The Restored FC RX-7 pulls hard for a street car 

I don't want to give my older brother a ounce of respect but god it's tough when he has such a great FC!

I thought the channel came from the promise of the 4 rotor, and now that that is mostly done, we get to harass you until the 6 rotor is done.

"If she was gonna fail, she would have failed by now....." famous last words hahahahaha. But in all seriousness it's great seeing this car in the mountains and being able to be enjoyed. This is what it was built for.

I’m a paid professional tig welder and I have literally never once even thought about drilling the hole after. You learn new things everyday.

Still amazed by how far youve come from videos next to the diablo in the garage lol keep it up

As a previous FC owner i would like to point out that The FC electronics suffer from a severe chronic case of extreme cold solder joints that tend to become problematic over time. I would advise that all the factory electronic modules be taken apart and inspected for broken or half broken solder joints. Pay especially close attention to any area where a connector plugs in. Makes a big difference

Me: Damn I got things to do Rob: *uploads a 30mins+ video* Me: Those things can wait.....

Protip: most gauge clusters' fuel gauges have an arrow next to the image of a fuel pump that points to which side the gas cap is on EDIT: I thought I recognized Baldy!! my old stomping grounds, I recorded some FC flybys years and years ago there xD

Of course you deserve that beautiful FC Rob, look at how far you’ve advanced the Rotary community simply by showing people how to do it where every other rotary shop would keep secrets and not tell people anything. You made rotary’s mainstream in my opinion. I own a rotary because of the confidence you gave me. Thank you rob, I’m a rotary fanatic now!!! I’m now saving to buy either a fc or fd.

Mele is a great company! We use their battery cases a ton in the rally world and they take the abuse.

Props to Kumho as well, first set of tires I had on my FC. Used to scare the hell out of people with how fast I could take a corner and still stick to the road like glue.

Wen Rob uploads I get cozy, (grab my blunt) chill back and watch lol PS. I love the long format videos man this is my favorite tv show!!!

That car is beautiful I’m jealous! A white fc has been my dream car, and hopefully I’ll get one in the future

does the fuel tech not have a very fast closed loop fuel system and long term fuel trim table?

Rob is the daddy of rotors right now, can’t wait for him to start manufacturing at a larger scale and make rotors more common.

If the FC does this well, imagine what all this work could do to a Superior Chassis?! Does this mean we FINALLY get another RX-8 video next??

Rob, here in Belgium gasoline is around 1.650 euro per liter which is around 7.10 dollar per gallon converted (for 95 e10, that is 91 in the US I think). I would gladly fill up there in Cali 😂

Little trick to know what side the fuel cap is on most fuel gauges have a little triangle pointing the direction or the handle of the pump on the picture depicting which side it’s on

Awesome stuff Rob! Run a MeLe mount with an Antigravity battery on my track car. TONS of weight off the nose and and probably the best part of the engine bay.

Rob, that engine bay is just absolutely GORGEOUS. @14:39, it's just simple and so perfect.

Tire width does not equate to grip Rob. It's all about the compound and force over the wheel. A narrow tire actually grips better all things being equal although it's easier to exceed the limits of how much material can absorb the heat and forces.

After buying an FC that had sat for 18 years, I learned a hard lesson TWICE with the clutch. Change BOTH the Master and Slave as soon as you got the car.

Finally driving content . Bask in it . It'll be another year till we get it again

Great video Rob- Remember you have the arrow on the gas gauge showing which side :)

The shots of the FC in the sunset looked straight out of Forza horizon. Perfection

I'm so down for unedited sunset SoCal cruises with multiple camera angles in the FC! Watching it cruise around and hearing the noises it makes is awesome and extremely satisfying!

Something that could help with your aluminum welding, warm up your aluminum before welding. I've seen lots of people use blow touches.

This video makes me want to get my FD out of the garage and onto the streets more....and a big single turbo.

@20:00 this is how my first fd sounded. Single turbo whistles. And with twin turbos without the whistles. I think it's a testament to the quietness and high quality filming that lets us hear a real average high hp rotary sound

thank you for keeping the rotatory dream alive, these cars are beautiful.

This is why you replace everything on 20+ years old car, Rob. Everything down to wheel bearings and brake hoses and lines.

What you need to do is have Isaiah make a custom intercooler to fit stock location but has good flow...

Great video Rob, hook up your stock dials with the fueltech ecu.

Having learned how to drive in a FC from my late father in law, this cars bringing back those memories, I guess it's time to add a FC to the stable next to my turbo 2 FB.

I love the constant wining/spooling of turbo at idle…u can hear it 24/7

That turbo sounds amazing. Even on start up it sounds so angry

Great build! Most of the bugs are gone and nothing blew up! Even the flames out the exaust were impressive!

I love seeing you get to enjoy all your hard work actually driving these builds.

Out of curiosity. How crazy did you go on the mountain? Unfortunately i live on the east coast and don’t have any good roads to drive on it’s just active highways that connect city to city with undrivable back roads. No real mountain passes or canyon runs.

"You have to take my word for it, *I feel the suction* © Rob Dahm, 2022

I can't wait for all the rotaries to be perfect so Rob has no choice but to do up the cossie ;)

I love this build! I have never worked on cars before but the fc is my dream car. With how much tuning you do it might be good to get your own dyno in the shop

Great end to that video lmao. FC is looking awesome Rob, keep it up!

So that car was relatively fast in the day. The power now - look out.

Rob stop teasing us with this, we want the four rotor😂 I’m messin but I’m looking forward to the new wiring setup 😁

@Rob Dahm Q: " what side is the gas tank on?" here is a little tip with all cars from my experience, on your dash where the fuel gage is there will be an image of a Petrol Bowser and alongside it a little arrow/triangle and if you follow the direction the point is facing it will lead you to the side you refill your car from.

I feel your pain, I had my clutch master shit itself in traffic about 15 min from my house last summer. I was going for a 3~2 downshift when I pushed the clutch in to pull it out of third I heard a pop and and the peddle stuck to the floor. I had to rev match to get it into second so I could get myself off the road and into a parking lot, then when I was pulling into the spot I blipped the throttle and pulled it out of gear on the rebound. Not a bad bit of driving if I may so myself. I had it towed home and took a cab to the dealer to pick up the new master, as my wife was not answering her phone. All said and done, it was down for 3 hours.

I love how long and detailed your current videos are! Still annoys me about your endings, but its classic Rob Dahm! Love the creations you're making, but I want to see how clean you can make an LS!!!

Concerning logo files: keep the vector files (.eps, .ai, .svg) in a folder and when you have anything made using the logos (anything, shirts, keychains, mugs, decals, anything) send that whole folder to the people doing the work. They will love you.

BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSH 😁😎👍 I just love how Rob progresses rotary engines and turbo technology every single day. And teaching the world that 90's JDM turbo flutter is actually a bad thing... 😇

Put a nice modern air to air intercooler in the stock location with larger intake piping and lean that thing out to 11:0 afr. Just set a boost cut since it’s going to make good steam

Anyone else more excited for a FC video than for one on the 4-rotor?

Watching this makes me miss my S5 so much!!!!! This is awesome!!!!!! I’m sold on that turbo!!! Hey Rob & Isaah you you guys make me a Gleason big runner style turbo manifold for this same turbo to fit my FD that will clear and elite rotary intake system? Would be super pumped if I could have you guys make that!! I’d even fly out there to personally meet and thank you guys and collect it. I’m East coast (NewJersey) keep up the awesome work!!! 👌🏾💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾❤️‍🔥

I love you enthusiasm for your cars and work! When I finally got my dream car (1972 Datsun 240Z) I’m sure I looked just like that! Plus, the “Blade” reference made me smile big time!

Next project is finding an RX3. No joke, though, the FC and FD are some of my absolute favorite car designs, even if I don't necessarily want the hobby of rebuilding rotary engines every 50-75k miles. I will say, a fun project would really be to build an FC or maybe a MX-5 with an NA Renesis engine. It definitely won't be a performance killer, but it'd be a fun everyday driver since the engine was designed to be more reliable without needing routine rebuilds. It could also be fun to throw a pair of really small turbos at it for an insanely quick boost build and see how much the Renesis can handle boost, but in a car that looks better than the RX-8. If you wanted to get back into piston-powered cars (I know, right?) but wanted something that you could make rev to absolutely insane RPMs, Ford worked with Yamaha back in the late 90's early 00's to make the legendary Duratec 2.5L V6 that, if not limited to protect the accessories run off the crank, could rev to 8700RPM. It also is able to take boost reasonably well. I think it'd make for an insane swap if a new oilpan and bell housing adapter could be made for it to convert it from the typical transverse application to a longitudinal application for installation into a gen1 MX-5. Silky smooth, extremely high revving V6 in a golf-cart sized car? It'd be great fun. A bit counter to your usual antics of rotary-swapping everything, though. The funny part is that it would actually be thematically consistent with the branding, though, since Ford Motor company owned and still owns a stake in Mazda and they have a long history of collaborative vehicle projects from around that time period.

That car is just such a peach, and now she's a well behaved peach to boot. Looking forward to seeing track performance, and what if any additional mods you'll pick for track work once you get comfy with it!

I recently changed all my FC's lights to LEDs too a few months ago, I would recommend getting dedicated amber and red LED's for those lights, as the pure white ones shine so bright it washes them out, and you get like brake lights that are pink instead of red, or amber lights that look almost white at night, with a slight tint on the edges of amber.

Selling my FC was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. It was one of the most reliable and fun to drive vehicles I've ever had. Sure, it might not have been a 10 Anniversary, but it was amazing! Watching this helps me relive the amazing drives I used to take in it. Thank you, Rob, for this. Someday, I may own one again, but if I don't, I know I can always watch these videos.

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Love the video Rob thank u🙏❤ I have a question which is actually gonna be rather a long one so bear with me(the million dollar question kinda😂) So from my search any engine power equation is power=torque x rpm/5252 and i remember in one of your videos that u're 4 rotor can revv up to 9800 so let's assume that drivetrain losses are about 20%(pretty generic for most awd systems) so the question is can the 4 rotor make about 1300 ft.lbs of torque and maintain it to make 2000 awhp (now i know there is probably tons of different things that's gotta to be factored so please correct me because sadly this is where my knowledge is lacking😅) If i'm theoretically right then i don't want the answer but if i'm wrong plz only tell what did i miss to factor in(because i'm looking forward to the secrets that u promised us)thank u🙏❤ Ps: sorry for misleading u because english is my native language but i'd rather want the opinion on what i'm missing (if i am) than the answer to the question

Listening to it run makes me miss my 87 turbo 2. I literally had to give it away cause something happened to the engine and I had no place store it and I was dead broke so I literally gave it to someone 😭

15:54 15:55 and thats the sound the engine makes when the secondary is suppose to come on. Im not finished with the video but on my fc the injector harness was getting pulled on from the main run of my harness. So i got more slack and re clipped my injector.

I love Robs steering wheel adjustment, he lowered it and raised it right back to where it was...lol 😆

Caught me off guard as always

I hope that you get the factory gauges functioning. To me those factory FC gauges are 👌🏻. I love the huge center tach, Mazda knew what was important

Can't wait to see that thing actually make it to the top of baldy. The last couple miles after icehouse canyon are when it gets serious.

Awesome FT355 hoodie! And awesome content, as usual :D

There's infinite sizing for air to air cores. You could open up the hood entrance with a fiberglass hood (keep the original untouched. Arc the hood center up and use a deeper wider rubber flange. Use the surface of the much larger core end tanks to get another inch of depth (thickness) on the core. Area increases exponentially with a cube. LxWxH

If you ever wonder what side your gas tank is on, check your gas gauge and you should see a arrow pointing to the side of filler.

I autoX my 87 NA FC. I'm interested to hear how the those tires handle in the corners. I'm currently on Bridgestone RE-71Rs

Are you planning on running flex fuel on this FC ? I saw you pumping that 93 and was surprised it’s not setup for e85 yet ! Enjoy man…. great content !

I love in Idaho. Went to Wendy's and it was $30 for 2 kids meals a medium baconator meal and another baconator... Times have definitely changed. Rob your content is great and so much information. I have always been a fan of rotory engines. Rx7 exclusively. But as I watch your videos and understand them more and more... I hope I am the proud owner of one some day.

Love the car, great work guys!! Can't wait to see what's next!!

The intercooler situation makes my heart sad. Otherwise great car!!!

Your car looks fantastic it is great to see you with an RX7 that works I guess it's about a year since I've last seen you with a working rotary motor RX7 we all know how rare that is 😂😂 I am confident though , you will figure out how to make these motors worth having other than just being different.

rob discovering the magic of autox/200tw tires on a street car. they grip cold but still handle heat.

Brother you make me want those Tires!!!! The best Kumho AD I have ever seen....

Them gas prices telling you come back to michigan, like 1.25 cheaper for premium here

I really need to get my FC back up and running. Really tempted to sell my WWII Harley Davidson WLA to finance a build from Defined Auto for the car.

All that power at 0rpm 💯🙌🔥 I'm impressed to say the least

Hi rob. Can u help me with my FC. When i step into clutch and shift into gears my idling went up jumping to 1500 - 2000rpm. Is that normal?

So good. Can’t wait to see a front mount intercooler ❤️

I know I say this on every video but I'm gonna keep saying it. Please Please do NOT engine swap the RX8. Be the first shop to get reliable power from the RX8 motor. I know you can figure out how. That's what people love about your channel. We don't want to see you just engine swap it. Anybody can do that. You're better than just a lazy engine swap. I have faith in you Rob! You can do it!

Damn I miss my FC. Sold it too soon. Great build Rob....again

PTSD from 1 Guy One Jar girl sent it to my phone 🤳

Why not just run two blow off valve, one in the hot side and one of the cold side?

Loving the driving content!!

I love all of your videos Rob, but this one above most. those timelapses in the back of the FC are awesome

20:20 Pro tip- There will always be an arrow on the fuel gauge indicating which side the fuel filler door is on.

When u get better top mount? Isn't that thing a restriction;0

Love this build 💪🏼

Rob id like you to know I personally think your real cool

I love that wheel and tire combo!!!

That mountain segment made me miss all those summer nights when the sun doesn't set and you can drive with your friends all day long. (I live in Finland, now the streets are covered with ice, snow and salt so everyone are just working with their summer cars😂) Awesome video, the atmosphere is weirdly relaxing and somehow nostalgic, hard to put in words but it was a bit different than the other videos🙂

They straight up violated the C5 lmao

hiiii, its mee. Wana play top trumps? haha

I liked this video wached it a little more, forgot that I liked it already and went to like it again. Literally can't like this video enough. Well done, love every single second of it.

That HKS bird sound is very unique. I used to love it back in the early 2000s. The Greddy stuff was the bomb back then too.

You work hard enough to deserve everything you get mate. Keep up the graft 👍🏼👍🏼

Dude really like this build.. just a nice clean drive able ride.. a true beauty