Donnie's WideBody V8 FB RX7 "The Mistress"

Zachary Nazeck @Excessive Wear

Zachary Nazeck @Excessive Wear

Donnie's Widebody FB "The Mistress", is one of those cars people Love or Hate, but undeniably is built. This Fb is a drift car, a good one at that too. The first thing pretty much everyone will notice, it the massive stance his car has. That's thanks to the BlackTie Motorsports widebody kit. Which is complemented Viper Pearl Blue hue and it demands quite the look. And the custom suspension work Donnie has thoroughly thought out, FC coilovers as well as custom LCAs and Links.

Looking deeper you can tell that the car has been painstakingly built. Donnie says that it took him 2 years to build from an empty bare shell. With nobody building these cars for Proam level drifting purposes, Donnie pulled his inspiration pretty much from thin air. Pouring in hard work, blood sweat and tears. Owning Stardom Fab, he quickly took to making all the parts that they just don't build for FB RX7s. There isn't a piece of this car that hasn't been touched by Donnie, from the cage, suspension,engine to the chassis and wing. the real question on this car really is what didn't he build?
One of the crowning jewels to Donnie on this car is the steering angle, without cut knuckles, he has figured out how to push about 70 degrees of steering angle! And manages that with a stock steering box!

Look At all that Angle

With all that work quickly a goal formed, "to gain sponsors and compete in Vegas Drift Pro-am", but like many drivers the sponsorship route failed. But that has not deterred Donnie one bit. Fitting for Vegas.... He wants to Double Down and go boosted before the next shot at Pro-Am.

I personally can't wait to see what's next from Donnie's bag of tricks he seems to have. 

As one of the few people that even try to drift an SA/FB RX7 on this level his advice to the the new SA/ FB Drifter would be:

"Learn to drift the car as is then when you can consistently link the track, start small on upgrades then learn that set up and then do it over again."

I couldn't say it any better myself, the SA/FB RX7 is such a great Chassis to start with and it has a lot to give in teaching the driver the skills they will need to be great! Donnie has also be great to the SA/ FB RX7 drift community building a Facebook group to help us all come together and share our knowledge, from building our cars to driving our cars. I know personally he has never hesitated to help me out if i had a question, or if I have to compare something on my car to his. It was fun to see this car come together and how much more places it has to go! Cars like this are neat, as they can serve to be an inspiration into what can be done with our cars.

Zachary Nazeck @Excessive Wear

Modification List

Motor:

• Ford 5.0
• GT40p heads
• Alex parts valve spring kit
• Crane 1.7 roller rockers
• Trickflow pushrods
• b303 cam
• BBK headers
• GT40p intake
• 70mm BBK throttle body
• C&L 75mm MAF housing
• 24lb injectors
• BBK fuel Pressure Regulator

Drivetrain:

• Stock t5 trans w/ z32 slave cylinder supplied by a wilwood clutch master
• Custom driveshaft 
• Ford explorer 8.8 That's been shortened with custom cnc brackets by Stardom Fab

Suspension

• Custom 4 link Rear Upper and Lower control arms with heims on all ends. by Stardom Fab
• T3 panhard bar. 
• Megan racing FC coilovers adapted to fit. 
• Custom (extended 3" per side) front lower control arms by Stardom Fab
  made from ar500 armor plate and dom tube made to use a factory s4 rx7 ball joint. 

Brakes

• Turbo 2 Front Brakes and Spindles
• Explorer Rear Disks and Calipers
•  Inline hydraulic handbrake by Stardom Fab

Interior 

• Trailtech Vapor LED Gauge Pod in custom dash by Stardom Fab
•  Hit and Run Quick Release
• Momo hub adapter
• NRG steering wheel

Safety 

• Full Formula D spec cage by Stardom Fab

Fuel

• Jaz fuel cell 
• Assault Racing Low Pressure Pump
• Custom Surge Tank by Stardom Fab
• deatschwerks 255il fuel pump 
• AN fuel lines

Electrical

• 500cca Harley agm battery
•  Custom wiring throughout 

Exterior 

• Custom wing stands with 69" wing by Stardom Fab
• 6" led light bars for headlights
• Blacktie Motors bumper lights with blue lights.
• Blacktie Motor's Widebody

Steering

• T3 steering box brace
• FC Megan racing outer tie rods
• FC Godspeed outers used as inners
• 70 degrees of steering angle 

Shameless Shout Outs

• BlackTie Motor Works 
• @Stardom Fab on Instagram
• Photo Credit goes to Zachary Nazeck @Excessive Wear on Instagram. Great group of local photographers that showcase locals and huge events.

Zachary Nazeck @Excessive Wear

Zachary Nazeck @Excessive Wear

Zachary Nazeck @Excessive Wear

Zachary Nazeck @Excessive Wear

Zachary Nazeck @Excessive Wear

Zachary Nazeck @Excessive Wear

Zachary Nazeck @Excessive Wear