Ti retainers, Dual springs, new valve seals, LS7 lifters, LS2 timing chain, ported and shimmed LS6 oil pump.
Upgraded rod bolts to ARP bolts.
1 7/8" long tube headers, ceramic coated.
True dual 3" exhaust, with an X pipe, and two magnaflow mufflers. All stainless steel construction with V-band connections.
Dual 3.5" aluminum cold air intake system. Thermal coated and wrapped.
Factory LS6 intake manifold.
Added an earls oil cooler with mocal oil thermostat.
Aftermarket oil pan baffle for road racing/autox.
Added an earls power steering cooler.
Engine mounted by a custom built subframe.
Ron Davis radiator with dual spal fans, tight ducting to radiator and other coolers.
Walbro 255hp pump, with a aeromotive fuel pressure regulator and filter.
Custom fuel tank baffle for road racing/autox.
Extensively tuned with EFI Live.

Transmission
2004 GTO T56, 6-speed manual transmission. 14k miles verified by original odometer at time of swap. Currently transmission has 20k miles.
The 2004 GTO T56 is an upgraded version of the F-body T56. It has triple cone synchros for 1-2, and double for 3-6. Most have double 1-2, and single 3-6.
The 2004 GTO T56 also has C5 Z06 gear ratios.
Fidanza aluminum flywheel
Spec 3+ clutch.
Remote clutch bleeder line.
MGW F-body shifter, shortened.
Transmission mounted by custom built transmission mount.
Driveshaft Shop (DSS) 3.5" aluminum driveshaft.

Rear End
2004 Mustang Cobra differential (aluminum IRS). 6,000 miles at time of swap, currently 12,000 miles on rear end.
2006 Explorer differential cover
Ford Racing 4.10 gears
Driveshaft Shop custom stage 5+ axles.
Differential mounted by a custom built subframe.

Suspension/Misc
Enkei RPF1 17x9 wheels front
Enkei RPF1 17x9.5 wheels rear
Stock brakes with Hawk HP+ pads, and HT10 pads for the track.
Braided stainless lines.
Delrin bushings with grease zerks on all suspension components.
Tein MonoFlex shocks. Currently 12k/10k setup, but have springs for 14k/12k.
May be switching back to the 14/12 setup, not sure.
Tripoint engineering 0.125" wall front sway bar on Widefoot billet machined mounts.
Custom built triangulated aluminum front strut tower bar.

Extreme attention to detail on each and every modification to the car. You can look on my photobucket for literally 100s of pictures of the build, and post-build. There are also several build threads to view on many forums. I'll list a few links.

Original build thread: http://www.v8rx7forum.com/hall-fame/...it-56k-no.html

Roll bar build thread: http://www.v8rx7forum.com/v8-rx7-tec...-progress.html

My RX-7 photobucket link: http://s93.photobucket.com/albums/l55/Kevin_Doe/RX-7



$30,000 OR Some trades considered (RWD, large displacement, independent rear suspension...you get the idea)

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Engine Bay



Interior.



Dyno Graph



Video of Autox last month:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EkJVpBKAP4c

coolnick

He's not kidding when he says perfection. Look through some of those build threads for proof. I have driven it and ridden in it several times and I think he is crazy for getting rid of it, but I guess he has the C6Z itch.

Hopefully Danny Popp sees this thread (he will now that I used his name lol) he has seen it several times and driven it at autox as well and can vouch. It is the real deal.

PA Z06

wow very cool car, good luck. I would never sell it,

BSheppard

+1

Lots of C6Zs out there but can not be many of these running around.

Kevin Doe

Bump for renewing my pro photobucket account so you can see the pics again.

JustinStrife

If I wasn't dreaming of a C6z, I'd be all over this Kevin...

Been watching your builds over in the V8RX forum for awhile. God what a gorgeous car.

Kevin Doe

Thanks Justin. How are you liking the vette now that you switched over?

JustinStrife

Well I had my FD(until last month), since 2006. I'm on my 2nd C5(this one is blown). The FD is smaller and tighter, more responsive, but easily less comfortable and less practical as a daily driver IMO. It's still one of the best looking cars ever made as far as I'm concerned. After much internal conflict, I finally decided the C6z is my end goal, and so I sold off the FD, the S13, and when I'm ready for the switch, my c5 will be next.

I will miss reading about your car though Kevin. It's been an inspiration for many of us, and would eat my c5 alive.

Kevin Doe

Price reduced to $30k.

TTRotary

Beautiful FD...brings back fond memories. Have you weighed the car since the swap...curious.

Kevin Doe

Yes, I just had it corner weighted a few weeks ago.

The total weight with a 3/4 tank of gas (20 gal tank) was 2950 lbs, without me.

With me in it, the weight distribution was 49.5 front, 50.5 rear. Perfect 50/50 crosses after a few quarter turns on the coilovers.

For those drag guys, I ran on my Hoosier road race tires (not optimum at all) I ran an 11.333 my second time to the strip ever in this car.

BrianCunningham

TTRotary

Interesting. So the swap added about 160lb (actually less since you have more gas in than a curb weight rating). How did you keep the balance? Is the tranny in the rear? Did you move the fire wall back?

I remember weighing my buddy's bare 13B block when the engine was out and we had 225lb of engine. When I went single-turbo, I weighed all my TT hardware and was surprised to find there was another 75lb of weight there, not including the stock downpipe and mid section. The "dynamic manifold" alone was 45lbs!

I also remember Jim LaBreck weighing a fully dressed 20B at a whopping 512lb, so the LS is definitely the better swap powerplant if one is philosophically OK about that.

Kevin Doe

The balance is kept because the engine is light, the transmission is pretty long and sits back pretty far, and I've got a roll bar in the back along with a pretty heavy duty rear end setup


Lets get some reasonable offers.