Quad-Rotor Turbo RX7

Max Flower’s turbocharged quad-rotor FD3S RX7 project started with the purchase of the custom 26B engine.

26 year old New Zealander and pipefitter Max Flower’s previous car was a street-driven Series 5 RX7 with 600hp on tap, so when he sold it with the intention of building a race car you can imagine how wild the new machine would turn out.

Max went hunting for the best 20B there is, the D-block version, but since these are not that easy to come across he instead found a custom 26B that had been built for the owner of Street Systems Automotive, a bloke named Wayne. It was more engine than Max had planned on getting, but once he saw it he just couldn’t resist.

Max now had an awesome powerplant, but he’d also handed over all his spare cash and had to store it at his dad’s house whilst he spent two and a half years in a remote area of Australia earning the money to build a car worth putting it in. After he returned, Max found an unregistered import and within a week of getting his hands on the car it was stripped and the roof had come off to facilitate fitment of the safety cage and delete the sunroof.

In addition to the effort put into building the car hundreds of hours were spent modifying bodykit pieces to give the car its own look, and Max’s mates spent plenty of that time with him providing much-appreciated assistance. Max then decided he wanted the car to look as evil as it would sound so he had it painted black.

The car was unveiled at the 2013 V 4&Rotary Nationals in Auckland. It won the award for Best Series 6-8 RX7, and it won the same trophy again the following year.

As for how it drives, “What it’s like on low boost, is exactly what I assumed high boost would be like” Max declared. “The car is a complete animal”.

You can read the full feature story on Max’s amazing turbo quad-rotor Series 7 RX7 in issue 188 of Performance Imports magazine, on sale now.

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