Akina's build

[AKINA FC]

Ill shoot you a pm and no modifications to the stock calipers or brackets is needed.

[gc3]

Not a very good picture but the clearest I could find.  Wilwood 6.25:1 top hung pedal assembly.  I cut and welded a few Speedway mounting brackets to mount the assembly from tabs on the dash bar, and then it uses some round tube and plate to bolt to the factory holes in the firewall for the necessary support.  Tilton reservoir pokes through the top of the dash where the idiot light assembly was. 

If I had to do it over again, I'd buy a floor mount assembly.  I was not impressed by the tolerances/overall quality of the Wilwood setup, and it was a BITCH to mount.  I even had to do some grinding just to get Wilwood's own master cylinders to mount in the assembly properly 

sidebar, but as someone who also is running the reverse hung wilwood pedal setup, i totally agree and recommend just running a floor mount assy.

[Supe]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one.  And yours is probably more representative of most swaps, since it is much closer to the factory pedal placement.  All of my pedals have been moved towards the back of the car by several inches, as my seat is pretty far back and I have midget legs. 

[gc3]

Glad to hear I'm not the only one.  And yours is probably more representative of most swaps, since it is much closer to the factory pedal placement.  All of my pedals have been moved towards the back of the car by several inches, as my seat is pretty far back and I have midget legs.

yea, i kept the gas pedal in the stock location, which there was absolutely no reason for me to try to maintain.
i just made it harder on myself by keeping that and fitting everything under the stock dash.
noone should do that lol.

[AKINA FC]

I started to look into doing a new pedal setup and may do something like that next winter, got enough changes going on now haha. I appreciate the thoughts on it.

Well after bouncing around doing research and speaking to various brake "guru's" I arrived at fairly cost effective set up going with with the billet narrow superlites - 6 pistons - and still using the stock rear calipers, front caliper pistons are sized accordingly - bias is forward by 7% from stock.  13" x 1.25 two piece fronts,  11.75" x .81 two piece rears - largest rotor capable of fitting in the stock rear caliper both width and diameter wise without maching anything, everything is wilwood btw. Still using carbotech pads, going xp12 fronts and xp10 rears this time, was running xp10's all around. In the end it cost me less than what fastbrakes charges for there kit and I got better parts. Everything should be to me friday/monday.

Ash, sending you a pm

[largeorangefont]

Nice!

Getting serious with the stopping power!

[AKINA FC]

Front brake parts arrived, rear rotor rings will arrive Thursday. Need to do the final polish on things but this basically it for the front.








On another highlight Phil @Spoolinperformance is building me a set of 1-7/8"s x 3" collector - stainless headers, hopefully be to me in the next 3-4 weeks, rather excited about that as he does really nice work. Debating on re-doing the whole exhaust at that time or just adapting what I have. I was thinking about building my rocker extensions and doing side exits, don't know yet.

[zbrown]

Awesome!

[AKINA FC]

Thanks Zac. I am enjoying your build as well.

Well the brake system is finished. Here are a few shots of the rears, you physically cant fit a bigger rotor with the factory rear calipers but doing it this way also leaves my options open should i need to go to a bigger rear rotor and use a 4 pot caliper.





So onto the next few pieces, exhaust and induction will be coming up next.
Current shot of the engine bay mainly noting the front drive changes made so far.




I hope some of you guys enjoy this 

[largeorangefont]

That is looking excellent Erik.

[WannaBeFast]

Looks great. Can you post a list of part # that you used? Thank you

[gnx7]

that is looking Good!

Are you dry sump on this motor?  Love that you kept a/c.

HP goals/estimate?  Brakes are looking solid.

[Classy]

Your thread and a few others really makes me want to try out a RX7 again, keep it up and have fun

[FC3S Murray]

Erik that is one lean mean N/A fire breathing machine! Looks so dang purdy too   Nice job man. 

[AKINA FC]

Looks great. Can you post a list of part # that you used? Thank you

Here you go...
120-6584 RS
120-6585 RS
170-8919   x2
160-8165
160-8166
230-8008  X2
220-6413  x2
220-13125  x2
170-8589  x2
230-8390  x2
160-12285
160-12286
220-12762  x2

everything is wilwood, some machining is required