- Home
- Info
- Travel & Photography
- Canadian Rockies Expedition
- Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge
- Alaska 2024
- Moto GP, Red Bull Grand Prix of the Americas 2024
- Total Solar Eclipse 2024
- Kruger National Park, Namaqualand, Cape, Natal 2023
- Costa Rica 2023
- 2022/2023 US Gulf Coast RV Trip
- Owens Valley, Death Valley & Joshua Tree National Parks & Albuquerque, New Mexico 2022
- Southern Texas Tour 2022
- Rhine Riverboat Cruise 2021
- Utah & Arizona 2021
- Lake Texoma, Texas 2021
- Yellowstone & Grand Teton National Parks 2020
- Big Bend National Park 2020
- Patagonia Photography Workshop 2019
- Alliance Air Show 2019
- Savannah, Georgia 2019
- 2019 Fossil Rim Wildlife Center
- Texas, New Mexico & Colorado Road Trip 2018
- Portland, Oregon 2018
- Windmill Museum, Lubbock Texas 2018
- Charleston, South Carolina 2018
- Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park Safari, Botswana 2017
- South Africa 2003
- YouTube Channel
- Bikes and Cars
1979 Mazda RX7
1979 Mazdar RX7 All-Motor peripheral port 13B

Back in 2001 after racing my Turbo II in the Street Tire category of the NHRA Import Drag Racing Series and not wanting to destroy my daily driver, I decided to build this car. I purchased the car that had a 12A engine and stripped it down to a shell in my shop at home. Removing all of the sound attenuation with a pneumatic chisel until there was nothing but a metal shell.
The next step was to have a roll cage custom built to meet the NHRA rules requirements, and a 8.8″ Ford differential installed. For that I took the body to a local speed shop who build drag cars.
Once that was done, the work began. Installation of the 13B PP engine, a 5-speed clutchless sequential shift transmission adapted to a Mazda bell housing, and a drive shaft as far back as possible for weight transfer. Then began the suspension, shock absorbers, brakes, wheels and tires. Then it was removing the glass and installing Lexan and a fiberglass hood. Now I had a rolling purpose build race car. Time to strip it down and deliver it to a body shop to be painted yellow.
After picking up the beautiful yellow car from the body shop, the real work began. This included all of the plumbing, fuel cell, engine management system, data acquisition system, electrical wiring and custom exhaust.
Since we were basically starting from scratch for engine timing and fuel management, it was now time to spend hours on a dyno. Many thanks to Criss Ott for his expertise in this area. We were now ready to hit a track to test!